Jennie Finch -- Hottie softball player expands market

Jennie Finch has made women's softball appear on the radar screen.
Jennie Finch, Olympic softball player with the famous rising fastball, has helped expand the sport out, according to softball coaching legend Pete Manarino.

Speaking to the the Las Vegas Review-Journal's Ed Graney, he says:
Jennie Finch was that important to the game, a mainstream personality and marketing presence whose looks and talent helped enhance a sport made faster and more exciting as its rules changed over the years.

Softball's fate to be part of the Olympics again in 2016 will be decided at an International Olympics Committee meeting this year, and the one hope those fighting hardest own is that the organization backs its words about wanting to add more of two specific elements to future Games: clean athletes and women's sports.

It is a dream chased by an immeasurable number of young girls each day, a tally that has grown higher and higher locally as state-of-the-art facilities such as Majestic Park have been raised and the lure of potential scholarship money has increased the desire for private lessons.