What was your favorite sports game/toy growing up? - Page 3

LouisSVillano · 12-27-2014, 08:47 AM

Hockey game with fixed spinners.Yes played that with friends only ours wasn't as cool as the picture posted.

fhomess · 12-29-2014, 06:06 PM

I didn't like sports games. As a kid, none of my favorite toys were sports related. I liked action figures and model building. I did like throwing tennis balls into a strike zone on my garage door, but somehow I never translated that into accuracy on the mound. I also liked throwing tennis balls onto my roof and then catching the pop flies that rebounded, which probably helped a little.

Faroo6 · 12-30-2014, 02:49 AM

Whiffle Ball in our neighbors backyard. Had a huge pine tree that turned into a game of plinko whenever a ball hit it. Single, double, caught for an out. You never knew. One unique feature was the yard was rectangular and as a lefty I had to hit it twice as far and over a 20 ft sloped garage roof. Otherwise just watch it roll back down to the outfielder for an out. Righties had a 4 foot fence they had to clear but had to deal with the pine tree in left center. Played every day, almost all day during summers and kept HR totals for the "season". Now in our thirties we still play when we get together at our parents new house. 9 innings of 1 on 1.

cephasjames · 12-31-2014, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by TribeFanInNC

I used to throw a racquetball up on the roof and catch it when it came down. I know, that's not really a toy. I lived a simple existence...

My dad was a pastor at a church that had about 15 concrete steps (with a slight lip) leading up to the front door. I would pitch hard rubber balls at the steps and depending on where the ball hit the step it would produce a grounder, line drive, or pop up. The steps faced a parking lot which butt up against the road. So a good liner or pop up could make it to the road. If it did it was a homer, so I had to field fairly well. I would keep a scorecard and play game after game, imagining getting DPs and throwing guys out at home, etc.

swoboda · 01-25-2015, 05:26 PM

We called that one off the steps stoop ball.

Sounds like this breaks down on the basis of indoors vs outdoors

Indoors my favorites were All-Star baseball, “Challenge the Yankees”which was similar to All Star BB but with dice, tabletop hockey ( the version with the slots as well ) electric football (Tudor was the company, based in Brooklyn) my dad used to borrow our neighbors soldering iron every time the vibrating motor failed and fix it , big dad pts for those moments, and no I never completed a pass.

Outdoors it was stickball with a rubber ball both the one on one or two vs two versions pitching against a wall with a chalked strike zone, punchball which is baseball without a pitcher you punch the rubber ball fungo style against five to nine fielders, and a game we called “Single Double Triple” where the batter threw a rubber ball against the wall and the fielder had to catch it on a fly for an out, one bounce a single two was double , etc.

Rasmuth · 01-29-2015, 01:30 PM

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Did any of you ever have the basketball game, I want to say it was call Basket that had the two cardboard pieces with bakets attached that you put at each end, the floor was made so the ball would roll into little holes and you flicked a metal lever to shoot the ball? It's hard to even describe some of these games. I can't imagine the look on a kids face today if you tried to give them such a game.

wow.....I had that game! Totally forgot about it until I read your post.

MorseMoose · 01-29-2015, 06:52 PM

WHoa...I too had totally forgotten about that cardboard basketball game.

As for video games:
Extra Innings (SNES)
Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf (NES)
Baseball Stars (NES)
Tecmo Super Bowl III: Final Edition (SNES)

Jason Moyer · 01-30-2015, 11:57 PM

It's interesting how many of us were into that. I wonder when they were made; I had mine in the early to mid 80's, but I seem to remember that there were teams on the box that ceased to exist long before then.

TwinsGuy11 · 02-09-2015, 12:19 PM

MLB Showdown. I loved doing fantasy drafts and making my own cards. Just recently gave it up last year after 10-12 years.

I use to have like 18 team leagues doing 36 game schedules. Man did I love calculating the stats.So many great memories.

Steve509 · 02-09-2015, 07:24 PM

Bubble hockey/table hockey for me. I wore out so many of those games playing them to death.

For outdoors, wiffle ball, and just plain old backyard baseball played against the back of the house, where each pitch would rattle the inside of the house and neighbors complaining when we hit the ball too hard against theirs.

I miss those days

12-29-2014, 06:06 PM	#42
fhomess Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,648	I didn't like sports games. As a kid, none of my favorite toys were sports related. I liked action figures and model building. I did like throwing tennis balls into a strike zone on my garage door, but somehow I never translated that into accuracy on the mound. I also liked throwing tennis balls onto my roof and then catching the pop flies that rebounded, which probably helped a little. __________________ StatsLab- PHP/MySQL based utilities for Online Leagues Baseball Cards - Full list of known templates and documentation on card development.

01-25-2015, 05:26 PM	#45
swoboda All Star Starter Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Guarding The Line Posts: 1,220	Reading this post ....and Loving it 99 We called that one off the steps stoop ball. Sounds like this breaks down on the basis of indoors vs outdoors Indoors my favorites were All-Star baseball, “Challenge the Yankees”which was similar to All Star BB but with dice, tabletop hockey ( the version with the slots as well ) electric football (Tudor was the company, based in Brooklyn) my dad used to borrow our neighbors soldering iron every time the vibrating motor failed and fix it , big dad pts for those moments, and no I never completed a pass. Outdoors it was stickball with a rubber ball both the one on one or two vs two versions pitching against a wall with a chalked strike zone, punchball which is baseball without a pitcher you punch the rubber ball fungo style against five to nine fielders, and a game we called “Single Double Triple” where the batter threw a rubber ball against the wall and the fielder had to catch it on a fly for an out, one bounce a single two was double , etc. __________________ "...If you want to look ahead to the bottom of the ninth, the Mets will be sending up Buddy Harrelson, Jerry Buchek , and Don Bosch, we'll be right back after this word from Rheingold Beer" The late great Lindsey Nelson

01-30-2015, 11:57 PM	#48
Jason Moyer Hall Of Famer Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 5,074	It's interesting how many of us were into that. I wonder when they were made; I had mine in the early to mid 80's, but I seem to remember that there were teams on the box that ceased to exist long before then. __________________ "I pretty much popped everything cold turkey. We were doing steroids they wouldn't give to horses." -- Tom House "I was very fortunate to have a pitching coach by the name of Tom House...Tom, I really miss those days that we spent in the weight room and out on the field working together." -- Nolan Ryan's HoF Induction Speech

12-27-2014, 08:47 AM	#41
LouisSVillano Minors (Double A) Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Florida Posts: 154	Hockey game with fixed spinners.Yes played that with friends only ours wasn't as cool as the picture posted.

01-29-2015, 06:52 PM	#47
MorseMoose Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 6,023 Infractions: 1/1 (1)	WHoa...I too had totally forgotten about that cardboard basketball game. As for video games: Extra Innings (SNES) Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf (NES) Baseball Stars (NES) Tecmo Super Bowl III: Final Edition (SNES)

02-09-2015, 12:19 PM	#49
TwinsGuy11 Minors (Triple A) Join Date: Feb 2015 Posts: 213	MLB Showdown. I loved doing fantasy drafts and making my own cards. Just recently gave it up last year after 10-12 years. I use to have like 18 team leagues doing 36 game schedules. Man did I love calculating the stats.So many great memories.

02-09-2015, 07:24 PM	#50
Steve509 Minors (Double A) Join Date: May 2012 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 121	Bubble hockey/table hockey for me. I wore out so many of those games playing them to death. For outdoors, wiffle ball, and just plain old backyard baseball played against the back of the house, where each pitch would rattle the inside of the house and neighbors complaining when we hit the ball too hard against theirs. I miss those days