Playing “500″ With the Gang

When we were kids on a warm summer day, and wanted to play baseball, but could only muster five or six kids, we would start a game of “500.” We would choose one kid to bat, and all the rest of us would go into the field with out baseball gloves. The batter would toss the ball into the air then smack it with the bat.

 

The rules were; if you caught a ground ball with three or more bounces on it, you would get 25-points. A grounder with only two bounces was worth 50-points. A one bounce ground ball was 75-points, and a fly ball was 100-points. Now if you missed any one of those, you had to deduct that amount of points from your score. The first kid to reach 500-points would get to go in and bat. This game taught a lot of us kids to be better fielders because all the other kids would be pushing and shoving you when you were trying to catch a ball. In a way, that kind of prepared us for life in the adult business world…

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