I Did It Like This ...

I was hoping for a little something more form this building.

That's right ladies and gentlemen ... it's time for more Connecticut Trivia!

As I mentioned in a previous post, my family and I lived in Connecticut a couple of years ago.  While we were there, Route 8 proved to be a valuable byway for many of our trips.

Map from Google

It was on a return trip from my parents' house that we began to run a little low on gas.  We pulled off in Shelton and looked for a station.  We drove down Bridgeport Avenue, and there it was ... The Wiffle Ball, Incorporated.  Who knew?  It's not like anybody ever reads that 1950s vintage cardboard box they come in.  Good for Wiffle Ball!  How they did not get outsourced, I have no idea.  I guess Foxconn can assemble all of the iPads they want.  We'll never give them our wiffle technology!  (I noticed that The Wiffle Ball, Incorporated, did not have any suicide nets around its building.)

Wiffle Balls were an invaluable commodity in my youth.  My friend and I would play one-on-one games for hours.  (Same friend that watched Top Gun with me.  Maybe we didn't have any other friends to play with.)  We had our favorite duct-tapes bats and we would play best of seven game series in a single day.  The number of balls that we lost in trees or split in half is staggering.  We routinely had to get one of our fathers to drive us to the local sporting goods store in order to resupply.  In hindsight, we may be the reason that The Wiffle Ball, Incorporated, stayed in Connecticut.

Things that we did not do during our wiffle marathons: squish balls, intentionally scuff balls, or microwave balls.  Apparently people do this.

If people have enough time to microwave balls and learn to pitch like this, they should find a better hobby.  I suggest watching Tom Cruise movies and chewing copious amounts of gum balls.

My days of intense wiffle are behind me.  I do like competition, and the game brings me back to a simpler time.  I wonder if there is a fantasy wiffle ball league somewhere.  Oh, there is.  So to recap that link:

1. There is an adult wiffle ball league in the Twin Cities.
2. This league is so organized that they have a website that features team pages, schedules, a scrolling scoreboard, and player statistics.
3. The player statistics are so in-depth that they can run a fantasy league based on wiffle ball, and they do.

OK, so I'm a little out of my depth here.  I think I'm going to stick with fantasy curling.