FUN FACTS ABOUT SOFTBALL! | Open Fastpitch Softball Board. | Forum

Let's start a list of random fun facts about the game of softball. I'll start!!

The beginnings of fastpitch softball date back to a cold, windy day in
November 1887 in Chicago, Illinois.  A group of Yale and Harvard
alumni, led by George Hancock, a reporter for the Chicago Board of
Trade, decided to play a game of “indoor baseball” in a local gymnasium.
Hancock created 19 special rules to adapt the outdoor game to the
indoor version. The game was soon adapted for outside play on fields too
small for baseball. The Amateur Softball Association (ASA) was founded
in 1933 and gave the sport a consistent set of rules, allowing it to
grow steadily in popularity.

see that? yale and harvard! i always knew softball players were the smartest!

The field of play for softball is flat, no raised mound, and has a
"skin" (dirt) infield. The reason softball is played on a skin field is
because it is essentially a faster game than baseball. Grass slows
down the speed of ground balls.