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Have you played wiffle ball?

Throwback to when I ruined the big family wiffle ball game by breaking all the balls swinging 😶 That was after my Gram’s funeral and after I almost strangled my cousin for being a disrespectful witch there.


We played wiffle ball at all fam gatherings except in the winter and I played growing up in the Bronx on four corners with the neighborhood kids a lot. It was my fav to play as a kid.

Have you played 👀
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We played at school.

My grandma had an awesome tether ball. Just like at my school, that was my game of choice
Prison1203 · 61-69, M
@Bexsy I loved tether ball, I was the playground champ
MellyMel22 · F
@Bexsy I don’t think I ever played that!
SageWanderer · 70-79, M
My back yard was the neighborhood diamond because the horse pasture fence was a natural home run wall!
MellyMel22 · F
@SageWanderer Sounds like it was a good time!
I think I played a couple times when I was a kid.
MellyMel22 · F
@MsSwan You’re too close to NY to not have!
lissah · 41-45, F
We played it in grade school when i lived in Memphis.
MellyMel22 · F
@lissah Nice!
MrSmartyPants · 46-50, M
Although i've never tried this prestigious sport, I would almost consider wearing Wiffle merch in public!!
MellyMel22 · F
@MrSmartyPants Did you just make that 🤣🤣🤣
MrSmartyPants · 46-50, M
@MellyMel22 Google came thru for me this time!! Perfect for even the darkest communities, no one will dare mess with a Wiffle T-Shirt wearer!!
MellyMel22 · F
@MrSmartyPants Most definitely not!
Lilnonames · F
i bought my friends boys one last month.showed them how to hit it,also taught them how to climb trees👌
Lilnonames · F
@MellyMel22 i got old tires and the tree got to get a bull rope
MellyMel22 · F
@Lilnonames They’re gonna love it
Lilnonames · F
@MellyMel22 haha i will too
ineedadrink · 56-60, M
Yep. In the Bronx, too. It was always a pain when the ball would end up on some roof.
MellyMel22 · F
@ineedadrink Yes! We played in 2 spots, but one more b/c it was less likely to happen there.
RebelRaven · 51-55, F
Ya I think I may have, I played ball most of my childhood so hard to remember
MellyMel22 · F
@RebelRaven You prob did! It was one they didn’t really have to worry about anyone getting hurt.
RebelRaven · 51-55, F
@MellyMel22 exactly…we also played Dodge ball though. 😈
MellyMel22 · F
@RebelRaven Us too!
Daisy57 · 56-60, F
Yes as a kid but preferred to play baseball, I think I have my glove still. I was not a very good player. My cousins were better.
MellyMel22 · F
@Daisy57 I loved baseball too.
Thrust · 56-60, M
I played all the time. I always could hit real well. If older kids tried to diss me by playing in, I'd whistle one right by their ear 👂
MellyMel22 · F
@Thrust I loved it too.
SoLeRiMix · 36-40, M
Throwback to when I ruined the big family wiffle ball game by breaking all the balls swinging 😶 That was after my Gram’s funeral and after I almost strangled my cousin for being a disrespectful witch there.

Well, what you did to your cousin, it seems that she asked for it (based on what you're telling us), but that's typically what he would have done too:


Legacy should never die! 😇
MellyMel22 · F
@SoLeRiMix I didn’t, it felt inappropriate at my gram’s funeral. But my fam knew to get her away from me.
SoLeRiMix · 36-40, M
@MellyMel22 Well, I can't comment on that. It's your family stuff.

However, I think you watched "The Sopranos" a lot. 😜😁
Thrust · 56-60, M
@SoLeRiMix

Meh. Hit them with a real bat - a Louisville Slugger ash (not gay aluminum)!
bowman81 · M
My backyard was the neighborhood wiffle ball field when my son was growing up. I usually pitched while the kids batted and fielded. I am left handed and had a wicked screwball to go along with my curveball. Had a few of the kids talking to themselves. 🤣
SE Michigan
MellyMel22 · F
@bowman81 Great memories!! Everyone always loved it and I’m sure they did there too! I pitched often too.

