NIKI'S 1971 SOFTBALL STATS

No history of the NSAA can be complete without a mention of perhaps our most memorable year, 1971. We were playing along on both the upper and lower fields at Glendale College until, on June 28, we got booted off both because of spring football practice. We then tried one night over at Eagle Rock park which turned into a disaster. It was time to abort.

But fear not, one of our regulars, the Creeper, who was an occansional customer at Niki’s bar down on Broadway in Glendale, stepped in and was able to schedule us some games where we'd represent Niki's vs. other bars and restaurants around town, all played on the weekends. Recently, a pile of the Niki's scoresheets appeared in my basement which contained 15 of the 18 contests. I suspect the missing 3 were the first 3 because it didn't occur to us to keep stats until game four. So here are the 18 game results and then individual stats for the 15 games we have. The record shows us going 16-2.

DATE NIKIS OPPONENT THEM
06/20 24 CHURCHILLS 5
06/27 14 LA FONDA 2
07/03 19 LA FONDA 7
07/11 19 GLENDALE YMCA 14
dh 12 GLENDALE YMCA 7
07/18 20 CHURCHILLS 16
dh 3 CHURCHILLS 2
07/25 19 THE DEN 5
08/01 12 TOP HAT 3
08/08 13 GLENDALE P.O. 5
08/15 4 TONYS BAR 1
08/22 18 E J's 6
dh 16 E J'S 1
08/29 7 TONYS BAR 5
09/05 11 THE DEN 15
09/12 12 THE NEW DEN 3
09/19 7 VAGO HILLS BOWL 14

*Tom K was unanimously voted MVP.

PLAYER GAMES AT BAT HITS PCT RBI H/R
TOM K 15 60 32 .533 24 5
BOBBY 11 19 10 .526 9 2
CREEPER 15 60 30 .500 14 2
BENNIE 7 30 15 .500 9 1
DAVE P 15 63 28 .444 21 5
NEIL B 6 18 8 .444 6 1
BILL F 14 46 20 .435 10 1
DICK JOY 13 45 17 .377 9 0
COMMISH 15 54 20 .370 6 0
RONNIE 15 54 18 .333 11 2
FRANK M 10 15 5 .333 1 0
JACK W 15 46 15 .326 11 2
BOOMER 11 37 12 .324 5 1
RICH G 4 16 5 .312 5 0
ROSS B 5 16 5 .312 5 0
PETE K 7 10 3 .300 2 0
TEAM 15 589 243 .413 148 22