Wiffle ball

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Game	Wiffleball
Game Family	Kickball Kickball
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Regions	US
Eras	Derivative, Post-1900
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. Competitive games of Wiffleball are known, some exhibiting team play. None, we believe (as of September 2018), appear to involve live baserunning.
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 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 National Wiffleball Championship Tournament, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPEnXCtwHeU.
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