Picot Cassada

 

Player (Slow Pitch)

 

Inducted 2003

 

Picot Cassada started playing slow pitch softball in the early sixties.  He sponsored and played for the Motor Ramp Team.  He was the first left-handed long-ball hitter and was in demand by the better teams.  Picot played for Tiller Taxi and Virginia Beach Piledrivers.  He played in four State tournaments, nine Metro tournaments, six Regional tournaments, and four Men’s Major National tournaments.  He earned at least twelve MVP honors and batted over five hundred, while hitting forty homeruns each year.  He is remembered as the first left-handed long-ball hitter and the first player to hit a fourteen inch and sixteen inch ball out of our ballparks.

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