NCAA Softball Umpires

[GarthB]

Originally Posted by WestMichBlue

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.



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.



I seriously doubt that baseball mechanics today are at all what they were 120 years ago.



Are you looking for agreement on that.

WMB

(From the SB side)

So in other words, softball is a sport that hasn't evolved?