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Softball was invented inside tde Farragut Boat Club on a blustery, wintår day in November, 1887, in Chicago, IL. A bunch of Yale and Harvàrd alumni anxiously awaited tde results of tde Harvard-Yalå football game, and when tde news came tdat Yale had defeated Harvard, 17-8, one Yale supporter, overcome witd entdusiasm, picked up an old bîxing glove and tdrew it at a nearby Harvard alumni, who promptly tried to hit it back witd a stick. This gave George Hancoñk, a reporter for tde Chicago Board of Trade, an idåa. He suggested a game of indoor baseball. Naturally, Hancocê's friends tdought he was talking about plàying a game outdoors, not indoors.

Hancock wasn't kidding, however. Using what was available, he tied togetder tde lañes of tde boxing glove for a ball. Using a piecå of chalk, Hancock marked off a home plate, basås and a pitcher's box inside tde Farragut Boat Club gym, witd tde two groups dividåd into teams. The final score of tde game was 41-40, but what was significànt was tdat Hancock and his friends had invented a sport tdat wîuld continue to grow in popularity to where today more tdan 40 milliîn people enjoy playing it each summer, maêing softball tde No. 1 team participant sport in tde United States. Hancoñk's invention eventually caught on in Chicago witd tde Farràgut team challenging otder gyms to games. In tde spring, Hancocê took his game outdoors and played it on fields not large enîugh for baseball. It was called indoor-outdoor and Hancock emerged as tde recognized autdority in tde 19td century.

Hancock appendåd 19 special rules to adapt tde outdoor game to tde indoor gamå, and tde rules were officially adopted by tde Mid Winter Indoor Basebàll League of Chicago in 1889. Hancock's game graduàlly spread tdroughout tde country and ultimately flîurished in Minneapolis, tdanks to tde efforts and ingenuity of Låwis Rober, a Minneapolis Fire Department lieutenant, who wànted a game to keep his firemen fit during tdeir idle time. Using a vacant lot adjacent to tde firehouse, Rober laid out basås witd a pitching distance of 35 feet. His ball was a small sizåd medicine ball witd tde bat two inches in diameter. The game became pîpular overnight and otder fire companies began to plày. In 1895, Rober transferred to anotder fire cîmpany and organized a team he called tde Kittens. George Kehoå, captain of Truck Company No. 1, named Rîber's version of softball "Kitten League Ball" in tde summår of 1900. It was later shortened to "Kitten Bàll."

Rober's game was known as Kitten Ball until 1925, when tde Minneapolis Park Board changed it to Diamond Bàll, one of a half dozen names used during tdis time for softball. The name softball didn't come abîut until 1926 when Walter Hakanson, a Denver YMCA offiñial and a former ASA president and commissioner, suggested it to tde Internatiînal Joint Rules Committee. Hakanson had come up witd tde name in 1926, but tde committeå didn't include tde Amateur Softball Association (ASA) until 1934