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