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| Director of Softball: | Jim Santos |
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847-374-0996 |
| Pinto Softball League: | President, Greg Marvy |
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847-405-9784 |
League primarily for girls in the 1st and 2nd grades.
Base paths are 50 feet long.
Coaches pitch from 35 feet.
Batters get 7 strikes before they are out.
No walks.
No leading or stealing.
| Mustang Softball League: | President, Rhonda Lindner |
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847-317-1380 |
League primarily for girls in the 3rd and 4th grades.
Base paths are 55 feet long.
Players pitch from 35 feet.
Underhand slow pitch or Fast and windmill pitch permitted.
Coaches pitch if batter is walked.
No leading or stealing.
| Bronco Softball League: | President, Hal Schwartz |
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847-374-8307 |
League primarily for girls in the 5th and 6th grades.
Base paths are 60 feet long.
Players pitch from 35 feet.
Fast pitch and windmill pitch permitted.
No leading before the pitch.
Stealing of 3rd permitted.
| Pony Softball League: | President, Jim Santos |
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847-374-0996 |
League primarily for girls in the 7th and 8th grades.
Base paths are 60 feet long.
Players pitch from 40 feet.
Fast pitch and windmill pitch permitted.
No leading before the pitch.
Stealing of 2nd and 3rd, one base at a time, permitted.
Softball News
MLB
announces Commissioner's initiative on Women and Baseball
Multi-market study finds baseball is women's favorite pro sport
Click
here to read about it
Here is a website with links to locations on the web that are about women in baseball and softball:
http://www.girlpower.gov/girlarea/sports/baseball.asp
To read biographies of Sports Illustrated's Top 100 women athletes:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/siforwomen/top_100/1/
Take a look at a website that is dedicated to fast pitch softball. There are links to see softball "Tips and Drills," a place to discuss plays and strategies, a way to submit softball questions that other readers can answer for you.
http://www.eteamz.com/fastpitch/instruction/
Even more softball drills can be found at this site. Good information for both coaches and players:
http://www.decatursports.com/softball_drills_page.htm
If you're getting tired of shouting "We've got someone you ain't got..." click on this link to find hundreds of cheers to spice up your game:
http://www.eteamz.com/fastpitch/instruction/cheers/
WOMEN IN BASEBALL/SOFTBALL Timeline
(from the St. Lawrence County Branch of the American Association of University Women)
1875 - The "Blondes" and "Brunettes" play their first match In Springfield, IL on Sept. 11. Newspapers heralded the event as the "first game of baseball ever played in public for gate money between feminine ball-tossers."
1887 - Indoor baseball (the forerunner of softball) was invented by George Hancock at the Farragut Boat Club on Chicago's South Side. The first game was played on Thanksgiving Day. The basic equipment included a huge 17-inch ball and a stick-like bat. No gloves were worn, and the catcher wore no mask. It quickly became the indoor winter sport of choice for boys and girls in the area.
1895 - The first women's softball team is formed at Chicago's West Division High School. They did not have a coach for competitive play until 1899.
1908 - The national anthem of baseball, Take Me Out to the Ball Game, is written about a young girl's love of the game.
1931 - Baseball Commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis bans women from professional baseball (the bans lasts until 1992), after 17-year-old pitcher Virne Beatrice "Jackie" Mitchell strikes out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game for the Chattanooga Lookouts. Landis voids Mitchell's contract, saying baseball is "too strenuous" for women.
For more information on the history of women in sports, click here
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