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🥎 Is Wiffle Ball the New Pickleball?

Let’s take a quick break from the Hot Stove and talk some… Wiffle ball.

Yep — the backyard game.
Plastic ball. Plastic bat. Childhood chaos.

Go ahead and laugh — plastic is becoming platinum.

Because Wiffle ball is now a professional sport. And the Celebs are jumping in.

Not beer-league-at-the-park “pro.”
Real leagues. Real owners. Real juice.

Major League Wiffle Ball (MLW)

The original Wiffle ball powerhouse.

Born in 2009 in a Michigan front yard — the Schultz brothers (Kyle, Brendan, Daniel) chalked baselines on the driveway and taped a strike-zone board to a trash can. One camera rolling. Backyard dreams on YouTube.

Fast-forward:

500K subscribers. 86M+ YouTube views.
Eight teams. Brighton, Michigan.

Not-so-little-league anymore:

• 2022 World Series — SoFi Stadium
• 2025 All-Star Game — University of Michigan

Backyard game → Big-league venues.

They travel — Michigan, Ohio, New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, Texas, Arizona.
Public events where anybody can show up and mash.

Big League Wiffle Ball (BLW)

Launched in 2020 by a bored 13-year-old in Scottsdale named Logan Rose — backyard videos, pandemic pastime, plastic-ball chaos on camera.

Five years later?

Fall 2025: BLW made the leap to a full 10-team professional league — with an ownership group straight from a sports-biz fantasy draft:

• Kevin Costner — Field of Dreams Kevin Costner — L.A. Naturals
• Gary Vaynerchuk — NY Green Apples
• David Adelman — Philly Wiffle Club
• Marc Lasry — Vegas Scorpions
• Dude Perfect — Dallas Pandas

Field of Dreams meets TikTok — and the money says it’s working.

Backyard content → Legit league infrastructure.
What started as quarantine boredom just turned pro.

Why It Sticks

• Virality — 40-foot sliders = algorithm cheat code
• Speed — 60-minute games. Snack before bedtime.
• Energy — baseball without the “wrap it up already.”
• Cost — $20 bat > $300 pickleball paddle + court fees.
• Accessibility — teens to 40-somethings still chasing glory.

Pickleball crawled.
Wiffle ball is already stealing home.

What’s Next

• Travel is covered — because pros don’t carpool.
• Players getting paid to sling plastic
• Streaming deals — already sniffing around

Once algorithms fall in love, sponsors fall in line.
And Gary Vee did not invest for backyard vibes.

Logan Rose thinks Wiffle ball could be the next pickleball.

Honestly? It might already be.

Pickleball needed courts.
Wiffle ball needs turf and a $20 Target run.

Not bad for a plastic ball we used to lose in the bushes.

Now — back to the Hot Stove. 🔥

John Boxley
High N Tight

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