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  1.                                  During a 20-year softball 
  2.                                  career, Joan Joyce pitched
  3.                                  110 no-hitters, including
  4.                                  35 perfect games. Her
  5.                                  fastball was clocked at 
  6. 118 miles per hour, and she struck out more
  7. than 6,000 batters. She once pitched 157
  8. scoreless innings in a row! Her amateur
  9. career record was 507-33. 
  10.  
  11. Joan was named to the All-America Team 
  12. by the American Softball Association for 18 
  13. consecutive seasons. She was selected 
  14. MVP of the annual tournament eight times. 
  15.  
  16. Besides being an outstanding pitcher, Joan 
  17. was also a great hitter. She led the 
  18. Raybestos Brakettes of Stratford, 
  19. Connecticut, her team for 17 years,  
  20.