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Yup, I always get together with old middle school / high school pals each year to play a series vs. old school rivals. Summer wouldn't be the same without it. Wiffleball runs circles around beer league softball and other faux-sports.

 
No but this sounds like a good idea for company parties. I haven't even seen a wiffle ball bat in 15 years so this might take some looking in to.

 
Summer BBQ's just aren't the same with out my 2 favorite activities . . .

wiffleball

bocce

Any game you can play while drinking a beer is OK in my book.

The entire lawnchair is the strike zone.

 
We play exactly like Wii Sports baseball (no base running, minimal fielding). Depending on how much time we have, it's either 1 or 2 strikes and you're out.

 
I play regularly with my 10 and 12 yr. old nephews who are very good ballplayers. We have a rule that you have to play shirtless. Nothing more satisfying than the sound of drilling one of those punks in the ribs with a heater and leaving a wiffle-welt.

 
I have a league going with fellow grad students too in which the games can get pretty serious. Some of our personalized settings:

*We have a wooden standing backstop with a square "strike zone" cut out from it. Anything that goes through is a called strike.

*We have one of those portable vinyl field lining systems for creating the foul lines.

*We play 5 balls to a walk.

*We have baserunning, though with the notorious difficulty of a wiffleball's long-throw accuracy, one can only advance 1 base on a throwing error.

 
We play one strike looking is an automatic out, otherwise two strikes. Nothing more demoralizing as a hitter to watch the first pitch drill the chair.

 
We used to play a ton.... sometimes we still do though it's not the same since my folks sold their place. The back yard was perfectly shaped for a great game. WHen we were younger it was tough to hit the ball out...as we got older the field presented some interesting challenges.

Left field through Center Field

White picket fence 4' higih Must clear this fence to be a HR. Ranged from shallow down the line to "very" deep in dead center.

STraight away center:

There was a walkway that made the HR fence. If the ball hit the walkway (tell tale "click" sound) or went beyond it, you got a HR. You could rob a HR if you could stand on the grass and leap and catch the ball. Landing on the sidewalk was okay. Made for some great HR robbing moments. The house was behind this (3 stories) and OCCATIONALLY in the later years someone would really get ahold of one and damn near put it over the house. THese were considered "upper deck" shots and were a source of great pride.

Right Field

We had an inground pool that ran from RCF to down the right field line. This natural barrier made for a very short HR porch for those who could take the ball to the opposite field. the catch was, however that any HR could be Robbed by anyone willing to dive over the shrubs and try to catch the ball in the air before landing in the water. Needless to say this created some pretty spectacular diving HR Robberies. It was only considered a "robbed HR" if you caught it cleanly in the air before hitting the water.

As time went on it was too easy to hit it over this pool so we made it to where in the pool ended your turn and over the pool was a HR.

GB wiffleball.

 
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One frustrating thing is that, depending on where you go, it can be tough to find the "official" wiffle bat and balls. I found that in the northeast, where the company is based, you can find them pretty easily, even in a lot of hardware and convenience stores. In the midwest, I once found that no stores in my town carried real wiffleballs.

 
Reality Football said:
One frustrating thing is that, depending on where you go, it can be tough to find the "official" wiffle bat and balls. I found that in the northeast, where the company is based, you can find them pretty easily, even in a lot of hardware and convenience stores. In the midwest, I once found that no stores in my town carried real wiffleballs.
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..or that when you DO find them, you blow them up when you hit them as you get older. When we'd have a game in our mid 20s, we'd go to walmart and buy 15-20 balls knowing that after 3-4 hits they usually split in half :thumbup:
 
Wiffleball is sweet!

I threw a no hitter back in '91 at the student center plaza at kent State!

Damn, I need to get some games together.

 
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Love it and still play in tournaments actually, also play alot at college.... Only played like 2 tourneys last year for NEWA but were ranked like 40ish I think overall in all of New England for teams.

 
Reality Football said:
One frustrating thing is that, depending on where you go, it can be tough to find the "official" wiffle bat and balls. I found that in the northeast, where the company is based, you can find them pretty easily, even in a lot of hardware and convenience stores. In the midwest, I once found that no stores in my town carried real wiffleballs.
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The worst is when stores only sell balls attached to bats, not separately. I swear we have 20 bats at the beach house because the place up the street only sells them this way. :shrug:
 
I remember the pride I'd take in taping up my bat each year, stole some of the old man's electrical tape, much to his chagrin as this was some sort of black gold. Of course, when you kill a roll of it on a bat, he has a reason to get ticked.

