147 - base runner

147 - base runner, a photo by .reid. on Flickr.

Eric went to an estate auction yesterday, and he came home with a $5 prize--a game called Electric Baseball.

The "baseballs" are magnets that get thrown against a piece of metal that you hit with a plastic "bat," and if you get a hit, you flip a switch that makes the entire board vibrate, and the runners go sliding around this track to the bases.

It's good in theory, but it's nigh unto impossible to hit the "baseballs" past the pitching mound.