Softball

Softball is a similar game to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. In this sport, two teams of nine players take turns to bat and field as they try to score the most runs round four bases laid out on a field of play. The team with more runs than the opponent at the end of the seventh inning wins the game. The sport was originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States on the Thanksgiving Day in 1887 as an indoor game. George Hancock presented the first rulebook in 1889. In 1895, the game was moved outside by Lewis Rober Sr. in a vacant lot outside of the Minneapolis as an exercise for firefighters. At that time it was known as “kitten ball,” then changed to “diamond ball”. The other names this sport was given are “mush ball” and “pumpkin ball”. The sport got its name “softball” in 1926 because the ball used in the game is a softball. The first world championships of the game took place in 1965 for women and one year later for men. Softball (for women only) was also a part of Olympics from 1996 to 2008 but removed later. It will be a part of 2020 Olympics along with baseball.

To score more runs than the opponent team to win the match.

General

Softball is said to have started – indoors, really – in 1887 on Thanksgiving Day in Chicago. A gathering of men had assembled at Chicago's Farragut Boat Club. Amid the cheer sitting was George Hancock, a journalist of the Chicago board of trade, who converted a boxing glove into a sphere (by tying it with its own strings), took a broomstick handle, and, utilising chalk, checked lines on the floor.

That night an amusement occurred with 80 runs scored, and from that point, the game had been conceived. Hancock is also said to have been the first issuer of softball rulebook in 1889.

In 1895, Lewis Rober Sr. moved the diversion outdoors in an empty lot outside of the Minnesota firehouse he worked at so the firemen could get some activity while hanging tight for a caution. It was referred to around then as 'kitten league ball,' which was later abbreviated to 'kitten ball.' The name 'kitten ball' was later changed to 'diamond ball' in 1992. At various occasions, the name of the amusement likewise would incorporate 'mush ball' and 'pumpkin ball.' The term 'softball' was first used in 1926, when Walter Hakanson of the YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) of Denver, Colorado considered it while going to a gathering to frame the Colorado Amateur Softball Association. There have been numerous varieties of the game throughout the years also.

In 1933 the first ever national amateur softball competition occurred related to Chicago's World's Fair and before long, the columnist who expounded on the occasion, Leo Fischer, set up the Amateur Softball Association (ASA). Softball kept on spreading to the remainder of the world, with maybe its most significant push originating from American members of the armed forces playing and showing the game on the fields of World War II. In 1952 the first meet was held for the International Softball Federation (ISF), which would administer the game the world over, and the first championship in global play occurred in 1965 when ladies' groups from five nations contended in Australia. After one year, the first Men's World Championship was played (in Mexico).