kittenball

kitten +‎ ball

kittenball (uncountable)

1. The game of softball.
   • 2004, Peggy Sanders, The Civilian Conservation Corps: In and Around the Black Hills (page 35)

     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.

   • 2018, Paul Assink, Looking Back, page 62:

     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.