Role Of Softball In The Olympics

Unfortunately, numerous individuals confuse baseball and softball to be quite similar, but the two sports are extremely diverse. If one is a male, one will play baseball and if one is a female, one will play softball. Dissimilarities in baseball and softball include: pitching, the bat, and the game, but these dissimilarities are also somewhat similar. The similarities are where one could get reasonably confused with the two sports. The pitching performance is perhaps the most observable dissimilarity between baseball and softball.

Softball and baseball are often considered to be the same sport due to the similarity between their names. However, that conclusion is far from the truth as each sport has unique rules, playing fields, and methods of playing the game. This is due to the specialization of each sport for a specific gender; softball is played by females and baseball is played by males.

Baseball is one of the hardest sports to play in the world. Basketball, Volleyball, and Soccer are difficult sports to play as well. However, softball is considered by many to be easier than baseball. Softball has statistically been proven to be more difficult than baseball.      

Jennie Finch was an amazing softball player. From starting at the very young age of five, all the way to winning a gold medal in the Olympics; her softball career was quite successful start to finish. Finch has also created programs for young girls post Olympics and still continues to today. Finches softball career started at a very young age, it began soon after her fifth birthday when her parents signed her up for a T-Ball team. Throughout the years, she developed a strong love and passion for the sport.

You can play softball just about anywhere. If someone is at a cookout and very bored, then you could get a glove and a ball and pass. Throwing the ball is one of the most important motions you do in softball, so it’s good to practice every chance you get. Softball can help you get stronger and it can build up endurance by running. It’s a sport with a great history, so your parents and grandparents and so on, could have played softball or baseball.

To learn more go Wikipedia/softball . When you grow up maybe you’ll be online because of your awesome ability to play

At first you might not think you’re good but you can get better. That was my reasoning on why you should play softball. Along with some facts about the sport. A lot of girls play the sport and I hope that you will too.

“Play for the name on the front of jersey, not the back.” A popular quote for sports players. What does it mean? Anyone who’s seen any sports game with a team uniform would know that the team name is located on the top of the front side of the jersey and the player’s last name goes on the top of the backside of the jersey. So, the quote means play for your team and not for yourself.

Baseball is considered by many to be America’s favorite pastime. Softball in many aspects is similar to baseball but in reality it is harder to play. This can be shown in all aspects of the game from hitting to pitching to fielding to catching. One major aspect where the difference is obvious is hitting. It has been scientifically proven that a 95 mph fastball generates 2411 lbs of force as it crosses the plate and a softball thrown at 65mph generates even more according to youtube.com.

Aqeela Idrees AP world History Olympics DBQ 3/3/18 Athletic competitions known as the Olympic games were revived in 1896, after the initial games, held in Greece every four years from 776 b.c.e to 393 c.e, in the effort to bring the world together in a healthy competition. Following several years of planning, key factors that shaped the modern Olympic games were the rise of feminism, nationalist rivalry, and capitalism. Establishment of the modern Olympic games corresponded with the rise of feminism around the world. By 1900 powerful feminist movements had arisen, which Sought legal and economic gains for women.

• The IOC should legitimize the counterculture sports since it requires the athleticism when played competitively just as other olympic sports • Counterculture sports should be legitimize by the IOC considering that they are sports that are economically and socially available to everyone. For instance, Ultimate frisbee only requieres a plane land to run, a flying disc(frisbee) and the appropriate outfit. ➢ Ultimate frisbee promotes responsibility since the games are played without a referee. so why the IOC should not legitimize counterculture sports if many promote players to test their responsibility and leadership to coordinate a well performed match?

Over the years I’ve gotten stronger, faster, and overall better at softball. Four years into it and I have some great and some painful stories. I’ve learned many things about softball, but one that has stuck out to me and that also applies to life is that it can be fun.

For the last eight years, softball has shaped my life and taught me many things about leadership, sportsmanship, and how to work as a team. Softball has always made me happy, it’s not just the sport that makes me happy, but it’s the place that I get to go and the people that I get to play it with. Every time I’m on the field or in the cages I feel the most content. The softball field and cages are my sanctuary.

In conclusion, baseball and softball are very similar sports with the same background. They also share the same concept of competing for a number of seven innings to see which team finishes with the most runs scored at the end of the bottom of the seventh inning. Even with the game being so similar, the two have a few, major differences to make the two games unique. Differences between the baseball and softball include, the pitching, field setting, and ball differencing.

Relating this concept to athletics seems a bit perplexing at first, since government and sports usually do not go hand in hand. But in order to display bureaucracy’s influential role in athletics, it is vital to understand where the connection even began. Following the Civil War, structural hierarchy and commanding order pierced through much of the nation, allowing for expansion, development, and efficiency. As this bureaucratic type culture continued to envelop much of America, the structure and development of sports followed shortly thereafter. In an article by Barrie Houlihan, he states the emergence of bureaucracy in sport has been the product of the same forces that promoted it in work and other areas of society, namely the growth in size of administrative units, the development of a money economy, the increase in occupational specialism, and the dominance of the profit principle.