I wished there was some variation in bat length, I'd love another one or two inches.

 
NY/NJMFDIVER said:
I remember the pride I'd take in taping up my bat each year, stole some of the old man's electrical tape, much to his chagrin as this was some sort of black gold. Of course, when you kill a roll of it on a bat, he has a reason to get ticked.

I wished there was some variation in bat length, I'd love another one or two inches.
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:confused: That's what she said.

 
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NY/NJMFDIVER said:
I remember the pride I'd take in taping up my bat each year, stole some of the old man's electrical tape, much to his chagrin as this was some sort of black gold. Of course, when you kill a roll of it on a bat, he has a reason to get ticked. I wished there was some variation in bat length, I'd love another one or two inches.
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:eek: bat taping :goodposting: If Mr. Wiffle intended for the bat to weigh 3 lbs when he invented the game he would have made it that way in the first place.
 
Nigel said:
NY/NJMFDIVER said:
I remember the pride I'd take in taping up my bat each year, stole some of the old man's electrical tape, much to his chagrin as this was some sort of black gold. Of course, when you kill a roll of it on a bat, he has a reason to get ticked. I wished there was some variation in bat length, I'd love another one or two inches.
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:thumbup: bat taping :pickle: If Mr. Wiffle intended for the bat to weigh 3 lbs when he invented the game he would have made it that way in the first place.
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:popcorn: Maybe a little at the handle but a whole roll covering the entire bat?Anybody else use the double play rule? If a grounder is caught anywhere in the infield that person can throw it toward home - if it hits the strike zone it's a double play.
 
Nigel said:
NY/NJMFDIVER said:
I remember the pride I'd take in taping up my bat each year, stole some of the old man's electrical tape, much to his chagrin as this was some sort of black gold. Of course, when you kill a roll of it on a bat, he has a reason to get ticked. I wished there was some variation in bat length, I'd love another one or two inches.
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:goodposting: bat taping :ph34r: If Mr. Wiffle intended for the bat to weigh 3 lbs when he invented the game he would have made it that way in the first place.
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I don't think Mr. Wiffle intended you to parade with shirtless boys, so we can all make adjustments.
 
Knightro said:
I play - but not against these guys

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Those pitches are nasty. Some of them are breaking like 2-3 feet. I love the guys ducking as it hits the strike zone.I used to play a bunch in college in the quad. Just like Indian ball rules with no baserunning. Good times....I miss the college Spring semester after basketball season was over. Plenty of free time, good weather and the ladies.....ohhh the ladies...................hmmmmm......... Wait? What are we talking about now?

 
Two games aweek against my sons (age 7 and 10). I have to hit left handed.

I hope to enjoy my winning streak for about 2 more years before they start launching them over the house.

 
Knightro said:
I play - but not against these guys

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I know a bunch of those guys from tournaments around Mass. Real good players... I remember hitting a grand slam in a tournament against one of them in the video a guy named Deveau. I can throw alot of what they can throw with similiar movement but not with the accuracy they do, working on it though... Also they are throwing the ball 50-70 mph in the video, and that is from 45 feet away so it gives you a perspective.
 
Yeah, I play with my 7 year old all the time. Mostly just pitch to him but once and awhile he'll throw me a few.

 
We used to play on the roof of our 10-story dorm. Off the roof in fair territory was a HR. Still have a small scar on my arm where a small piece of aluminum embedded in a brick wall on the roof caught a piece of my arm as I went by.

Good times.

 
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I always make sure to have one of these and at least 2 wiffle balls in the trunk of my car at all times.

You never know when a game will start up.

 
When we were really short on guys we would play "pitcher's hand". It's where the P is also the first baseman so if you got it to the pitcher beofre the guy got to first it was an out.

Anyone else use this?

 
JM4Steelers said:
When we were really short on guys we would play "pitcher's hand". It's where the P is also the first baseman so if you got it to the pitcher beofre the guy got to first it was an out.Anyone else use this?
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I don't think I've ever actually run in a wiffleball game.
 
I remember hearing that Kevin Mitchell (or maybe it was Bobby Bonilla) had some kid throw him tons of wiffle ball pitches to try to learn how to hit the curve ball.

 
Righetti said:
I remember hearing that Kevin Mitchell (or maybe it was Bobby Bonilla) had some kid throw him tons of wiffle ball pitches to try to learn how to hit the curve ball.
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It was Kevin Mitchell, I think that was his 88 offseason regiment in prep for that Monster 89 he had.
 
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