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You can slide into 1st base. Generally, it is not recommended. There are two scenarios where you may want to slide into first. 1) You have hit the ball and are running toward first. The first baseman is positioning to receive the throw. You can see that the throw is offline and the defender may try to tag you instead of touching the base, or the throw has put the defender in your basepath. You slide to avoid a tag or the defender. 2) You have a base hit and have rounded the bag. A throw is coming toward 1st base and you need to return. You may want to slide back to the bag to avoid the tag while off the base.

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14y ago

Yes you can slide in softball, however, you cannot slide into first base. The only exception to that is if you make the turn to go to second base, but you end up not going, so in that case, you can do a retreat slide. Other than that, you can slide into any base; including home ; that you would like.

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varies league to league. in most Baseball leagues, it is probably ALLOWED, but unnecessary (and dangerous!)

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You can slide into first base in any baseball game, but people don't because most people that do usually break their legs or their a head on collision.

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10y ago

I believe, yes and no, in fast pitch travel softball you are aloud to dive into 1st

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