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By Femy LeBouche

OTTER VALLEY, Vermont -
Famed fireballer Lonichiro goes straight! That's right folks, you read it hear first, I, famed journalist, Le Wiffleur, have uncovered an amazing scoop. The extended lull in Wiffle, like a relationship with too infrequent trysts, has caused some eyes to wander. Curious what the stars were doing with their time during the all-star break and not buying the all too oft heard line, "I'm taking time off to spend time with my family," I went under deep cover to see what one of Lowball's finest was doing with his time. Disguised as a pair of tall socks I was able to infiltrate his gym bag and trail him to, shock of all shocks, a baseball game.Read more

Ah Spring! The mud is axle deep on Ripton Road, and there is still snow in the Lincoln woods. Down in the Banana Belt of Waltham, the turkeys are mating and a strange call is sounding over the grass at Burnham field, "Play Ball!"

That's right fellows, a new season of Wiffle is on the verge of becoming, and it is time for a look back at what has come before. Last year, I think marked the move of Low Ball from its infancy to something more like tortured adolescence. The novelty of grown men engaging in child's play has worn off, especially for my wife, and now we are looking at a summer that has as many pitfalls as it does potential.Read more

Lowballers pay attention. The style of closing a game known as Closer-By-Committee has become much heralded in the press lately. In a recent article by the renown journalist Hugh Wifflerton he stated "the Lagers were down by one and facing the most feared pitching rotation in LowBall, closer by committee, winner stays on." This designation of the controversial practice as "the most feared" deserves some closer (pardon the pun) examination.Read more

EDITOR'S NOTE: In response to recent events The LowPress has decided to rerun this article from Femy LeBouche. It has been enhanced with photos from the original event.Read more

A recent scouting trip to the other side of the Greens has uncovered a gem of a field in Northfield, VT.

An attempt at contact was made with the owners, who apparently take their Wiffle seriously.

Lowball nation will be glad to know that there are other people out there who take their ridiculousness as seriously as we do. (Well, maybe not quite so seriously, but seriously enough to put a Citgo sign and a coke bottle out in center field.)

We can only hope that these folks contact us and would like to do an exchange program.

Wifflers of the world, Unite!

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LowBall stands for Lincoln Old-School Wiffle Ball, and was conceived through an unlikely melding of strangely like minded individuals who found themselves, through some unlikely turn of events, living in the same town and jonesing for some frivolous entertainment. According to Jody Stillwell, J-Mac, the first ever event in Lowball history came to be when Tommie Thompson invited Mike 'El Guapo' Moriarty up to what was to become the heart of Lowball, Gap Bridge Field. Little did they know as they pitched the plastic and reverted back to the playground days when you called the base hits by imaginary lines on the ground that they would be embarking on a fantasy league journey the likes of which would make the vulcan-eared attendees at a Star Trek convention look sane.Read more