What is World Softball Day?
Every year, World Softball Day, June 13th, celebrates this exciting team sport.. The day also aims to inspire future generations of girls and boys to become empowered by sport.
In 1887, George Hancock, a Chicago Board of Trade reporter, invented softball. Softball was first introduced as an indoor sport. Softball was first introduced as an indoor sport. In fact, softball was also called indoor baseball at one time. It was also known as mushball or kittenball when it was played.
The Amateur Softball Association of America (ASAA), a nonprofit softball club in the United States, organized softball in 1933. The sport was originally played by males. Women began playing softball as a result of ASAA's incorporation.. According to the report, American servicemen in WWII helped spread the sport to the rest of the world. These servicemen served in countries where they served. These servicemen served and taught the sport.
The International Softball Federation (ISF) was established in 1965. The ICF has its global headquarters and training center in Plant City, Florida, and is made up of 127 national governing bodies.
The sport was a hit in the United Kingdom in 1973, when a film called "A Touch of Class" was released. An announcement was made in Birmingham, England, on June 13th, 1991, that softball would be added to the Summer Olympics. Softball was played for the first time during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics for the first time. In the 1996 Olympics, the United States captured the gold medal for the sport, as well as the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the 2004 Athens Olympics. Japan received the gold medal in softball in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.. Softball was not played during the Summer Olympics in 2012 or 2016, either in 2012 or 2016. During the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, the sport is scheduled to be played.
