Rooster Valley History

Hello Everyone,

Having been an avid baseball player and fan my entire life it took me nearly 25 years before I discovered the joy and the magic that is the persona of that wonderful game of slow-pitch softball. We have all came to love and to a certain degree have become consumed by.

I don't need to explain it to you the lovers for the game of softball. It truly is a mystical elixir of life for each of us. It makes us feel younger than our years. It introduces us to life long friendships and associations. It causes our emotions to run the gamut, but perhaps most important it helps relieve the everyday stress of life.

On a evening while playing city league baseball in Richfield , I was invited to play in my first non-church softball tournament. It was held the following Saturday in Gunnison Utah in 1983. We took our baseball team over there and had a ball. I was totally hooked our team finished in third place.

It was over the winter of 1983 that a friend of mine, Blain Michelson, helped me start the Richfield Softball league. Everyone loved it. 14 teams were involved.

In June of 1984 we took our team to Beaver and played in another softball tournament. It was a blast. On the way home, Blaine and I decided Richfield should host a good tournament. I said we needed a catchy name. Blaine came up with Super Softball Classic, and I came up with Rooster Valley (this is the Richfield area's nickname). That's how the Rooster Valley Super Softball Classic began. We decided that we would hold it on the weekend closest to the 24th of July. From the very beginning the tournament was a success. Richfield is in the middle of Utah and close to Nevada , Arizona , Idaho , and Colorado . It gave teams a rare opportunity to meet in this pleasant valley for great competition against teams from all over. It truly had a national tournament feel with a hometown atmosphere. Over the years nearly a 1000 teams—with fans, sponsors, and family—have planned their summers around this event. We hope you to will come and be a part of the ongoing history and tradition of the phenomena we call Rooster Valley .

See ya there,

Founder of the Tournament

An Extra word from Rick

It has been my privilege over the last 23 years to help bring together teams, sponsors, advertisers and softball loving people, in an organizational effort to put together a great tournament, one that would stir all of the emotions of winning and losing and give us experiences that would help relieve the everyday pressures of life.

We feel like we may have been somewhat successful at doing this. Teams that came to the first R.V.S.S.C. make up the nucleus of our tournament today. Teams like Cals Tile, Ken's Glass, Tram Electric, The Shirt Stop, Lee's Texaco, Plain City Drug, Cedar Merchants, Delta Sports Center, Hub City, Robinson Transport and many others who, although the team names have been changed, the original players return each year, with new players, and the hope of adding their team's names to the Tournament History.

It is for you, those players, fans, and sponsors that we have worked with, and will continue to work to make the R.V.S.S.C. the best it can be! What really makes this tournament special is you, the players, fans, and sponsors.

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