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George Handcock invented softball.
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The first softball league outside the United States was organized in Toranto.
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The first softball tournament was introduced in Chicago, Illinois.
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The ISF organizes and conducts world championship competition in women's & men's fast pitch & unior women's & junior men's fast pitch (19-and-under), women's, men's & coed slow pitch, and women's & men's modified pitch.
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Softball has been in the Olympics also in 2000, 2004, and 2008.
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In July 2005, IOC members voted 52–52 (with one abstention), to remove softball (along with baseball) from the Olympic program after the 2008 Olympic Games.
