kittenball
nounEtymology From kitten + ball.
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The game of softball.
- Another sport, kittenball, also called diamond ball, was played more often than baseball because the games were 7 innings long. Kittenball also required less equipment therefore it was cheaper to field a team.2004, Peggy Sanders, The Civilian Conservation Corps: In and Around the Black Hills, page 35:
- We called it "kittenball" in those days. For what reason I never thought to ask and still have not discovered. But it was softball, the twelve inch variety with the fast, underhand pitch.2018, Paul Assink, Looking Back, page 62: