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• Wiffle ball  + (<p>A Wiffle Ball is a hollow plastic … <p>A Wiffle Ball is a hollow plastic ball with holes strategically placed in order to exaggerate sideways force, and thus enabling pitchers to produce severe curves and drops (and rises?). Competitive games of Wiffleball are known, some exhibiting team play. Few, we believe (as of September 2018), appear to involve active  baserunning, and the Wiffle Ball company site's "suggested rules say that live running "has been eliminated."</p></br><p><em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Note:  </span>Wiffle Ball, Inc.</em>, which holds and protects key trade marks, has set out a set of rules at http://www.wiffle.com/pages/game_rules.asp?page=game_rules.  However, many leagues, and tournaments, treasure their innovative rule options, including the doctoring of balls to make them curve more dramatically, and of bats that are dissimilar to those familiar thin yellow plastic cudgels you may think of.  Multiple leagues and tournaments seem to claim that their championships produce the true national crown for wiffle ball.   </p></br><p>The poem, <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Wiffle Ball,</span></em> appears in he Supplemental Text below.  It was furnished to Protoball by its author, Glenn Stout, on 8/17/2018. </p></br><p>A fine recollection of wiffle ball games is found in Glenn's "Wiffle Rules", at https://verbplow.blogspot.com/2018/08/wiffle-rules.html.</p></br><p>A September 2019 <em>Boston Globe </em>article by Billy Baker (cited below), features an account of the National Golden Stick Wiffle Ball championships (motto: "A backyard game taken way too far.")</p></br><p> </p>k Wiffle Ball championships (motto: "A backyard game taken way too far.")</p> <p> </p>)

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