I have had many great experiences over the years in a wide variety of sports.

However, for a question like this, it always comes back to one experience I had in a Slow Pitch softball industrial league.

We were the last place team, playing the first place team, and I had recently switched from being catcher to being the pitcher.

We won the game, and the umpire came over to me and said: “Wow, I never saw a no hitter in slow pitch softball before, congratulations”.

I was stunned.

I thought it over, and realized, that the opposing team did have runners on the bases during the game, but they evidently were all by walks or errors. And we won 5 to 2. But the opposing team had no (zero) hits.

For the time, I had a “unique” and legal delivery. Instead of tossing the ball to the plate with the palm of my hand facing the plate, it was the Back of my hand that faced the plate. Therefore, most of the pitches had Back Spin on them and I was accurate (I had several strike outs in the game). Thus with the back spin that they weren’t expecting, they kept hitting ground balls to our infielders for outs (or errors, as we were the last place team at that point of the mid-season)…..

My pitching style just seemed natural to me, and like the table tennis that many people play (Ping Pong in their basement), it is the Spin on the ball that makes all the difference.

A No Hitter in slow pitch softball……. I will always remember that, and it was against the top team with a lot of power hitters.