A Series Of Their Own

The inspirational roots of college softball’s national championship and its 43 years of explosive growth are chronicled in this unique book.

The inspirational roots of college softball’s national championship and its 43 years of explosive growth are chronicled in this unique, 296-page book, A Series of Their Own: The History of the Women’s College World Series. The book includes narratives on each of the annual tournaments from 1969-2012 within the context of the changing landscape of women’s collegiate sports. To write this story, the authors drew on their backgrounds writing about and photographing this championship event while working at the Amateur Softball Association, the national governing body for softball in the United States. Newspaper accounts, published and unpublished photos, and other sources were used in this book. Prominent players, coaches and tournament organizers also contributed to this compelling narrative.

This is is the fourteenth softball book Bill Plummer III has been involved with during his sports journalism career. A journalism graduate from Indiana University, he has written one book, co-authored two others and contributed to eleven more. For more than thirty years he worked as the communications coordinator/National Softball Hall of Fame services manager at the office of the Amateur Softball Association, the governing body for U.S. softball. A member of five softball halls of fame, Plummer retired from the Amateur Softball Association in 2009 and has since devoted much of his time writing about softball for several online sports magazines. He also serves on the selection committee for the Lowe’s Softball CLASS winner and writes a column on the winner each year.