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Doug Armstrong
Born December 15, 1949 in Seattle, Armstrong lettered in baseball,
football and basketball for six straight years at Ford Junior High
and Franklin Pierce High School before graduating in 1968. During
his prep career he helped lead the Cardinals to a pair of football
and basketball South Puget Sound League championships. Armstrong joined the Lucky Lager slowpitch team
in 1970, playing games in the Western Washington League at Sprinker
Recreation Center and in his first-ever tournament he helped the
Lagermen to a second-place finish at the Othello Invite behind the
power Heidelberg club. At season's end, Heidelberg added Armstrong
as a pickup player for the ASA Regional tournament in Corvallis
where the squad claimed the title thus earning a trip to the ASA
National Tournament in Michigan.
Armstrong's bat helped lead the way throughout,
as he earned National Tournament Individual All-Star honors in 1978
with a .611 tourney batting average. That closely matched his .600
career batting average. Doug closed out his slowpitch career with
the Black Horse Tavern (1980-81) and three seasons with the Kline
Music team (1982-84).
1970
LUCKY LAGER SLOWPITCH TEAM Front row l. to r.: Tom Yotty, Carlos Canty, and Glen Hadland.
Middle row l. to r.: Dick Webster, Rollie Moore, Bobby Grant,
Ken Jones and Jerry Archer Back row l. to r.: Tim Chandler, Doug Armstrong, Dave Carr, Dave Roller, Bill Royne and Mel Burrell. |
A
three-sport star out of Franklin Pierce High School, Doug Armstrong
was a dominant offensive player for numerous slowpitch softball
squads during a career spanning 1970 through 1985.
A
First-Team All-Star selection in his first season foreshadowed the
stellar career to come. Armstrong played with the Lucky lager squad
for two more seasons before joining the Cloverleaf Tavern team in
1973 and '74. He teamed with Cody's Tavern from 1975 through '79,
garnering countless All-Star awards along the way, with the
highlight coming in 1977 and '78 when the team qualified for
consecutive trips to the ASA National Championships. The team
finished ninth out of 50 teams at Houston, TX in 1977 and placed
fourth in 1978 in Burlington, NC, the highest national tournament
finish for a Tacoma-Pierce County team to date.