Softball Equipment For Most Everyone
Written by on September 11, 2008 – 3:26 pm -Don’t be fooled by the big online stores out there who just happen to also offer softball related products. Choose a store where all they do is softball. They play the game, they understand the game, and they use the products that they sell from their store or website. For all of your softball needs, look no further than the experts in softball, softball specialty stores or websites. Part of any good ball club’s softball paraphernalia repertoire should be a training manual that players are required to read themselves, as well as read it as group where every one is able to practice out loud the concepts that are being put forth. Regardless of how well the softball equipment a league is accessing is maintained, and even if it is... more
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Softball: Olympic Sport No Longer?
Written by on September 8, 2008 – 5:48 pm -Softball has been around since a man named George Hancock first invented the game in 1887 in Chicago. It took over 100 years, but women’s fast pitch softball became an Olympic event in 1996. Fast pitch is different from the looping, relaxed pitch often used in recreational softball leagues. Fast pitch players must hit a ball traveling at about 70mph. This is slower than baseball, but certainly much faster than the meandering slow pitch game. However, since the pitcher’s mound and the home plate are much closer than in baseball, (40 feet versus 60 feet) the player must react to the pitch just as quickly. The first softball, a spur of the moment creation in that long-ago first game, was a boxing glove tied into the shape of a ball.... more
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Softball Equipment - Magnetic Lineup Board Product Review
Written by on September 6, 2008 – 5:49 pm -Essential Coaching Tools - Magnetic LineUp Board Review If you don’t have an easy to read line-up posted in the dugout you are hurting yourself, your players, and subsequently your team by allowing yourself and the team to be distracted from the game. Let’s face it, it’s information that you want to have ready access to, and you want your players to have ready access to as well. So why are you keeping this vital information on a scratch piece of paper or on a carbon copy that is barely legible? The best magnetic lineup board is about 8.5″ x 14″ and consists of a position diagram of the softball field on the top, positions for a batting order on the bottom, and a hook so it can be easily hung in the dugout for everyone to... more
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