Blessed with a blazing fast ball which earned him honors as one of Arizona’s premier softball pitchers, he appeared in five national tournaments in Austin, Texas; Ogden, Utah; and Phoenix, as well as in six regional tournaments where he once was chosen Most Valuable Player. He spent the 1948 and 1949 seasons touring with the Chicago Ho-N-Tots, one of the nation’s top softball attractions of the era. His Arizona teams were among the best in major league play and included Mesa Elks, Colored All-Starts, VFW, Bog’s Rose Room and Russ Keaton.