Why Is Softball Important?

“It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard everyone would do it. The hard...is what makes it great.”- A League Of Their Own. Softball has clearly helped women be more confident about what they want to do in many areas of life. Women made money playing the sport to provide for their families while their husbands are in the war, fighting for the country. Women proved that men are not the only ones that could play ball and support their families in hard times. Women’s baseball became the next big thing in 1861. 100
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According to Payton Grant, the person who invented softball is named George Hancock. He created this game on Thanksgiving Day, 1887, after seeing two men throwing a boxing glove and hitting it with a pole. Hancock thought very hard and long on what he just saw. His first idea was to tie two boxing gloves together, and chalk out a diamond on the gym floor. Then he broke a broom in half, and use it as a bat. In one week, he decided to use an oversized ball and a undersized rubber-tipped …show more content…
Soon the country were looking for women to fill the vacancies. When they made softball, they had this gigantic tryout for seven major league softball leagues. After, the tryouts and the woman found out what time they made.They found out what they were going to wear. When they first saw their uniforms, they were mortified on what they had to wear. The uniforms are a shirts and button up shirt and long white socks and the colors are yellow, red, blue, green, pink, purple, and orange. They women thought that was so wrong to put the women in shirts to play the game that they are getting payed to do. The boss said that if you did not like the way the uniforms looked they could leave the league. The women did not leave, because they needed the money for their families. When the first season was over for the women's softball league each woman made at least 5 dollars each game and they had 20 game for each