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[quote=Anonymous]My daughter played HS softball, and we watched college games and I agree that softball is really fun -- what baseball should be, with faster play, a shorter game, more infield action and closer plays. 
 
The one thing that I don't like about softball is that a team can run with one good pitcher for a whole series or season, so a team can go really really far if they have just one awesome pitcher.  You don't see that in baseball where you need to have a rotation and a relief bench, etc.

THe other down side to softball (for parents and kids out there) is that from ages 8-11 or so it's pretty miserable.  The softballs are heavy, the girls don't have the arm strength to really throw the ball cross field, and the pitching is really tough to get a handle on without significant coaching and training.  So there's a period of years where it can be truly miserable to watch and play, and a lot of girls drop out then because it's a lot of standing around while the batter gets walked, and then errors all around the field.  Baseball also has some of this at that age, but it's way worse for softball.  
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