Amusement devices: games – Aerial projectile game; game element or accessory therefor... – Target
Patent
1992-01-27
1993-09-21
Millin, V.
Amusement devices: games
Aerial projectile game; game element or accessory therefor...
Target
273411, A63F 706, A63B 6700
Patent
active
052462285
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for playing and a method of playing the ball type game called "Buntball" is disclosed. The game is characterized as being suitable for play by persons of differing skill, gender, or age and of being safe to play indoors or outdoors. The apparatus comprises a rectangular playing field without walls or ceiling, a homeplate in front of the playing field, a bat, and a ball. The playing field includes four subareas, and is preferably sixteen feet wide and twenty-four feet deep. Homeplate is preferably twelve feet away from the playing field. The bat and ball are preferably hollow and the ball is preferably perforated with small openings. The players are equally partitioned into two teams, each having at least one player. One team is positioned on the playing field with the goal of catching balls bunted thereto by a batter on the other team. The members of the team not on the playing field, attempt, one at a time, to bunt balls pitched by a member of the team on the playing field with the goal of bunting a ball onto the playing field without having it caught. If a ball is bunted onto the playing field without being caught, the subarea where the ball lands determines the number of imaginary bases that are advanced by an imaginary runner. Rules for playing Buntball are disclosed.
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McLaughlin James C.
Millin V.
Passaniti Sebastiano
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