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I nearly wrecked my arm using a tennis ball.

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Are you guys saying you all used tennis balls or you didn't play Home Run?

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We used a tennis ball and it completely ruined my arm.


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Are you guys saying you all used tennis balls or you didn't play Home Run?


I'm saying I have no idea what the fuck you're talking about.

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We just played pick up baseball. Right field out if we didn't have enough kids

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It's called Indian ball.

And the run-down game is called pickle.

I ain't ever heard of "home run."

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We just played pick up baseball. Right field out if we didn't have enough kids


Ghost runners?

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We just played pick up baseball. Right field out if we didn't have enough kids


Unless you have at least 8-10 guys home run is better

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We used whatever we could get our hands on but a taped up wiffle ball was the ball of choice.


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Hank Scorpio wrote:
We just played pick up baseball. Right field out if we didn't have enough kids


Ghost runners?


Yep. Pitchers hand out for first base and throw home to send the runner back because no catcher.

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Ghost runners?


Invisible men

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We just played pick up baseball. Right field out if we didn't have enough kids


Ghost runners?


Invisible men


Hahahaha. That's what we called it. Arguing endlessly that the invisible man should have advanced on a deep fly ball.

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Is this the same as Off the Wall? i.e., where the box is spray painted on the side of a school. I don't see those rubber balls they used to sell when we were kids but a lacrosse ball is the right weight if you have like 500 feet to play with. Fucker flies like a golf ball.

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Is this the same as Off the Wall? i.e., where the box is spray painted on the side of a school. I don't see those rubber balls they used to sell when we were kids but a lacrosse ball is the right weight if you have like 500 feet to play with. Fucker flies like a golf ball.

That's what I thought he meant....never heard of Home Run, but Off the Wall, yes. Those 98 cent rubber balls made some cool noise off the bat and off the wall. We also called it Fast Pitch.

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We just played pick up baseball. Right field out if we didn't have enough kids


Ghost runners?


Yep. Pitchers hand out for first base and throw home to send the runner back because no catcher.


These guys get it.

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DannyB wrote:
Is this the same as Off the Wall? i.e., where the box is spray painted on the side of a school. I don't see those rubber balls they used to sell when we were kids but a lacrosse ball is the right weight if you have like 500 feet to play with. Fucker flies like a golf ball.

That's what I thought he meant....never heard of Home Run, but Off the Wall, yes. Those 98 cent rubber balls made some cool noise off the bat and off the wall. We also called it Fast Pitch.


"Off the wall" was throwing a tennis ball off the wall for the other kids to try and catch. In urban :wink: :wink: civilization we called the big game strikeout. And the best one was on the walls of CVS or Burnside grammar school. And fwiw "artificial runners" were what we called base runners.

And what the rest of you hillbillies called run down or pickle was running bases on Chicago sidewalks. I'm scared to think of what passed for Piggy in the no sidewalk zones..

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DannyB wrote:
Is this the same as Off the Wall? i.e., where the box is spray painted on the side of a school. I don't see those rubber balls they used to sell when we were kids but a lacrosse ball is the right weight if you have like 500 feet to play with. Fucker flies like a golf ball.

That's what I thought he meant....never heard of Home Run, but Off the Wall, yes. Those 98 cent rubber balls made some cool noise off the bat and off the wall. We also called it Fast Pitch.


"Off the wall" was throwing a tennis ball off the wall for the other kids to try and catch. In urban :wink: :wink: civilization we called it strikeout. The "artificial runners" were what we called them.

And what the rest of you hillbillies called run down or pickle was running bases on Chicago sidewalks. I'm scared to think of what passed for Piggy in the no sidewalk zones..

:D

Ah, that's right (both "Off the Wall" and "Running Bases"). Or, at least, it jibes with my experience. "Fast Pitch" was with the rubber ball against the wall with a box chalked in as the strike zone.

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Chus wrote:
Hank Scorpio wrote:
leashyourkids wrote:
Hank Scorpio wrote:
We just played pick up baseball. Right field out if we didn't have enough kids


Ghost runners?


Yep. Pitchers hand out for first base and throw home to send the runner back because no catcher.


These guys get it.

yeah we had all that. We used to cut off the end of plastic bats and load em up with newspaper. We used a ball that was not a wiffle ball, it did not have any holes in it. It was more solid and would travel farther, but didnt cause any damage to things when it hit them.

We had a whole system built up in my back yard. Off the garage was a single. Over the garage was a double. Over the garage and house was a triple. Over the garage, house, and bushes was a homerun. We always kept a notebook handy and would keep track of everyone's number of doubles, triples, HRs. A couple summers we played so much that several of us had over 100 homeruns.

Lots of good memories and fun!

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DannyB wrote:
Is this the same as Off the Wall? i.e., where the box is spray painted on the side of a school. I don't see those rubber balls they used to sell when we were kids but a lacrosse ball is the right weight if you have like 500 feet to play with. Fucker flies like a golf ball.

That's what I thought he meant....never heard of Home Run, but Off the Wall, yes. Those 98 cent rubber balls made some cool noise off the bat and off the wall. We also called it Fast Pitch.


