The speed, the excitement and the challenge has captured the attention of girls everywhere. Girls baseball has started in the same way. A handful of places gave girls the choice between traditional girls ball games and baseball. Given the choice, girls are choosing baseball, for the same reasons they choose hockey. They want the fast pace, excitement and challenge of baseball.
Girls find the smaller baseball is much easier to throw.
They can throw it farther, faster and with greater accuracy than a large size ball. Pitching is a key element in the game. In baseball, the distance between the pitching rubber and the plate is farther than other ball games, but pitching accuracy is better because the pitcher is throwing overhand. In all types of baseball, players throw overhand. Pitching is basically the same as an overhand throw.