Every high stake sport has competitors trying to give themselves some unfair and illegal advantage. The tour de France, the MBA all have doping scandals in spades. The funny thing is that softball has its own form of scandal. For such a seemingly wholesome and innocuous sport, softball has “hot” bats! A hot bat is…
You have probably heard the saying, “practice makes perfect” so many times that it could send you insane! However, if you want to master the skill of playing softball, the reality is that you will need to practice. I believe there is better sportsman out there than many of the famous athletes we see today;…
While softball and baseball are almost similar, these two sports also have significant differences. These differences include the balls used in these sports. In softball, players use a soft, oversized yellow ball. But why are softballs yellow and bigger than baseballs? Softball was actually created as an indoor sport. It was invented in 1887 by…
As a woman, you want to look attractive whether you are playing sports or going out with friends and this typically involves wearing jewelry. Whether you can wear earrings and other jewelry during a softball game is dependent upon the organization, So the answer really lies with them. There are a number of rule books…
In August 2016, softball players and fans alike received the fantastic news that the sport would be included in the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan (this date was pushed forward to 2021 due to the Coronavirus pandemic.) Yet despite this seemingly good news, this was not the deserved Olympic reinstatement that the players and…
It is common knowledge that boys like to play baseball while girls favor playing softball more. But why is that? How did softball become a sport just for girls? This is a question that many baseball and softball professionals struggle to answer because it’s not as simple. Here is a short, watered-down answer to this…
Baseball and Softball are two eerily similar sports. Both use the same equipment such as a ball, a glove, and a bat. They also have similar objectives as well, which is to score more runs than the opposing team. However, these two sports also have differences. One of the main differences between softball and baseball…
Softball shares a lot in common with its close cousin baseball, certainly borrowing more than a few things from that older sport – but also shaking things up a little bit, establishing new rules, and taking a different approach to how the game fundamentally works. While a lot of people are under the impression that…
While there are a lot of similarities between baseball and softball, there are definitely some pretty glaring differences as well – not the least of which is that in softball you pitch underhand. Softball pitchers throw underhand for a couple of different reasons. Throwing underhand is a whole lot easier from a purely mechanical standpoint…