A. George Stewart
B. George Hancock
C. Robert Lewis
D. None of these
Submitted by: MUHAMMAD ZUBAIR ASLAM
Softball began in 1887 when George Hancock, a reporter for the Chicago Board of Trade, invented “indoor baseball”. By the spring of 1888, the game had spread outdoors. It was originally called either mushball, kittenball or indoor baseball, but by the 1920s it had acquired the name of softball.