Who else here dug playing wiffle ball?

[Louie Detroit]

You could play it almost anywhere.

[LATB]

Many lazy summer days were spent playing.

[Vandelay Industries]

Yeah, baby--those were the days!

[TheHammer]

I played stick ball back in the day.

[Jughead]

Oh yeah.

[04 commemorative]

As a kid in the street

[Don Rickles]

Ever get beat with one repeatedly, for not finishing your breakfast (a freezing cold omelet)?

Did I stutter.....

[Yadkin]

Wiffle ball sucked. We played with a length of hockey stick and a worn out tennis ball that we poked a hole in it with a pocket knife.

[Louie Detroit]

Wiffle ball sucked. We played with a length of hockey stick and a worn out tennis ball that we poked a hole in it with a pocket knife.

Sounds like some Boston area snobbery to me. :yaddy:

[DDSLT5]

I've never played it. We just played baseball. How is it different?

I need to have a nice game of catch - I miss playing catch.

[Tikiman]

I've never played it. We just played baseball. How is it different?

I need to have a nice game of catch - I miss playing catch.

Well, you're going to have to find a "pitcher". :leaving:

[GTOguy]

Played wiffle ball, wiffle golf (to practice my swing), Nerf ball, and bought an old Flexi Racer at a yard sale for fifty cents, re-varnished it, and proceeded to almost kill myself with it. Listened to short wave on my 1940's owl's eye Magnavox late at night, too. Having an analog childhood was the best. I can't imagine being a kid now, with the internet age bullshit.
Hell, I still have my 55 year-old Pocket Rocket slingshot. Needs new bands, though!104989

[Yadkin]

Sounds like some Boston area snobbery to me. :yaddy:

:Jeff '79:

Yup. Real high brow, Boston Bramen stuff.

[AUTOHOLIC]

It was big when I was a kid in the 60s (I will be 74 in Sept.) but I have not seen it played in MANY MANY years.

[GTOguy]

If I go back to Michigan to visit, I'll have to stop by Louie Detroit's place for a game of Lawn Darts!

[TheHammer]

If I go back to Michigan to visit, I'll have to stop by Louie Detroit's place for a game of Lawn Darts!

You catching first?

[GTOguy]

You catching first?

Gosh, that was a dumb thing to say. You don't catch lawn darts. You dodge them. :)

[DDSLT5]

Played wiffle ball, wiffle golf (to practice my swing), Nerf ball, and bought an old Flexi Racer at a yard sale for fifty cents, re-varnished it, and proceeded to almost kill myself with it. Listened to short wave on my 1940's owl's eye Magnavox late at night, too. Having an analog childhood was the best. I can't imagine being a kid now, with the internet age bullshit.
Hell, I still have my 55 year-old Pocket Rocket slingshot. Needs new bands, though!104989

I have my father's version of that - he always called it a 'wrist rocket'. He loved that thing! He had M80s that we would fire up into the air and they'd explode right before they hit the ground. These were REAL M80s, from the 60s - which he had smuggled over the border into Canada in 1968. Yes, he smuggled enough to last him until 2022! **** were they insanely loud! Sounded louder than a 12 ga shotgun going off! So awesome!

[GTOguy]

I have my father's version of that - he always called it a 'wrist rocket'. He loved that thing! He had M80s that we would fire up into the air and they'd explode right before they hit the ground. These were REAL M80s, from the 60s - which he had smuggled over the border into Canada in 1968. Yes, he smuggled enough to last him until 2022! **** were they insanely loud! Sounded louder than a 12 ga shotgun going off! So awesome!

We had wrist rockets too, but they did not fold and were aluminum framed instead of nickel plated steel. We liked pocket rockets because they were as powerful but easy to hide in our pockets. We used to get M-80's from Chinatown and tape them to ball bearings or marbles so they would shoot a lot further. In about 1980, a friend of mine got a German made pistol that used .22 blanks to actually shoot and light M-80's that had a special fuse on the end. That thing was a real terror. He shot it off in the tunnels of Zion National Park and we caught up with it in the GTO and it exploded right in front of us. Good times. Over 40 years ago.

[6spdC6]

We had wrist rockets too, but they did not fold and were aluminum framed instead of nickel plated steel. We liked pocket rockets because they were as powerful but easy to hide in our pockets. We used to get M-80's from Chinatown and tape them to ball bearings or marbles so they would shoot a lot further. In about 1980, a friend of mine got a German made pistol that used .22 blanks to actually shoot and light M-80's that had a special fuse on the end. That thing was a real terror. He shot it off in the tunnels of Zion National Park and we caught up with it in the GTO and it exploded right in front of us. Good times. Over 40 years ago.

I, much younger used to shoot M80s, cherry bombs, ashcans with a weight attached. We would shoot them out over the lake. They would float and when the water proof fuse went off it made a loud noise and disturbed a bit of water.
With weight attached the fireworks would sink and when it then went off it looked like a Naval destroyer dropping a depth charge. Even floated up a couple fish!:D

[Yadkin]

One of my favorite toys was called a water rocket. It was the classic cartoon rocket shape and held maybe a pint of water. It came with a small air pump, like a bicycle tire pump, and you'd set the nozzle of the rocket on that and pump it as much as you dared. Then a small trigger on the pump released the rocket. It flew from the force of the water rushing out of the nozzle under all that air pressure. It would easily go 50' high or more.