Major League Wiffleball
Wiffleball photos, tips, and product reviews

If you caught any World Cup soccer action so far, you’ve heard what sounds like a swarm of angry bees in the background. Well, it’s not bees buzzing, or technical difficulties with ABC’s or ESPN’s broadcast. It’s from a horn called a vuvuzela. And you can even buy your own vuvuzela online!

Buy one and liven up the atmosphere at your next wiffleball game!

There’s a 104 days of summer vacation, and school comes along just to end it. So the annual problem for our generation, is finding a good way to spend it.

Like maybe… playing wiffleball.

OK, so we borrowed a few lines from the Phineas and Ferb opening song, which is performed by wiffleball fans Bowling for Soup (above), who took the time to pose with a wiffleball for us.

Phineas and Ferb always seem to do a bunch of cool stuff, but to our knowledge, they haven’t played wiffleball yet. There’s still time though, even for you.

On Wednesday, Alex Rodriguez, or “Al”, as Joe Girardi referred to him, skipped Yankees team photo day and went on to hit his 600th career home run off Shaun Marcum, the only active Major League Baseball player that spells his first name the same way that I do.

While that sounds impressive, if you look at the numbers a little more closely, you’ll see that Major League Wiffleball Home Run King Mike Breen is a much better home run hitter than A-Rod.

A-Rod homers on average every 14.5 at bats, which is disappointing in comparison to Mike Breen who averaged one home run every 5.28 at bats throughout his career.

Back in 2000, I got the idea to form my own wiffleball league in Cohoes, New York from a web site run by Joe Creighton across the country in Chico, California.

Joe, who is now living in Seattle, Washington, is the founder and commissioner of Wiffleball2K. Last winter he returned to Chico, CA and organized “Swingin’ For Santa”, a day of wiffleball with a Christmas theme (and an eating contest).

Just before the event took place, Joe was kind enough to answer a few questions in the first ever MLW interview.

Can you imagine how great it would be if wiffleball was on television? Why isn’t it on there already?

Wiffleball is easily more fun to watch than some sports already on television. For example, I wouldn’t watch golf if the U.S. Open was in my back yard, but I’d watch wiffleball.

Just when we thought he was done, Ken Griffey, Jr. has decided to come back for at least one more season. While another season of Ken Griffey, Jr. may be great for baseball, it’s not as good for wiffleball.

When we started using the Ken Griffey, Jr. black wiffleball bat, home runs flew out of The Sac like never before. However, by the end of the season, the bat lost it’s power, and it became just a regular bat.

So, the next year, I bought a new Griffey bat, and it made a huge difference. There was no comparison to the “old” one. The new bat was just better. To this day, the Ken Griffey, Jr. black wiffleball bat is the best wiffleball bat I’ve ever used…

I’m a sports commissioner, and according to a recent Yahoo Sports article, I make less money than Gary Bettman. He made more money than me last year too.

It’s tough for me to admit that, mostly because I think I do a better job than the NHL Commissioner, but then I realized that most of us make less than $7.2 million per year.