Softball
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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The Beginning
In 1887, a group of 20 men had gathered in the Farragut Boat Club gym for a football game. After Yale’s win, a man picked up a stray boxing glove and threw it at someone, who smashed it with a pole. George Hancock, considered to be the inventor of softball tied the boxing glove so that it was like a ball, chalked out a diamond on the floor, which gave it small dimensions than a regular baseball field to be able to fit in the gym, and broke off a broom handle to serve as a bat. Thus, a new version of baseball was born: softball.
In 1887, a group of twenty young men had gathered in the Farragut Boat Club gym in order to hear the Harvard-Yale football game. After Yale’s victory, a man picked up a stray boxing glove and threw it at someone, who hit it with a pole. George Hancock, considered to be the inventor of softball tied the boxing glove so that it resembled a ball, chalked out a diamond on the floor, which gave it small dimensions than a regular baseball field to be able to fit in the gym, and broke off a broom handle to serve as a bat. Thus, a new version of baseball was born: softball.
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The Difference
-Softball is a variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field.
-It was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground, ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' baseball. The name softball was given to the game in 1926.
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Positions
1.1st base
2.2nd base
3.shortstop
4.3rd base
5.pitcher
6.catcher
7.center field
8.right field
9.left field
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The under hand pitch
-Softballs are pitched underhand because it helps the arm stay at a natural position. When a baseball player throws a ball overhand, they may be able to produce more velocity, but it severely strains the shoulder and elbow muscles and ligaments. A softball player can pitch far more pitches than a baseball player because their arms naturally hang to the side, making the motion much more efficient.
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Bats and the ball
The story goes that a Yale man threw a boxing glove at the Harvard grads, and one of them hit the glove back with a stick, apparently a broom handle. Hancock then came up with the idea of creating a softball by binding the glove with its laces, and an indoor game of softball was under way. Hancock wound up writing down rules and developed a soft, oversized ball and rubber-tipped bat for the game. Wooden bats were then used until the introduction of the aluminum bat in 1970.
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BASIC RULES
The fielders have to get 3 batters out to go bat
You get a max of 3 strikes and 4 balls.
If you get 3 strikes your out, but if you get 4 balls you get to take a base.
If you hit it over the fence with in the foul lines then you get a run.
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Fun Facts
-The All-American Girls’ Professional Baseball League was founded by Phillip K. Wrigley. It was in existence from 1943-1954, and was started to keep the public eye on baseball after the majority of men were overseas fighting in WWII.
-The first women’s team was formed in 1895 in Chicago’s West Division High School in the United States.
-The game of sofball oringinated in Chicago on Thanksgiving Day, 1887, but did not become a NCAA sanctioned sport until 1910.
-Every fastpitch game of the 1996 Olympics was a sellout.
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