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Originally Posted by greymule
From Wiki, for what it's worth:
The first version of softball was invented in Chicago, Illinois, on Thanksgiving Day, 1887 by George Hancock and Bakir Dzananovic as a winter version of baseball. It was intended to be a way for baseball players to keep in practice during the winter. At the time, the sport was called "Indoor Baseball."
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Originally Posted by IRISHMAFIA
And that is where the reference to baseball ended. But, then again, I think your source is suspect.
Hancock, a reporter, was noted to have instituted rules for his game. Obviously there is a similarity to baseball, which at that time was still in it's infancy, but no differently than Gaelic or Australian Rules football is to soccer though they are different games.
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with all due respect to both of you, i think you both are completely missing my point. while i know nothing of the history of softball, i have a hard time believing that softball is not based off of baseball. There are probably 10,000 similarities in the ASA rule book and OBR rule book, do you really think this is a coincidence?
ASA est 1933
USSSA est 1968
NSA est 1982
National League est 1876
American League est 1901