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[Laurence Horn]

On Mar 16, 2012, at 10:27 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:

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>>> We played kickball at Chevy Chase elementary in Toonerville
>>> (Atwater district, Los Angeles) in the late 1940s -- rules similar
>>> to softball, as modified by circumstances,
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>> In all the versions of kickball I remember playing (early-mid 1950s,
>> NYC), you can retire a runner by hitting them with the ball (between
>> bases).  Such throws are frowned upon in softball.
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> When you played pickup games of kickball, soft/baseball, and other games with base runner, and you didn't have enough people, did you use "ghost runners"?
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We certainly did, sometimes even allowing two or three ghost runners (bases loaded with ghosts).  I'd forgotten that.

LH

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