Eskimo Baseball....AKA "Bat"

Eskimo baseball! Also known as "Bat." It is a rather interesting game. It has its similarities and differences from the basball game we all know and love. The game starts, like the picture abve picking teams.
Once you have picked teams, one team is "on the bottom." (What we know as in the field.)
The other team is "on the top." What we know as up to bat.
There is a pitcher and a batter. When the batter is ready to take a swing, he/she touches the bat to the ball in the pitchers hand. The pitcher then tosses the ball up and away the batter will swing.After you have "batted," you stand behind the batter and wait until that perfect pitch and the perfect hit. Then you run like a polar bear is chasing you to the designated spot. Once you reach the spot (what we would call a base) you have 2 options - run back.....or stay there and wait.

There are no outs as we know them. When the team "on top" is running, the team "on bottom" must hit the runners with the ball. When this happens, the team on the bottom runs to either the spot or where you hit, as fast as they can.

While the team on the bottom is trying to become the team on the top. The team that was on the top can pick up the ball and hit someone trying to be on the top. If that is the case, the team that was on top runs back to the spot or to bat to regain their title as "The Team on Top."
It sounds rather confusing but really isn't once you start to play. There are definetly LESS rules then the american baseball.

Oh yeah, they really don't use a bat, as we know it. They use a log that someone has carved down to be a "good bat." They use any kind of ball for their ball.

Maybe we can play this summer???????