Softball invented as indoor sport in 1887 Chicago – True

Softball is a Chicago invention and Pullman played a part in the spread of its popularity. Softball-- or, as it was known, Indoor Baseball-- was invented on Thanksgiving day, 1887. George Hancock, reporter at the Chicago Board of Trade, had gone to the Farragut Boat Club at 3018 S.

Softball is said to have begun – indoors, actually – in 1887 on Thanksgiving Day in Chicago. A group of men had gathered together at Chicago’s Farragut Boat Club.

George Warren Hancock (1 March 1861 – 15 April 1936), at the time a reporter for Chicago Board of Trade, invented the game of softball in 1887. The first game was played, inside the Farragut Boat Club in Chicago. The first game of softball came from a football game between Yale and Harvard.

It is thought that softball was invented in 1887 in Chicago, and between then and the 1930's, there was little mention of women playing the sport.

After the first game of softball, or “indoor baseball,” as participants called it back then, took place on Thanksgiving in 1887, the Farragut club members found the game so thrilling that George W. Hancock, a reporter for the Chicago Board of Trade, decided to make up the rules of the new ...

Indoor baseball, mush ball, playground, “softbund ball,” kitten ball. Among Chicago’s many contributions to sports — and to company picnics and America culture — was softball. The sport was first played indoors, in 1887 at Chicago’s Farragut Boat Club, and it got the name “softball” ...

History Softball originated in Chicago on Thanksgiving Day, 1887.

The sport's popularity has increased dramatically the last 10 to 15 years, but few people realize softball has a lengthy history dating back to 1887. George Hancock, a reporter for the Chicago Board of Trade, is credited with inventing the game.

The origins of softball trace themselves back to a group of men huddled together in Chicago, Illinois on Thanksgiving Day, 1887. They traded a hot and dusty diamond for the recently opened confines of the Farragut Boat Club.