Ghost Man on second.

Ah, Wiffle Ball. The baseball game sprinkled with imagination and danger that you could play in the backyard without the risk of breaking a window. Of course, the danger element could have been confined to the kind of Wiffle Ball that I played with my brother seeing as how the bases, aside from home (which was just a worn down spot in the yard where grass wouldn't grow), were either rocks or old wheels from what I believe was an old lawn mower, though I could be wrong. There was nothing like the excitement of hitting the ball and then running as fast as you could towards that first base, only to slam on the brakes to avoid actually running into the base and doing untold damage to your bare feet. (Oh yes, you had to play in bare feet. After all, home plate had a tendency to be either mud or a puddle whenever a game was being played and you couldn't mess up your shoes.) The challenge was seeing how far you could get, though the progress usually stopped at first, and then you went back to bat, a Ghost Man taking your place. (What? You didn't have Ghost Men? What, were you playing a game with more than two people?) Said Ghost Man would then move however many bases you managed to get to after hitting the ball again because saying that they were stealing bases or taking more than one would be cheating. But wait, there's more! For along with the dangerous bases and Ghost Men, there was also the time honored tradition of stuffing the ball with usually wet grass. (What can I say? We had the really good Wiffle Balls that only had the little line holes at the top and not the ones with holes all the way around, and since one of those little plastic lines was usually broken, it was easy to get the grass in there.) Not only would this give the ball a little more weight, but if you hit it right, it would also spray some water as it flew through the air, making it even more challenging to catch. Add to that the fact that we also had the bats that actually looked like bats and not like oversized plastic clubs, so you could really hit the ball and not worry about breaking or denting the bat in the process (not that those bats didn't have dents in them, but it was a lot harder to do, and if you decided to abandon the game in favor of a sword fight, they could easily make the transition) and you were in for a lot of fun. You know, I really miss playing Wiffle Ball. Anyone up for a game?