Although she recently retired, Jennie Finch is still known as one of the best players in softball history. Jennie started her softball career when she was 5 years old, and started pitching at the age of 8. She attended the University of Arizona and played softball all 4 years. Eventually, her number, 27, was retired at a ceremony on May 9, 2003. At the Summer Olympics in Athens in 2004, Finch led her U.S.A. team to the victory of gold medals. And, in the Summer Olympics of 2008 (Beijing), the U.S.A. team earned a silver medal after a sad loss to Japan, 3-1. "She set the standard for softball in a new era of being able to be feminine and play this sport," says fellow U.S.A. teammate, Jessica Mendoza, "Not that you have to be feminine to play this sport, but I see hundreds of thousands of little girls now with glitter headbands, hot pink bats, makeup....when I was growing up, it wasn't like that." Jennie now is living a happy life with her husband/MLB pitcher, Casey Daigle and their son, Ace, and she will be remembered as the greatest player in the sport of softball.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennie_Finch
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