How To Write A Softball Journal Essay
Natalie Bigley
4th and 6th Hour
Mr. Murphy Journal
Softball in the Olympics
Have you ever watched softball in the Olympics and loved it with all your heart, cheering on your own country with your face painted with your flag’s colors? I have, and this lead me to research why they took such a beautiful sport out of the Olympics.
At a Harvard vs. Yale football game in 1887, a Yale fan playfully threw a boxing glove at a Harvard supporter and swung at it with a stick.
People were very intrigued at this and the Farragut Boat Club decided to make their own rules. For well over thirty years, people often referred this game to many things, including “indoor baseball,” “kitten baseball,”
“diamond baseball,” and even “mush ball.” In 1926, at a YMCA National …show more content…
Murphy Journal
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted to have softball at the XXVI Olympiad in Atlanta, Georgia in 1996. Everyone was overwhelmed that the woman’s version of the United States’ national pastime was now an Olympic sport. The US received gold in the first three competitions of softball. In Athens, we actually outscored our opponents
511. In 2008, we earned silver, losing to Japan in the championship game. Softball was barely voted out by the IOC, and decided that it wasn’t going to be in the 2012 Olympic games. The IOC kept the voting secret and said that they just wanted to add a variety of sports to the games. There were five nominees, golf, rugby, squash, karate, and roller skating, to be a new addition to the Summer Olympics. Squash and katate were nominated, but were overwhelmingly shot down in the final decision.
There has always been a contradiction about the real reason softball was removed out of the Olympics. Some people think that the sport was too “American” because after all, the sport was created here in the USA.
Also, the USA has been dominating ever since they put the sport in the
Olympics. Crystal Bustos, who hit a record five home runs during
4th and 6th Hour
Mr. Murphy Journal
Softball in the Olympics
Have you ever watched softball in the Olympics and loved it with all your heart, cheering on your own country with your face painted with your flag’s colors? I have, and this lead me to research why they took such a beautiful sport out of the Olympics.
At a Harvard vs. Yale football game in 1887, a Yale fan playfully threw a boxing glove at a Harvard supporter and swung at it with a stick.
People were very intrigued at this and the Farragut Boat Club decided to make their own rules. For well over thirty years, people often referred this game to many things, including “indoor baseball,” “kitten baseball,”
“diamond baseball,” and even “mush ball.” In 1926, at a YMCA National …show more content…
Murphy Journal
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted to have softball at the XXVI Olympiad in Atlanta, Georgia in 1996. Everyone was overwhelmed that the woman’s version of the United States’ national pastime was now an Olympic sport. The US received gold in the first three competitions of softball. In Athens, we actually outscored our opponents
511. In 2008, we earned silver, losing to Japan in the championship game. Softball was barely voted out by the IOC, and decided that it wasn’t going to be in the 2012 Olympic games. The IOC kept the voting secret and said that they just wanted to add a variety of sports to the games. There were five nominees, golf, rugby, squash, karate, and roller skating, to be a new addition to the Summer Olympics. Squash and katate were nominated, but were overwhelmingly shot down in the final decision.
There has always been a contradiction about the real reason softball was removed out of the Olympics. Some people think that the sport was too “American” because after all, the sport was created here in the USA.
Also, the USA has been dominating ever since they put the sport in the
Olympics. Crystal Bustos, who hit a record five home runs during