[digger48]

I was 6 in ‘61

Nobody around our parts had ever even heard of t-ball in 1961.

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

I was 6 in ‘61

Nobody around our parts had ever even heard of t-ball in 1961.

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Perhaps in 1966 or 1967 ?

when “Barry” was five or six ?

[Hildy]

There was no t-ball in 61. It was just Jr. Little League. That’s probably what he meant.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

My Jr. High PhysEd teacher invented T-ball. I recall the littler kids playing it during “recess”.

I started Jr. high in 1969. To my knowledge, that was the time it started to catch on outside the county (Michigan).

[upchuck]

Nobody around our parts had ever even heard of t-ball in 1961.

If you can believe Wikipedia:

A Tee Ball trademark was registered with the United States government by Dayton Hobbs[1] in the early 1970s, but the game's origins date back to at least the 1940s and 50s with several people claiming to be the father of the game. Claude Lewis, director of the Warner Robins, Georgia Recreation Department, formed a tee-ball league in March 1958. 20 children played the first year. Lewis designed rules for the new game and mailed the rule books out to rec departments all over the country and overseas. Albion, Michigan claims to be the place of invention for the sport in 1956,[2] though Starkville, Mississippi makes a similar claim that Tee Ball was invented in their town in 1961. According to the Starkville Rotary Club's website: "In 1961, when it was apparent that younger children needed some way to participate in the program, Rotarians Dr. Clyde Muse and W. W. Littlejohn devised the game of T-Ball and added it to the summer baseball program."[3] Dr. Hobbs has credited the United States Navy with spreading the game overseas. U.S. presidents since Ronald Reagan have hosted T-Ball games on the South Lawn of the White House.

I would prefer to hear Gov. Abercrombie himself on this before I start jumping up and down.

[Delta Dawn]

I was 7 in ‘61, playing, ‘Minor League’ ball. The T in T-ball would not be invented for another 30 years or so.

Somebody has got their stories mixed up.

[AmusedBystander]

Nobody around our parts had ever even heard of t-ball in 1961.

Barry was smarter than all the other kids and invented T Ball at five years old and started it in Hawaii with the future Governor there to witness it.

[savedbygrace]

Not that Wiki is an authority, but there’s some support for what you say here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tee_Ball

[SaraJohnson]

I think Obama’s great friend, the Governor of Hawaii is a big fat Marxist liar as all Marxists are. He had to step back from his orginal lie that he attended Obama’s birth. I doubt he even knew Obama’s father. The Governor was ad-libbing history revision to make himself look like a real important figure in Bam Bam’s life. Obama’s dad was not even in the country long and spent even less time in Hawaii.

I think this communist/soros minion (Useful Idiot) is being used by Leftist players to do Dear Reader’s political career in for the sake of creating a crisis that they won’t let go to waste. They are having a heck of a time stirring up blacks to riot while The One is in office...

What a mess we are in. I hope the constitution wins and corruption loses in the end.

[super7man]

I do not recall T-ball until about 1976 in our area.

Hmmmm..... maybe it was an easy mistake to make. He could have meant Little League.

[GVnana]

History
A Tee Ball trademark was registered with the United States government by Dayton Hobbs[1] in the early 1970s, but the game's origins date back to at least the 1940s and 50s with several people claiming to be the father of the game. Claude Lewis, director of the Warner Robins, Georgia Recreation Department, formed a tee-ball league in March 1958. 20 children played the first year. Lewis designed rules for the new game and mailed the rule books out to rec departments all over the country and overseas.

Albion, Michigan claims to be the place of invention for the sport in 1956,[2] though Starkville, Mississippi makes a similar claim that Tee Ball was invented in their town in 1961. According to the Starkville Rotary Club's website: "In 1961, when it was apparent that younger children needed some way to participate in the program, Rotarians Dr. Clyde Muse and W. W. Littlejohn devised the game of T-Ball and added it to the summer baseball program."[3] Dr. Hobbs has credited the United States Navy with spreading the game overseas. U.S. presidents since Ronald Reagan have hosted T-Ball games on the South Lawn of the White House.[citation needed]

Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/tee-ball#ixzz1C0te38jK

I'm with you. Although it appears the game was being played in certain parts of the country, I never heard of it in the 60s when my brother and many friends played little league and I certainly was never exposed to it in school.

Abercrombie strikes me as a loose cannon/nut case. Interesting that he has become suddenly silent on this matter.