Wiffleball

Anyone watch this stuff? Interesting game... you can throw the ball at runner and if you hit them they are out. The ball does amazing things in pitchers hand. How batters can even hit it is impressive. Seems like popularity is booming with start of 2021 season.

I love the strike zone. better than MLB.

JR

scuffing the ball

During college, we played whiffle ball for hours on end. Great way to spend some time. These folks take it to a different level.

Never heard of it but would love to play!

My kids travel baseball team plays it in the hotel parking lots every weekend we have a tournament. It always starts off friendly but by the end of the night they have to be restrained like rabid dogs.

Get baked and play some whiffle ball...good times!

I play a lot of wiffle...
I am gonna need to get a fence....

True professionals... stand for national anthem and can make $1000 a month, 3 inning games, the second game in video below was awesome!

https://www.mlwmerch.com/pages/about-mlw

I haven't played whiffleball in years, but I sure do miss it.

Played all the time as a kid, but not like that

Man, we used to play wiffleball all the time back in the late 50s when I was a kid. We had a "league" (each team was one kid) of kids in our neighborhood and played daily in various back yards. We weren't nearly this organized but if you could hit the ball over the fence it was a HR and that was the only way to score. Throwing and hitting that ball were really a challenge.

Yes. We played it on the beach, which added a totally different element. We weren’t quite as good as those guys, but a few of us were decent at pitching. I had three or four pitches. A buddy had five. There were two fights as a result of wiffle ball, but usually it was just very competitive.

I miss it a lot, but I’m pretty sure I need Tommy John surgery as a result.

Brings back great memories, our ballparks which was backyards had such unique ground rules and rulings according to the layout of the yard, we would play until plastic ball would split in half

In the version of the game we played, you got someone out by throwing the ball at them. If you hit them before they made it to a base they were out. If we lacked the required number of people to field a team, we had ghost runners. There was also the situation where someone would get stranded on base, so the pitching team, would have to throw the ball into the air until the base runner thought the ball went high enough into the air to advance to the next base. Of course, the person throwing the ball into the air would have to catch the ball and try to hit the base runner before they made it to the next base. This resulted in either an out of you hit the guy, or if you missed, the runner could keep running while you ran to get the ball.

What great fun we had.

Back in the early 80s our summer league baseball team would play it a lot on trips/tournaments to pass the time. Great batting practice!

Kevin Mitchell , played for the Giants in the 80's and 90's ---- outfielder . He could crush fastballs --- but couldn't hit a breaking ball to save his life .
During an offseason ---- he had coaches and friends ONLY throw him whiffle balls ----- as nasty as they could spin em .
Went on to with the league MVP in 1991 ---- he credited playing whiffle ball for his MVP year .

We had several unique ballparks, one was hitting out of a garage. Another was a rectangle only about 30 feet wide but the full width of the yard deep with some big trees overhanging one side. Had to learn to hit the ball up the middle line drives or a hook down and over the open left field line. When the last ball split we would use the duct tape to keep playing. Lost some of the wiffle curve action but the ball speed & distance increased. The ability to really NAIL a runner with the ball also increased - those duct tape balls would inflict significant pain. Good times.

We tweaked our bats and made our own balls. Wiffle balls didn't last a full game before they tore...
Had to bat lefty and right, every other inning.
We may have had 100 prototype balls.
Dead centerfield was the peak of a house across the street.
Some balls would clear the house. They were forever lost cause we didn't know that guy.....
No telling how many rolled up socks and ducttape balls were in his yard.

Did you tape the bats with electrical and/duct tape? We did. We used regulation balls, but we scuffed them and scored them with a box cutter to get more movement. Also, pitching into the wind provided advantages for the pitcher and batter.

Fun times.

Those were they days. Playing until dark or lost all the wiffle balls.