Softball is a descendant of baseball mainly played in United States and in some other countries as well. Though there are some differences between baseball and softball former being thrown by lower hand whereas it is just the opposite in the later, softball is thrown by upper hand.
Even the dimensions of soft ball court are lower than that of baseball court. The first game of softball was played in the year 1889 between Yale and Harvard at alumni to hear the final scores of their football game in Chicago. Thereafter George Hancock was credited as the inventor of this game-softball. It was then in the year 1889 when the set of rules for this game was published. Softball was named by Walter Hankinson in the year 1926. Thereafter the joint rules committee on
...softball was established in 1934 to standardize the rules and naming of the game through out the United States.
Where in winters it was credited to be one of the indoor games so that it is convenient for the players to practice through out the season. Snow ball sometimes is referred to as “mush ball” or “super slow pitch” which is of 16 inches. Here defensive players are not supposed to put on gloves but that does not really creates a problem in the game as this 16 inches ball is soft enough to field and does not causes any kind of physical harm or injury to the players. Snow ball is extremely famous and played in Chicago and New Orleans. In Orleans snowball is famous by the name of “cabbage ball” and is basically popular in high school. There are
tournaments taking place every year in these schools in order to build up the skill and the passion for softball so that good young and deserving players can be given a chance to prove themselves.
In 1972 soft ball was introduced in United Kingdom by a movie “a touch of class” filmed in London. Thereafter in 1983 the first women softball league was established giving a chance to the upcoming women players to prove themselves in the field of soft ball. The women’s fast pitch softball selected in 1991 to play in summer Olympics in 1996 for the first time. This was the first time in the history of soft ball that there was an introduction of soft ball technology which was funded by IOC giving away the landmark for the biomechanical study on the pitch during the softball games.
Unfortunately in the year 2002 this sixteen inches ball was chucked out of the ISF official rules. Although it is still very much played in United States under ASA (amateur softball association, America). Despite of the fact that in 2005 baseball and softball both were written off from Olympics still the craze of these sports can be very well seen in United States. Efforts are been put up in order to bring back the pride of both the games in Olympics.
Hope to see softball as a part of Olympics soon.
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