It all started, “in 1982 around his kitchen table in Lexington, Kentucky, he announced his plans for The National Softball Association to his son Eddie Ray, Don Moore, Ernie Browning, eventual board members Jim Miles and Bernie Livers”.
In the autumn of 1982, the plans were set in motion for Hugh and his fledgling National Softball Association to get off the ground as incorporation papers were filed in Lexington”.
[1] The official conference took place in November of the same year and it discussed the framework and groundwork for the construction in the spring of 1983.
In January 1983, Hugh appointed the first six Board of Directors that would serve as the decision-making body of the NSA”.
In 2002, the NSA does or has done business in all 50 states, Canada, Guam, Puerto Rico, Mexico, The Bahamas, Russia and Holland”.
[1] In 1992, Hugh Cantrell, “fittingly became the first person inducted into the NSA Hall of Fame”.
[1] In its most recent activity in the “Chattanooga Times Free Press[2]”, its states that the National Softball Association is bringing its girl's fast-pitch Class B World Series for the Eastern half of North America to Chattanooga next summer.
“Eastern World Series Will Run July 25–31.” Chattanooga Times Free Press.