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1888 Centralia (Washington) Daily Sentinel 25 July The Chinese..have organised a soft ball baseball club.

1906 Harvard Graduates' Mag. Sept. 142/1 The afternoon was given up to a soft ball game.

1915 Goodland (Indiana) Herald 3 Apr. 1/5 A soft ball team will be organized for the summer.

1927 Mich. Alumnus 5 Mar. 432/2 On the first warm days of the spring the fraternity back yards are filled with soft ball players.

1930 Junior-Senior High School Clearing House 5 171/2 In the Softball League, there were 6 ninth, 5 eighth, and 4 seventh-grade teams.

1957 J. Kerouac On the Road iii. i. 180 A softball game was going on under floodlights.

1958 D. Pacey Picnic & Other Stories 135 On the softball diamond young shoe-clerks and insurance salesmen showed their circle of watching wives that they could still throw a mean curve or belt a long ball.

1977 J. Cheever Falconer 4 There was a softball field where the gallows had stood.

1995 J. Grisham Rainmaker xviii. 153 He was wielding an aluminum softball bat.

2006 F. Wilczek Fantastic Realities 444 The ‘Princeton Eulers’, a softball team I organized at the Institute for Advanced Study.

2008 J. O'Neill Netherland (2009) 10 Cricketers were not licensed to take the field until the completion of any authorized softball game.