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Baseball, “The American Past Time” is one of America’s favorite sports and always will be. Softball, the female version of Baseball, has also become very popular in the United States over time. What most people assume is that Softball was created by women because they wanted to play the American sport, but in actuality Softball was created by men. Once Softball was created, it took a while for America to warm up to the idea of women playing in dirt rather than being at home in the kitchen, but over time Softball has built respect and a title for itself.
In 1877, a group of men were listening to the Harvard-Yale football game, when it is said to believed that Softball was created. A Yale supporter threw a boxing glove at a Harvard fan who made contact with the glove with a swinging pole, which led to a random citizen and inventor George Hancock screaming, “Let’s play ball!” George created his own version of a fielding glove and used the bottom of a broom stick to use as bat, then sketched out a diamond on a gym floor to create a field for Softball. Softball was designed to be an in-door sport, where George created nineteen modified rules that had to be followed during all games. After George finished finalizing everything, the Mid-Winter Indoor Baseball League of Chicago was formed. The spread of indoor baseball was flocking all over, until they made the transition to move Softball outside. The more popular Softball became within the states; new ideas were created to go along with the sport. For example, Louis Rober is said to be the man that created the seven inning concept that goes with Softball; he wanted to keep the game within an hour long.
Two Chicago salesmen, Leo Fischer and Michael Pauley, proposed the idea that a sof...

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...s while they are still in college but won’t sign the contract until they complete school. Back tracking a little back to youth softball, this is played mostly by young girls. In 1974, Little League Softball was, which is played today by more than three hundred sixty-six thousand players today.
Softball has overcome many milestones and obstacles over years and decades. Looking back on when softball first started to now, you couldn’t compare the two. With the overall increase in popularity in the international level, college and professional softball has really made it what it is today. With technology transforming the game completely also, it has made it more for the needs of women and girls. Starting from an indoor sport created by men for men, evolving into a national women’s sport really shows how much softball has come along and impacted the American cultural.

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