In a softball career that has extended from 1965 to the present, Kenny Medeiros has won six Most Valuable Player awards, four league batting titles, seven home run championships, and eleven Golden Glove awards.

After hitting over .600 in the Bristol County Babe Ruth Baseball League, he captained the 1959 Warren High School nine.  Named the All Eastern Division left fielder after batting .478, he then had a tryout with the New York Yankees.

Kenny has played softball throughout Southeastern New England.  In the Warren Slow-Pitch League he was a member of either regular season or playoff champions ten times between 1968 and 1980 and was a six-time All Star.

In Massachusetts he played on championship teams every year from 1965 to 1970.  In 1968 he was named the Fall River Slow-Pitch Softball League Most Valuable Player after batting .592, smashing eighteen home runs, and hitting safely in forty of forty-four games.  Three years later he played for the league’s All Stars versus the Queen and Her Court.

Returning to Rhode Island Kenny was a member of the 1970 and 1971 Federal Engineers, one of the three or four best fast-pitch softball teams in the United States.

He then joined one of the state’s premiere slow-pitch squads, Taylor Construction, and played with that team and Taylor Brothers until 1980.  He was the Brothers’ Most Valuable Player in 1980, when the team won the Rhode Island Major Division title and placed second in the New England regionals.

From 1980 to 1998 Kenny played in the Back Stop Over Thirty-Five Slow-Pitch Softball League and starred on the league’s championship team in 1994.  During that same timeframe he served as Warren High School’s baseball coach in 1974 and 1975 and was a Warren Youth Football coach.  His 1980 Midgets eleven won the state championship.  In 1984 Kenny managed the Warren Babe Ruth Baseball thirteen-year-old All Stars.  And in 1998 he was the assistant wrestling coach at Roger Williams University.

 Starting in 1992 Kenny joined the Fifty and Over Softball League.  His Superior Bakery team has won the league title four times.  On a larger stage he was a member of Rhode Island teams that placed sixth or better in either World Championships or the Senior Olympics in every year from 1992 to 1999.  In 2000 they reached the top, winning the 42^nd Street World title.

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