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Players included local law enforcement and firefighters, KCLR morning show host Scotty Cox, Jefferson City Parks, Recreation and Forestry Department Director Todd Spalding, Lincoln University head softball coach Christine Core, Cole County Eastern District Commissioner Jeff Hoelscher and Southwest Dental Care dental assistant Kori Gentges.
Are looking to participate in a sport that requires skill, strength, strategic thinking and the desire to play as part of a team Whatever level you play at, softball can enhance your health, strength and coordination.
There are two rule sets for softball generally: slow pitch softball and fastpitch. Slow pitch softball is commonly played recreationally, while women's fastpitch softball is a Summer Olympic sport and is played professionally.
Softball rules vary somewhat from those of baseball. The game moves at a faster pace than traditional baseball due to the field being smaller and the bases and the fielders being closer to home plate. Softball is pitched underhand from flat ground, with fastpitch using a windmill arm motion, while baseball is pitched overhand from a small hill called a mound, which changes the flight of the pitch. Additionally, the entire infield of a softball diamond is dirt, without grass around the pitcher's plate.
In 1895 Lewis Rober, Sr. of Minneapolis organized outdoor games as exercise for firefighters;[8] this game was known as kitten ball (after the first team to play it), lemon ball, or diamond ball.[9] Rober's version of the game used a ball 12 inches (30 cm) in circumference, rather than the 16-inch (41 cm) ball used by the Farragut club, and eventually the Minneapolis ball prevailed, although the dimensions of the Minneapolis diamond were passed over in favor of the dimensions of the Chicago one. Rober may not have been familiar with the Farragut Club rules. Fire Station No. 19 in Minneapolis, Rober's post from 1896 to 1906, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in part for its association with the sport's developme