Throw,Catch, It's A Softball!
By: Michaela Woelfel
Softball season is coming up! Buy your softballs!
- Softball was created in 1895 and was first called Kittenball or, Indoor Baseball.
- The first tournament was in 1933
- Softball became an Olympic sport in 1996
- If you like softball you can thank Lewis Robey because, he created the sport!
View of a softball field in Chattanooga, Tennessee by SreeBot This image has a creative commons license
SLow-pitch version was developed in the early 1950s
University of Florida softball pitcher Stacey Nelson by UFGatorSports This image has a creative commons license
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- After WWII many high schools and colleges added softball to their sport's programs.
- Now today, there are more than 220,000 softball teams!