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Amateur Softball Association of America

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The Amateur Softball Association of America (ASA) was organized in 1933 and became the recognized governing agency for the promotion and control of organized national softball competition. Softball itself is a variant of baseball, believed to have originated in Chicago in 1887. It was known by various names before a rules committee was formed to standardize play. The ASA is distinct from the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States (AAU), which was formed in 1888 and serves as the governing body for numerous sports, including basketball, boxing, and swimming, and also supervises Olympic tryouts.12

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  1. Amateur Athletic Union of the United States
  2. American Woman Suffrage Association
  3. softball
  4. history of baseball - Amateur baseball
  5. baseball - Amateur baseball

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