What really sets me off is the tournament directors do not seem to care.Ĭomments:This is the way it is or it's too expensive to change balls and ect.
We go to these tournaments during the summer months (normally over 85 degrees) and play with softballs that normally are very fair balls but in the heat they lose so much that they are tough to hit for any distance. I know this has been discussed several times but it's starting to bug me. Online now: 3 members: Bob Downs, dkrollw364, readytoplay 78 anonymous Change topic:ĭiscussion: Softball and hot weather!! Posted Ball lived in Encino, California, and died there in 1988.» Message Board home » Sign-in or register to get started
In the mid 1980s, he was the book review columnist for Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine. For a time he worked part-time as a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy, was trained in martial arts, and was a nudist. He wrote for a number of magazines and newspapers, including the Brooklyn Eagle. He also wrote under the name John Ball Jr.īall was born in Schenectady, New York, grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and attended Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin. It won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America and was made into an Oscar-winning film of the same name starring Sidney Poitier the film had two sequels, and spawned a television series several decades later, none of which were based on Ball's later Tibbs stories. He was introduced in the 1965 In the Heat of the Night where he solves a murder in a racist Southern small town. He wrote for a John Dudley Ball writing as John Ball, was an American writer best known for mystery novels involving the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs. Ball was born in Schenectady, New York, grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and attended Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He also wrote under the name John Ball Jr.
John Dudley Ball writing as John Ball, was an American writer best known for mystery novels involving the African-American police detective Virgil Tibbs.
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