what is a softball made of?
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A softball is made of cork, yarn, leather, and basically the same material as a baseball. The inside is held together with compressed air. The higher the core of the compressed air, the further the ball goes and the harder it is.
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Softball.com. Whatever you do don't buy used. I would also reccomend really going to a store, that way you cant try them and find one that fits and works for you. Try Dicks Sporting Goods (pricey but well known) or Olympia Sports
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Go to this site and poke around a bit. Lots of good softball stuff there. There is also a tips and drills area, look for it, it should give you what you need.\n\nhttp://eteamz.active.com/fastpitch/boards/fastpitch/
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If you really mean softball (and not baseball), there are typically 10 players in the field, not nine.  \n\nThe infield is the same as regular baseball: \n-pitcher - pitches the ball to the batter, located on the mound in the middle of the infield, will sometimes cover first base in the even of a ground ball to the right side\n-catcher - receives the ball from the pitcher, croutches behind home plate, covers home\n-first - covers the area around first base, covers the bag especially on groundballs to get the runner out\n-second - covers the area on the left side up the middle, sometimes covers second base in the event of a steal or possible double play\n-third - covers the area around third base\n- shortstop - compliment to the second baseman on the left side of the infield, also covers second in the event of a stolen base or double play\n\nThe difference between baseball and softball is in the outfield.  You typically see one of two set-ups: \n1) left, left-center, right-center, and right fielders, - all of these patrol their given area of the outfield\nOR \n2) left, center, right and short fielder (who plays a short outfield and shades on the side of second base where the batter would hit normally, i.e. right field for a lefty and left field for a righty, also called a rover).
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Silica; it's what makes glass, and ceramics have insulative properties. Other than that, it would be petroleum products such as plastics, and vinyls. Rubber comes from a plant.
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Ice hockey pucks used in regulation game play are made of vulcanized rubber.  One assumes they're made the way most rubber things are, which is by pouring rubber into a mold, or two molds and then joining the two pieces.  Then they'd probably get stamped with whatever league logo, and packaged.\n\nPucks are an inch thick by three inches across, and are frozen before games to make them easier to control.\n\nThere are different kinds of pucks... weighted practice pucks, junior pucks, and plastic pucks used in street hockey.\n\n\n***\n\n(After realizing I wasn't 100% sure about how even regulation pucks were made, I went and looked the process up and found a very informative site:  http://www.madehow.com/Volume-6/Hockey-Puck.html  Hope that helps!)
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The first version of softball was invented in Chicago, Illinois in 1887 by George Hancock, a reporter for the Chicago Board of Trade, as a winter version of baseball. It was intended to be a way for baseball players to keep in practice during the winter.\n\nYale and Harvard alumni had gathered at the Farragut Boat Club in Chicago to hear the score of the annual football game. When the score was announced and bets were paid, one person threw a boxing glove at another. The other person grabbed a stick and swung at it.Hancock called "Play ball!" and the game began. Hancock took a boxing glove and tied it into a ball. A broom handle was used as a bat. The ball, being soft, was fielded barehanded rather than with gloves like those which had been introduced to baseball in 1882. Hancock developed a ball and an undersized bat in the next week. The Farragut Club soon set rules for the game, which spread quickly to outsiders.\n\nIn 1895 Lewis Rober, Sr. of Minneapolis organized outdoor games as exercise for firefighters; this game was known as kitten ball (after the first team to play it), pumpkin ball, or diamond ball. Rober's version of the game used a twelve-inch (305 mm) ball rather than the sixteen-inch (406 mm) ball used by the Farragut club, and eventually the Minneapolis ball prevailed, although the dimensions of the Minneapolis diamond were passed over in favour of the dimensions of the Chicago one. Rober may not have been familiar with the Farragut Club rules. The first softball league outside the United States was organized in Toronto in 1897.\n\nThe name softball dates from 1926 (in addition to indoor baseball, kitten ball, and diamond ball, names for the game included mush ball, and pumpkin ball). Standard rules were agreed on only after the formation of the Amateur Softball Association in 1933.\n\nSixteen-inch (406 mm) softball, also sometimes referred to as "mush ball" or "Super-slow pitch" is a direct descendant of Hancock's original game. Defensive players are not allowed to wear fielding gloves; however, a sixteen inch softball is actually soft, and can be fielded safely with bare hands. Sixteen inch softball is played extensively in Chicago, Illinois.\n\nIn the 1940s, fast pitching started to dominate the game. Slow pitch was invented to give batters a better chance to hit the ball.\n\nAfter World War II, Canadian soldiers introduced softball to The Netherlands.\n\nIn 1991, Women's fast-pitch was selected to debut at the 1996 Summer Olympics.\n\nIn 2002, sixteen-inch slow pitch was written out of the ISF official rules, though still played extensively in the United States under Amateur Softball Association of America (ASA) rules.\n\nThe 117th meeting of the International Olympic Committee, held in Singapore in July 2005, voted to drop Softball and Baseball as Olympic sports for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games.
