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Fastpitch players to receive honor listing

Roger Weise, 85, has 25 shirts from the different teams he pitched for in his 50-year career of fast-pitch softball. The game has become a women’s competitive sport, but it started in the 1930s with men’s leagues in communities everywhere, much like Little League.
Roger Weise, 85, holds his Perfect Game trophy from a 1979 game he pitched. Weise and two fellow fastpitch teammates from Yoakum will be inducted into the FastPitch Legends Hall of Honor on November 16. (Staff photos)

Roger Weise, 85, has 25 shirts from the different teams he pitched for in his 50-year career of fast-pitch softball.

The game has become a women’s competitive sport, but it started in the 1930s with men’s leagues in communities everywhere, much like Little League.

“There were teams in Shiner, Mission Valley, Cuero, Meyersville, Weesatche and Port Lavaca,” Weise recalls.

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