In the days before duct tape was the answer to everything, there was electrical tape. Back in the days this was written, real duct tape (made for AC and heating ducts, hence the name) was so strongly adhesive it would take the skin off if it got stuck to your fingers.
Now the batters won’t be able to see the rotation of the stitches on the ball when you throw your fastball Charlie Brown. Maybe you will be able to strike out your first, ever, batter!
When I was a kid, we wrapped whiffle balls with black tape until they were heavier, put lead pipes in the whiffle ball bats and then taped them. Might as well have been playing baseball.
I can relate to this. When I went to school (“a few years ago”), the boys got all the new equipment. The girls only got the equipment that the boys had used and damaged: baseballs with broken seams, cracked bats and such. The pitcher and catcher got filthy, stinky, falling apart gloves (never a mitt); the rest of us had to field bare-handed. It’s a wonder none of us were seriously injured.
JD'Huntsville'AL over 2 years ago
Hitting the cover off the ball:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22H7Jx0sE64
Templo S.U.D. over 2 years ago
I’d forfeit the game anyway.
Lightpainter over 2 years ago
How far will he be able to pitch that?
angelolady Premium Member over 2 years ago
I love Charlie Brown’s sideways look.
orinoco womble over 2 years ago
In the days before duct tape was the answer to everything, there was electrical tape. Back in the days this was written, real duct tape (made for AC and heating ducts, hence the name) was so strongly adhesive it would take the skin off if it got stuck to your fingers.
iggyman over 2 years ago
We did just that to baseballs in the 1950s as kids!
Troglodyte over 2 years ago
I don’t recall doing that with cricket balls as kids, but then I didn’t play that much cricket.
Plods with ...™ over 2 years ago
The origins of 12" softball?
Gameguy49 Premium Member over 2 years ago
Now the batters won’t be able to see the rotation of the stitches on the ball when you throw your fastball Charlie Brown. Maybe you will be able to strike out your first, ever, batter!
uniquename over 2 years ago
I remember putting tape on bat handles to improve the grip.
thepinkbaroness over 2 years ago
Well, we can always try bowling!
Scott S over 2 years ago
Didn’t Lucy do that to Charlie Brown’s hockey stick?
knight1192a over 2 years ago
Seriously, Schroder. 128-0 in the first inning isn’t bad enough, you really want them to score five times as many point? Too much tape.
WCraft Premium Member over 2 years ago
When I was a kid, we wrapped whiffle balls with black tape until they were heavier, put lead pipes in the whiffle ball bats and then taped them. Might as well have been playing baseball.
JLChi over 2 years ago
I can relate to this. When I went to school (“a few years ago”), the boys got all the new equipment. The girls only got the equipment that the boys had used and damaged: baseballs with broken seams, cracked bats and such. The pitcher and catcher got filthy, stinky, falling apart gloves (never a mitt); the rest of us had to field bare-handed. It’s a wonder none of us were seriously injured.