Career
Meade has also been named to the All-World Tournament Team seven times. During his career, he appeared in nine Industry Standard Architecture Super Major World Tournaments and three Senior World Tournaments. Bruce Meade did not play softball as a youth.
He was also on his high school track team and competed in High Jump and Pole Vault.
Meade has a lifetime average of.735 and hit more than 2,000 home runs in his career including 230 home runs in 1978 alone. In his 20-year career, Meade never batted below.625 and for 11 of those years he batted over.700.
Meade is best known for hitting a regulation softball (Dudley SB12L red stitch) 510 feet in Amarillo, Texas, in 1978. The distance was documented by an American Softball Association official who was in attendance.