"Off the wall" was throwing a tennis ball off the wall for the other kids to try and catch. In urban :wink: :wink: civilization we called it strikeout. The "artificial runners" were what we called them.

And what the rest of you hillbillies called run down or pickle was running bases on Chicago sidewalks. I'm scared to think of what passed for Piggy in the no sidewalk zones..

:D

Ah, that's right (both "Off the Wall" and "Running Bases"). Or, at least, it jibes with my experience. "Fast Pitch" was with the rubber ball against the wall with a box chalked in as the strike zone.


With a $1 rubber ball that split when crushed.

I still can't believe that we occasionally played with a rubber coated ball. Step in at your own peril

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It's called Indian ball.

And the run-down game is called pickle.

I ain't ever heard of "home run."

We played "Indian Outs" when we played ball. No need for a force play, just bean the runner with the ball and he's out.

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DannyB wrote:
Is this the same as Off the Wall? i.e., where the box is spray painted on the side of a school. I don't see those rubber balls they used to sell when we were kids but a lacrosse ball is the right weight if you have like 500 feet to play with. Fucker flies like a golf ball.

That's what I thought he meant....never heard of Home Run, but Off the Wall, yes. Those 98 cent rubber balls made some cool noise off the bat and off the wall. We also called it Fast Pitch.


"Off the wall" was throwing a tennis ball off the wall for the other kids to try and catch. In urban :wink: :wink: civilization we called the big game strikeout. And the best one was on the walls of CVS or Burnside grammar school. And fwiw "artificial runners" were what we called base runners.

And what the rest of you hillbillies called run down or pickle was running bases on Chicago sidewalks. I'm scared to think of what passed for Piggy in the no sidewalk zones..

:D


This.

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DannyB wrote:
Is this the same as Off the Wall? i.e., where the box is spray painted on the side of a school. I don't see those rubber balls they used to sell when we were kids but a lacrosse ball is the right weight if you have like 500 feet to play with. Fucker flies like a golf ball.

That's what I thought he meant....never heard of Home Run, but Off the Wall, yes. Those 98 cent rubber balls made some cool noise off the bat and off the wall. We also called it Fast Pitch.


"Off the wall" was throwing a tennis ball off the wall for the other kids to try and catch. In urban :wink: :wink: civilization we called it strikeout. The "artificial runners" were what we called them.

And what the rest of you hillbillies called run down or pickle was running bases on Chicago sidewalks. I'm scared to think of what passed for Piggy in the no sidewalk zones..

:D

Ah, that's right (both "Off the Wall" and "Running Bases"). Or, at least, it jibes with my experience. "Fast Pitch" was with the rubber ball against the wall with a box chalked in as the strike zone.


On the southwest side you also played fast pitch under a viaduct.

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formerlyknownas wrote:
DannyB wrote:
Is this the same as Off the Wall? i.e., where the box is spray painted on the side of a school. I don't see those rubber balls they used to sell when we were kids but a lacrosse ball is the right weight if you have like 500 feet to play with. Fucker flies like a golf ball.

That's what I thought he meant....never heard of Home Run, but Off the Wall, yes. Those 98 cent rubber balls made some cool noise off the bat and off the wall. We also called it Fast Pitch.


"Off the wall" was throwing a tennis ball off the wall for the other kids to try and catch. In urban :wink: :wink: civilization we called it strikeout. The "artificial runners" were what we called them.

And what the rest of you hillbillies called run down or pickle was running bases on Chicago sidewalks. I'm scared to think of what passed for Piggy in the no sidewalk zones..

:D

Ah, that's right (both "Off the Wall" and "Running Bases"). Or, at least, it jibes with my experience. "Fast Pitch" was with the rubber ball against the wall with a box chalked in as the strike zone.


With a $1 rubber ball that split when crushed.

I still can't believe that we occasionally played with a rubber coated ball. Step in at your own peril


Yeah the rubber coated were pretty hard.

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yeah we had all that. We used to cut off the end of plastic bats and load em up with newspaper. We used a ball that was not a wiffle ball, it did not have any holes in it. It was more solid and would travel farther, but didnt cause any damage to things when it hit them.


They flew farther off the bat, but you couldn't spin them like a real wiffle ball.

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We had a whole system built up in my back yard. Off the garage was a single. Over the garage was a double. Over the garage and house was a triple. Over the garage, house, and bushes was a homerun. We always kept a notebook handy and would keep track of everyone's number of doubles, triples, HRs. A couple summers we played so much that several of us had over 100 homeruns.



We set the bases up strategically, so trees were foul poles. Over the power lines was a home run.

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We called it "fastpitch" and we had the perfect place to play. It was an empty carlot with lightpoles at the end of it. We pitched up against the wall with the painted strikezone and would try to hit it over the lightpoles for a homerun. Those were simpler times back then.

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Chus wrote:
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leashyourkids wrote:
Hank Scorpio wrote:
We just played pick up baseball. Right field out if we didn't have enough kids


Ghost runners?


Yep. Pitchers hand out for first base and throw home to send the runner back because no catcher.


These guys get it.


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