Throwback Thursday: 1936 change in softball rules eliminates 'double windup' Some talk about players.
Harold "Shifty" Gears - Rochester pitcher.
"By day, he was a bespectacled sheet metal worker at Eastman Kodak Co. At night, Harold "Shifty" Gears was one of the all-time great softball pitchers. Gears played five nights a week for Kodak's fast-pitch softball team, nicknamed the "Kaypees."
They regularly drew crowds of 5,000 people to their games under the lights at Kodak Park. Gears helped lead that team to world championships in 1936 and 1940. He dominated opposing hitters, relying primarily on a rising fastball that he threw with pinpoint accuracy.
Gears won 86 games and lost just four in 1934, his first year pitching for Kodak. The next year he pitched 98 consecutive scoreless innings."
Career record: 866-115. K'd 13,244. Threw 61 no-hitter and 9 perfect games. 1st player elected to Softball HOF in 1957 - elected unanimously.
1942-8-30 Buffalo. Kodak Park wins 6th state title in seven years as Gear blanks the U.S. Hoffmans of Syracuse 2-0.
1944-9-02 Lines. Pic of Shifty Gears with rival.
1944-9-04 Lines. Harold Gear narrowly missed throwing a no-hitter in his 7-0 defeat of Liberty Aircraft of Farmingdale to win the Middle Atlantic championship.
Action pic. Lines.
Leroy Zimmerman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Zimmerman_(American_football)
https://web.archive.org/web/20190608221435/http://www.iscfastpitch.com/bio/leroy.zimmerman.pdf
"Zimmerman revolutionized pitching to the level now seen in collegiate and international play. He developed the riseball and the dropball, which are now predominant, pitches in any pitcher’s arsenal. He pitched for the Fresno and Selma Houk Packers and the Long Beach Night Hawks, and led those teams to nine ISC World titles, and was selected to the ISC World teams, ten times in an eleven year span from 1950 through 1960. He was also named the Outstanding Pitcher for the ISC World Tournament five times, tossed two perfect games and had six no-hitters in World Championship play. He once struck out thirty batters in a 14-inning game, and in one of his perfect games, struck out all twenty-one batters. He had over seventy-five shut outs during his [ISC World?] career. He had a total of 32 World Tournament victories as a pitcher.
Action pic. Lines.
Leroy Zimmerman
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Zimmerman_(American_football)
https://web.archive.org/web/20190608221435/http://www.iscfastpitch.com/bio/leroy.zimmerman.pdf
"Zimmerman revolutionized pitching to the level now seen in collegiate and international play. He developed the riseball and the dropball, which are now predominant, pitches in any pitcher’s arsenal. He pitched for the Fresno and Selma Houk Packers and the Long Beach Night Hawks, and led those teams to nine ISC World titles, and was selected to the ISC World teams, ten times in an eleven year span from 1950 through 1960. He was also named the Outstanding Pitcher for the ISC World Tournament five times, tossed two perfect games and had six no-hitters in World Championship play. He once struck out thirty batters in a 14-inning game, and in one of his perfect games, struck out all twenty-one batters. He had over seventy-five shut outs during his [ISC World?] career. He had a total of 32 World Tournament victories as a pitcher.
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