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Softball USA
Homepage: http://www.seniorsoftball.com/index.php
History:
Retired state actress
Evelyn Brown Rittenhouse is credited for
pioneering Senior Softball in the 1930s.
Rittenhouse used to manage a retirement
community in St. Petersburg in Florida and
suggested softball games as a way to keep
the older people active.
In the early days, people
used to walk to the bases. Senior softball
has evolved since then. In 1988, Bob Mitchell
founded Senior-Softball USA, the world’s
largest organization of senior softball
players in Sacramento, California. Unlike
its earlier forms, Senior Softball-USA is
a fast paced and vigorous sport. It also
features a smaller and harder ball. The
sport welcomes men aged 50 and above, and
women aged 45 and above.
Since its foundation,
Senior Softball-USA membership continually
increased by about 500 players per quarter.
To date, the organization has over 1.5 million
active senior softball players in 1,500
teams in every state and in Canada.
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