16-inch softball (sometimes called clincher, mushball, cabbageball, puffball, blooperball, smushball, and Chicago ball) is a variant of softball, but using...

typically 11 or 12 inches (28 or 30 centimetres) in circumference, though this also depends on specifics of the competition. Softball rules vary in certain...

fervent devotee of 16-inch softball as a player and team sponsor. After his death, he was inducted into the Chicago 16-inch Softball Hall of Fame, an honor...

Globetrotters. Earle also distinguished himself in 16-inch softball, and is a member of the Chicago 16 Inch Softball Hall of Fame. He spent 26 years with the Yellow...

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2021-11-16. "Official Baseball Rules, Rule 6.02(a) Comment" (PDF). Major League Baseball. 2019. p. 76. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-11-16. "Official...

Sweet, Lynn (November 20, 2007). "Elena Kagan played Chicago-style 16-inch softball at U of Chicago". Chicago Sun Times Blogs. Archived from the original...

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prepared to swing at the pitched ball. Various rulebooks for baseball and softball define the strike zone slightly differently. (A pitch is also a strike...

played softball for the Brown Bombers and Capitol Records team of the Daddy-O Daylie League, was also inducted into Chicago 16-inch softball Hall of...

leather. A regulation baseball is 9 to 9.25 inches (229 to 235 mm) in circumference i.e. 2.86 to 2.94 inches (73 to 75 mm) in diameter, with a weight of...

Chicago Marathon. In most of the U.S., softball is played with a 12-inch ball, but in Chicago 16-inch softball is more popular. Chicago hosted the 1959...

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pitch thrown by submarine pitcher and noted headhunter Carl Mays on August 16, 1920 at the Polo Grounds in New York. He died 12 hours later and is noted...

Fastpitch softball, or simply fastpitch, is a form of softball played by both women and men. While the teams are most often segregated by sex, coed fast-pitch...

sporting disciplines governed by the World Baseball Softball Confederation along with baseball and softball. Cricket and rounders are some of the earliest...

Society for American Baseball Research". Retrieved 2023-06-05. Stone, Larry (16 July 2006). "10 great moments in switch-hitting history". Seattle Times. Retrieved...

Invitational Softball Tournament Archived August 1, 2015, at the Wayback Machine. This is an invitational to all the best 16-inch softball teams in Chicago...

In the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s both Little League games and men's 16-inch softball games were televised from the park by WGN-TV, with Jack Brickhouse...

has happened, such as when catcher Bengie Molina hit for the cycle on July 16, 2010; Molina described himself as "the [slowest] guy in baseball" earlier...

Racine neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago. He was a frequent 16-inch softball player at Ogden Park with aspirations of a career in foundry, in which...

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29, 2019. "St. Louis Cardinals 4, Pittsburgh Pirates 2". Retrosheet. June 16, 1986. Retrieved July 29, 2019. "Chicago Cubs 2, San Francisco Giants 1"....

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and soccer. Chicago and New York City have a rivalry. Chicago portal 16-inch softball Arlington Park Chicagoland Speedway Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame...

award the game to the opposing team, regardless of score. Players who incur 16 technical fouls in a single NBA season are automatically suspended for one...

ISBN 978-1-59370-234-2. OCLC 819641586. "Lasky, Rick". 16inchsoftballhof.com. 16-inch Softball Hall of Fame. 2011. Retrieved 2013-05-19. "Lasky is ISFSIs 1996 Innovator...

professional softball team. Chicago did not have a pro softball team for the 1979 APSPL season, as many players simply returned to the competitive 16-inch softball...

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