Bob & Dave's Wiffleball reader comments...
Here are just a few of the many letters we receive from all you great wiffleballers out there, keep em' coming...THANKS!!!

I am 18, and have played hundreds of games with my buddies. Three years ago Igot the crazy idea to build a major wiffleball stadium. It isn't youraverage rinky-dink wiffleball field either. I bought a couple hundred feetof fence, had a 12"x10" backstop welded, and bought a few sections ofAstroturf to protect the grass. After I charged the heck out of theplayers, six 500 watt halogen bulbs lit up the night for league games. Itake the time to roll the elaborate patterns in the grass like at YankeeStadium and even chalk the base lines. I have had to make so manymodifications in the lousy rules because there is always an argument. Ihave all the rules typed out in an 11 page booklet complete withillustrations. We play similar to baseball rules with three strikes, nowalks, and two outs and two on a team. You can hit the runner or throw atthe card table behind first base to force the runner. The Lake SuperiorWiffleball League has 8 teams complete with personalized T-shirts and thememusic (we play the national anthem and other music between innings.)Wiffleball is a ton of fun and I thought I was the only crazy one out there.Great Page!

what a relief to see that not only are there other wifflers, but that the practice of the game has been elevated to the forms of science, and even art. i'm a uniwiffler, myself. after a few classes, i'll pull up at my significant other's, go into the backyard, take up the yellow wiffle bat and poorly manufactured wiffle ball, walk to the back fence, and enter into a determined private contest to knock the wiffle ball over the highest point of the roof. i've come close - within a few feet. thus far my best swings, however, see the ball arc mightily, plummet, strike the roof, and thwack, thwack, thwack their way to either get stuck in the gutter, or fall near the air conditioning unit. winded, disappointed, and missing with ever greater frequency, i lay down the yellow plastic and return to pursue schoolwork and relationship nurturing. yet within me burns a love for this peripheral olympian discipline the likes of which make things like mere obsession and compulsion look like the lightweight experiential gnats they are.

I have a great yard for wiffle ball. The field is between two houses which makes it especially better because the houses cut down on the sometimes harsh breezes which blow off Buzzards Bay in Cape Cod, MA. Last year I held the first annual WiffleMania and again will be hosting the second annual this coming Sunday. Anyway, playing in a field of a mere 8 teams, the odds on favorites were two guys I went to high school with who were, coincidentally, the star baseball players back then (way back in '91, that is). Nice guys, but cocky as hell. My partner and I weren't the greatest of players but somehow we managed to make it into the finals. Who were we playing, but Brian and Billy, the pride of Bourne High School's past. What started out as a day to have fun turned into a battle of fierce competition. And WE were the overwhelming underdogs. In the top of the 3rd (games were 3 innings due to time constraints), we trailed 2-1. These guys were throwing absolut GAS all day, but their control was wearing out. After a base hit, Bill walked the bases loaded and Brian came on in relief. He had me on a 3-1 count and was worried about walking in the tying run. Then he did the unthinkable.He threw me a meatball.On the ball's path to the plate, I had the chance to make sure the ball had all six holes, sign my name to it, nod to my partner, flip my burger on the grill, fill my beer, and then swing, which forced the ball over several small buildings, through a passing flock of Canadian geese and into Vineyard Sound. My partner struck out the side on six pitches in the bottom of the inning. Tell me who slept well that night.Just wanted to share that with someone who loves w-ball...Brian F.,Buzzards Bay, MA

Hi Guys,Great Website! I haven't played wiffleball in years, think I'll go out and get one now.Very well-done site, congrats...Dirk W.
This is an awesome page!! I grew up in a suburb of Waterbury in the 60's and your page brought back a lot of great memories...Steve S.

