Article: Softball: Olympic Sport No Longer?
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Softball: Olympic Sport No Longer?
Softball has been around since a man named George Hancock first invented the game in 1887 in Chicago. It took over 100 years, but women?s fast pitch softball became an Olympic event in 1996.
Fast pitch is different from the looping, relaxed pitch often used in recreational softball leagues. Fast pitch players must hit a ball traveling at about 70mph. This is slower than baseball, but certainly much faster than the meandering slow pitch game. However, since the pitcher?s mound and the home plate are much closer than in baseball, (40 feet versus 60 feet) the player must react to the pitch just as quickly.
The first softball, a spur of the moment creation in that long-ago first game, was a boxing glove tied into the shape of a ball. Today?s softball is 12? in dia...
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