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Softball Timeline
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becomeing of softball
- Harvard and Yale
- waiting for scores of the game
- Yale won the game so a Yale alumni tossed a tied up boxing glove to a Harvard alumni and they hit it with a stick
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No Organization
-At this point there was still no real organization for softball
-The National Diamiond Association sponsored a tournament
-Milwaukee
-40 different teams involved
-Different teams and different names
-Playground baseball, kitchen ball, softball, and twilight ball -
Worlds Fare
-Leo Fischer and Michael Pauley
-invited 55 teams to join a softball event
-divided into three different classes
-classes were fastball, slow pitch, and women's league
-over 70,000 people attended on the first day of play
-over 350,000 people that attended in all -
Rules
-ASA (Amateur Softball Association)
-created the the Joint Rules Committee on Softball
-strengthened the popularity
-separating the guidelines from fast pitch, slow pitch and women's play. -
Women'e Championship
-First Women's Championship -
Men's
-First men's Champioship
-Mexico City -
Little league softball
-sport was getting even more popular especially with children
-little league softball was established
-kids aged 9 to 12
-allowed many children to start early in life -
WWII
-Soldiers
-Federation was started
-Worldwide sport -
olympic
-softball made its Olympic debut
-1996 the U.S. teams won the gold two years in a row in Sydney and then in Athens -
Records
-2004 there were a lot of records that got broken
-A lot by the USA team
-most triples
-most batted runs in
-Fewest runs allowed in
-Most stolen bases -
2004
-U.S. Women’s National Team
-known as the “Really Dream Team” by Sports Illustrated that the game will go down in history as one of the most dominant ever
-That season the U.S. outscored its opponents 51-1. -
me
First year I ever played softball
