Rick “Crusher” Scherr, is known as possibly the greatest slow-pitch softball player of all time. He’s estimated to have hit over 1,800 home runs, some of them plenty long enough to have left any MLB stadium.
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Rick “Crusher” Scherr, is known as possibly the greatest slow-pitch softball player of all time. He’s estimated to have hit over 1,800 home runs, some of them plenty long enough to have left any MLB stadium. In a 1986 Los Angeles Times feature on the Crusher, he offered up stories on hitting softballs out of big-league parks, including a meeting with the Hit King
K.C. a couple of times,” he says. “Shea Stadium, Atlanta, San Diego, Oakland, Anaheim.
“The time I did it in Wrigley Field, Chicago, was pretty good. It was between games of a doubleheader with the Phillies. Pete Rose was there. I’ve met Pete a couple of times. I think he’s a real nice man. He’d even stand out there and watch and stuff. Some baseball players were a little snobby. They’d say, ‘This guy’s not going to hit no softball out of here.’
And now Crusher Scherr’s son is near the top of the wrestling world