Halfball: Difference between revisions
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|Term=Halfball | |Term=Halfball | ||
|Game Family=Fungo | |Game Family=Fungo | ||
|Description=<p>Halfball was a game using half of a rubber ball and imaginary baserunning. | |Game Regions=US | ||
<p>It was described as a street game.</p> | |Game Eras=Derivative, Post-1900 | ||
|Sources=<p>See [[Half-Rubber]] and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfball.</p> | |Invented Game=No | ||
| | |Description=<p>Halfball was a game using half of a rubber ball and imaginary baserunning. It was apparently the same game as [[Half-rubber.]]</p> | ||
<p>It was described as a street game on wikipedia.</p> | |||
<p>Baby Boomer Jack Hammer (actual name!) describes <em>half ball</em> as a subspecies of a street game played in Cambridge MA. The ball used in this game was a hollow pink spiky object known as a "pimple ball," which, when stressed by play, tended to split open along its seam into two halves. Players then played with a half ball, one that had interesting aerodynamic behaviors.</p> | |||
<p>The bat used in this game was a broom handle sawed off at about 30 inches. Man-holes in the street could serve as bases for actual baserunning. (Another subspecies of game , called "Judge." employed imaginary runners.) Oncoming traffic was marked by a shriek --"Carrr!!!" -- that cleared the motorway of lads. </p> | |||
|Sources=<p>See also [[Half-Rubber]] and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfball.</p> | |||
|Query=<p>Was a pimple ball known to be used regularly in other locations?</p> | |||
|Has Supplemental Text=No | |||
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Revision as of 07:03, 31 December 2019
| Game | Halfball |
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| Game Family | Fungo |
| Location | |
| Regions | US |
| Eras | Derivative, Post-1900 |
| Invented | No |
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| Description | Halfball was a game using half of a rubber ball and imaginary baserunning. It was apparently the same game as Half-rubber. It was described as a street game on wikipedia. Baby Boomer Jack Hammer (actual name!) describes half ball as a subspecies of a street game played in Cambridge MA. The ball used in this game was a hollow pink spiky object known as a "pimple ball," which, when stressed by play, tended to split open along its seam into two halves. Players then played with a half ball, one that had interesting aerodynamic behaviors. The bat used in this game was a broom handle sawed off at about 30 inches. Man-holes in the street could serve as bases for actual baserunning. (Another subspecies of game , called "Judge." employed imaginary runners.) Oncoming traffic was marked by a shriek --"Carrr!!!" -- that cleared the motorway of lads. |
| Sources | See also Half-Rubber and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfball. |
| Source Image | [[Image:|left|thumb]] |
| Comment | Edit with form to add a comment |
| Query | Was a pimple ball known to be used regularly in other locations? Edit with form to add a query |
| Has Supplemental Text |
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