| Softball originated in Chicago on Thanksgiving Day, 1887. A group of about 20 young men had gathered in the gymnasium in order to hear the outcome of the Harvard-Yale football game. After Yale's victory was announced, a man picked up a stray boxing glove and threw it at someone, who hit it with a pole. George Hancock, usually considered the inventor of softball, shouted, "Let's play ball!" He tied the boxing glove so that it resembled a ball, chalked out a diamond on the floor and broke off a broom handle to serve as a bat.
What proceeded was an odd, smaller version of baseball. That game is now, 111 years later, known as softball. In one week, Hancock created an oversized ball and an undersized rubber-tipped bat and went back to the gym to paint permanent white foul lines on the floor. He wrote new rules and named the sport indoor baseball. A more organized, yet still new, game was born.
Comprising of a large number of national players, SRC’s
Softball and Baseball Section is very active in youth
development as well as competing against other teams
in the league under the Singapore Baseball Softball
Association. Annual events include the Children’s
Baseball Carnival and the SRC Schools Softball Carnival.
These events are organized to promote softball and baseball
to schools and to raise the level of competitiveness
among school children.
Convenor: Ms Regina Yeo
For more information about joining the softball section,
please contact Joe Peck at 6430-7569 or email at joe.sports@src.org.sg
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