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It all began in a motel room in Pittsburgh, PA, in 1968 when a group of disenchanted slo-pitch managers of past National championship teams and directors met to find an answer to advancing and updating the popular game of slow pitch softball. They had just returned from the National Commissioners Meeting of the only major softball association in the country where most of their ideas and suggestions had been turned down. Their main concerns were longer fences, 65-foot base paths, smaller batter s box, more media coverage and financial support for the slow pitch program. They recognized slow pitch was being played by the overwhelming majority, but the game was taking a back seat to fast pitch. These pioneers decided to take a daring step and hold an experimental world tournament at the close of the 1968 season and play under the banner of a newly formed association. Several more meetings resulted in the birth of the United States Slo-Pitch Softball Association. The USSSA was chartered th
