WHAT IS A SOFTBALL GAME?

 

Softball, a variant of baseball and a popular participant sport, particularly in the United States. It is generally agreed that softball developed from a game called indoor baseball, first played in Chicago in 1887. It became known in the United States by various names, such as kitten ball, mush ball, diamond ball, indoor–outdoor, and playground ball. There were wide variances in playing rules, size and type of playing equipment, and dimensions of the playing field.

WHO INVENTED SOFTBALL?

Softbalwww.totositehot.pro/l began in 1887 when George Hancock, a reporter for the Chicago Board of Trade, invented "indoor baseball". By the spring of 1888, the game had spread outdoors. It was originally called either mushball, kittenball or indoor baseball, but by the 1920s it had acquired the name of softball. The first game on that 1887 Thanksgiving was played at Chicago's Farragut Boat Club gym against a group of Harvard and Yale alumni who needed a way to occupy time as they awaited the final score of the Harvard-Yale football game. The initial game used a bat that was made from a broken broom handle and a ball that was made of a boxing glove tied up in twine. Hancock dubbed the game "indoor baseball", even though the game went by indoor baseball, kitten ball, and other various names too.

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​WHY IS IT CALLED SOFTBALL?

​Due to the influence of society on the distinctions between male and female sports, it’s quite easy for people to assume the name softball came about in contrast to baseball. It’s considered the girl’s version of baseball and thus seen as not as authentic. Through these ideas the softball itself has come to embody the stereotypes of male and female gender and sexuality. Masculinity and femininity are terms that can’t be defined withoutreferencing the other. Since male and female are opposite sides to the same coin, by definition, if one is a “harder” sport to play, then by default, the other is “softer”, and this can be seen distinctly when you see baseball, a men’s sport, being referenced to as hardball and softball, a women’s sport, being called soft.