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A BRIEF HISTORY OF SOFTBALL
- American troops first introduced softball in the country and it was first called "indoor baseball"
- Initially, it was a game for girls
- In 1911, indoor baseball was formally introduced in local public schools to replace basketball as game for schoolgirls
- It soon became the No. 1 sport among women in Bicol Region and theVisayas
- The Philippines took the lead in introducing indoor baseball, forerunner of present-day softball, to other Asian countries such as Japan & China
- 1915
- Philippines sent two girls teams in the Far Eastern Games in Shanghai, China to demonstrate the game
- Was made an official event in the national interscholastic (public schools) meet
- 1951 - At the end of the Pacific War, a regional series for women was launched
- The Philippine Blu Boys placed second to Japan after a tensely fought final, 8-1, in the just-concluded 8th Asian Men's Softball Championship.
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