Fundamental Skills To play Softball competitively or recreationally‚ you need some basic skills‚ including the ability to: • Catch • Throw • Field a ball • Hit • Move between bases Catching Catching correctly not only keeps you from being hurt‚ it also makes it easier for you to get ready to throw the ball. Catching and throwing are the 2 fundamental defensive Softball skills. In a game your ability to catch and throw quickly helps you throw out a baserunner
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The History of Softball PHEC 202 Table of Contents 1. History of Softball 2. How to play Softball 3. Equipment needed to play a game. 4. Diagram of a Softball field 5. Bibliography Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Softball is one of America’s favorite pastimes. Softball is now a very popular game that originated in Chicago‚ but it didn’t become popular over night. The game is said the be
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Softball started on Thanksgiving Day In the year 1887 while a group of men and women were awaiting the outcome of the Yale-Harvard football game. Softball started only with men‚ now an estimated forty million Americans engage in at least one game every year. It is now one of the most popular games in the world. George Hancock is the person that made the Softball‚ the rules‚ and the glove. The game was originally called “Indoor Baseball” for people to practice for the upcoming Baseball
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Baseball versus Softball Even though baseball and softball each have many fans‚ many players prefer to play one or the other but not both. Even when baseball and softball are similar in many ways‚ they are different too. Differences like the amount of time each game takes place‚ the rules‚ and as well as the leagues they are each in. While some people prefer the slower action of softball‚ others prefer the faster action of baseball. The game of baseball is male dominated because many males
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love to do is softball. Softball is an occupation that I find pleasurable and often I feel the presence of ‘flow’. This occupation brings meaning to my life and aids to my journey of living a healthier lifestyle. Softball is a type of baseball that is played on a smaller field and that ball is larger and softer than that of a normal baseball (Softball definition of softball in English | Oxford Dictionaries 2016). In order to play a game of softball a person has to have
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Softball Then and Now When I was nine years old‚ I switched schools. I went from Freeman Public School to Holy Redeemer Catholic School. This is where I was introduced to sports since my previous school didn’t offer any sports for the students. The first sport I played was basketball. I also played volleyball and softball. It was in fourth grade that I first started playing softball‚ and my dad found me an old ragged‚ leather‚ ball glove to start with. It was so old that the color was faded to
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The History of Softball Softball originated in Chicago on Thanksgiving Day‚ 1887. A group of about twenty young men had gathered in the gymnasium of the Farragut Boat Club in order to hear the outcome of the Harvard-Yale football game. After Yale’s victory was announced and bets were paid off‚ a man picked up a stray boxing glove and threw it at someone‚ who hit it with a pole. George Hancock‚ usually considered the inventor of softball‚ shouted‚ "Let’s play ball!" He tied the boxing glove so
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try was softball. As everyone sat outside‚ trying to tell her everything that she needed to know. We told her that she had to keep her eye on the ball‚ and put more power in her swing. At first‚ we let her use the tee. Then we keep on going up the line‚ it went from the tee‚ to under hand‚ and then pitching machine. Subsequently going through all of that‚ she decided to go back to the under hand. So it was getting better‚ but after a while‚ she didn’t know if she wanted to still play softball. Next
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We can relate physics to softball in many different ways. It is actually hard to not think about the game of softball without some physics in mind. Specifically‚ the ideas of momentum and energy helps define the way softball works and why it works. Momentum Running: When running the bases in softball‚ there is a lot more to it then the average person would think. While we run the bases‚ we are changing our momentum by applying more force‚ the force of friction‚ onto the ground which causes more
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Compare and Contrast Baseball and softball are similar in many ways but at the same time they are very different. To begin with‚ they are both played on a ball field‚ known to most baseball or softball players as the ballpark. The ball field for both consist of four bases that form a square‚ also known as a diamond. On a baseball field the bases are ninety feet apart‚ compared to sixty or sixty-five feet on a softball diamond. Both are played with a bat and ball; however‚
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