Base Running Vs Softball

In 1887, a group of friends was at a football after game in Chicago, Illinois. George Hancock, a Chicago News reporter, saw something fly across the room saw a sport that was about to be born!He came up with the sport “Softball!” After seeing a glove thrown across a room, then hit with a pole, it started being played indoors. Softball was played with a bigger ball and a smaller field, unlike baseball it was played with a smaller ball and a bigger field. Softball was similar with baseball but had some differences. As mentioned earlier the field was smaller and the ball was bigger, pitchers mound is on the ground and closer to home plate, the bases are shorter, the pitches are thrown a different way, the pitcher holds the ball differently on some pitches than the baseball pitchers, base running is ran different, and hitting has a slight different form

The ball is different in weight and size. With the weight and the size of a softball, the distance of it being hit will be less than if a baseball is hit, since the baseball is smaller. How the softball is pitched is unique than how a baseball is pitched. A baseball is not much different than throwing ball to a base, other than there being different pitches such as; fastball, slider, 2-seam, 4-seam, changeup, etc. But throwing a softball is a little more complicated. You pitch underhand! It is a little harder, because the release point is at your hip. Some of the similarities of the pitching styles are that they have some of the same pitches, changeup, and fastball. They have to both snap their wrist, but again at different points. Baseball pitchers also pitch from a hill. Their mound is more elevated than softball, we pitch ground level. A baseball mound is higher, because when they pitch they have a downward motion after they throw, but for us when we pitch, we throw straight. We drive our hips, and push off forward toward the