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Your Favorite Whiffle Ball Pitch

Posted by Pean
708 days ago


Hey, this is almost about sports!

My favorite pitch was a nasty sinker I had.

Here is how I throw it.

Grip: Holes up. Index and middle finger across the middle of the ball, right under holes.

Delivery: Sidearm

Arm Speed: Hard as you can

Aim: Very Very High. Like you are throwing a few feet above the batter's head

Result: A ridiculously sharp sinker. Can go from head to toes

When this pitch lands in the strike zone, its almost unhittable.

What is your pitch?

I think we need a whiffle section.

Your friendly neihhorhood Pean

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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer
708 days ago
Score 4+-
Crinkleball!!!

Push the side with the holes into the side without the holes and havoc ensues!!

A million variations, a millions releases and release points and a bitch to hit! Well, sometimes it pops back out and hangs like a juicy meatball!

My kids lost my wiffleballs and the local Target doesn't sell them or I would have pics to post!
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Oh No RomoDraft Pick
708 days ago
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They should have them at any sporting goods store
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Oh No RomoDraft Pick
708 days ago
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[this site]
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PeanMajor Leaguer
708 days ago
Score 4+-
thats kind of like doctoring the ball though
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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer
708 days ago
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ONR, I haven't tried to look for them, I just was strolling through my local Target and they didn't have them. But they had the (illegal in our wiffle ball league) red Fat Bats, go figure!

Here's another interesting question - how many bats did you stuff with newspaper or paper mache and wrap with duct tape?

I once cut two bats, stuffed them, fused them together, wrapped it in bubble wrap and tightly wound duct tape over that to make an unholy 36" bat named "Master Blaster"...

Which lead to MB2 and MB3, Mega Master Blaster, etc... Our neighborhood gang played more wiffle ball than any kid should really...
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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer
708 days ago
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Yeah, crinkleball is illegal in most people's opinions - rightfull so. But it's still fun to buzz a crinkleball at people every so often for fun!

Crinkleball caused as many donnybrooks as wiffleball "beanings". We were kids... At least twice per nine innings we had benchclearing brawls that were just backyard WWF matches with bats instead of steel chairs...

We always played pitcher's hand if the pitcher caught a fielded ball before you got to first, you were out - but we were really really fair. We were more into playing than arguing over close calls... even with close plays a typical stat line was 11-15 7HR, 17RBI and 9 runs scored, ya know?
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PeanMajor Leaguer
708 days ago
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I almost entered a tournament with my friends through http://www.wiffleballusa.com several years ago. Not that I was amazingly good or anything, but just that I loved the game! These people have their own fields and bats and stuff...its crazy, we probably would have gotten smoked.
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PeanMajor Leaguer
708 days ago
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and yes, the peak of my whiffle career was my early twenties.
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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer
708 days ago
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I am laughing my ass off and waking my kids!!!

I'll never forget an article in Sports Illustrated circa ,id 80's about a guy who built a miniature Fenway park to play wiffleball in and I thought it was the coolest thing.

I remember the exact words "I'm going to have a wiffleball stadium in my yard when I grow up!"

We (my neighborhood gang) played a ridiculous amount of wiffleball - in the rain, at night - we painted a ball with glow in the dark paint, although hitting lightning bugs for batting practice was pretty cool too! - even in the snow - which made diving catches WAY more fun.

In a couple years, I'm building a mini Tropicana Stadium for my kids!!! Well it will probably be more like Dolphins stadium or RFK than a dome... But I WILL install a beer and "kids beer" (root beer) tap in a concession stand for attendees, dammit!!
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Oh No RomoDraft Pick
708 days ago
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I never had a whiffle ball career, much like the other sports I tried.
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Manny StilesMajor Leaguer
708 days ago
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I gave it up as a full time hobby by the time I started playing "real" baseball... then when baseball helped me with ladies, my wiffleball career was D-U-N. Chicks dig the long ball, but not the duct taped wrapped yellow bat variety...
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RawbeezeitzMajor Leaguer
708 days ago
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I have a mean curveball that dives at the last moment. Impossible to get under it.

But my favorite pitch is the nickelball, stuff a nickel into the holes of the ball, then let her rip. The ball will bounce around on its way to the plate.

Note: this pitch is considered illegal by most, and only works in games with called strikes, not just swinging strikes.
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Steel TownDraft Pick
708 days ago
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I always preffered the nickle bag.
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