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1940–1950 · Bendix Brakes
The factory softball game that the Sports record tells had a face, and it was Ike Bierwagen, the Bendix Brakes' fastpitch pitcher. The American Softball Association's champions list gives the Brakes the national championship in 1941, after a runner-up finish in 1940. The rest of Bierwagen's line is carried as the local accounts carry it — Aaron Helman's South Bend News-Times recounting, built from newspaper clippings, prints him the 1941 tournament's most valuable player, credits his 1941 season with ten no-hitters — in one of them he struck out twenty of the twenty-one outs — remembers an extra-inning marathon in which he struck out fifty-one, and puts his career at ninety-three no-hitters when he retired in 1950. Those figures stand here as attributed recounting, not register fact, because that is the strength of the record that holds them; the championship itself is the register's, and it is enough to carry the entry.
Sources
- American Softball Association, champions list — the Bendix Brakes' 1941 national championship and 1940 runner-up finish.
- Aaron Helman, South Bend News-Times — the most valuable player account and the no-hitter figures, printed here as local recounting from clippings.