I love softball, it came about in 1887 as an indoor game.
Really? So it came before baseball ?
It has been called indoor baseball.
So baseball was indoor at first ?
I am unsure, I just know that there was a tournament in 1933 that sparked interest at the Chicago World's Fair. 
Wow, before then baseball as not even popular, but after Chicago World's Fair it became Americans past time.
sponsors annual sectional and World Series championships. The World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) regulates rules of play in more than 110 countries, including the United States and Canada; before the WBSC was formed in 2013, the International Softball Federation filled this role. Women's fast pitch softball became a Summer Olympic sport in 1996, but it and baseball were dropped from the 2012 Games; they will be reinstated for the 2020 Games.
There are three types of softball. In the most common type, slow-pitch softball
Softball
Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball (11 to 12 in. circumference) on a field that has base lengths of 60 feet, a pitcher's mound that ranges from 35–43 feet away from home
plate, and a homerun fence that is 220 feet away from home plate. It was invented in 1887 in Chicago, Illinois, United States as an indoor game. The game moves at a faster pace than traditional baseball. There is less time for the base runner to get to