Through research we had uncovered that players didn’t agree that baseball and softball were the same game. That although they were incredibly similar, they were distinctively different. Softball was a much faster game. Because the ball was larger and the diamond was smaller, the ball came to the infielders much quicker and therefore diving was a much important part of the game. So we couldn’t lump the two spots together, they needed to be unique.

We used Ernest Thayer’s poem Casey at the Bat as inspiration in creating our own modern day versions, The Batter & His Bat and The Fielder & Her Glove.