Whats the difference between Hardball and Softball squash?
Several differences (used to be a nice website around explaining this, but can’t remember it offhand). Not many folks play hardball anymore, not even in the old hotbeds like New England and Philadelphia areas. Obviously, the biggest difference is that, unlike the smushy hollow ball in softball, the ball in hardball is rather like a rock hard ping pong (table tennis) ball, very lively and extremely responsive to spin. Rallies were bloodcurdling. The court in hardball is narrower by about about 2.5 feet, tin lower by about 2 inches. The sidewalls are also marked differently, coming down in a stepwise fashion, compared to the straight angled line in softball. The hardball game is a very different game, probably closer to racquets than softball squash. The ball is about the same size but hard and bouncey. The courts are narrower, floor is painted, and the out line is different (I did not know about the tin height … interesting). It is a very offensive game of shot making not a game of pa
