KENTUCKY SOFTBALL HALL OF FAME
Ernst, Ray
Inducted: 1983
Hebron, Kentucky
AMATEUR SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
RAY ERNST BEGAN UMPIRING IN THE EARLY 1930S AND UMPIRED IN THE FIRST ASA NATIONAL TOURNAMENT IN 1933. RAY ERNST HAD THE FIRST SLOW PITCH RULE BOOK PRINTED IN 1953 AND WAS THE SLOW PITCH RULES INTERPRETER AND SLOW PITCH UMPIRE–IN–CHIEF FOR THE ASA FROM 1956 – 1964.