1999 Female Player: Mary Malpede

Mary Malpede

Behind Mary Malpede’s pitching, her team won over 500 games and appeared in ten USSSA Class A World Tournaments. Compiling a 30-20 record at these National events, she spent the last 11 years of her 16-year career in USSSA competition.

The Chicagoans won the Illinois Class A State Tournament in 1982 and 1984, and with a team name change to C.M.C., they won the State Title again in 1988.

Mary’s pitching brought much success at many USSSA NITs including The Lassie Invitational, Werner’s at Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Rockford and Louisville, Kentucky.

The Chicagoans and C.M.C. were ranked in the top ten nationally for many years due to solid defense and power hitting. Although power hitting was not Mary’s forte, she could move the runners on her base hitting.

Mary sums up her attributes not as physical but as personal accomplishments learned by the camaraderie she had with such a great group of athletes and friends she made in softball.