Growing up amidst three family houses there wasn’t much yard space to play baseball. So as kids we choose to play Wiffle ball. We made up our own rules. In fact I can’t remember any Wiffle ball set coming with rules. We kept it simple. A batter had to bat from his non-dominant side of [...]
Back in 1958 Americans were crazy about a large plastic hoop ring that made shaking one’s hips in public all the rage. The hula hoop as it was known sold millions to children and adults. In the ensuing years the fad was so popular that hula hoops competitions were popping up in major cities. Today [...]
A simple pie tin created in the late 1800′s by a baker named William Russel Frisbie became a favorite play toy for Yale students more than a half century later. These Yalies tossed these reusable saucer shaped tins for fun through the air and catching them. Later Walter Frederick Morrison, a UFO aficionado, developed the [...]