RISE BALL SOFTBALL CAMP
This summer Rise Ball Camps & Clinics will bring its nationally recognized softball camp series to South Orange in cooperation with the Department of Recreation & Cultural Affairs.
Softball training for local players in grades 3 through 8 will be provided under the direction of Head Coach Roy Kortmann of LIUBrooklyn, assistant Andy Russo and local college softball players. Campers will be taught softball fundamentals in catch, throw and receiving, as well as hitting, base running, and position specific mechanics. Life skill set building through softball is also a unique feature of every Rise Ball Camp.
Camp days will include instructional games. Players should bring lunch and water.
Age/Grades: This camp is for players entering grades 3 through 8 in September.
When: 9:30 am to 3:00 pm, Monday-Thursday, July 14-17. Fee: $225.
Please Note: No refunds will be issued after July 1st.
Location: New Waterlands Park, 3rd Street, South Orange, NJ
Register: Registration can be done in person at the Baird, 5 Mead Street, South Orange, or online at Baird Center (select “Register Online”).
Registration Note: Registration will be restricted to Maplewood and South Orange players only until May 15th. After May 15th registration will be open to all players.
If you have any questions, please call the South Orange Recreation Department at (973) 762-0359.
From Wikipedia:
The History of Softball:
The earliest known softball game was played in Chicago, Illinois on Thanksgiving Day, 1887. It took place at the Farragut Boat Club at a gathering to hear the outcome of the Yale and Harvard football game.[3] When the score was announced and bets were settled, a Yale alumnus threw a boxing glove at a Harvard supporter. The other person grabbed a stick and swung at it. George Hancock called out "Play ball!" and the game began, with the boxing glove tightened into a ball, a broom handle serving as a bat. This first contest ended with a score of 41-40.[4] The ball, being soft, was fielded barehanded.[5][6]
George Hancock is credited as the game's inventor for his development of ball and an undersized bat in the next week. The Farragut Club soon set rules for the game, which spread quickly to outsiders. Envisioned as a way for baseball players to maintain their skills during the winter, the sport was called "Indoor Baseball".[7] Under the name of "Indoor-Outdoor", the game moved outside in the next year, and the first rules were published in 1889.[7]
In 1895 Lewis Rober, Sr. of Minneapolis organized outdoor games as exercise for firefighters; this game was known as kitten ball (after the first team to play it), lemon ball, or diamond ball.[4] Rober's version of the game used a ball 12 inches (305 mm) in circumference, rather than the 16-inch (406 mm) ball used by the Farragut club, and eventually the Minneapolis ball prevailed, although the dimensions of the Minneapolis diamond were passed over in favor of the dimensions of the Chicago one. Rober may not have been familiar with the Farragut Club rules. The first softball league outside the United States was organized in Toronto in 1897.
The name "softball" dates back to 1926. The name was coined by Walter Hakanson of the YMCA[4] at a meeting of the National Recreation Congress.[8] (In addition to "indoor baseball", "kitten ball", and "diamond ball", names for the game included "mush ball", and "pumpkin ball".[4]) The name softball had spread across the United States by 1930.[8] By the 1930s, similar sports with different rules and names were being played all over the United States and Canada. The formation of the Joint Rules Committee on Softball in 1934 standardized the rules and naming throughout the United States.[7]
Sixteen-inch softball, also sometimes referred to as "mushball" or "super-slow pitch", is a direct descendant of Hancock's original game. Defensive players are not allowed to wear fielding gloves. Sixteen-inch softball is played extensively in Chicago,[9] where devotees such as the late Mike Royko consider it the "real" game,[10] and New Orleans. In New Orleans, sixteen-inch softball is called "Cabbage Ball" and is a popular team sport in area elementary and high schools.
By the 1940s, fast pitch began to dominate the game. Although slow pitch was present at the 1933 World's Fair, the main course of action taken was to lengthen the pitching distance. Slow pitch achieved formal recognition in 1953 when it was added to the program of the Amateur Softball Association, and within a decade had surpassed fast pitch in popularity.[7]
The first British women's softball league was established in 1952.[7]
In 1991, women's fast-pitch softball was selected to debut at the 1996 Summer Olympics.[4] The 1996 Olympics also marked a key era in the introduction of technology in softball. The IOC funded a landmark bio-mechanical study on pitching during the games.
In 2002, sixteen-inch slow pitch was written out of the ISF official rules, although it is still played extensively in the United States under The Amateur Softball Association of America, or ASA rules.
The 117th meeting of the International Olympic Committee, held in Singapore in July 2005, voted to drop softball and baseball as Olympic sports for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.[11]
Other sanctioning bodies of softball are AAU, NSA, PONY, ASA, ISC, USSSA, Tripple Crown and ISA.
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