Wiffle Ball

by:a.brain

Whatever happened to kids playing wiffle ball? I was at a camp today and watched some camp counselors bring out the wiffle ball and bat, split the kids up into teams, and then watched as the youth stared at the wiffle ball and bat as if they were ancient artifacts.

You should have seen them swing!! Somebody should have thrown a tent over that circus. It was hilarious/sad/repulsive. It wasn't that these kids were the spazoids who are allergic to sports - THESE WERE KIDS FROM AN ATHLETIC CAMP!!! They must never play wiffle ball...or baseball..or softball. Was my generation the last of the "wifflers"?

When I was a kid we played so much wiffleball, we made each other switch hit to make it more difficult. I thought every ball ought to come with the holes around the top, to enable it to curve away from the direction you hold it. My fastball, was not WiffleBall standard, I threw mine sidearm and it was accurate!! I would put that joker on the inside of the plate, and jam up the hitter. I had a curve and a slider too...although my knuckle ball always lacked the accuracy to make it into steady rotation.

And we didn't use those wussified GIANT red bats either, we used standard skinny yellow bats, the kind you could hit your brother on the leg with and damn near cripple him. The kind of bat that went perfect on a hot Southern, Summer night when the lightening bugs were out. You would wait, in complete darkness, then just when they lit up BAM - a little yellow-green comet headed off the end of your bat. You could always tell who had the most kills too...cause the end of their bat would have little bits of lightening bug butt all over 'em.

Last point - there was no throwing the ball to the pitcher to make the runner stop. That's stupid!! You THREW the ball at the RUNNER and hoped you hit him in the face just to make him stop running even faster. We must have been hard core, cause you don't see kids outside throwing ball and playing all day anymore...maybe I'm old school and the kids today are new school. True I didn't have a KILLER Xbox or a computer, but I did have an Atari 2600!!! And if any of those new schoolers wanna piece of me in wiffle ball, get ready to have an imprint of a ball with holes in it, on your face!!

Comments

[MF]

I concur with the article. Wiffle-ball is where the generations met in my day. Not that I am old by any means, but getting hit by a wiffle-ball in the leg on your to first really made you run fast. Not to mention, my brothers were the kings of curve-balling a wiffle-ball right into your scrotum!

[a.brain]

But, basketball is going strong - and the girls were just as competitive as the guys...progress in women's sports for sure.

[Mr. Oi]

Ha I am a tool.... I spelled no name wrong....I am a jackass.

[Mr. Oi]

I kinda understand what mr. know name is tring to say. Someon needs to look up what group of kids is the fastest growing group of new drug users. Hmm I wonder... But Video games and cable have are keeping us inside. Mr. Moore ought to do a movie on that!

I am talking about the downfall of our youths! The hardest kids to deal with are spoiled rich white kids from suburbia. I know some lower income kids who can tear up a wiffle ball game. An episode of Jackass is all the exersise some of these kids get.

[a.brain]

Who said they were rich? Or white?

Rich White kids blow now days.