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slow pitch

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1971, OED Evaluation: U.S.

A type of softball in which each pitch must travel in an arc of a specified minimum height.

ExampleMeaning
Speaker: My grandma I-don't- I don't know what she did. Interviewer 5: (inc) Speaker: She like I-don't-know stay at home mom or-something. And I-don't-know they were both all into curling hard. They were curlers. My grandma- they were both slow-pitch baseball or-whatever. They were all into that. I-don't-know.
A type of softball in which each pitch must travel in an arc of a specified minimum height.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: ... about seven or eight when I joined little-league. Interviewer: Oh okay. Speaker: And I played that until I was thirteen or fourteen when they s-- stopped having the teams. Interviewer: Oh yeah? Speaker: I'm not sure why they stopped. So I had to wait 'til I was eighteen to join the women's slow-pitch league. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: That was a big difference. Interviewer: Really? Speaker: Very big. Interviewer: In what way? Speaker: Ah you have a ball coming at you at seventy, eighty miles per hour to one that's going two. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: (Laughs) Interviewer: Yeah. (inc) slow-pitch? Speaker: (laughs) Yeah. Interviewer: Oh. Speaker: My first pitch of slow-pitch I struck out fifty-two times. Interviewer: Oh really? 'Cause it's just that different? Speaker: It's just that different, I couldn't get the timing.
A type of softball in which each pitch must travel in an arc of a specified minimum height.
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Speaker: So I would- I would miss that, ah, camaraderie. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Until a couple years ago I still played slo-pitch ball. Um, my cottage is here. Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: Ah, close friends. Ah, so it would- it would be- it would be very difficult to leave. But we would keep the cottage and still have our cottage here and come back, probably spend most of the summer here, if we left.
A type of softball in which each pitch must travel in an arc of a specified minimum height.
ExampleMeaning
... 'cause I didn't like my job, I was going through the paper, so I- I came back and um well I just played baseball. Like there's tons of- well not so much anymore, but there was a lot of slow pitch teams around here, it's very very big and um ah played that and then- well there ringette, and I was talking to someone and they're playing ringette and there was no hockey, nothing else.
A type of softball in which each pitch must travel in an arc of a specified minimum height.
ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: There was lots of parties, eh? Speaker: Lots of- there was a lot of baseball tournaments too, eh? Like a big- I remember twenty-eighteens one time for a slow pitch. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: It was great. Interviewer: (Laughs) Speaker: Now, you're lucky if you got six or eight teams for a tournament.
A type of softball in which each pitch must travel in an arc of a specified minimum height.
ExampleMeaning
... um, there was organized baseball, I-mean there was Little-League and I played Little-League, but it just seemed that there was baseball available all the time. You'd- you'd go by the Civic-Field, which now unless there's- there's slow-pitch on in the evening, there's nothing going on. Well you could walk by there any given day during the summer time and there'd be twelve, fifteen, sixteen kids playing baseball all the time. And baseball would just happen. You just go and there would be enough people around.
A type of softball in which each pitch must travel in an arc of a specified minimum height.
I still play hockey and ah, I kind of got out of the baseball I played for a few years after I finished my university days, but- Interviewer: Mm. Speaker: S-- slow-pitch didn't do it for me. Um, I had always played fast ball or baseball coming up through until I was sixteen and ah, I just found slow-pitch too slow, so I didn't- I didn't stick it out with the baseball.
A type of softball in which each pitch must travel in an arc of a specified minimum height.