Assign the Nine: Wiffleball Backstops
Josh Williamson
07.01.11

When you have wiffleball pitchers throwing pitches at 95 miles per hour, you better have a very strong wiffleball back stop. Nothing says durabilty like duct tape. Just wrap a roll of duct tape several times vertically and then horizontally and now you have yourself an indestructable wiffleball backstop. If you're a diehard wiffleball commissioner who plans on playing into the 22nd century, then this wiffleball backstop is a must.

Are you someone that just hates hearing a clang or a thud when you're throwing a wiffleball 100 miles per hour? Well this backstop should help quiet things down. If it goes through the opening, it's a strike. And when the wiffleball season is over, don't fret. It doubles as a picture frame for almost any room in the house.

Don't have much money? Not much of a handy man? Playing wiffleball at the spur of the moment? Does seeing grandma stand all day at a family function bring a smile on your face? Then this fan favorite is tailor made for you. Very simple, the wiffleball hits the chair back or seat its a strike. In fact, there are a few NWLA leagues who use this chair backstop model as part of their league logo.

This simple netting backstop is readily available for most wifflers. However the strikezone is too big with this setup. So why don't strap a sheet of thin metal so when you throw that 105 miles per hour changeup, it'll sound like a thunderstorm.

If a chair is a fan favorite. then this is the ultimate favorite for those wifflers who like to chug while playing. Yeah getting almost eighty 24 packs of Pabst Blue Ribbon could be on the expensive side (unless they sponsor your league like the CCWA) but it'll be plenty worth it at the end. How many backstops do you know that you can drink when you're done playing with it?

You know that mini soccer goal net you had for the youngsters that's in the garage collecting mold? Well get it out and tie a small blue tarp to the front of it and now you have one of the largest wiffleball backstops in the neighborhood, hell maybe the largest in the continental U.S. You like strikeouts all day long? Well this backstop is for you. Tired of having every 110 miles per hour curveball curving out of the strikezone? Well this baby is catered just for you.

Statistics show that 79 percent of the people who love wiffleball also love darts. How can we combine these two together? Design your backstop so it looks like a bullseye. Ever wonder how you can recruit more wiffleball players for your league...well get one of these bad boy bullseye backstops and you'll have fifty drunk English dudes from the local pub begging you to play.

You're at the local park. You have both a wiffleball and bat in the trunk of the car but no backstop. What are you going to do? Not play. Hell no, not when you can move a trash can and use it as a makeshift backstop.

The first eight backstops on this list are all good and useful but they're just days you just need a woman's ass as a backstop. Just look at that backstop. What wiffleball pitcher wouldn't want to hit that?

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