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One of the greatest victories for softball enthusiasts occurred in 1991 with

the addition of women's fast pitch softball to the program of the 1996

Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia. In fact, the USA defeated China 3-1 to

capture softball's first Olympic Gold Medal. On that July 30, day a capacity

crowd of over 8,700 witnessed the USA win behind the pitching of Michele

Granger of Anchorage, Alaska and Lisa Fernandez of Long Beach,

California.

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When did softball first start?

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 broom. George Hancock, usually considered the inventor of softball, shouted, "Let's play ball!" He tied the boxing glove so that it resembled a ball, chalked out a diamond on the floor (smaller dimensions than those of a baseball field in order to fit the gym) and broke off a broom handle to serve as a bat. What proceeded was an odd, smaller version of baseball. That game is now, 111 years later, known as the first softball game. Softball may have seen its death on the day of its birth if Hancock had not been so fascinated by it. In one week, he created an oversized ball and an undersized rubber-tipped bat and went back to the gym to paint permanent white foul lines on the floor. After he wrote new rules and named the sport indoor baseball, a more organized, yet still new, game was played. Its popularity was immediate.


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yes very much so he plays softball and wont shower with his lady friend.


Where was the fly swatter invented?

In the summer of 1905, Kansas was plagued by an overabundance of flies, which, as well as causing annoyance, aided in the spread of disease. Dr. Samuel Crumbine, a member of the Kansas board of health, wanted to raise public awareness of the threat of flies. He was inspired by a chant at a local Topeka softball game: "swat the ball". In a health bulletin published soon afterwards, he exhorted Kansans to "swat the fly". In response, a schoolteacher named Frank H. Rose created the "fly bat", a device consisting of a yardstick attached to a piece of screen. Crumbine invented the device now commonly known as the fly swatter.


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George Hancock is considered the true inventor of softball.


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That is probably not a good idea. Have you considered softball?


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Is softball a noun?

The word 'softball' is a common, compound, singular noun. The word 'game' is a common, singular noun.The term 'softball game' can be considered a noun phrase(any word or group of words based on a noun or pronoun, without a verb) or an open spaced compound noun (the noun softball and the noun game joined to form a word with a meaning of its own).