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| hardlinedrives
December 25, 2007
12:04:32 AM
Entry #: 2525235
| -Consider the following:
19.8 million athletes play softball in the United States;
More than half of the nation's softball players are between the ages of 21-44 (55%);
The average softball player is a 29-year-old male with an annual income of $56,100;
In the United States, more people play softball than football, soccer,
baseball, or hockey;
Seventy-two percent of these softball players compete in tournament play;
In the United States, softball ranks third overall in participation for team sports;
Softball players are estimated to spend $4.3 billion annually to compete;
Softball fields across the country are booked April through October, seven days a week, with teams scheduled to play.
-excerpted from WSL website
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