Bruce Meade
{{Short description|American softball player (born 1951)}}
Bruce Allen Meade (born c. 1951) is an inductee of both the Independent Softball Association Hall of Fame and the United States Slo-pitch Softball Association Hall of Fame. Meade has also been named to the All-World Tournament Team seven times. During his career, he appeared in nine ISA Super Major World Tournaments and three Senior World Tournaments.[http://www.isasoftball.com/bruce-meade Independent Softball Association] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20090722103333/http://www.isasoftball.com/bruce-meade |date=2009-07-22 }}
Early athletic career
Born in Bradenton, Florida,{{cite web |url=http://www.usssa.com/usssa/usssa-general/MJ%20BRUCE%20ALLEN%20MEADE_files/JMEADE.htm |title=Bruce Allen Meade |website=www.usssa.com |access-date=15 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090722100537/http://www.usssa.com/usssa/usssa-general/MJ%20BRUCE%20ALLEN%20MEADE_files/JMEADE.htm |archive-date=22 July 2009 |url-status=dead}} Bruce Meade did not play softball as a youth. Meade started roller skating at the age of 8 and won a regional championship for boys 18 and under in the freestyle category. He was also on his high school track team and competed in High Jump and Pole Vault.[http://www.bigcat844.com/legends_meade.html House of Swing]
Softball career highlights
Meade has a lifetime average of .735 and hit more than 2,000 home runs in his career including 230 home runs in 1978 alone. In his 20-year career, Meade never batted below .625 and for 11 of those years he batted over .700.[https://www.angelfire.com/sd/slopitch/legends.html Legends of Softbal History]
510 Foot home run
Meade is best known for hitting a regulation softball (Dudley SB12L red stitch) 510 feet in Amarillo, Texas, in 1978. The distance was documented by an American Softball Association official who was in attendance.[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-04-12-sp-1237-story.html LA Times: Bruce Meade Is Softball's King of Swat]
Family
Bruce Meade is married to his wife Ellen and they have two children, Bryce and Blake. Bruce Meade's sister Ellen Meade is an American beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Florida 1973.
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External links
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Category:Softball players from Florida