Dph Sports Series-Softball

Book excerpt: In a world where there are some 820 million people unemployed or underemployed, and where 86 million people are born every year, it is not surprising that one out of every four individuals lives in absolute poverty. But Publishing this book seeks to get positive response as means by which sports can promote and propagate peace and international cooperation. Sportsmen form a large identifiable cadre. We visualises a situation where a conscious efforts is made all over the world to train the sportspersons to spread the message of peace and international cooperation. Instead of peace keeping efforts through arms and army, the sportspersons may be used as soilders of peace in a subtle manner. The effort is to make the realize the contribution of sports as a factor for sustainable development, peace keeping and international cooperation. This book will be useful to the sports promoters, organisers, coaches and other persons related or interested in sports.