The game of softball originated in Chicago on Thanksgiving Day, 1887, but did not become a NCAA sanctioned sport until 1910.

Today more than forty million people play Softball each summer, making it the number one team participant sport in the United States.

Softball is now played on every continent with more than 100 countries now active members of the International Softball Federation.

Every fastpitch game of the 1996 Olympics was a sellout.



Quotes:
Everyone says softball and baseball are the same things, but who plays with the bigger balls?
~Unknown My responsibility for my team is to make them play for the team on the front of the jersey not the back.
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Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
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When a ball is coming at you 70 mph, nothin’ soft about that! 
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