Women's softball fence?
I'm flippin through the channels and I see the womens USA softball team playing on ESPN so I stop and watch for a few minutes and the anouncer says the centerfield fence is only 200 feet. Why is the fence so short? No disrespect to the women playing but my 12 year old cousin who is in little league plays with a 240 foot fence. Why so short?
Thank you ladies, sorry I didn't use common sense before I asked.
To be honest with you Will, I don't think its so common sense. There might be something there in saying that the bigger ball and smaller bat barrels make it harder to hit it far but I but I believe that that is insignificant at best. When you think about it men who play softball, with the same larger balls and smaller bat barrels can hit the ball with comparable distance to a baseball. I'm led to beleive that the biggest reason for the smaller fences is differences in the biomechanics of the male and female bodies. Women do not naturally build the same upper body strenth as men and because of that most women cannot hit the ball with any consistancy as far as men can. There are some women who can consistantly hit a softabll over a 200 foot fence, me included, but obviously it isn't such a large number that they have found it necessary to move the fence back to make it harder for women to hit homeruns. A 200-250 ft fence for women softball players is going to be about equivalent to a 350-400 ft fence for men baseball players. There are going to be some who can easily hit it over but for the majority its going to take some effort.
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