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Who named the softball?

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 ∙ 12y ago
Updated: 9/27/2023

They named it softball because the game of softball was derived from Baseball. The baseball had a hard core whereas the softball has a soft core, so they named it softball. Although the ball is not softball the core of the ball is soft.

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The inventors because they were using a boxing glove as a BALL and it was SOFT so they decided to name it SOFTBALL.

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