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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.

Who’s ready for some backyard wiffleball this Fourth of July? If you’re traveling to someone else’s house, be warned that they might play by a different set of rules.

If a batter earns a walk while the bases are loaded, the batter gets credited with a run batted in. That just seems wrong. It’s a cheap way to get an RBI.

So we decided to create a new statistic, the CRBI (cheap run batted in) to keep track of all the bases loaded walks and the most common offenders. We had a lot of fun with it, and we still use the term today.

If you’re a team captain playing by our wiffleball rules, and we hope you are, you need to put some thought into your starting lineup before each game, since it’s also the same as your pitching rotation.

While having the fastest-running guy on the team lead-off might make sense, he also needs to fit the profile [...]