Major League Wiffleball
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The ’3rd Annual Baby V Foundation Wiffle-Ball Tourney’ will be held on Saturday, August 8th, 2009 at the Town of Newburgh Little League Fields on Lakeside Road in Newburgh, New York.

Teams will consist of 5-6 players, and the registration fee is $150.00 per team. Last year’s tournament was won by Show No Mercer (left). All proceeds benefit pediatric cancer research through the Baby V Foundation.

If you’re planning a wiffleball All-Star game, and you want some special equipment for it, I just stumbled across this Wiffle Ball and bat set on Amazon.com. These look really cool. The 2009 All-Star logo is printed on the official Wiffle Ball, and yellow bat.

Afterwards, you can use the items as All-Star MVP trophies, or put them aside in case you decide to start your own Wiffleball Hall of Fame.

When Erik Kuselias’ family gets together for wiffleball, they use a plastic ball with no holes that is slightly harder than a traditional Wiffle Ball. Apparently, it’s made in Shelton, Connecticut, at the same factory as the official Wiffle Ball. That’s fine. However, they use regular baseball bats. That’s wrong. Wiffleball is supposed to be plastic baseballs and plastic bats. Using the fat red bat is bad enough, but using a regular baseball bat is just wrong. It gets worse.

Whenever a pitcher throws a perfect game, at any level, it’s a great accomplishment. Mark Buehrle’s perfect game on Thursday afternoon against the usually great-hitting Tampa Bay Rays was impressive. It was only the 18th perfect game in Major League Baseball history.

Here at Major League Wiffleball, we’ve only seen one perfect game. It was a 14-strikeout gem by Quentin Jensen, arguably the greatest pitcher in MLW history, and he did it Don Larsen style, by throwing it in the Wiffleball World Series.