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cspinelive t1_jdff48s wrote
Reply to comment by GOP-are-Terrorists in Olivia Pichardo Becomes First Woman to Play in a Division 1 College Baseball Game by Banestar66
I’ve seen it. Great show. I don’t remember if the fields were same size or anything else that would have helped answer this question though.
cspinelive t1_jcrhz2f wrote
Reply to comment by Knor614 in Olivia Pichardo Becomes First Woman to Play in a Division 1 College Baseball Game by Banestar66
I’m just making stuff up here but you’ve got 8 year olds girls throwing a softball just fine. Granted it is smaller at that age but still bigger than a baseball. So I’m guessing the softball isn’t so big that it would really impact the ability to throw it.
The smaller field makes plays closer and throws shorter. Plays happen faster. The larger ball travels off the bat slower and keep more hits playable than if the ball were smaller.
cspinelive t1_jcrgfi4 wrote
Reply to comment by Knor614 in Olivia Pichardo Becomes First Woman to Play in a Division 1 College Baseball Game by Banestar66
Help with what? How?
cspinelive t1_jcr22bf wrote
Reply to comment by Knor614 in Olivia Pichardo Becomes First Woman to Play in a Division 1 College Baseball Game by Banestar66
Softball is on a smaller field. Pitcher is closer. Game is faster and more exciting.
I don’t know about women’s baseball though. Was it on the same field the men played on? Might have been a slower game.
cspinelive t1_jc8mxd2 wrote
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cspinelive t1_jdmm61z wrote
Reply to comment by GOP-are-Terrorists in Olivia Pichardo Becomes First Woman to Play in a Division 1 College Baseball Game by Banestar66
Found this in Wikipedia
In the first season, the league played a game that was a hybrid of baseball and softball. The ball was 12 inches in circumference, the size of a regulation softball (regulation baseballs are 9 to 91⁄4 inches). The pitcher's mound was only forty feet from home plate, closer even than in regulation softball and much closer than the baseball distance of 60 feet, 6 inches. Pitchers threw underhand windmill, like in softball, and the distance between bases was 65 feet, five feet longer than in softball, but 25 feet shorter than in baseball. Major similarities between the AAGPBL and baseball included nine player teams and the use of a pitcher's mound (softball pitchers throw from flat ground). By 1948, the ball had shrunk to 103⁄8 inches, overhand pitching was allowed, and the mound was moved back to 50 feet. Over the history of the league, the rules continued to gradually approach those of baseball. By the final season in 1954, the ball was regulation baseball size, the mound was moved back to 60 feet, and the basepaths were extended to 85 feet (still five feet shorter than in regulation baseball).