And he hit it off JV.
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I got my first ball glove with S&H Green Stamps.
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When Singleton appeared in the game on Saturday, it marked his first appearance in the big leagues in 2,801 days – nearly eight years. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, it’s the longest gap between Major League games since Cardinals pitcher Brandon Dickson went nine years and four days between big league appearances from 2012 to 2021.
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I am happy to report I saw a dad with his 3 boys playing wiffle ball at the park today and they were having a blast.
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My son and his friends have picked up playing yard blitz ball regularly.
If you connect you can hit one a LONG way. Although, they’ve all learned how to make that thing do some nasty stuff.
It’s a yellow plastic ball with no laces so you can’t pickup any discernable spin…My son’s pitches are a curve that starts BEHIND a righthanded batter and falls for a strike…but then has a fastball that rides hard into a RH batter as well.
One of his friends has a rise ball that is thrown at the ground and works it’s way up into the strike zone!
They’ve shown me videos of MLB’rs trying to hit Blitz balls and some of they’re reactions are outstanding.
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Reminds me of what my friends and I played in high school for a while. For whatever reason we came upon a bunch of miniature “baseballs” that were really two pieces of vinyl barely stitched around some pillow stuffing, probably from a kid’s birthday party or something. They bust open the moment you hit them with a mini-bat. So naturally we wrapped them in masking tape to hold them together, and we soon realized that you could throw them with ludicrous break once you taped them up (probably because they only weighed a couple ounces and had all sorts of corners sticking off from the tape). So for a while we played “baseball” where, if you could added enough backspin, you could throw a pitch at a spot on the ground halfway between you and the plate, and the ball would start on that trajectory then rise all the way up through or above the zone as it reached the hitter. Or crazy curveballs however many feet behind the hitter that ended up playing like a low-and-away slider by the time they got there. Crazy stuff. Anyway, the taped-up balls lasted about 20 minutes apiece, so once we ran out, that game died. But it was fun while it lasted.
The summer after our 8th grade year, my best friend Gaylon Edwards and I played a nightly game in his garage with a ping pong ball and a yardstick. The batter stood at the house end of the garage, and the pitcher threw from the open end of the garage with the door raised. There were no bases or running, and scoring was simple. Any ball hit through the opening without bouncing, being deflected, or being caught was a fair ball and a home run. One fine point I do not remember is whether a ball which was deflected but went through the opening without hitting the ground was a homer or merely a hit. A ball hitting the ground or the walls was an out, and a foul was a strike or an out. I do not remember that fine point either, but I would guess it was a strike. A fair ball which was deflected and stayed in the garage was a hit resulting in a baserunner. Three swings and misses or called strikes were an out, of course, and we hardly ever disagreed on the called strikes. The pitcher threw the ball hard and could put insane spin on a ping pong ball. Obviously, the batter had to hit the ball with the flat side of the yardstick, and hitting was not as difficult as it may sound. We played nine innings and kept score in a notebook. He was Cincinnati, and I was Pittsburgh. We played many, maybe most, nights during that summer.
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There are, of course, a variety of tournament structures. The common short form of tournament is to have two “seeding” games on Saturday, and then have a “bracket” day on Sunday. So every team is guaranteed to play three games over the weekend, the two losing teams in the semifinals will have played four games, and the two teams in the championship game will have played five games.
There are longer forms of tournaments with a week or two of seeding games followed by a larger single elimination weekend tournament, but those tournaments will also result in multiple games over both days, especially for the more successful teams.
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This is similar to cork ball. Just a pitcher and a catcher. If the batter swings and misses and the catcher catches it, the batter is out. No bases or baserunning. Just hits based on where you hit the cork.
Very similar. We had no catcher, but the rules look to be close to the same.
My older brother and I also used a ping pong ball for our games. We would play outside. We would stand our rectangular trampoline on its side as a backstop at the back edge of the property. The batter used a ping pong paddle. If you hit it at or above a certain point on the house, it was considered a HR. If you hit it on the roof it was an out because the ball would get stuck in the gutter. I had a thump style pitch that would put a crazy curve on that ping pong ball.
Anybody ever play half field ball? Like between the first base foul line and second base is fair everything else is foul?
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Sure. You had to when you only had a handful of guys playing. We even had it where you hit the ball to RF (right handed hitter) it was an automatic out. We made up the rules that worked that day.
We also had games wher you rotated. You hit, then go play the field, then pitch and you just sort of rotated around swapping “teams”
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Anyone ever play broomsticks and bottlecaps? Me neither but a few of my friends that grew up in St Louis played it in their neighborhoods as youths. Same as corkball but with bottlecaps.
We played with a softball on a vacant lot – the foul lines were a bit odd. :-). And if you hit the neighbor’s houses (beyond the left or right field lines - or later, across the street beyond CF) it was an out. There was a real grouch in RF, though, and in an unrelated move, he built a carport at the back of his house, putting it in easy reach of our bats. So we changed the rules and made his carport a HR. I am beginning to understand why adults are annoyed by teenagers.
ETA – We originally made hitting a moving car a HR, too, but sanity eventually prevailed and we made that an out.
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Indoors it was sockball.
Ceiling fan was in play.
1st base middle couch cushion fastest route was diving over the coffee table, 2nd was TV, 3rd was fire place home was dad’s recliner.
Games had to be finished 15 minutes before my parents got home so we had time to clean up the mess.
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Oh, heck yes. RF was foul, and we ran home to second to third to home.
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Now I want MMP to have a big ass fan that’s in play.
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We rotated around after each out. Getting a hit kept you on offense.
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