George Hancock (softball) (original) (raw)
George Hancock, at the time a reporter for Chicago Board of Trade, invented the game of softball in 1887. The first game was played, inside the Farragut Boat Club in Chicago. The first game of softball came from a football game between Yale and Harvard. When it was announced that Yale had won, Yale alumni, in excitement, threw a boxing glove at a Harvard supporter. The Harvard supporter playfully swung at it as spectators looked on in interest.
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| dbo:abstract | George Hancock, at the time a reporter for Chicago Board of Trade, invented the game of softball in 1887. The first game was played, inside the Farragut Boat Club in Chicago. The first game of softball came from a football game between Yale and Harvard. When it was announced that Yale had won, Yale alumni, in excitement, threw a boxing glove at a Harvard supporter. The Harvard supporter playfully swung at it as spectators looked on in interest. George Hancock shouted, "Let's play ball," and tied the boxing glove into the shape of a ball. The men chalked a diamond shape onto the floor and broke a broom handle to serve as a bat. This is credited as the first softball game which was played on Thanksgiving Day November 24, 1887 after a Harvard-Yale football game that had been followed by telegraph. Hancock's original game of indoor baseball quickly caught on in popularity, becoming international with the formation of a league in Toronto. That year, 1887, was also the premiere publication of the Indoor Baseball Guide. This was the first nationally distributed publication on the new game and it lasted a decade. In the spring of 1888, Hancock's game moved outdoors. It was played on a small diamond and called indoor-outdoor. Due to the sport's mass appeal, Hancock published his first set of indoor-outdoor rules in 1889. (en) {{Infobox sports league(Untuk the album, lihat .) The World's Strongest Man is an international competition held every year. Organized by American event management company , a subsidiary of , it is broadcast in the US during summers and in the UK around the end of December each year. Competitors qualify based on placing in the top three at the four to eight events each year. The current event sponsor is SBD Apparel. Previous sponsors include , Coregenx, Commerce Hotel and Casino, DAF Trucks, , , and .(Untuk the album, lihat .) {{Infobox sports league(Untuk the album, lihat .) The World's Strongest Man is an international competition held every year. Organized by American event management company , a subsidiary of , it is broadcast in the US during summers and in the UK around the end of December each year. Competitors qualify based on placing in the top three at the four to eight events each year. The current event sponsor is SBD Apparel. Previous sponsors include , Coregenx, Commerce Hotel and Casino, DAF Trucks, , , and . The event has a number of rival and parallel competitions with which it is sometimes confused, including the , the now defunct (run from 2005 to 2007 after the parted company with WSM in 2004) and Strongman Champions League.|title = World's Strongest Man |
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| rdfs:comment | George Hancock, at the time a reporter for Chicago Board of Trade, invented the game of softball in 1887. The first game was played, inside the Farragut Boat Club in Chicago. The first game of softball came from a football game between Yale and Harvard. When it was announced that Yale had won, Yale alumni, in excitement, threw a boxing glove at a Harvard supporter. The Harvard supporter playfully swung at it as spectators looked on in interest. (en) {{Infobox sports league(Untuk the album, lihat .) The World's Strongest Man is an international competition held every year. Organized by American event management company , a subsidiary of , it is broadcast in the US during summers and in the UK around the end of December each year. Competitors qualify based on placing in the top three at the four to eight events each year. The current event sponsor is SBD Apparel. Previous sponsors include , Coregenx, Commerce Hotel and Casino, DAF Trucks, , , and .(Untuk the album, lihat .) {{Infobox sports league(Untuk the album, lihat .) (in) |
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