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Originally Posted by TussAgee11
Well then SDS, when did softball become so main stream?
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About 1895.
"Main steam" probably would suggest 1932 when ASA was established and created a single rule set for all national play. By '32 softball was THE national rec sport, having long ago supplanted baseball. And international also, having been spread around the globe by the US military in WWI.
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Where did they get their umpires from (baseball I'd presume?)
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Of course! "Indoor baseball" was a derivative of outdoor baseball. Why do you think softball is pitched underhand? Because that is the way baseball was pitched in the late 1800's.
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And were the baseball mechanics at this time that softball really got going representitve of the mechanics that we see in softball today?
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I seriously doubt that baseball mechanics today are at all what they were 120 years ago.
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Just asking, I'm not old enough to know much about this.
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Are you looking for agreement on that.
WMB
(From the SB side)