Wiffle ball
| Game | Wiffleball |
|---|---|
| Game Family | Kickball |
| Location | |
| Regions | US |
| Eras | Derivative, Post-1900, Contemporary |
| Invented | No |
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| Description | A Wiffle Ball is a hollow plastic ball with holes strategically placed in order to exaggerate sideways force, and thus enabling pitchers to produce severe curves and drops (and rises?). Competitive games of Wiffleball are known, some exhibiting team play. None, we believe (as of September 2018), appear to involve live baserunning. Note: Wiffle Ball, Inc., which holds and protects key trade marks, has set out a set of rules at http://www.wiffle.com/pages/game_rules.asp?page=game_rules. However, many leagues treasure their innovative rule options, including the doctoring of balls to make them curve more dramatically, and of bats that are dissimilar to the familiar yellow plastic cudgels you may think of. Several leagues seem to claim that their championships produce the true national crown for wiffle ball. |
| Sources | For a longish New Yorker article on an advanced form of Wiffleball, see https://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/the-men-who-have-taken-wiffle-ball-to-a-crazy-competitive-place?mbid=social_twitter. (Submitted 9/3/2018 by Glenn Stout; pitches have been measured at 90+Notwe: mpg.) A web search for <ben mcgrath wiffle ball> may help you locate the New Yorker piece. It is dated August 31, 2018. For a lighthearted You Tube exposition of the fourth-best team in the the National Wiffleball Championship Tournament (year?), see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPEnXCtwHeU. |
| Source Image | [[Image:|left|thumb]] |
| Comment | Well, the You Tube video shows, but does not define, a form of live running by batters. And fielding, too, for balls that do not leave the yard. Protoball has some things still to learn about this derivative game. You patient help with this page is welcome. Edit with form to add a comment |
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