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WHBL About Us Events Calendar News Executives Sponsors Registration Newsletter Coaches Umpires Clinics Just for Fun Tournament Links HOUSE LEAGUE Blast Ball T-Ball Rookie Ball Mosquito Pee Wee Bantam Midget SELECT Rookie Ball Mosquito Pee Wee Bantam Midget	Just For Fun: Here are few things on the lighter side of baseball. If you have any good baseball jokes, quotes or cartoons (family content only please!), send them to the web-master at: Web Master Thanks and enjoy! Baseball Riddles See if you can solve these...remember "think baseball" Q: Why couldn't they sell pop at the doubleheader? A: Because the home team lost the opener Q: Why does it take longer to run from second base to third base than it takes to run from first base to second base? A: Because there's a short-stop between second and third Q: What are the best kind of shoes for stealing bases? A: sneakers Q: What do you call a baseball with bugs on it? A: a fly ball Q: What runs around the field but never wins? A: the fence The lighter side of pitching: A father watched his young son practice baseball in the backyard by throwing the ball up and swinging at it. Time and time again the bat missed contact. The boy noticed his father watching, and said, "Wow, Dad! Aren't I a great pitcher?" A rookie pitcher was struggling at the mound, so the catcher walked up to have a talk with him. "I've figured out your problem," he told the young southpaw. "You always lose control at the same point in every game." "When is that?" "Right after the national anthem." A conceited new rookie was pitching his first game. He walked the first five men he faced and the manager took him out of the game. The rookie slammed his glove on the ground as he yelled, "You can’t take me out! I had a no-hitter going." The lighter side of baseball: I remember when I was a rookie I slid into home in a mighty cloud of dust. Unfortunately, I was coming to bat at the time. I was a non-violent baseball player. I could go for weeks at a time without hitting anything. Coach: "Okay, guys, I want you to line up alphabetically according to height." I could have been a professional athlete. My problem in baseball was that I could never hit a curve ball. My problem in golf is that I always did. He owes his pitching success to two things: a strong arm and a fast outfield. I was watching a baseball game on TV and my wife said, "Speaking of high and outside, the grass needs mowing." My kid is going to make it to the big leagues. Already he has a fantastic breaking ball. Just yesterday, with one pitch, he broke a lamp, a window, a mirror, and a vase. Three elderly ladies are excited about their first St. Louis Cardinals Baseball game. They smuggle a bottle of Jack Daniels into the game. The game is really exciting and they are enjoying themselves, drinking Jack Daniels mixed with soft drinks. Soon they realize that the bottle of Jack Daniels is almost gone and the game has a lot of innings to go. Using the clues given, What inning is the game in? and What is the status of the game? Answer: It's the bottom of the fifth and the bags are loaded! Quotes: If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else. Yogi Berra God gave us two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use. Head you win, tail you lose. Anonymous Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get. Dave Gardner. FunFacts In baseball's early days, umpires were unpaid volunteers. They were often a spectator and, sometimes, a player, chosen by the home team with the consent of the rival team's captain. In 1878, the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, organized two years earlier, mandated that home baseball teams pay umpires $5 per game. Major league baseballs have a small cork wound with 316 yards of wool yarn. That is covered with two pieces of cowhide held together with 216 raised red cotton stitches. The velocity of a pitched baseball is about 8 miles per hour faster as it leaves the pitcher's hand than when it reaches home plate. Babe Ruth is given credit for the invention of the modern baseball bat. He was the first player to order a bat with a knob at the end of the handle. Louisville Slugger produced the bat with which he hit 29 home runs in 1919. Major-league baseball clubs didn't start putting numbers on uniforms until the 1930s. As a result, Ty Cobb, who broke many batting and base-stealing records while playing with the Detroit Tigers (1905-1926), didn't have his uniform number retired. He was never issued a number. Major league baseball bats are made of ash. Almost all are shorter than 36 inches and weigh 31 to 36 ounces. The barrel of many bats today is 2.5 inches in diameter, but can be can be 2.75 inches.	Maps to all the Parks Scarborough Weather

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