r/CollegeSoftball • u/Super_Biscotti_7545 • 29d ago

Weekend Discussion State of Florida High School Softball

Anybody got any info as to why it seems the records start all of a sudden around 1988 to 1990 ish? What kicked off the wide spread growth after that?

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u/MTBran Florida State Seminoles 29d ago

The switch from slow pitch to fast pitch if I had to guess.

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u/RollTideNorthport 29d ago

I graduated high school in 1986 in Florida and our girls were playing slow pitch softball at that time. So I’m guessing the records started when fast pitch started whatever year that was.

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u/Tekon421 29d ago

I mean my high school didn’t have softball until 1980. 8-10 years later would be the first group of girls that grew up playing it since they were little

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u/ApologeticJedi Arkansas Razorbacks 29d ago

SEC softball (began 1997) is even more recent than that.