SOFTBALL

• Softball developed as a younger version of baseball .
• Softball was started by elements of other sports.
• A boxing glove and a football game were key parts in the very first game of softbal
• Softball was first introduced on thanksgiving day in 1887 at a Harvard Yale football game .
• A mam from Yale football game threw a boxing glove at the Harvard's grads after the game.

SOFTBALL

• Softball was invented inside the Farragut Boat Club on a winter day in November 1887
• This was in Chicago , A bunch of Yale and Harvard alumni anxiously awaited the results of the Harvard Yale football game
• This all gave George Hancock , a reporter for the Chicago Board of trade , an idea .
• He suggested a game of indoor baseball .
• Naturally Hancock's friends thought he was talking about playing a game outdoors not indoors .

SOFTBALL

• Hancock considered to be the inventor of softball.
• He tied the boxing glove so that it resembled a ball .
• He chalked out a diamond on the floor , which gave it small dimensions of a field .
• He also broke off a broom handle to serve Asa bat . A new of baseball was born softball
• Hancock was fascinated and in the following weeks a large ball & small ball for the sports .

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• Rules and a league were established by the Boat Club in 1889.
• The first league began in 1897 in Toronto .
• Softball is often referred to baseball for girls .
• With a larger ball and a smaller diamond .
• This generalization holds only some truth .

SOFTBALL

• A direct descendant considered a female sport .
• But it was created by , and is still common among men .
• This all happened when the group of men joined together in Chicago.
• Hancock the reporter for Chicago yelled let's play ball and that's what they did .
• Hancock used the glove strings to knot the glove together into a ball .

SOFTBALL

• Softball , especially fast pitch is considered mostly a women's game I'm the 21st century .
• But it didn't begin that way it began as a offshoot of baseball for men that could be played indoors in the winter.
• The game proved it could stand on its own , and moved outdoors .
• A couple years later it was called " indoor - outdoor " .
• The Farragut club also wrote the first rules of the game .

SOFTBALL

• The name softball dates from 1926
• By the 1930's similar sports with different rules and names were being played across the country .
• And into Canada .
• Softball standardized in 1933 as the Amateur softball association was formed .
• The first women's team in 1895 at Chicago's West Division High School .

SOFTBALL

• The high school did not obtain a coach for competitive day until 1899.
• International women's professional softball league was formed in 1976.
• The league folded in 1980.
• But the game hasn't stopped growing .
• After world War 2 Canadian soldiers introduced softball to the Netherlands .

The History Of Softball
Caycee Chavis
Tammi Rice
Due Date 1/14/14