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Slightly OT - question after watching Ken Burns "Baseball"
Posted By: Joann
Watched the first two segments - covering everything up to about 1910 - this weekend. |
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Slightly OT - question after watching Ken Burns "Baseball"
Posted By: Dave Hornish
I believe softball evolved from "indoor baseball" so it may not have been a clear cut choice at the turn of the century to play one or the other. People may have played both; don't forget a lot of people played regular baseball 100 years ago-it wasn's structured like it is now. |
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Slightly OT - question after watching Ken Burns "Baseball"
Posted By: Joann
Dave - thanks for the response. That's exactly my question - it used to be different in that baseball was pretty much the only choice, so everyone played it. |
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Slightly OT - question after watching Ken Burns "Baseball"
Posted By: Dan Bretta
I don't think softball can be blamed for the decline in baseball. Kids just have a whole lot more choice when it comes to a sport to play. C1900 basketball was in its infancy, Soccer was a european sport that hadn't really taken hold in the US, only the rich could play golf and football was just not as popular. Softball evolved from the indoor baseball game (and Kitty/Diamond ball) which came about because a baseball crazed nation loved to play the game in the wintertime too...it was a necessity to make the ball larger and softer or every hit would be richocheting off the walls. Softball is big today IMO because it's viewed more as a recreational sport which just about everyone can play....it's beer league stuff. |
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Slightly OT - question after watching Ken Burns "Baseball"
Posted By: Darren
Softball in my opinion is a completely different sport than is baseball. |
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Slightly OT - question after watching Ken Burns "Baseball"
Posted By: Anonymous
Joann, |
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