Bill Plummer III
Bill Plummer IIIemail A 1973 graduate of Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, Bill Plummer III has been involved in softball for more than four decades. During his career, he served as a sports writer and a baseball scout, and for 30 ½ years was employed at the ASA National Office in Oklahoma City (1979-2009) as the communications coordinator, manager of the ASA National Softball Hall of Fame and ASA historian.He has written widely about the sport and has contributed to 14 books, including writing one and co-authoring two, plus contributing to the Berkshire Encyclopedia of World Sport. In 2008, he authored “The Game America Plays: Celebrating 75 Years of the Amateur Softball Association,” and was a major contributor to the book, “Softball’s Lefty Legend: Ty Stofflet,” by Dr. Steve Clarfield in 2004. He and Clarfield were co-authors of a new book on fast pitch softball, “Best of the Best-Women’s Fast Pitch Softball” which came out in January 2012. And in May of 2013, Plummer and Larry C. Floyd of Oklahoma City co-authored “A Series of Their Own..The History of the Women’s College World Series,” the first book ever done tracing the history of the WCWS. The book was named Oklahoma Sports Historian of the Year for 2014.He has been elected to five Halls of Fame, including the ASA National Softball Hall of Fame plus state Halls of Fame in Oklahoma, Indiana, Tidewater and New York State. In 1996, he served as the Information Manager for ACOG for the debut of softball in the Olympics plus the 1987 and 1995 Pan American Games. Although he retired from the ASA in 2009, Plummer is still very involved in the sport, currently serving on the selection committee for the Lowe’s CLASS softball winner each year, a contributing editor to Fast Pitch Magazine, an online fast pitch magazine, as well as writing for CollegeSportsMadness.com. In the past, he’s been a stringer for the AP covering the NCAA Women’s College World Series. He also works for Anaconda Trump, Lake Katrine, N.Y in outside sales.
June 8, 2015
Florida Softball Still Has Better Days Ahead OKLAHOMA CITY — Florida was a solid softball program before it won back-to-back NCAA titles. Now it’s an elite program and certainly the second title has solidified the program. Florida joins UCLA and…
June 8, 2015
Haeger Made Her Mark on Florida Softball OKLAHOMA CITY – Lauren Haeger made her presence felt in the 34th annual Women’s College World Series in more ways than one. And because she did, the Florida Gators repeated as NCAA softball…
June 6, 2015
Florida Wins Softball Title OKLAHOMA CITY — After being shutout the night before, the Florida Gators came back with a vengeance Wednesday night before a crowd of 7,680 to defeat Michigan in the final game of the NCAA Championship Series and win…
May 25, 2015
Oklahoma’s Chamberlain Wraps Up Great Softball Career It doesn’t happen that often and isn’t expected, but on occasion there will be a special athlete who will after her four-year career is completed will be recognized as one of the “best ever.”…
May 24, 2015
Alabama Tops Oklahoma to Reach the WCWS If you happened to watch the championship game of the NCAA Softball Regional in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, you can understand why fans love Division I softball. Two outstanding teams, Alabama and Oklahoma, battled tooth…
May 24, 2015
Alabama Softball Evens Up Series Against OU TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — OU pitcher Paige Parker allowed only two hits, but one of them spelled defeat for the Sooners as Alabama evened the NCAA Softball Super Regional at a game piece with…
May 19, 2015
OU-Alabama Super Regional A Must See NORMAN, Okla.– The eight NCAA Softball Super Regionals scheduled this weekend will have the interest of the most avid softball fan, especially the fans in Oklahoma and Alabama. The matchup of No. 5 Alabama and…
May 18, 2015
Sooner Softball on the Road for Super Regional NORMAN, Okla.– After winning the Regional softball title Sunday, beating Texas A&M 2-0, the Sooners will be on the road for a change when they compete in the Super Regional and a…
May 18, 2015
Sooner Softball Advances to Super Regional NORMAN, Okla.– After needing to come-from-behind Saturday, OU scored first and added another run to shutout Texas A&M, 2-0, Sunday to capture the NCAA Softball Regional and advance to the Super Regional next weekend.…
May 16, 2015
Sooner Softball Rallies to Top Texas A&M NORMAN, Okla — Erin Miller hit a two-run walk-off homer over the right field fence in the bottom of the seventh inning to give the Oklahoma Sooners a come-from-behind 7-5 win over Texas…
