OT: Sports toys/games from your younger days. (Pics encouraged)

[Jaydumo20]

Going through my parents attic is always a trip. Aside from those absolutely useless 3rd grade report cards and baby clothes in case my 38 year old unmarried brother somehow decides to have a baby, is a treasure trove of my old sports toys.
They don't make em like they used to, and in some cases that's a blessing.

I feel some of you have some gems up your sleeve. @GemParty (I'm looking at you)

Attach a picture of your favorites, if you can. You can swipe a Pic off the internet if you don't still own the thing.

While you're thinking here's SuperJock ready to drain a corner three in your face. Enjoy

 

[Jaydumo20]

3!

 

[businesslawyer]

For anyone interested in this thread, there is a toy museum in Queeche, Vermont, above a general store, that is a treasure trove of old toys and games.

 

[temery]

Going through my parents attic is always a trip. Aside from those absolutely useless 3rd grade report cards and baby clothes in case my 38 year old unmarried brother somehow decides to have a baby, is a treasure trove of my old sports toys.
They don't make em like they used to, and in some cases that's a blessing.

I feel some of you have some gems up your sleeve. @GemParty (I'm looking at you)

Attach a picture of your favorites, if you can. You can swipe a Pic off the internet if you don't still own the thing.

While you're thinking here's SuperJock ready to drain a corner three in your face. Enjoy

A lesson I learned a few years ago: If you are shopping for toys an adult would have played with when they were kids, don't go to a toy store and randomly ask people where to find "adult toys." Retro-toys would have been a better term.

 

[Chin Diesel]

I mean, how do you not include this.

 

[uconnfan68]

I mean, how do you not include this.

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What could go wrong?

 

[mauconnfan]

 

[Chin Diesel]

What could go wrong?

we're all here, so obviously nothing critical.

 

[Kitaman]

My first computer tablet:

 

[uconnfan68]

we're all here, so obviously nothing critical.

The ones left are here...

 

[temery]

I mean, how do you not include this.

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I refuse to believe those things ever killed anyone outside a freak accident.

We used to have pellet gun Jarts fights. Use your trash can shield to block pellets or to block falling Jarts. I think this was taught at the War College in RI in the 60s.

We stopped when CO2 pellet guns came out, and a few balloon knots threatened to sharpen the Jarts.

 

[Deepster]

One boring summer day, my friends and I set out on a quest to tear Stretch Armstrong apart. From what I recall, there were pliers and a vise involved. We also tried to draw and quarter him between two bicycles. None of it worked. We were maybe 10? That day ended with one of the moms yelling at us because we tossed ol' Stretch in a metal garbage can with some charcoal lighter fluid to finish the job.

 

[Waquoit]

I refuse to believe those things ever killed anyone outside a freak accident.

I don't think you need to die for it to be an issue. I remember more than one story of a Jart getting stuck in somebody's skull back in the day.

 

[temery]

I don't think you need to die for it to be an issue. I remember more than one story of a Jart getting stuck in somebody's skull back in the day.

Same thing happens in little league games at least once per season.

 

[CCSUblue]

Same thing happens in little league games at least once per season.

When I was a kid, I remember another kid getting hit in the face and his braces wire poking out through his cheek. The league instituted those football type face guards for a few seasons.

 

[Chin Diesel]

I refuse to believe those things ever killed anyone outside a freak accident.

We used to have pellet gun Jarts fights. Use your trash can shield to block pellets or to block falling Jarts. I think this was taught at the War College in RI in the 60s.

We stopped when CO2 pellet guns came out, and a few balloon knots threatened to sharpen the Jarts.

We would get in "fights" in the neighborhood using crab apples as pellets and weeping willow branches as whips.

Put enough kids outside for a long enough period of time and you found ways to entertain yourselves.

 

[FreeKlaiber]

Norton always won in my 1977-78 childhood play after seeing the yankee stadium robbery

 

[Chin Diesel]

I don't think you need to die for it to be an issue. I remember more than one story of a Jart getting stuck in somebody's skull back in the day.

Same thing happens in little league games at least once per season.

I saw a lot of freak little league accidents but never saw anyone get a jart stuck in their head at a little league game. Maybe a Babe Ruth league or Twilight League game but never little league.

 

[dvegas]

 

[NowInStorrs]

 

[ucp990411]

Strat-O-Matic

 

[GemParty]

Going through my parents attic is always a trip. Aside from those absolutely useless 3rd grade report cards and baby clothes in case my 38 year old unmarried brother somehow decides to have a baby, is a treasure trove of my old sports toys.
They don't make em like they used to, and in some cases that's a blessing.

I feel some of you have some gems up your sleeve. @GemParty (I'm looking at you)

Attach a picture of your favorites, if you can. You can swipe a Pic off the internet if you don't still own the thing.

While you're thinking here's SuperJock ready to drain a corner three in your face. Enjoy

Never had one of these more than 10 minutes. Either, ended up on a roof or in a tree.

 

[businesslawyer]

My first computer tablet:

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At least they never changed the software on that after you learned how to operate it

 

[StllH8L8ner]

My favorite adult toy…

My favorite youth toy…

 

[Kitaman]

At least they never changed the software on that after you learned how to operate it

Yeah but those accidental/untimely reboots caused by moving the hardware were annoying.