...How to Learn the Game of Softball Softball is a team sport that closely resembles baseball. A softball game is played between two teams. Each team can have multiple players on their roster; however, only nine players can be on the field at a time. The object of the game is to score the most runs. A run is scored when a player on the offensive (batting) team advances around all four bases, touching each in turn, without being "put out" by a player on the defensive (fielding) team. The game is played on a field that consists of a dirt infield and a grass outfield. The infield is square and is sometimes referred to as the diamond. There are four bases on the field; the starting and ending base is called “home plate.” The other three bases, going counter-clockwise, are first, second, and third base. A game is usually made up of seven innings, although, fewer or more innings may be played depending on the score. The game of softball is an easy one to gain knowledge of, all the player has to do is learn the rules, the mental game, and the positions. The first thing the player should do to learn the game of softball is learn the rules. The rules of softball are fairly simple. The game has a lot of little rules but the big rules are what are important. The player should go to the nearest Wal-Mart or Academy to find a rule book about softball. That is the best way to learn the rules. For example the infield fly rule is when there are less than two outs, or how the player cannot leave...
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...Despite its name, softball is far from a soft sport. Some even argue that it’s harder than baseball. However, in both softball and baseball, batting is one of the hardest parts of the game. In order to be successful at the plate, one must understand what they are facing. In fast-pitch softball, the ball is thrown from 43 feet away averaging about 70 miles per hour. This gives the batter .350 milliseconds to react to the ball; that’s less than half of a second. Under these conditions, it becomes very apparent how important it is to understand the correct way to bat in order to increase one’s chances of actually hitting the ball. So, today I’m going to show you the most effective way to hit the ball. With the ball coming at you so fast, it is important you have the right equipment to protect yourself from the ball, so the first thing you will need is a helmet. Some players wear elbow guards; although this is not necessary, some believe it is effective in the way you swing. The most important equipment you’ll need while batting is a bat and batting gloves. The gloves protect your...
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...first time I played softball we were at the Phenix City softball ball field and I had to learn to not give up on something I really wanted to do. So the first time I stepped on the field all I could do was see the sun and smell the oxygen. The next day I hit the ball for the first time ever and I was so ecstatic. My mom and coach were so surprised and happy that I need that with only a couple minutes of practice. After I hit that ball I ran all 5 bases, my coach was so happy for me. It is not easy to play softball, you just need to try and not give up. When I got on that softball field for the first time all could do was see the sun in my eyes and smell the oxygen while my heart was pounding with fear. I was dreading the start of the softball season because I was new, and didn’t know how to play. My coach was very nice and understood that I was nervous and fearful so the first day of practice all we did was practice passing the softball underhand and overhand. Which was helpful and painful at the same time. Which I knew it would be when I started for stories I have been told....
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...Softball has always been very important to me family. My mom played in college and both of my parents played when I was growing up. My sister and I both started around the age of twelve and played all throughout high school. I decided to go a step further like my mom and play in college. I was so excited to meet all kinds of new people and play the game we all love, but I never thought it would be as challenging as it has been for me this year. Softball is a big part of my life and who I am, but should I have to be as dedicated as my coaches make me be? I am a freshmen at American River this year I am attending school and playing softball. When I decided to play softball I new it was going to be a lot of time and hard work. But what I did not realize was all of the things I was going to give up. As a team we have six days straight of softball a week and someday it will be practice which are at least three hours. Also the days we do not have practice we have two games a day. As players we are always very tired from the long days and many of us think that if we had less time at softball, we would work harder while we were there. Although, I do understand the coaches logic for having us play that much because the more practice we get the better we will be when it comes game time. When the beginning of the season started my parents were going...
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...had played baseball in high school, fast pitch softball at the University of Michigan and had even spent a year on the Air Force all star softball team. But after flying missions over Vietnam and starting a family, he had not found time for sports. When he learned about senior games having softball, he found some guys his age to make up a team. It was fun and he wanted to play more. But there were no other senior teams in San Antonio. Bill Altman changed all that. He and his team found more players, and the San Antonio Senior Softball League was founded in 1987. He is still its chairman and primary advocate. The league obtained old fields from the city and fixed them up with money they raised. Today there are hundreds of seniors from every walk of life that are sharing the love of baseball and staying fit for life. The league has a plan to expand to a modern complex that will meet their growing needs and can host regional tournaments to bring in tourism. In addition to managing, playing and running the league, Altman has participated in state and national senior games in softball, tennis and track and field events. He’s also been inducted into the Texas Senior Softball Hall of Fame. Along the way he has maintained his Personal Best and helped thousands of others do the same. How did the San Antonio Senior Softball League begin? The whole effort started because of the state senior games in San Antonio in 1987. I had not played softball since I went into the Air Force and thought it...
