Remember the Super Ball? I once got the WORST black-eye with one... they were a BLAST!

[cherokeeprogressive]

We used to play a baseball-style game called "Over the Line" with them on my high school field because it was the only place where there was enough room to hit it with a bat and still find it. We used to argue about who was going to have to play "The Line" and played to 100 runs. Good times!

I got the black-eye while we were throwing one at the ground to see who could make it bounce the highest. I made a Herculean attempt, using every bit of body english I could muster and it bounced straight back up and hit me right in the eye so hard I had to go to the emergency room. The doctor said he was amazed it didn't crush my eye socket. I didn't just have a black-eye, it was more like a black CHEEK. Yeah, a couple weeks later there we were again doing the very same thing...

Wham-O claims that each bounce is 92% as high as the last. They're formed at a pressure of 3,500psi. And, believe it or not... the Super Bowl is named after them!

I hit one off of a tee with an old wooden driver once. No one even saw it after I hit it. I bet it went like a thousand yards.

Man, Super Balls were fun!

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. loved em! here you go - ten bucks on ebay!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WHAM-O-SUPERBALL-Original-Zectron-72036-NEW-Super-High-Bounce-Wham-O-Whamo-/130884893636?pt=Outdoor_Toys_Structures_US&hash=item1e7958fbc4

[cherokeeprogressive]

2. That's not the big one though. I couldn't imagine ever choking on one LOL.

If I had another one, I'd no doubt hurt myself with it!

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. how about this one?

http://www.superballs.com/1965_balls.htm

[cherokeeprogressive]

5. That be The One!

I'd either hurt myself or break something with it LOL.

I wonder if it would hurt the face of my Great Big Bertha?

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. I loved Superballs. I probably went through a dozen of them as a kid - they were often lost

within a day (and if they survived, big pieces of them eventually chipped off). I hit one with a wooden baseball bat once. That one was lost as soon as the bat made contact!

[cherokeeprogressive]

8. See my post #7 LOL. n/t

[hunter]

10. I broke a window and a ceiling light playing with those in the house.

They bounced very well on a concrete slab floor covered with asbestos linoleum.

I was especially fond of the "bounce it under a table and it returns to you" trick.

That's how I broke the kitchen window.

My brothers and I were throwing it up and down the stairs, which is how we broke the ceiling light.

[mokawanis]

12. Damn, now I have to spend ten bucks

Can't resist. Those things were a blast.

[Art_from_Ark]

3. I got superball for my birthday once

I went out into the street, and threw it as hard as I could onto the pavement. It bounced way up into the air, then landed in a neighbor's dense shrubbery. I never found it.

[cherokeeprogressive]

7. I bet 10s of thousands of kids had the exact same experience.

You should have seen how far we hit them with a 36" Adirondack. The strange thing I remember about it was that they were almost completely silent coming off the bat. That was the reason playing Over the Line with them was so hard... you were never sure in that first instant if the guy at bat hit it or not.

[HarveyDarkey]

9. I was playing a lot of handball at the time

You've never seen what they REALLY could do until you've played a few games of handball with one.

[progressoid]

11. By WHAM-O! (under a dollar where ever toys are sold)

[CBGLuthier]

13. It was a jeopardy question this week

The clue was about how when dropped from a ten foot height it would bounce nine feet.

The first contestant rang in and said,

"Silly Putty."

Alex came back after the correct answer and said that no, like him, if he were to fall ten feet, silly putty just goes splat.

[cherokeeprogressive]

16. LOL! Guess what motivated me to post this? Yup! I laughed when she said "silly putty"!

That's too funny.

[sinkingfeeling]

14. 2011 Wham-O Superball VS. 1965 Superball

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[Steerpike]

15. My Dad Worked at at rubber company in Pico Rivera

He made those Wham-O things for a couple of years! He braught home Frizbees and Hula hoops, Slip and Slides and Superballs! What a Blast!

[cherokeeprogressive]

17. I'm from Norwalk! n/t

[Steerpike]

18. lol

San Gabriel Valley Rules!

[a la izquierda]

20. I tried to cut a super ball once...

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(Don't ask) and ended up nearly slicing off my finger. I have a lovely scar to remember super balls with.

[cherokeeprogressive]

21. I did that with a golf ball and a razor blade. My thumb has a huge smile on the end of it. n/t

[a la izquierda]

22. Did you get the ball cut? Nt

[cherokeeprogressive]

23. Never tried again. Actually I think my Pop still has the golf ball LOL. n/t

[benld74]

24. Basement of the Science building in college,

concrete floors, walls, steel doors, concrete ceilings with recessed lighting. We would stand at opposite ends of the hallways and just RIFLE those things to each other!
Seemed to take forever for them to slow long enough to be able to catch them.