Word: balled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guards are an even lot with as yet no outstanding men, but Dave Scull, Robert Sears, and Howie Johnson will bear watching. Jim Fearon, one-time St. Mark's center, ranks among the best of the pivot men, but is pressed by Danny Cheever, former ball-snapper for Milton Academy and Dave Cogswell from Beverly High...
...joked and chatted their way around the course, Goodman had pulled up to all-even after being 2 clown at the start of the afternoon round. Now, at a short hole, Goodman pitched his tee shot within two feet of the pin for an easy birdie. Little's ball stopped rolling 15 feet from the pin. When he sighted the downhill lie he knew it was a shot that might well be decisive. He sank it to halve the hole, won the 28th and 29th, clinched the match on the 33rd, 4 up and 3 to play...
...still carry the scar of a left finger badly broken by a foul tip; I remember pushing the bone back under the skin, wrapping a handkerchief around it and playing the game out, but any one of us would have preferred to lose a finger rather than lose a ball game...
According to its current rules, "softball" is a misnomer. The ball, with a 12-in. circumference compared to a baseball's 9 in., is hard enough to break a catcher's nose. Catchers wear masks, fielders wear gloves. The bat is thinner than a baseball bat. Softball pitchers, 37 ft. from the plate, throw underhand. The bases are 60 ft. apart instead of 90 and runners cannot steal until the ball reaches the catcher. There are ten players on a side. In other respects, the rules of softball are almost identical with those of baseball. The most obvious...
Indoor baseball, according to legend, was invented by George Hancock who, one rainy afternoon at the old Farragut Boat Club in Chicago, started a game, using a broomstick for a bat, a boxing glove for a ball. That was in 1888. In the next 40 years, the game crept tentatively out of doors, developed a loose set of rules and modestly acquired a new name: "softball." Suddenly, in 1930, it became a U. S. mania...