great stuff: football and international politics

[Jonathan Lighter]

No "ghost runners."

"Invisible men."

We played "punchball."

JL

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC <
Bill.Mullins at us.army.mil> 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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