Maniquis, Louella Mae B.

BPED 1-1

SOFTBALL

Metaphysics

In 1887, fans were gathered at Farragut Boat Club gym in Chicago on Thanksgiving Day
to watch the Yale vs. Harvard football game. After Yale’s victory, a man picked up a stray boxing
gloves and threw it with someone who hit it with a pole. A man named George Hancock witnessed
the incident who happened to be a journalist/reporter for Chicago Board of Trade, and considered
to be the inventor of softball, jokingly called out “Play ball!” and the first softball game
commenced with the football fans. He tied the boxing glove so that resemble a ball, chalked out a
diamond on the floor, which gave it smaller dimensions than a regular baseball field to be able to
fit in the gym, and broke a broom handle to serve as a bat. Thus, a new version of baseball was
born; softball.

Ontology

Due to initial excitement surrounding the game, the Farragut Boat Club decided to
officially devise their own set of rules, and the game quickly leaked to outsiders in Chicago and,
eventually, throughout the rest of the Midwestern U.S. Envisioned as a way for baseball players
to maintain their skills during the winter, the sport was called “Indoor Baseball”. The game gained
acceptance in Minneapolis when fireman Lewis Rober used the game at his station and the game
was called “kitten ball” or “diamond ball”. As the history softball shaped itself over the next
decade, the game went guise of “indoor baseball”, “kitten baseball”, “diamond ball”, “mush ball”
and “pumpkin ball”. In 1926, Walter Hekanson coined the term “softball” while representing the
YMCA at a National Recreation Congress meeting, and by 1930, the term stuck as the sport’s
official name. Within a few decades, the ball had gotten smaller than its boxing glove-sized
namesake, and people were increasingly playing “indoor baseball” outdoors. When softball made
its official national debut at the Chicago World’s Fair, fastpitch, which featured competitive, hadr-
to-hit underhand pitching, was the main form of softball. Slowpitch, which involved gently lobbing
the ball to batters, existed but was primarily seen as children’s playground game. Softball status
as an amateur sport made it more open to women. At the time, professional sports such as baseball
and football, were viewed as rough activities suitable for only men. Fastpitch was a community
game which made it more inclusive. The national tournament that began in 1933 featured women’s
category from the outset, and by the end of the 1930’s there were women’s fastpitch teams all over
the U.S. At a time when hardly any competitive sports were open to women, softball provide a
crucial outlet for female athletes. It was also perfect and suited for people who had little money to
spend on entertainment, the smaller field dimensions, inherited from when it was an indoor game,
made it easier for towns to host games at local parks.

Epistemology

The knowledge that you can acquired in softball is that, it is different from baseball
although the sport is like baseball, the softball is pitched underhand. Softballs are larger and a bit
heavier than baseballs. Softballs are less dense and slightly softer than baseball. Softballs are
typically white but may be colored neon green or yellow in the interest of visibility. Softball fields
are typically smaller than baseball fields because, batted softballs don’t travel as far as baseballs.
The bat that is also used in softball are a litter shorter and have a wider barrel than the bats used in
baseball.

Axiology

Ethics

Aesthetics

The nature of the beauty and the beauty of body human body/form in softball is that, the
body and mind one. When the player round at bases, he or she feel powerful because he or she
made a homerun. The player mind and body works together as his or her timing and mindset have
to be on point. The player figuring out what pitch he or she’s going to throw, the time and the
player body respond are in line with the timing.

Logic

The logic in softball are, first the players doesn’t have to stand in mound which in baseball
it is elevated flat form when they throw the ball. The flat ground circled with white chalk called
“pitching circle” is not elevated because of the underhanded pitching motion. There are many
reasons why the players throw softball underhand. They launch the ball using centripetal force.
This allows the players to use less energy and strength when delivering the ball. The size of the
ball is also the cause. As the size is bigger, the ball is hard to launch overhand. This motion
produces less impact on the delivering shoulder of the pitcher. Pitching underhand reduces stress
that the muscle produce due to pitching. Softball player throws underhand because less technique
is needed and it requires less stamina than throwing the ball overhand. The sport also can play in
fastpitch or slow pitch. In slow pitch most of the batters are right-handed, meaning that the ball
will go to the left-hand field most, which on the other hand, it is opposite of fastpitch game. Lots
of muscles process while playing softball, shoulder’s deltoid and rotation cuff muscle play their
part when throwing the ball along with anconeus triceps branchii muscles. The forearm and upper
arm muscles also paly their part.