Quote, paraphrase, and citation #3

You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.
-Christy Mathewson

It means, that if you win, you learn nothing, if you lose, you learn from your mistakes.
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I found out that George Hancock invented softball in the late 1880's. He used an old boxing glove for the ball by tying the laces together and used a broken broom for the bat. The first softball game was Yale alumni vs. Havard alumni. Yale won 44-40. It started when a Yale alumnus threw an old boxing glove at a Havard supporter and he hit it with a broken broom stick.

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This is Carolina Tarheels softball team.

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Quote, paraphrase, and citation #2

Softball: Blood, sweat, and tears, and you still want more
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http://www.softballquotes.net/

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This is a girl pitching at a softball game.

http://www.softballperformance.com/wp-content/uploads/image/youth-softball-pitcher.jpg

Quote, paraphrase, and citation #1

Go hard every play. You don’t want to leave anything behind and regret it years down the road that you didn’t give it all when you could have.
--Ashley DeBuhr, pitcher, Univ. of Nebraska

It means if you don't give the game all you got, you could regret it.

http://softball-quotes.com/Site/Softball_Quotes.html

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This is the 1904 softball team. Yale Vs. Harvord. That was the first softball game.

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http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blsoftball.htm

In 1887, George Hancock, a reporter for Chicago Board of Trade, invented softball. He invented the game as a form of indoor baseball on a cold winter day inside the warm Farragut Boat Club.

This answered who invented softball, and when was it invented.

http://www.collegesportsscholarships.com/history-softball.htm

Softball is a variation of baseball and is a very popular participant sport, particularly in the United States. It is generally agreed that softball developed from a game called indoor baseball, first played in Chicago. It was called indoor-outdoor and Hancock emerged as the recognized authority in the 19th century.

http://www.clearleadinc.com/site/softball.html

picked up an old boxing glove and threw it at a nearby Harvard alumni who promptly tried to hit it back with a stick. The idea that struck George Hancock then is what sets the real history of softball. He tied together the laces of the boxing glove for a ball. Using a piece of chalk, Hancock marked off a home plate, bases and a pitcher's box inside the Farragut Boat Club gym. The two groups were divided into teams and the first softball match was played.

This answered how was softball invented.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_played_softball_first

The first softball game was played between Yale and Harvard alumni.

I asked who played the first game of softball?

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