I bet they’ll never forget the fun they had playing with everyone!
Lilnonames · F
@bowman81 and still a skrew ball on s w 😀
Ambroseguy80 · 56-60, M
Yes I’ve played of course. That was how I learned to hit. When I was in first grade, a nun at my school stood behind me and held the bat with me. She helped me swing and taught me how to run after hitting the ball. Ahhh memories.
MellyMel22 · F
@Ambroseguy80 Awe what a sweet memory!
GoFish ·
awww idk i had a real baseball bat and ball
GoFish ·
@MellyMel22 yeah scary stuff lol
MellyMel22 · F
@GoFish Well it wouldn’t be that bad, just a bit of a burn 🤣
GoFish ·
@MellyMel22 yeah for the lil plastic stuff lol
BrandNewMan · 61-69, M
Not in about 50 yrs
BrandNewMan · 61-69, M
@MellyMel22 Lol .. I'm guessing I graduated high school .. or maybe college .. before you came along
MellyMel22 · F
@BrandNewMan I was born in ‘80.
BrandNewMan · 61-69, M
@MellyMel22 I was a Sophomore, maybe a Junior in HS
Heard of it, never played though. It was around from way back. I think that's the one that resembles a plastic golf ball with holes in it?

Always thought it was a racket sport, or required a hockey-like stick.

So it's similar to baseball?
MellyMel22 · F
@SethGreene531 Forgot to add the pic I looked up for you 🤣
@MellyMel22

Kinda softball size, cool.

Lol "Safe Anywhere".. neighbors finally had enuff of broken livingroom windows. Definitiely the answer to pickup games of city block baseball..those were the days😌
Interesting you can throw a curved pitch with it.
MellyMel22 · F
@SethGreene531 Usually smaller, but they did have softball like sizes back then I think for younger kids!

Some people couldn’t 🤣
Adrift · 61-69, F
The wiffle balls we had had holes and kind of mesh like.
We usually used them as a safer way to teach younger kids how to hit.
MellyMel22 · F
@Adrift They usually do but sometimes don’t have them. Def safer!

Adrift · 61-69, F
@MellyMel22 less broken windshields that way too.
MellyMel22 · F
@Adrift Yes, for sure! That’s how we were able to play in the city.
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MellyMel22 · F
@Darksideinthenight2 Thanks 🤣
Gibbon · 70-79, M
Yeah, I got mad. Those stupid balls wouldn't go where you're throw them. I used to jump on them and smash them.
Gibbon · 70-79, M
@MellyMel22 if they have holes in them, they're wiffle balls, they're getting smashed.
MellyMel22 · F
@Gibbon Sometimes they sell the others which stink, but if that’s all you can find that’s what you get.
Gibbon · 70-79, M
@MellyMel22
ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M
Not since around 1962.
MellyMel22 · F
@ChipmunkErnie Oh my!
I never heard of it, maybe it's not a thing in the Netherlands
MellyMel22 · F
@Thewhazzupdude I’m not surprised b/c many from out of my state haven’t heard of it.
@MellyMel22 So what are the rules of the game?
MellyMel22 · F
@Thewhazzupdude Its basically baseball without gloves and with plastic bats/balls.
Shakil · 31-35, M
No, not this one..but I played something similar. I played cricket 🏏..I don't know it's familiar in the USA or not...you might have seen in it in old British movies)
Damn! Hard! Cricket balls )))
Shakil · 31-35, M
@MellyMel22 girls will never understand it😂...I played in highschool cricket team..it's unexplainable feelings .
You will feel strongest pain in life, yet got to stand up to show you are a man.. people are watching))
MellyMel22 · F
@Shakil Awe 🤣
Shakil · 31-35, M
@MellyMel22 only the noise has changed from "ouch" to "Awe" 🤣
thepeculiarpanda · 36-40, M
A couple of times when I was younger maybe? I dunno, I've never been very athletic. 😂
MellyMel22 · F
@thepeculiarpanda Nothing wrong with that!
Prettybratbi1tch · 26-30, F
Never heard of it.
MellyMel22 · F
@Prettybratbi1tch We need to have a SW game 🤣
Prettybratbi1tch · 26-30, F
Degbeme · 70-79, M
So destructive. 🙄 Oh and no, never played
MellyMel22 · F
@Degbeme You missed out on that! It’s fun 😞
Degbeme · 70-79, M
@MellyMel22 The neighbourhood I grew up in had plenty of space to play actual baseball or road hockey
MellyMel22 · F
@Degbeme We played stickball on a dead end street and it always had us running a crazy long block away and losing the balls 🤣
Did JLo do the fielding? 🤔 Did you have to dodge the wise guys shooting Fat Tony in the deli on 85th and Maple? 🤔

I don't even know what I'm talking about. I'm too English for this post 👀
MellyMel22 · F
@InfoTunaBotTheReturn Yes, all of that!!

 
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