rank the softball hotbeds in the U.S.

[Cannonball]

First, my commute is roughly 2 minutes if I get stopped by the stop light. My wife's commute is roughly 5 minutes. I'll try not to complain too much about that.

You all seem to overlook the St. Louis Metro area. We have all types of weather and even in the same day. It is the humidity capital of the U.S. and anyone who has been here is August can attest to that. We have 100 degree summer days and zero degree winter days. We have wind gust like what is headed our way in 20 minutes that top 50 - 60 mph. It is blowing the roofs off of houses.

Per softball, we hold our own. Ok so now go ahead and defer back to the traditional states of ... However, they don't have the Arch and the Cardinals! So There!

 

[GOINGDEEP]

First, my commute is roughly 2 minutes if I get stopped by the stop light. My wife's commute is roughly 5 minutes. I'll try not to complain too much about that.

You all seem to overlook the St. Louis Metro area. We have all types of weather and even in the same day. It is the humidity capital of the U.S. and anyone who has been here is August can attest to that. We have 100 degree summer days and zero degree winter days. We have wind gust like what is headed our way in 20 minutes that top 50 - 60 mph. It is blowing the roofs off of houses.

Per softball, we hold our own. Ok so now go ahead and defer back to the traditional states of ... However, they don't have the Arch and the Cardinals! So There!

Go Cards!!!!!!! We will be in the World Series again this year, bet your a$$ on that!!

 

[humpty]

Agreed TX, CA, GA, FL, AND AZ are the largest hotbeds. But the number of players in ratio with the population Oklahoma is represented as well as anyone. 10 girls on the 2013 National Champs team. In comparison to 5 in state kids on the 2012 Bama Tide team. Like I said the shear numbers do not compare but the percentage is up there with the best of them. And I'm not sure that they play the WCWS in any other state, or am I wrong on that!

Where were Ricketts and chamberlain from.

 

[redhotcoach]

Where were Ricketts and chamberlain from.

Chamberlain played for the Firecrackers in So Cal. Ricketts for San Jose TB.

 

[SoCal_Dad]

Agreed TX, CA, GA, FL, AND AZ are the largest hotbeds. But the number of players in ratio with the population Oklahoma is represented as well as anyone. 10 girls on the 2013 National Champs team. In comparison to 5 in state kids on the 2012 Bama Tide team. Like I said the shear numbers do not compare but the percentage is up there with the best of them. And I'm not sure that they play the WCWS in any other state, or am I wrong on that!

However, none of the 10 OK girls started a WCWS game. With 8 of the 10 primary players being from CA, the 2013 National Champs were really the Cal Sooners of OK. The other 2 are from NM and Australia.

The remarkable thing about Bama winning the title in 2012 is they did it without any CA players.

 

[SoCal_Dad]

Where were Ricketts and chamberlain from.

Chamberlain played for the Firecrackers in So Cal. Ricketts for San Jose TB.

I suspect that question was rhetorical... For the record, Ricketts switched TB teams in 2009 and pitched Sorcerers to the 18G title.

 

[humpty]

I suspect that question was rhetorical... For the record, Ricketts switched TB teams in 2009 and pitched Sorcerers to the 18G title.

Yep. neither from Oklahoma.

 

[Pdiddy]

Per softball, we hold our own.

St. Louis has some quality team for sure.....we play the St. Louis Esprit Gold tomorrow in the USSSA Top Gun Interceptor Event here in KC....we also had several battles with the St. Louis Gamers and the St. Louis Chaos last year and have been to your big annual fall college exposure event for the last three years....

 

[Softball scholar]

I think a good statistical measure would be how many girls from each state are on D1 rosters. Has anybody ever accumulated that data. CA would most be likely be #1. But they also have the largest population. But I still bet they would be #1 if compared D1players/state population.

 

[SoCal_Dad]

Looking at just the rosters can be very misleading as there are often a bunch of in-state players getting nominal playing time. In fact, it would be interesting to see the breakdown of players vs roster fillers by state.