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The history of softball. Have you ever wondered where it all began.

I can tell you that softball originated from Chicago, on Thanksgiving Day, 1887. After a group of about twenty young men had gathered in a Boat Club, to hear the outcome of a football game. After the winner was announced,  a man picked up a boxing glove left on the side and threw it at someone…who then hit it away with a pole.

A man named George Hancock is known in the history of softball, as the man who shouted, “Let’s play ball!” He tied the boxing glove into a ball shape, drew out a diamond on the floor and found a broom handle to use as a bat.

That is how the idea of the game of softball was born. Now, how did this twisted version of baseball grow into the sport that it is today?

George Hancock, the man that almost single handedly invented the game of softball, created an over-sized ball and a slightly smaller bat with a rubber tip on the end. He also went and painted permanent white foul lines on the floor of the gym and wrote new rules to the game he called “indoor baseball”.

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