LITTLETON, CO – There are those who come into men’s fastpitch softball, feast from the trough until content, and then bid the game farewell. Without so much as a backward glance.
Give something back to the sport that’s been so good to them? Nah, don’t have the time. Got better things to do like golf or slowpitch softball.
Well, that might categorize many former fastpitch players, but not Dick Mason.
Mason began playing the sport while attending the University of Denver in the 1970s. With a few swings of his bat at some sharp-breaking risers and drops, he was hooked.
“I jumped at the chance of playing when...