Bob and Dave, Just to start off, I love the web page as does my brother Dave. We have not been able to play wiffle ball in a long time, but we used to play all of the time. I have a couple of stories I would like to share with you, the last one is the better of the two, but I will let you guys decide. Sometime in the late 80's we were playing the Cardinals against the Braves. My brother is the Cards fan and I was the Braves fan. I had Brad Komminsk batting. I don't know if you guys ever saw Brad play, but he had one huge uppercut swing, and being that we wanted to follow the players swings as best as we could, I had a huge uppercut. Well my brother decided to lob a pitch, figuring with the huge uppercut, I would not even be close. Well, let me tell you that he was mistaken, I crushed the wiffle ball and it landed some 130 feet away. I looked down at the yellow bat and could not believe that the bat actually hit the ball that far. After looking at the bat I looked at my brother and his chin was basically on the ground. I began to laugh and fell over because I was in tears. Another time in the very early 90's we were playing in the back yard. I was just warming up and Dave was taking some cuts. After a while I decided to stare into the plate with the wiffle ball behind my back and my had pulled way down in my eyes. My brother yelled, "Who are you Goose Gossage??" I replied that I was Gossage. He decided to put his weight on his back foot and go through his swing routine. I said, "George Brett??" He replied that he was Brett. Well do you guys remember the pine tar incident when Brett destroyed a pitch from Gossage?? The very first pitch that I threw him was a hard fastball. It went down the center of the plate. Unfortunately, it never reached the backstop, Dave crushed the ball to right field (ala George Brett) at it landed about 150 feet away. Dave began laughing and I think I muttered a few choice words and looked at Dave. Once I saw him, I began to laugh as well. I guess we replayed that seen perfectly. I walked towards him and grabbed the yellow bat, but unfortunately this bat did not have pine tar and the homer stood. These are a couple of stories that we wanted to share with you. If you would like to write us back our e-mail addresses are below. Keep up the good work on the web site and remember, long live wiffle ball...Eric & Dave P., Ohio
I can't believe it.I was making a homepage for an assignment in school and I saw your page.I'm from Minnesota. We have a frickin awesome wiffle field in Bemidji.we pretty much just finished it this summer. We got the green monster in right. It's 8 feet high and 32 feet long. Then it drops down to 4 feet in center and turns into wire mesh to finish off in left. It's 72 feet down each line and 85 straight away. We use cut off hockey sticks. 3 ft is regulation and you can't use any tape. We still drop some pretty nice bombs though. No 250 footers, but we do allright. We finally got the lights up at the end of the summer. Just in time for the first annual Tetnis Tourney. We had 12 teams, at 5 bucks a person, four man teams. Big turn out. we have to figure out what to do about seating. And parking. We had quite the turn out for the night games. We ended up winning it. The trophey is the Tetnis cup. I have it for the first three months.Anyway, you guys have an awesome page.

Keep it up. Life has taken all my whiffle buddies far from me so my careeris over, I think. But if I did come out of retirement you'd be in BIGtrouble!! I am now 33 years old and play ultimate Frisbee. "When balls goto sleep they dream they are discs." I wish you guys long and fruitfulcareers...Lars L.

Just thought I'd drop you a note. It's good to know that we're not theonly adults who play wiffleball. My brother in law (25) and myself (26)play wiffelball whenever I can get back to the Maryland area (I live inNC). We play on the side of the house or down by a school. We have an oldpiece of wood grating that we use for a gererous strikezone. We play2-outs and have an imaginary speedlimit of which we can not exceed. Ithink this was devised to stop me from throwing over 70 MPH since mybrother in law doesn't throw as hard.. We use plenty of junk to get eachother out. My best pitch is a sinker that dives into a righthanded batterwhile my BIL throws a mean curve. Keep up the good work on your page. BTW, we tape our bats with duct tape. Do you? ...Tony, N.C.

Hi Bob & Dave , My name is Chris . I've looked at your Home page couple of times .Pretty Cool (nice babes too )! I have been playing wiffleball for 20 years now and have kept stats. since 1978 . We play a little different over here in North Berwick Maine . We do run bases and do use invisable runners , we use a strikezone 5 feet behind home plate 18" x 30" 12 inches off the ground .Walks count 8 balls or two beans (one to the head) . Two outs per innings at least 5 innings .I could go on for ever , I just got on the Net recently and searched for wiffleball and was shocked of the amount of people who play wiffleball one way or another . I have enclosed my career stats. You may notice that there are two 1989 totals (split the season at game 40)I try not to play more than 40 games a year , that keeps the records straight. Thats all for now , Christopher P.

Just wanted to let you know, the boys and me here in the official Men'sRoom at Carnegie Mellon got a huge kick out of your page...It wasted at least a half hour of my time, which will mean i will haveto stay late, therefore giving me more time to look for other sites likeyours on the web...Joe M.

Wow-- a page that doesn't su**. Must've been made on a Mac. =)
It is great that you are also a wiffleballer. My cousins and I, four of us total, have played endless games of wiffle ball on Saturdays for the past years. One of our houses is the most perfect yard for wiffle ball you can imagine, with certain ground rules and a right field third deck.I visited the page with a picture of that wiffle yard in Illinois or Missouri, some where in there, it's the one you can flip between Kaufman and Fenway, it looks pretty cool...John W.
That web page of yours flat out kicks butt. You guys might play wiffle ball just a little bit more than me and a few friends do here at Bucknell in PA. We play basically anytime we can, although we have different rules than you guys. We use a strike zone, and play with 2 outs, 3 strikes an out. It's a bit more like baseball rules. We're going to try the duct tape thing tonight and see if we can really yank some out of the park.. ...Michael S.

Bob and Dave....I was so inspired by your page that I have my own chronicling my great career at West Chester University in Pennsylvania...Mike R.

