I had the opportunity to play Softball in my first visit to the US. It was pretty fun. Is this a women-only sport? The reason I ask is because I only saw women playing this sport and the ball is much more soft than in Baseball.
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Softball is an activity that came from baseball, in which a ball, eleven to twelve inches (or rarely, 16 inches) (28 to 30.5 centimeters) in circumference, is thrown (pitched) underhand by a player called a pitcher and hit by an offensive player called a batter with a round, smooth stick called a bat (usually wooden, metal or composite). Scoring is accomplished by the batter running and touching a series of three raised markers on the ground called bases, and then touching the final base, called home plate... |