History-In 1887, a Group of Twenty Young Men Had Gathered in the Farragut Boat Club Gym

P.E. Homework #16

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Softball

History-In 1887, a group of twenty young men had gathered in the Farragut Boat Club gym in order to hear the Harvard-Yale football game. After Yale’s victory, a man picked up a stray boxing glove and threw it at someone, who hit it with a pole. George Hancock is considered to be the inventor of softball tied the boxing glove so that it resembled a ball, chalked out a diamond on the floor, which gave it small dimensions than a regular baseball field to be able to fit in the gym, and broke off a broom handle to serve as a bat. Thus, a new version of baseball was born: softball.Hancock was fascinated, and in the following weeks developed a large ball and small bat for the sport. Rules and a league were established by the Boat Club in 1889, and the first league began in 1897 in Toronto.

The game

The game is played by two teams of nine players each.
A game is seven innings long, unless the score is tied then it would go into extra innings.
Three strikes constitutes an out.
Four balls not in the strike zone constitutes a walk.
Three outs constitutes a team’s ½ inning and then the other home team bats to complete the inning.
First base and home plate may be overrun safely by a base runner: 2nd and 3rd may not.
Base stealing and bunting are legal in regulation softball, not in class.
In regulation softball, if you attempt to bunt with two strikes and the ball goes foul, you are out.
All pitching is done underhand.
The pitcher must have one foot in contact with the pitching plate while pitching
A base runner struck by a fair batted ball is out
A base runner struck by a thrown ball is not out.
A base runner may not interfere with a fielder who is attempting to play the ball.
A fielder who is not playing the ball may not impede the progress of a runner.
A runner is called out of they leave the base before the pitcher releases the ball.
Base runners may not run outside the base path to avoid being tagged.
Fair Ball-
Infield-any ball touched in front of the bases inside the foul lines or comes to rest inside these lines
Outfield-any ball hit in the air past first and third base landing inside the foul lines, regardless of where it rolls to or comes to rest.
Foul Ball-any ball that hits and is touched outside the 3rd and 1st base lines
Force play- when there is a runner on all bases behind you, you are forced to the next base
Tag play-when base runners are not forced by players on each base behind them; they must be tagged with the ball before touching the base to cause an out.

1)What was the first softball made out of? ______

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2)There is a runner on first and second and the ball is hit to the third baseman, is it a tag play or a force play at third? Explain your answer. ______

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3)The ball is hit in the air over third base;it lands in fair territory and rolls foul. Is it foul or fair? Explain your answer______

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Directions:

1)Perform both of the exercises listed below and write down how many times you completed each exercise.

2)Complete on different days of the week.

3)When completing your set of push-ups or sit-ups, you should continue doing the exercise until you can no longer complete a rep using proper form.

Day 1

Regular/Modified push-ups