I began putting some of my thoughts down on paper and wanted to share them with you. To find out about True Friends, read below. Enjoy…..
“SOFTBALL FRIENDS ARE FOREVER"
Softball is not just a sport where you play a few
games and then you go home.
There is more that comes out of it than
winning or losing.
With softball comes some of the best friends that you will ever
encounter.
You play on teams together, you laugh together you cry together.
You meet new friends through softball
from other teams too.
It’s a never ending chain.
A real softball friend is one who is there for you on the
field and off the field.
A real softball friend is there to help you with your bumps and bruises.
A real softball friend is there to pick you up after a rough game or
congratulate you
after a great one.
A real softball friend keeps in touch with you after the
season has ended and
for many years to come.
I just wanted to let you all know that you are my real
softball friends.
I will always be there for you and will always keep you in
my heart.
This is not a chain letter. It is a poem written to let you
all know that someone does care about
you and will
never forget you. Send this to all the
people you consider your real softball friends and when you
get it back you
will know who your real softball friends are,
SOFTBALL HISTORY
HOW SLOW PITCH SOFTBALL WAS SET IN MOTION
The earliest known softball game was played in Chicago, Illinois on Thanksgiving Day, 1887. It took place in the Farragut Boat Club at a gathering to hear the outcome of Yale and Harvard football game. When the score was announced and bets were settled, a Yale alumnus threw a boxing glove at a Harvard supporter. Another person grabbed a stick and swung at it. George Hancock called out “Play ball” and the game began, with the boxing glove tightened into a ball, a broom handle serving as a bat. The first contest ended with a score of 41-40. The ball, being soft, was fielded barehanded and thus, the game became softball.