Mahan Ford Mens team Softball Bio
From 1965 to 1968 this team won several local, State, Regional and National Championships.
Mahan Ford’s most outstanding accomplishment was winning the 1968 ASA Region 15 Open Division championship by upsetting national power Little Caeser’s of Detroit. Mahan Ford beat Little Caesar’s twice on their home field to advance to the 1968 ASA Slow-Pitch National Open Division tournament in Jones Beach, NY. This was the first time a team from Indiana had ever advanced to the slow-pitch open division national championships.
Mahan Ford also won the 1968 Slow-Pitch Indiana State Championship by beating perennial power Seymour Merchants on their home field twice. In the years 1965 through 1968, Mahan Ford won 216 games and lost just 68, for a winning percentage of 76 percent. In 1965, Mahan Ford won the Columbus City A League Championship.
During the mid-1960s, Mahan Ford and its archrival, Dunfee Chevrolet, were two of the best teams in Columbus slow-pitch softball history.