Reflection paragraph on sources

My sources were very helpful to me. They gave me all the info i needed. I was ok finding the sources, it took a while.

Works cited

"Top 10 list-Inspirational softball quotes" 2006. Inspirational-Quotes-and-quotations.com. 27 April 2010. http://www.inspirational-quotes-and-quotations.com/inspirational-softball-quotes.html

"Winning is everything" 2009. Eat. Sleep. Play Softball. 27 April 2010. http://softball-quotes.com/Site/Motivational_Quotes.html

"Ispirational and funny quotes about softball" 2010. Softball Quotes. 27 April 2010. http://www.softballquotes.net/

"Winning is everything" 2009. Eat. Sleep. Play Softball. 27 April 2010.http://softball-quotes.com/Site/Motivational_Quotes.html

"Top 10 list-Inspirational softball quotes" 2006. Inspirational-Quotes-and-quotations.com. 27 April 2010. http://www.inspirational-quotes-and-quotations.com/inspirational-softball-quotes.html

Reflection paragraph on process

Some of the easy parts were the wordles, and the photo, caption and citations. The hard ones for with quotes and the finding paragraphs. I would actually do my work next time if I had to do it again.

Wordle #2 based on topic key terms

Reflection paragraph on findings

The most important information was the inventor, how he invented it, and when he invented it. George Hancock invented softball (at first it was called indoor baseball). He invented it by throwing an old boxing glove at a Havard supporter and him hitting it with a pole. He invented it in 1887.

Finding paragraph #3

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 an odd, smaller version of baseball. That game is now, 111 years later, known as the first softball game. Softball may have seen its death on the day of its birth if Hancock had not been so fascinated by it. In one week, he created an oversized ball and an undersized rubber-tipped bat and went back to the gym to paint permanent white foul lines on the floor. After he wrote new rules and named the sport indoor baseball, a more organized, yet still new, game was played. Its popularity was immediate.

http://www.paracletehs.org/technology/adv_comp/webs_sem2/catherine/newpage2.htm

Finding paragraph #2

I found out that he made it an indoor sport for baseball players to practice during winter. They played in the Farragut Boat club. Softball became a NCAA sanctioned sport in 1910. The NCAA College World Series is held each year. From 1982 -1987, the softball championship final was held in Omaha.

Quote, paraphrase, and citation #5

You learn softball, you learn to like softball, then you learn to love softball.
Author Unknown

http://www.inspirational-quotes-and-quotations.com/inspirational-softball-quotes.html

Quote, paraphrase, and citation #4

Softball is life, the rest is just details.
Tom, The Running Fools


http://www.inspirational-quotes-and-quotations.com/inspirational-softball-quotes.html

Graph/chart/map and citation

This is a chart of a softball diamond. It shows the press box, the dugout and everything.



http://www.lsusports.net/fls/5200/assets/docs/sb/views/09softball_chart.jpg