George Hancock (softball)

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George Hancock, at the time a reporter for Chicago Board of Trade, invented the game of softball in 1887. The first game was played indoors, inside the Farragut Boat club. Someone found a boxing glove and threw it and someone else hit it with a stick. George Hancock shouted " Let's play ball" and tied the boxing glove into the shape of a ball. The men chalked a diamond shape onto the floor and broke a broom handle to serve as a bat. This is known as the first softball game, on Thanksgiving Day, 1887, after a Harvard-Yale football game. That was not the only inicident that had occurred. Also in 1887, a young man named Alfred Jones, was wanting to play baseball but had no place to play, seeing as it was raining and cold outside, he got together with a couple of his buddys and thought about ways to play, without hurting anything. and then they cam up with softball and told the world about it. Thats how it all happened in Pennsylvania. On October 16, 1887. Thats my story and Im sticking to it.....I am Alfred Jones, I invented it and no one else can tell me other wise. Go with George Hancock, but Im the rightfull owner of the invention of the game.