Halfball

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Game	Halfball
Game Family	Fungo Fungo
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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. Seen December 2019.
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