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SHORT HISTORY AND THE RULES OF SOFTBALL

The formation of the ASA gave softball the impetuous and foundation it needed to develop and grow throughout the United States. under the network of associations proposed by Fischer and Pauley.

Fischer and Pauley visited many of the states and invited teams to participate in the competition. Fischer and his sports promotion director, Harry Wilson, sold the Century of Progress Exposition on the idea of sponsoring the tournament and providing a field inside the Fair Grounds. The American's sports pages promoted the tournament daily and Chicago businessmen raised $500 to finance the event.

In 1935, the Playground Association Softball Guide, wrote: "the years of persistent effort, constant promotion and unchanging faith of believers in softball proved to have not been in vain, for in 1934 softball came into its own.

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     a step towards the Pan-American Games and the Olympics. 11 years later, women softball players were given the closest equivalent to Major League Baseball with the 1976 formation of the International Women's Professional Softball League. Player contracts ranged from $1,000 to $3,000 per year, but the league disbanded in 1980 because of financial problems.

The popularity of women's fastpitch softball has grown steadily since the professional league's end in 1980. In fact, once again, there is another professional fastpitch league called the NPF (National Pro Fastpitch League). The Amateur Softball Association reports that it "annually registers over 260,000 teams that combined form a membership of more than 4.5 million" (About the ASA).

These numbers do not all apply to fastpitch, yet it is consistently growing along with slowpitch. All over America hundreds of leagues and thousands of players enthusiastically accepted this major team game and Softball became one of America's most loved sports.

BASIC RULES OF THE GAME OF SOFTBALL