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[2LaneCruzer]

Did any of y'all play half rubber? Cut a $.10 cent rubber ball in half and try to hit it with a broom stick. Usually had a pitcher, batter and catcher. If batter swung and missed and the catcher caught it, batter out. At our house if you hit the half rubber over the house, home run. The farmer that farmed the field in front of the house disked up half rubber balls for 40 years.

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New one on me. We played something called "Annie Over".

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Hard to "ride" in some of the warbirds, as they are single seaters. Therefore, you'd have to fly them, not ride in them!

Here's a link to the "rides" thread.


http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/rural-living/270291-gearheads-car-guys-post-your.html

 

[PMA]

What was Annie Over? Never heard of that.

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[k0ua]

What was Annie Over? Never heard of that.

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In this game, two players, or two teams of players, stand on opposite sides of a small building. With a cry of "Annie Annie Over!" the ball is tossed over the roof of the building. The kid(s) on the other side of the building try to catch the ball. If they catch it, they run to the other side of the building and try to tag someone out by throwing the ball at them. It is a VERY active game.

The way we played it, if you caught the ball you ran over to the other side and tagged someone to bring them over to your side, so you had more chances to catch the ball. As you team got stronger the other team got weaker, and less likely to actually catch the ball. If they failed to catch the ball they had to throw it back over the building giving the other team a chance to catch it and run around and tagging someone. It was one of the games we played that was the least likely to injure anyone, but it was a lot of good exercise.

James K0UA

 

[k0ua]

Another team game we played was "Red Rover".. Two team captains were chosen. Usually the largest and strongest kids. They tried to pick the largest and strongest kids from the "kid pool".. from the strongest down to the weakest. The you formed two lines of children about 20 or 30 feet apart facing each other. The first team would shout, "Red Rover,Red Rover, send Jimmy, Tommy Suzie whatever right over!" So little jimmy would run towards the other line of children holding hands together. If little jimmy broke thru the line, he got to pick someone to go back to his team.. Of course if jimmy had any brains, he picked a strong person to join his team. If little jimmy was stopped by the hand holding line, then little jimmy joined the opposing team. Now this was more strategy than you might think.. You wanted to "red rover send over" a medium strength kid.. not too weak or he would be a weak link in your chain, yet not so big and strong that he would run thru your existing links. Of course this was hard to evaluate, and not all kids played fair anyway.. Some would "throw" the game to join the side they wanted.. This game was played by both sexes, and while the little girls were weak, the larger girls were as strong or stronger than a lot of their male counterparts in the same grades, due to the fact that females develop somewhat faster than males, and a 6th grade girl could easily be several inches taller and somewhat stronger than a 6th grade boy. It was an interesting game, especially as the girls and boys got older, and had a reason to run into each other. It was all in good fun.

James K0UA

 

[jinman]

I was a big kid for my age. At 10, I was 5'5" and weighed about 175 lb. Most of the other kids on the playing field looked like ants compared to me. I was always the first chosen for football and for baseball because I was a moose. One of my fondest memories in the 5th grade was having a softball hitting contest with my principal. He was a young guy in his mid-30s and very athletic. On that day, he won the contest overall, but I beat him in distance at least 2 of 6 times.

One of my classmates was a great little kid named Charles Stubblefield. Old Charles was just astounded at how much bigger I was than him. In the 5th grade, he became obsessed with catching me off guard and knocking me off my feet. We'd be out on the playground and I'd hear these footsteps coming up fast about the time Charles screamed and threw his entire 60 lb into me with all his might. It would hardly even knock me off balance. I swear sometimes he'd take 30 seconds just to regain his wits from being hurled against me like a brick wall. It became a game that I loved and laughed about with him as we walked home together from school. All the parents wanted me walking home with their kids because I was big enough to protect them.

Charles moved away after grade school, but returned to my High School. Of course, I had thinned down and grown up. By high school he was almost the same size as me. We used to laugh with each other about those days in elementary school and how determined a little 'snit' he was.:laughing:

 

[tcreeley]

Yankees and Rebels- I like that, it was Cops and Robbers that we played!

 

[farmgirl19]

Cowboys and Indians, here!

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Cowboys and Indians, here!

We played a lot of "doctor".

 

[PMA]

http://www.halfrubber.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=31

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