It’s the little brother of baseball and chances are that sometime in your life you have played it. The game is Wiffle Ball and it is played by people from five to fifty-five and it has been sweeping the globe since its humble beginnings over fifty years ago. To understand what this game is today here is a brief history lesson about its origins.

It started in the 1950’s when David A. Mullany and a couple of friends where trying to fix a problem with their current conditions on playing baseball. To explain their situation the boys used to play baseball in a local school grounds which was too small because they often broke windows .Trying to solve the problem the boys substituted the ball for a tennis ball and a bat with a broom handle and moved the game to Dave’s back yard. With similar results; causing damage to Dave’s house because of its use as their catcher a.k.a. the backstop. David quickly scrambles to solve the problem with his dad’s practice golf balls. While the new ball did solve the damage control, it became extremely hard to throw and it only went strait. Not knowing what to do Dave went to his dad David N. Mullany (a semi-pro and college baseball pitcher) for help. With his knowledge of pitching he knew that the ball needed to be bigger and have holes in it to cause the ball to be unbalanced making the ball sink and curve.

Using many plastic half spheres of a local cosmetic company they tried many different designs and finally they came up with the slotted one used today. Soon after the ball was developed the evolution of the Wiffle king bat and the rules soon followed. Finally the game needed a name and since the game was all about pitching the boys used the term getting whiffed and they soon dropped the “h” and that is how

Wiffle Ball was born.