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Fresno Senior Softball League: Welcome

    WELCOME! To the Fresno Senior Softball League Web site. The FSSL has been in operation since the spring of 1991. It started with 6 teams, 70 members and has grown until now it currently has more then 250 members, 3 divisions of play, with a total of 38 teams. FSSL offers 3 season of ball in 3 division. There are spring leagues, fall leagues & winter leagues in each of the following divisions: men's slow pitch, coed softball as well as fast pitch softball.
      The spring league runs from early March until mid July, with 14 teams playing a 16 game season, with the top 8 making the playoffs.   The fall season runs from first of August until the end of October with 12 teams. In the fall, all teams make the end of the year tournament. While the winter league starts the first of November and finishes the week before Christmas and usually has 4 teams, while playing a 12 game season. Each season, the league conducts a draft of players, with only the sponsor and managers being retained on the prior team.
    The FSSL is a non profit organization, which is run by a board of directors whom are elected by the members of the association. The board consist of 4 managers and 6 player reps. The presidency is by succession. The members elect a first vice president who the following year then moves to vice president, in the third year he then becomes the president.
    The other officers are elected by the members of the board of directors from within the board, who then over see the organization.
    The league plays by a unique set of rules, some of which are:
    1- Fly ball reaching the outfield, the batter can't be thrown out at first.
    2- We only allow 2 courtesy runners per inning with a runner only being allowed to run once per game.
    3-Base runners can overrun any base as long as they come back to tag that base before advancing to the next base.
    4-All bases are a force out, and no tag need be made if the runner continues to advance passed the base.
    5-We have a handicap rule for runners from home plate. If injured and unable to run, they can have the previous batter, not on base, run from home for them.
    6-All infielders must remain on the dirt in the infield, and all outfielders must remain behind the 170' line.
    The league has enjoyed great success with this format. We hold a draft each year for each league. The only people that remain on the team from league to league are the sponsor & managers.
   We have a group of individuals which we label as special needs. That means that if they wish or need to play together on the same team they will have that chance. Each team is allowed only one set of players with special needs. These include: Father & son, Brothers, and travel partners. (People who live more then 20 miles away and travel together more then 60% of the time).
   The league just adopted the buddy rule, which allows for a person who has never played in the league to come aboard and play with a friend for the first league, this is also considered a special needs groups.
      At anytime during your tour of the website, just click on a team name for more information about that team. In the standing section if you click on the team, it will give you the team by team results for that team. Tour the site and please leave your comments on the guestbook. We are always interested in improving our league and web site so if you have a comment or suggestion please email to FRSRSOFTBALL@aol.com.
Thank you