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History of Softball

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==The game known as softball is played from any age. Its really played all year around, but many people play it usually in spring to fall. It started by elements of sports like boating boxing and football.When its played in the fall its called fall ball. Softball is basically a younger version of baseball. You probably think that the two are just about the same, well, there not they have there similarities but they not to much alike. Women used to play it, but now only men do. Softball first stated in Chicago, Milwaukee, and the upper Midwest of Canada. Softball was introduced 1890 Thanksgiving day at a Harvard vs Rutgers football game. The Softball was first called softball in 1926 after the Denver YMCA official brought up the name up as a suggestion. In 1999 softball was inroduced to Australia. After world war II Canadian solders introduced it to the Netherlands. Softball made a huge leap in 1933 when a reporter from Chicago and a salesmen of sporting goods made a softball tournament to go with the world's fair. The first British women's softball league was established in 1983. The man's U.S team won the title in 1968. Since 1951, the International Softball Federation has governed worldwide softball competition. The rubber pitching plate distance is anywhere from 50 to 70 feet from home plate. The distance from between bases rang from 55 to 60 feet. A 12 inch ball is the standard with a lot of youth leagues. The bat isn't much like a baseball bat because the neck isn't as long and the fat part on the part that you hit with is usually fatter in softball due to a bigger bat (that's not in the site its just an extra fact I wanted to tell about for something else that may be fake). Fast pitch has caught the most attention internationally. When pitching it is really nothing like baseball, you throw under-hand, and make a circle winding around. In 1996, women’s softball hit its highest peak when it became an Olympic medal event. The 1996 Olympics also marked a key era in the introduction of technology in softball; the IOC funded a landmark biomechanical study on pitching during the games. ==

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