Fun Facts
The game of sofball oringinated in Chicago on Thanksgiving Day, 1887, but did not become a NCAA sanctioned sport until 1910.
Today more than forty million people play softball each summer, making it the number one team participant sport in the United States.
Softball is now played on every continent with more than 100 countries now active members of the International Softball Federation.
Every fastpitch game of the 1996 Olympics was a sellout.
Softballl was invented in 1887 by George Hancock, an journalist for the Chicago Board of Trade. He designed the game to be a form of indoor baseball to be played during the winter.
For fastpitch and slowpitch, games are 7 innings long.
There are nine total positions on a softball field.
The original softball was a rolled up boxing glove.
Softball was originally intended to be an indoor sport. This is why there is a shorter distance between bases in softball compared to baseball.
Over 5.9 million girls from ages 6 to 17 play softball.
The original game of softball was played with a 16 in ball that was soft enough that there was no need for gloves.
Softball is now played on every continent with more than 100 countries now active members of the International Softball Federation.
Every fastpitch game of the 1996 Olympics was a sellout.
Softballl was invented in 1887 by George Hancock, an journalist for the Chicago Board of Trade. He designed the game to be a form of indoor baseball to be played during the winter.
For fastpitch and slowpitch, games are 7 innings long.
There are nine total positions on a softball field.
The original softball was a rolled up boxing glove.
Softball was originally intended to be an indoor sport. This is why there is a shorter distance between bases in softball compared to baseball.
Over 5.9 million girls from ages 6 to 17 play softball.
The original game of softball was played with a 16 in ball that was soft enough that there was no need for gloves.