George Hancock's Softball: The Invention Of Softball
“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” - Babe Ruth. Softball is a very popular sport, and George Hancock is a very popular man. The invention of softball brought many people there favorite sport. George Hancock’s invention came about not from a baseball game, but from a football game. George Hancock was the inventor of softball. He came up with the game of softball after the Yale vs. Harvard football game (Athnet). Yale was pronounced the winner, a Yale fan threw a boxing glove at the Harvard fans and one of them hit the glove with a pole. George and a group of men were in Chicago, at the Farragut Boat Club watching the football, when the action took place of throwing the glove and hitting it with
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George was very inspired by his invention, but he didn’t get in the Softball Hall of Fame (faqs.org George Hancock). His intention of creating softball was to keep baseball players in shape during the off season, but it became very popular and many people of all ages started to play (Athnet). One of the first softball games was played at a fire station in Minnesota. Softball was very popular at fire stations, Lewis Rober came up with the idea of playing softball among others when they don’t have any work to do. Chicago claims to be the birthplace of softball, but the first actual game that was played outside was in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The fire stations played among each other in abandoned fields next to the fire house, they had many people come and watch (softballperformance.com). The object of Hancock’s game is to score more runs than the other team. In order to score more runs you have to be able to field and hit the ball. Base runners are trying to reach home plate without getting out. On defence, the main goal is to field the ball when the offencive player hits it, to try to create an out. To create an out, throw the ball to the nearest base with a runner running to it. On offense, the goal is to touch all four bases and reach home plate without getting out
George was very inspired by his invention, but he didn’t get in the Softball Hall of Fame (faqs.org George Hancock). His intention of creating softball was to keep baseball players in shape during the off season, but it became very popular and many people of all ages started to play (Athnet). One of the first softball games was played at a fire station in Minnesota. Softball was very popular at fire stations, Lewis Rober came up with the idea of playing softball among others when they don’t have any work to do. Chicago claims to be the birthplace of softball, but the first actual game that was played outside was in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The fire stations played among each other in abandoned fields next to the fire house, they had many people come and watch (softballperformance.com). The object of Hancock’s game is to score more runs than the other team. In order to score more runs you have to be able to field and hit the ball. Base runners are trying to reach home plate without getting out. On defence, the main goal is to field the ball when the offencive player hits it, to try to create an out. To create an out, throw the ball to the nearest base with a runner running to it. On offense, the goal is to touch all four bases and reach home plate without getting out