Sports Report: 12 Reasons to Love Softball

Sports Report: 12 Reasons to Love Softball — page 3
The Sport Had an Unusual Beginning 2 The Chicago softball team 1897 Softball began because of a football game In 1887 fans in Chicago were waiting for the results of a football game between Yale and Harvard Universities When they heard that Yale won 17 8 a Yale fan got so excited that he threw a boxing glove 6 at a Harvard fan The Harvard fan happened to be holding a broomstick He swung at the boxing glove and hit it A man named George Hancock organized the young men into two teams They played a kind of indoor baseball game with the glove and stick The final