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2008 Firecracker College Showcase
Platinum Champions
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
     -
Vince Lombardi
 

2008 Practice Fields

Practice runs 6:00 - until dark

16 & 18U
Hunter' Woods
 

14U
Darnestown Park

Wednesday at 6:00 at Darnestown is 14U practice

Thursday at 6:00 at Hunter's Woods is for 16 & 18

 

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The History of Softball

Softball originated in Chicago on Thanksgiving Day, 1887. A group of about twenty young men had gathered in the gymnasium of the Farragut Boat Club in order to hear the outcome of the Harvard-Yale football game. After Yale's victory was announced and bets were paid off, 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 (smaller dimensions than those of a baseball field in order to fit the gym) and broke off a broom handle to serve as a bat. What proceeded was...


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