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The Incredible Wiffle Ball Bat

Is there a better backyard game than playingcame from the fact that a swing and a miss in
wiffle ball with an official wiffle ball bat?baseball is called a "whiff". And because it
I can remember as a kid playing wiffle ballcan be difficult to hit a curving wiffle
day after day during the summer in ourball, the name was a natural for it.The game
neighborhood. What started in the 1950's hasitself is very simple. The only equipment is
sure exploded today.There are now so manythe ball and the bat. There is no need for
competitive wiffle ball leagues throughoutbaseball gloves, uniforms, or cleats. As for
the U.S. and it just continues to grow. Dothe wiffle ball bat, they are manufactured
you know how the game of wiffle ball got itsfor the wiffle ball company by someone else.
start?It all began back in the early 1950'sThe standard yellow wiffle ball bat is 30"
when David A Mullany and his good friendslong and only 1.25" in diameter. It is made
would get together and play baseball in theas a hard hollow plastic.There are many other
yard. Instead of using a hard baseball theytypes and brands of plastic baseball bats,
used an old plastic golf ball along with abut the wiffle ball bat is the one I would
broom handle for a bat. (No wiffle ball batstick with. Not only is it a little tougher
yet) Haven't we all done that before? Well,to hit, but it makes the game more fair. If
trying to throw a curveball with a plasticyou are using one of those jumbo orange bats
golf ball just doesn't work out toothen you're not playing a real game.The
well.David's father got an idea to change alloriginal yellow wiffle ball bat has the pop
that. He had used to be a semi-pro baseballand the crispness that all other bats lack. I
player and knew a lot about pitching. He wenthave also seen others using a metal wiffle
down to a local factory and took some plasticball bat, but again, that is a little unfair
tooling designs and came home with a plasticto pitchers and the game in general. Plus, it
ball. Using a knife he cut eight oblongcan easily break the wiffle ball itself with
perforations into one half of the ball andits power.The original wiffle ball rules are
tested it out.The ball curved beautifullystill available from the company today. You
without a lot of effort. They had what theycan write to them and have them sent to you.
wanted for their game. Of course, what theyHere is the company address. The Wiffle Ball
didn't know at that time was that they had aInc., PO Box 193, Shelton, CT 06484.Wiffle
whole new way of playing baseball! A yearball is just flat out fun and exciting for
later they began packaging and selling theirboth kids and parents as well. Hopefully you
wiffle balls.Today, they are sold literallyhave taken the opportunity to play the game
around the world. The name for wiffle ballyourself.



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