Lou Levesque and crew have done it again! They brought their professional wiffleball player body the Holy Grail of wiffleball sites. The GSWL players now have their own digital baseball card. The first of it’s kind…GSWL SITE
A site with team info, player info, pitching leaders, batting leaders and more importantly…integrated statistics! I can even be found making a cameo with the C-Notes in the Mass Pro Division, click here. (under Benas, N.)
By: Jon Anderson
In the late 90’s to early 2000’s I remember receiving the Fast Plastic News Letter in the mail, and I don’t mean email. For a Wiffle obsessed teenager like myself there was NO better toilet reading to be had than that 2–page Microsoft Word document. That newsletter was what sparked my initial fire for fast pitch Wiffleball, so to actually win the fast Plastic National Championship approximately 10-years later was quite the honor. Little did I know that 2009 would be the last year of existence for the trail blazing organization?
Last year, after awarding the trophies and watching as Josh Pagano, Evan Lazur, Steve Urqhart and myself reveled in our champagne bath, Fast Plastic Co-Founder Billy Owens announced his retirement from all facets of the game of Wiffleball. He said that his playing days were over and more importantly that he would no longer be spearheading the organization which had produced the best competition that the game had to offer. Billy offered to hand the reigns over to a willing and enterprising volunteer, but nobody stepped to the plate. Over the years I have realized that running an organization like FP can be a seriously thankless job. It is completely impossible to make everyone happy and exhausting to try to do so. I think that Billy had realized this and that every worthy candidate to take over realized it as well.
So, in the wake of the demise of FP something had to give. There had to be someone or something that would satisfy the enormous demand for competitive Wiffleball that FP was leaving behind. Enter Lou Levesque. Those of us who live on the east coast and know Lou well from playing in GSWL knew that he would swoop in and be the man to satisfy that demand and even create more of it. After all, he took a group of extended friends who loved to play the game and in 7 years has turned it into a national phenomenon. It was only natural that he would be the man for the job.
Lou seized the opportunity and beginning with this year he has sprouted a branch off of the GSWL tree creating the GSTC (aka Goldenstick Tournament Circuit). The GSTC is essentially Fast Plastic taken to the next level. He has come up with a multitude of different ideas to satisfy every player from the novices to the bona-fide Pros. The GSTC will culminate in a final championship tournament in Phoenix, AZ known as “The Open” This tournament boasts a prize pool of $10,000 + with the bulk of it going to the National Champs.
Lou has certainly done a great job keeping the torch he received from Billy Owens lit and has managed to make it burn brighter than ever. We are all very excited for this year and know that in the coming years, even with half the growth that the Goldenstick tree has attained this during the 2009-2010 offseason that the main goal is starting to take its shape. But, ask Lou if he could have GSWL and the GSTC in the position that they currently sit without the pioneering efforts of FP’s Billy Owens and Bruce Chrystie you will get an absolutely definitive “NO” as your answer. He knows the level of respect that is due to them and that owes it to them and to the obsessed players they have created to take great care of the torch. He’s off to a great start.
Nick was lucky enough to receive some pretty sweet boxers for Christmas. Notice the variety of wiffle images…beautiful. Now, not only does Nick have wiffle in his heart…he has wiffle in his pants.
The NEW BLWB Mascot
Happy Holidays from BLWB !!!!!!
We’d like to introduce our new mascot…
Got a great name for him?? Post it in the comments below for a chance to win some free BLWB gear.
The circus is coming to town in 2010 !!!
Jon Anderson:
Ahhhh Vegas, the Mecca of gambling, washed-up performers, whores and… Wiffleball? Yeah that’s right I said Wiffleball. I think the last thing that would ever come most people’s minds when someone mentions Sin City is the great sport of Wiffleball. That is until this year when the Wiffle ambassador, GSWL’s Lou Levesque started thinking about where his mark on the national Wffle world would start to be made. When you think about it, is there a more logical venue for the great players in the sport to come together for a weekend of Wiffle debauchery?… probably not. After all, the age group that greatly dominates the game is known as the “Spike TV” generation. This is the generation that made the World Series of Poker national television fodder. Levesque knew that there was no other place but Vegas to make it all happen.
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Grade 5 and 6, Baldwin Middle School Students play scrimage wiffle games in our after school program with Big League Wiffle Ball.
A Backyard Venue Meets Competitive Tournament.
You're ready for the Bigs!
Regular Registration:
$99 pre-registration
(at least 2 weeks prior to tournament date)
$125 on-site registration (cash only)
Play at least 3 games
