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  • Introduction 1887-1908
  • The Game of Softball 1913-1926
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  • 28/03/2022

    WBSC Softball Hall of Fame member Joan Joyce, 1974 Women’s Softball World Championship winner, passes away at 81

  • 15/04/2021

    WBSC podcast in Spanish: Catcher Sashel Palacios proud Mexico qualified for Olympic softball for first time in history

  • 29/01/2021

    WBSC launches new baseball-softball history section

  • 13/11/2020

    Switzerland: 21-year-old softballer makes history as first Swiss to earn US college scholarship

  • 22/09/2020

    One year ago today: Israel qualifies for Olympic baseball for first time in history

  • 24/07/2020

    Olympic Rewind Series - Sydney 2000: Japan, USA play the most contested softball final in Olympic history

  • 26/02/2020

    Officials prepare for history at Tokyo2020

  • 16/12/2019

    President Fraccari: “2019 - The biggest year in int’l baseball, softball history”

  • 22/07/2019

    Women’s Softball Europe/Africa Qualifier: Every team wants to write history

  • 15/06/2017

    Valdemar Terkelsen makes history for danish softball

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