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The weight of a Softball is 7 Ounces
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Go to: http://www.golfjoy.com/golf_physics/specs.asp\n\nAlso go to: http://golf.about.com/od/faqs/f/clublengths.htm\n\nAnd: http://golf.about.com/od/faqs/a/golf_clubs_faq.htm\n\nAnd: http://www.usga.org/playing/rules/books/rules/appendix_II.html\n\nRaw Materials\nGolf clubs are manufactured from a wide variety of materials, including metals, plastics, ceramics, composites, wood, and others. Different materials are chosen for different parts of the club based on their mechanical properties, such as strength, elasticity, formability, impact resistance, friction, damping, density, and others.\n\nClub heads for drivers and other woods may be made from stainless steel, titanium, or graphite fiber-reinforced epoxy. Face inserts may be made from zirconia ceramic or a titanium metal matrix ceramic composite. Oversize metal woods are usually filled with synthetic polymer foam. Traditionalists can even buy woods that are made of real wood. Persimmon, laminated maple, and a host of exotic woods are used. Wood club heads are usually soaked in preserving oil or coated with a synthetic finish like polyurethane to protect them from moisture.\n\nClub heads for irons and wedges may be made from chrome-plated steel, stainless steel, titanium, tungsten, beryllium nickel, beryllium copper, or combinations of these metals. Heads for putters may be made of all of the same materials as irons, plus softer materials like aluminum or bronze, because the velocity of impact is much slower when putting.\n\nClub shafts may be made from chrome-plated steel, stainless steel, aluminum, carbon or graphite fiber-reinforced epoxy, boron fiber-reinforced epoxy, or titanium. Grips are usually made from molded synthetic rubber or wrapped leather.\n\nDesign\nThe rules of the United States Golf Association (USGA) have only a few brief paragraphs regarding the design of golf clubs. There are no restrictions on weight or materials, and only a few restrictions on dimensions. Shafts must be at least 18 in (457 mm) long. The distance from the heel to the toe of the head must be greater than the distance from the face to the back of the head. The cross-sectional dimension of the grip must not be greater than 1.75 in (45 mm) in any direction. Of all the rules, however, the most important one requires that the club ''shall not be substantially different from the traditional and customary form and make."\n\nIt is this last rule that sometimes gives club designers the fits. It means, for example, that club heads may not have features like aiming fins or holes to reduce aerodynamic drag. Shafts may not have flexible joints, and so forth. In short, anything that is not "traditional and customary" is not allowed. All new club designs must be submitted to the USGA for review and approval before they may be used in tournament play.\n\nWithin the USGA guidelines, many new features have been incorporated into golf clubs. Using computer-aided design programs and mathematical models of club and ball dynamics, designers have learned to utilize new materials, redistribute weight, and alter the general shape of the club in an attempt to help both professional golfers and weekend duffers improve their games.\n\nOne common feature of modern irons is perimeter weighting, which places most of the club head weight around the edges, leaving the center with less material. This added mass reduces the amount of club twist when the ball is struck towards the edge of the club, rather than in the center. The effect is to increase the size of the effective hitting area, or the "sweet spot" as golfers call it. The hollow oversize metal heads on some drivers have the same effect.\n\nAnother design feature of some modern clubs is the offset head, where the striking face is located to the rear of the centerline of the shaft. This places the golfer's hands slightly ahead of the ball at impact, which tends to square the club face and give better direction control.\n\nOth
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provide some more info if your talking using a slow pitch soft ball bat for fast pitch its probably not and any softball bat is not aprooved for baseball so provide some extra info and you might get better results most bats say on them what their aprooved for so take a look at all the crap you have nevered really looked at on it
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It is like softball or baseball except there is a tea.  There is a tea about 3 or 4 feet tall.  The ball sits on it.  You swing and hit the ball sitting on the tea and run to the bases like in normal baseball/softball.
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Rule 24 - Puck \nThe puck shall be made of vulcanized rubber, or other approved material, one inch (1") thick and three inches (3") in diameter and shall weigh between five and one-half ounces (51/2 oz.) and six ounces (6 oz.). All pucks used in competition must be approved by the Rules Committee.
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Air. It's made out of air and plastic.
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<The first version of softball was invented in Chicago, Illinois in 1887 by George Hancock, a reporter for the Chicago Board of Trade, as a winter version of baseball. It was intended to be a way for baseball players to keep in practice during the winter.
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Many years ago American footballs were made of pig bladders. However current NFL footballs are made by Wilson and are made from cowhide lined with a two ply butyl rubber bladder to make it airtight. Pig "skin" was actually never used. \n\nThe standard football, referred to by Americans as a soccer ball, is made of a polyurethane or polyvinyl chloride outer coat, with a rubber or synthetic rubber lining. Rumor has it that ancient Brits used human heads for footballs. That would be a tough game!
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A classic myth is that softball is full of lesbians - an idea that emerged from one of the great pillars of intelligence, the U.S. Army, which historically conducted its witchhunts for lesbians by heading for the softball games. \nIt is true that lesbians play softball, even lots of lesbians; but many straight women play softball too. In total softball gear, it is hard to tell who is this, that, or the other thing: They all look like softball players.
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Likes the softball, softball is much easier than baseball. Softball is much bigger ball. And baseball is small ball with most speed at 90-100 mph in professional league like MLB.