I live in clinton ny and me and my friends were wondering if there are anytournaments in which we could play in.I think we have a good enough team of three players that we could beat mostanyone and we play on a driveway that is small enough to make it difficult to hit adecent homerun because the oppenent can catch the ball out of the tree if heis lucky.we have played everyone in our town and we might be the best team inour town. we have pitching and hitting. so if you know about any tournamentsthat we could play in i would like to know....Chrir R.

I love your wiffleball page. Yesterday, after reading about how to throw a wiffleball, I went outside and tried it. I am glad to report that the pitches described really work! My curve works the best (I'm a righty), and the sinker really falls off the table...S.F.

Geez guys great page. You brought back so many memories, I feel like shedding a tear. :) The links to other pages is great too...Jeff B.

Wow! This is the first time I've ever seen anything about wiffleball on thenet - I guess I've been looking in the wrong places. Psyched to know thatthere are other wiffleball nuts out there like myselfhe site...Pete S.

I grew up and still live about 2 miles from Wiffle Ball in Shelton, CT. You haven't played wiffle ball until you have used factory discarded balls that are warped, have the wrong number of wholes or even 2 tops making up one ball. With recycling today I wonder if the local kids can still go through the dumpsters at Wiffle Ball and find these great balls. I don't think the kids in my neighborhood paid for a single wiffle ball when we were growing up.

I just want to say I enjoyed your "article" on the wifflethrow. I've been trying for years to learn how to throw a curveball with a baseball myself, but it's very difficult. Since, I've been on-line I've been searching for "how-to's" on the mechanics of a curveball. Your article is by far the most informative and would seem to be easier on my arm.

This IS scary. I got 10 out of 12 right. Of course, I'm not totally crazy.I did answer "A" to the one about my wife calling me to the bedroom! ;DBy the way, nice babes!

Bob & Dave,As a Commissioner of the Has Been Wiffleball Tournament Association, I was impressed with your Home Page. Two other Commissioners, Brian and Sean, and I host The Has Been Wiffleball Tournament held in July every year in California. This year we will have 18 three-man teams competing. Last year we set our Tournament record with 11 kegs of Coors Light comsumed....D.K.

I too am a wiffle ball nut. I got a late start. Having only played occasionally as a kid (I lived in the country and had to travel to get to the suburbs and the games) I got start in high school and college playing 1 on 1 wiffle with my two brothers. This is a game of pitching. We don't run bases. Hits are determined by the length of the hit. Outs are made by strike out, fly ball and a clean fielding of a grounder gets the lead runner. I'm now 30years old and my arm aches after 3 or 4 innings, but I'm always up for a game. It was fun to see your home page on wiffle ball.I have one of the boxes and this is the first time I ever noticed the picture is wrong after reading your page....T.T.

Dear Bob and Dave,We were shocked to find your wiffle ball page. We are avid wiffle ball players and also have our own summer league. Talk is cheap and we want to challenge you to a grudge match....A bunch of cool guys from PA
My name is Ryan and I have been involved in a wiffleball league for the last seven years. There are about twenty people who have played in this league, but this year it is down to six people. We have statistics fromevery year since the league started. The stats we keep are w\l, at bats,inn pitched, slug %, hr, dbl, trp, hits, rbi, so, err, and fielding %. I would like to know if you have a league or do you guys just play forfun?

Dear Bob and Dave:You two would not believe the smile that crossed my lips when I found your homepage on the Web. I mean, I guess I should have expected at least one wiffleball home page, but yours was perfect. The game summaries kept me on the edge of my seat ... the wiffleball babe was tastefully chosen ... All in all - a great effort. ...A.L.

Am sitting here at work (nameless computer store otside Philadelphia). The comic relief of your page is fabulous. You guys brought a smile to my face. So did wiffleball when I was a kid. Psst, don't tell my boss I found you.

my roommates and i will take you on any day. we play about 2 hours a day, and with a wifflejunior bat since we became too overpowering with the full length bat.i loved your page. i'm putting a link to it on my own page i'm creating....Brian G.

Hey Bob & Dave...Love the page! Although I have to say that $10 bucks is a little stiff for a signed ball....that's the equivelant of about 6 nice, new Wiffle Balls. I admire your sense of capitalism, if nothing else.You claim to be the best but this is obviously because you have yet to face the (to quote a very good friend and former opponent) "drop of death" which only I throw. Well, at least no one else I've ever played has thrown it against me. I can't give away how I throw it but it comes real hard and drops a whole lot. Unfortunately, the torque it puts on my arm hurts a whole lot too so I can only throw it so much. I'm not as young as I used to be! By your spiffy artwork, I take it that you are somewhere in PA which is a shame because it turns out that you're a bit too far from CA. Well, if your ever in the neighborhood, drop me a line!...Z.B.

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