The worn, blue wiffle ball bat I had might as well have been a pristine Louisville Slugger as I smacked the lights out of the hollow, plastic imitation baseball.

The worn, blue wiffle ball bat I had might as well have been a pristine Louisville Slugger as I smacked the lights out of the hollow, plastic imitation baseball.

The University of Hawaii baseball team has received a commitment from one of the top junior college hitters.

How’s it going? “They’re watching TV, reading, drawing, playing Barbies/figures, playing ‘baseball’ in the yard with a tennis ball and a wiffle ball bat,” she wrote in an email.