George Hancock: The Very First Softball Game

The very first softball game that was known and played was on Thanksgiving Day in 1887. It was played in a boat club society and was played after a Harvard and Yale football game. George Hancock called out "Play ball!" and the game began, with the boxing glove tightened into a ball, a broom handle serving as a bat. The very first game was played all the way to the score of 41-40.since the ball was very soft at the time they played barehanded. George Hancock was the creator and inventor of the game and later on made a better bat than a broomstick. The rules were later set and the game was quickly spread across the U.S. and when winter came along the game was so loved they played the game inside. The rules were first published in 1889 and was

called indoor outdoor ball and was a pretty popular game. Around 1895 in a certain location the game was played by firefighters to keep them in shape to get their exercise that they needed and the game was called kitten ball or diamond ball. Robert’s version of the game used a ball 12 inches in circumference, rather than the 16-inch ball used by the Farragut club, and eventually the Minneapolis ball prevailed, although the dimensions of the Minneapolis diamond were passed over in favor of the dimensions of the Chicago one. The fire station that played the game became a famous spot and now has a memory and was put in a museum as a membrane from 1896-1906.the very first time that and organization was created outside of the united states was in Canada in 1897.the game was finally given its original name which is softball in 1927. The name was coined by Walter Hokinson of the YMCA at a meeting of the National Recreation Congress. The name was fully spread and was known as softball across the United States in 1930.around the 1930 people were taking the game and forming it into their own way with different rules and different names of the game. The final rules were set by the big organizations in 1934.