Softball was invented in November 1887 in Chicago, IL, inside a Boat Club. There, many sports fans waiting for the score of an on-going football game. When the news came that Yale had defeated Harvard, 17-8, one Yale supporter picked up an old boxing glove and threw it at a nearby fan for the Harvard team, who tried to hit it back with a stick.
             This gave George Hancock, a reporter, writing on this incident an idea. He suggested a game of indoor baseball. Many people thought he was talking about playing out doors, they thought he was kidding. He wasn't kidding. He tied together the laces of a boxing glove for a ball.
             With a piece of chalk, he marked home plate, bases and a pitcher's box inside the Boat Club gym, with the two groups divided into two teams. The final score of the game was 41-40, but what was significant was that he had created a now-popular sport.
             His game however, didn't get going till the boat club team challenged other gyms to games. In the spring, George Hancock took his game outdoors and played it on fields not large enough for baseball. He called it indoor-outdoor and now he was a recognized inventer.
             Later that year, Hancock created more rules, and in twenty years his game was known in 100 countries! "Indoor-Outdoor" soon to be called softball was a home run. Now, Softball has found its place. Not only in the hearts and souls of the people who play but those who watch it in the Olympic arena.
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