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Softball T shirts!
If you need softball T shirts for yourself, as a gift, or enough for your whole team, this is the page for you.
Besides wearing their softball shirts as part of a team’s uniform, many people just like to wear T shirts that depict their love for softball -- such as the girl to the left wearing a softball diamond shirt that reads, "Diamonds are a girl's best friend."
Our favorite place for
already designed softball T shirts
is our affiliate, Zazzle -- the previous link takes you there. Artists from around the world create softball designs on T shirts, and you can shop through them to either purchase one, or enough for a large group. Often, you can customize them by choosing the colors of the softball shirts and choosing the name or lettering for the shirt.
If you want to design your own or your team’s
customized softball shirts
from scratch online for your softball team, just for yourself or as a gift, you can do that at this site as well (click on “customized softball shirts” above). The neat thing is, it doesn’t cost anything to do the design. You can store your design there for no cost.
Let’s say you were volunteered to design girls’ softball T shirts for an entire team. You can create and upload the design, then each individual team member can order her own separately from her own computer whenever she chooses. Or, the softball team also has the choice of ordering the entire team’s shirts all at once.

You can also make your own softball T shirt by printing out a design from your computer’s printer onto iron-on transfer paper. This type of transfer paper is often available at fabric stores, craft stores and sometimes even just large general department stores. It comes in typical print paper size: 8 ½ by 11 inches. You can print out letters, numbers, art images, even photos. Then you peel off the top layer and apply the image to the T shirt with a regular household iron. This can be a fun, challenging bonding project for softball teams.
For example, a girls’ softball team can set up a bake sale or lemonade stand to earn money for inexpensive blank T shirts purchased in bulk and a box of transfer paper, which usually costs less than $15 for 10 sheets. But be sure to factor in the cost of color print cartridges when estimating the total cost.
Before you buy the paper, read its instructions to make sure you, or someone on your softball team, has the correct type of printer needed for designing T shirts this way. And, you may want to test just one shirt before doing the entire print-out and affixing all the designs to the shirts. You’ll want to make sure the design can be seen well once on the softball shirt. You won’t want too dark of a design on a dark blue T shirt, for example, nor to find out that you can’t easily read the lettering as well as you’d hoped. If you try just one first and see changes that need to be made, you can adjust the design on your computer and get it perfect before creating all the softball shirts you need.
In general, most types of heat transfer T shirts can be washed many times without losing quality.
The difference between “heat transfer” softball T shirts, and “silk screened” or “screen printing.”
Most of the above mentioned sources of softball T shirts are created with the heat transfer method. Heat transfer allows a multiple colored softball design to be applied all at once to the shirt. Quality is usually very good, and there is sort of a smooth “leathery” feel to the area of the T shirt where the design is, which sometimes softens after washing.
With silk screening, now often called screen printing, the ink is applied directly to the shirt, one color at a time. There is no leathery feeling when the dye is applied directly to the cloth, and some people prefer screen printed softball T shirts. Screen printed softball shirts usually cost more, partially because of the extra work involved in printing out just one color at a time. _______________
You may also be interested in our article on Girls' Softball Uniforms
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