Softball was invented inside the Farragut Boat Club on a cold winter day in November, 1887, in Chicago, IL. A bunch of Yale and Harvard students awaited the results of the Harvard-Yale football game, and when the news came that Yale had defeated Harvard, 17-8, one Yale supporter, overcome with enthusiasm, picked up an old boxing glove and threw it at a nearby Harvard students, who promptly tried to hit it back with a stick.