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...and the makeup. I was the girl that hung out with boys and was interested in sports. The first sport I played was teeball at the age of 4 years old. Teeball was the start of something new. I fell in love with the game and never looked back. Since I loved the game I decided to play softball because that was the next step. Having 11 other girls like me on my softball team made me fall in love with the sport more. They wouldn’t judge me for having dirt under my fingernails and blood stained pants.Knowing when I strike out I will have 11 other girls to pick me right back up.Im the girl who sits in the back of the classroom and wont talk or rasie my hand but when I am out on the field I am a differnt...
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...My whole life I thought about what it would be like to attend in HBCU. Will it be a life changing experience? Will I benefit from this? What should I expect? As a kid I always had to deal with being in schools and softball teams that were not diverse. There was always me representing the African American community on my softball teams. This made me feel like, why? Why am I the only one? Team after team I would get my hopes up to just, just maybe have another person of color on my team. Time after time my hopes were raised for nothing. After awhile I stop believing. In middle school there would always be a tight knit community of Africans Americans who would stick together. We all felt like one family. Every morning we would all find each...
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...Mrs. Pfeiffer’s Model Story. The Softball Tryout All twelve girls on the Lightning 10u softball team gathered outside the field after their final game. “I am so proud of all you girls for a great season. We really finished this season strong. I am looking forward to seeing everyone at tryouts next weekend. Bring it in for one final team cheer,” said Coach Stephanie. Emily and her teammates gathered in a circle, placing one hand on top of another. Each girl excitedly counted in unison, “1, 2, 3”! GO LIGHTNING!” As they broke out of their huddle, the clamoring 5th grade girls could be heard asking each other if they were coming back next season. Emily couldn’t imagine her life without playing softball. As she picked up the ball to walk back...
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...My Favorite memory My Favorite memory was when I first played in a softball game, it was very exciting, nerve reckon and challenging. Stepping into the field was the best feeling in the world. The air was so fresh. The field was very smooth and the dirt was crispy brown. I remembered watching girl’s plays softball at a young age and I always wanted to see how it felt to play. I became fascinated and was amazed how older girls played amongst themselves and I actually learned just by watching. Playing softball for the first time was exciting. The weather was very nice, the sun was shining, the sky was blue, the birds chirped and the wing blew so smoothly. I could also hear the crowed yelling and shouting excited to see the game. My parents were also there supporting me at my first game. Lincoln high school, a school that wasn’t very good in softball but that was my team. We were facing a school from Parsippany. It was a home game so we played in our field in Lincoln Park. It was diamond shape. The dirt was very smooth as I entered the field with my team. The grass on the outfield was wet and green, it was very shiny. Being my first time I was very happy and excited to play. I couldn’t imagine how much fun I was going to have. Softball is very nerve reckon sport. Trying to catch every ball that comes your way or hitting the ball to make a run. Having two strikes on you, 2 outs, last inning and the game is tied makes you really nervous. In my memory, after the team got ready...
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...Letting Go. I finally could not take it anymore I stomped my foot down and I had to let it all out on the table and tell them how I truly felt and that I could not live my life like this anymore. I wanted to live my life and be able to have say of what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. In the book Bradshaw: On the family he says that “Once internalized, shame was no longer available to us to monitor the limits within which our will could healthily function” (Bradshaw 206). I spoke up to how I should have say on what I do and it wasn’t fair how they just belittled me and just made me their human life puppet for them not living out their dream. That’s how it really was; I was living out their dream because they decided to make other plans on in life. I honestly loved playing softball, really I did until I started getting teased and harassed by softball teammates I had on the team. They would make fun of how I looked. The things they would make fun of me was that I had a gap in the middle of my two front teeth, that I had small feet but I was a tall girl, they would make fun of me for having thick eyebrows and sometimes say I was fat. Just really mean things it would break my heart and made me so angry and wanted to give them a piece of my mind but I knew I couldn’t. I wasn’t allowed to I would cry until I had no more tears coming out that’s how much I would cry to my mom and all she would tell me is that to not let words hurt me and that they do not want to burn any bridges...
