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|Term=Sixteen-Inch Softball (No-Glove Softball) ...ed a large ball.)  It appears that the game generally follows the rules of softball.</p>

...nbsp;lights) , and uses a 14-inch ball like used in indoor baseball.&nbsp; Games were played in less than an hour, affording lunch-hour play.&nbsp;</p> |Sources=<p>Paul Dickson, The Worth Book of Softball (Facts on File, 1994), pages 57 and 58.&nbsp;</p>

|Description=<p>A club from Laos competed in baseball in the 1974 Asian games.</p> ...eball/softball federation was formed, according to&nbsp;the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WSBC) website.</p>

...and softball, and is governed alongside those sports by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC).</p> ...s necessary, and games generally lasting 15 to 20 minutes. Unlike baseball/softball, there is no pitcher,&nbsp;with the batter (offensive player who hits the b

|Name=First Games Played by Unsighted Players ...baseball. He implanted a small beeping sound module inside a normal sized softball. Some basic playing rules were devised by a group of service oriented telep

|Description=<p>A Phoenix BBC, adult, played games in Abu Dhabi in 2017. See&nbsp;<a href="https://gc.com/t/fall-2017/abu-dhab <p>"In 2013, the Adu Dhabi Softball League began on a run-down field at Zayed Sports City with 22 players. Now,

...epared to host softball games for visitors, although it is unclear if such games have taken place.</p> ...ase bring your own playing equipment such as tennis rackets and balls, and softball mitts, bats, and balls, etc."</p>

|Description=<h3>Baseball (with no bats or gloves) makes debut at Friendship Games in Africa</h3> ...id not include gloves or bats for baseball&rsquo;s debut at the Friendship Games, which took place from 10-13 August in Bujumbura, Burundi.</p>

...gs. The game is played without gloves and, perhaps unique among safe-haven games, batted balls caught in the air are not outs.</p> ...; and the bowler's arm motion, which is an underarm pendulum action, as in softball. (from Wikipedia arrticle on Irish rounders)</span></p>

|Description=<p>A Bangladesh national baseball/softball assn. was formed in 2006, and became active in 2009.&nbsp;</p> <p>The Bangladesh national baseball team played in the 2019 West Asia games, losing to Pakistan, but beating Nepal.</p>

|Description=<p>The US embassy staff in Bangui had weekly softball games</p>

...irgin Island News online, feb. 15, 2014 (Little League) and Oct. 26, 2017 (softball); The Rotarian, Sept. 1991, p. 21.</p>

<p>It finished 5th in baseball in the All Africa games that year.</p> <p>The&nbsp;<strong>Africa Baseball and Softball Association</strong>&nbsp;was formed in 1990 and is the body overseeing bas

<p>A Zimbabwe team played baseball in the All Africa games in 1999.</p> <p><span>The&nbsp;</span><strong>Africa Baseball and Softball Association</strong><span>&nbsp;was formed in 1990 and is the body overseei

...only in unofficial mixed-gender 'ladies' games at the big hotels. In these games, men had to wear skirts as a handicap. As the skirts on bathing suits becam ...ng Beach Island, NJ News,&nbsp;</em>June 3, 2015, "Beach Haven's Throwback Softball Game Has 'Terrific Turnout."</p>

Though we commonly associate baseball with boys and softball with girls, it hasn’t always been that way. We know that women were enth ...to warm our blood not long since.” “Good old bat and ball” was one of the games. Tom Altherr located a fictional story in The Child’s Friend (Jan 1848)

...aseball to the Malaysian locals through slow-pitch, fast-pitch and rounder games.</p> <p>Softball was introduced to Malaysia in the early 1980s, but the game spread more rap

...Protoball's&nbsp;<em>Glossary of Games</em> includes many &nbsp;nonrunning games in which the ball (or cat, or other object) is put in play by a batter who |Sources=<p><span>Culin, S. (1891). "Street Games of Boys in Brooklyn." <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Journal of

...Unlimited swings are permitted. Three-out-side-out innings and five-inning games are prescribed.&nbsp; The playing field is represented in a figure showing |Sources=<p><span>Brewster,&nbsp;</span><em>American Nonsinging Games</em> (U of Oklahoma Press, 1953) page 80.&nbsp;https://www.chrisoleary.com/

...ous explanation is that the Eagle club were playing different bat and ball games until 1854, supported by a member's later memoirs and by mention in the Kni ...al club model. In modern terms, it is the difference between a competitive softball league and a beer league. Both are fine things, but don't mix well."</p>