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• n  ball used in playing softball
• n  a game closely resembling baseball that is played on a smaller diamond and with a ball that is larger and softer

• America's pastime, baseball, and its sister sport, softball, will be banished from the Olympic program after Beijing.
• Mary Jo, as everyone who knew her agreed last week, was the girl next door, or perhaps the tomboy, who played catcher on the office softball team.
• Good softball pitchers have been known to barnstorm the country and win most of their games with only a catcher and two fielders to fill out their teams.

• playground ball
• softball game

• hardball

News & Articles

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• Softball action in Thatcher
  Thatcher's girls softball league started play a couple of weeks ago. Here, one of the players warms up before the game. This game took place at the Herb Windsor Park complex. Another game was played a
  June 17, 2013 - Eastern Arizona Courier
• Softball, baseball camps return to fairgrounds
  The baseball and softball fields at the Leavenworth County Fairgrounds were recently filled dozens of local youths, who turned out to master the basics of two American classics.
  June 17, 2013 - The Tonganoxie Mirror
• Softball Tournament Raises Breast Cancer Awareness
  Softball players from the area play in a weekend-long tournament to raise awareness about breast cancer.
  June 16, 2013 - WDIO Duluth

Quotes

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• Billy Crystal in MLB.com
  I've been waiting 50 years for this call,Crystal said. "I'm overwhelmed by the generosity of the Yankees and Commissioner Selig. I know this'll be tougher than the Broadway Softball League, but I'm looking forward to helping the younger...
• Bruce Pearl in DawgsBite.com
  The fact men's basketball was able to get to this point brings us in line with the other sports,Pearl said. "This is where the softball team is, where track and field is." "Tennessee is one of the finest athletic programs in the...
• President Bush in WorldNetDaily
  In a now-famous speech made last October outlining the Iraqi threat, President Bush said, "If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy, or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, it could have a nuclear...