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...On March 1st, 2016 my life, softball career, and friendships changed forever. On this day I was at a regular softball practice when I got seriously injured. In a matter of a second I went from being perfectly healthy to having countless medical restrictions. On this day my entire world changed. This day I was at a regular softball practice. I got to play up the next game so I was practicing with the varsity team. We were working on fielding double play bunts and I was a second basemen. Little did I know that was the last time I would ever be allowed to play second base. The ball was hit to third base fielded to second and then myself on one. I heard what I thought to be the first basemen saying that she had the ball, I did not hear correctly. The very second I turned around to walk...
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...Fans cheering, players nervous, the intensity is high. Runners on all the bases, score is 4-4 winning run is on third with just one batter left. Just in a second, the longest game ever became the shortest. The run had scored, and we lost. Ever since I was little, my love for the game of softball has flourished. Not only has softball taught me plays, it developed me as a person. The hard work that the game requires teaches a lesson to never give up, even when you make a mistake. Softball has connected me to my work in the classroom and outside of school to always fight through tough times. In college if something isn't going right I will work hard and set my mind to the difficult task and get it done. My freshman year on the softball team...
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...Johnson’s class reminds me of softball. A sport that requires a lot of focus and time. Its really hard to be a truly good player and stand out. In softball you can't just acquire a skill by someone telling you it, you have to be engaged and actually put some time and practice in. A person that has truly enlightened me in this sport is my dad. There was a time in my life where my dad would constantly tell me to “take the next step.” I was at a point in my game where I was good but staying on the same level of good. I was blinded and though that where a was at was ok. This was because I was around players that weren't that experienced and serious about softball. My dad new otherwise, so he took me around the best players, around people who loved softball and who put softball first. Eventually I stated to practice,play, and play against the best completion and before long my dad stopped telling me something he told me everyday which was to “take the next step,” and this was because I did. My dad enlightened me and enlightens me to take initiative on improving myself in everything I do. He makes it clear to me that no matter how good or bad I do it all equals the same thing, and that thing is GETTNG...
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...soft-ball fields as well as 2 multi-purposed fields. These will provide different areas to focus on such as budget of the whole construction and facility usage, where the location in University of Akron we will put the facility in, what the facility will offer, who will be managing the program of the facility, and who will be the architecture to construct the facility. We will also demonstrate the pros and cons of each of the focus areas. The budget for the softball fields as well as the multi-purpose fields are as follows. For general construction costs, $500,000 will be allocated to finish the projects construction. Some specific costs will be the purchasing of the soccer and lacrosse goals that can be added and removed from the field which will be $2,000. Another specific cost will be the fencing around the softball fields which will be around $1,000. Costs for keeping up the inventory of the concession stands will be around $12,000 per year. The costs to keep the inventory stocked for the sports-wear store inside the softball fields will be around $50,000, selling things such as T-Shirts and Hoodies, along with many other types of sports apparel. The cost of utilities will be around $180,000 per year. Some specific utility costs are electric which will be about 150,000 per year and water, which will be around $25,000 per year. General maintenance costs will be about $100,000. Some things that will need up-keep are the replacing of the light bulbs for the field lights which will...
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...recreation director of the city, announces that "Little League" baseball is coming in the near future. Stay tuned. * June 21, 1951 - That was quick! Harry announces that June 26 will be the first tryouts at Todd Field. * June 26, 1951 - Willoughby Baseball is born! 27 turn out for the first tryouts of what will be known as the "Small Fry League," with hopes of becoming part of sanctioned "Little League®" next year. * July 10, 1951 - First games played in what we now know as the Willoughby Baseball League! Hot-Shots defeat the Lemons, 4-2. Games were played during the day. * July 11, 1951 - Public opening of the Small Fry League to take place at Daniels 1. It's slated to be the first game of a double header with an adult softball game as the night cap. Sadly, the league suffers its first rainout. Rescheduled for July 18, the following Wednesday. * July 18, 1951 - Hot-Shots defeat Avilas, 11-6, in public inaugural of Small Fry League. Bruce Roniger hits what is most likely the first home run in league history, a three run shot in the fifth to cap a come from behind win. * August 9, 1951 - (They're playing in August?) First season comes to end as Hot-Shots win title, 4-3, on a bases loaded walk in the bottom of the sixth! Ouch! Dan Derrick is winning pitcher. * In 1952, the Small Fry League becomes, "Willoughby Kiwanis Little League," sanctioned from the national headquarters in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. * To secure sanctioning, we needed...
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