Which position did you play?

[SoonerNorm]

If you played fastpitch softball or baseball, which position(s) did you primarily play?

 

[sybarite]

If you played fastpitch softball or baseball, which position(s) did you primarily play?

I usually played second base, sometimes third---glove man. Sometimes, I pitched in relief. Had one season at second with no errors and no strikeouts--in fast pitch.

 

[rocjunkie]

Either 1st base or right field. I was horrible on the defensive side, but swung a decent bat. Baseball.

 

[SoonerNorm]

I started playing little league baseball when I was 9 years old and continued through highschool and played catcher the vast majority of the time. I liked playing other positions but I absolutely loved catching.

 

[sybarite]

Never caught a game. Played second and short in little league. Played second in American Legion. But, we lost our team when I was about sixteen. Haven't played baseball since. I struck out a lot in Legion ball, only hitting about 240.

 

[tinysooner]

I played right,center & catcher in baseball and the same in softball:woot

 

[KCRuf/Nek]

I was mainly a catcher(as with center in football my dad always told me not to play a position that there was only one of) but also played a pretty good right field and first base. I was always a good hitter and I probably could have played in college somewhere had it not been for the next level of breaking ball.

In softball I played first base but ended up doing a lot of pitching. I was actually pretty good at that.

 

[soonermike22]

Second base with a quick pivot to first. Third base when our regular third pitched. Pretty good glove, but not much power at bat.

 

[Keller Sooner]

3rd base and short, baseball and softball. Pretty good glove and had a live arm.
Good hitter certainly not great.

 

[OKUman]

Right field some of the time Left other times. On BB I played left out on the bench.

 

[SoonerNorm]

Two questions for all of you catchers.

1) Did you call the pitches or did the coach?

2) If you were a coach would you call the pitches or would you allow the catcher to do so?

 

[sybarite]

I coached a Babe Ruth team, and I let everyone call their own pitches. But, they didn't really have anything except a fast ball and a make-believe curve.

 

[SoonerNorm]

I always called the pitches, I allowed my catcher to call pitches when I coached, and if I were coaching today I would have my catcher calling the pitches. I think a catcher has a better feel of which pitches are working and which ones aren't, when runners are looking to steal (sometimes I could figure out their steal sign) and call for a pitchout, etc. I haven't seen any evidence coaches do a better job of calling pitches than catchers do.