Boy Killed While Playing 500

[Boom_70]

Anyone every hear of a game called 500 in relation to baseball? The boy was playing that game when he was hit in head with baseball.

What an awful tragedy:

A 13-year-old boy died Saturday afternoon when he was struck in the head by a baseball while on vacation with his family on Prince Edward Island, Canada.

John Alexander Leslie was in the field playing a game with a group of other boys at Red Point Provincial Park when he was struck around 11:30 a.m. Saturday.

His death was announced here in an e-mail from Saxe Middle School to parents of students Monday.

According to published reports from Prince Edward Island, family members performed CPR until emergency responders arrived.

Published reports quoting park officials said the family regularly visited Prince Edward Island each year.

According to the Canadian Press, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have ruled the death an accident.

 

[Huggy]

We used to play a game called 500 Up. A batter would hit the ball to a bunch of fielders. Catch it in the air, get 100 points, one bounce 75, two bounces 50 etc. First to 500 is the next batter.

 

[JR]

Same game, Huggy.

I'm trying to figure out why Boom posted this.

Maybe he wants 500 banned.

 

[Boom_70]

Same game, Huggy.

I'm trying to figure out why Boom posted this.

Maybe he wants 500 banned.

jr - true to form plays the ass hole.

 

[Flying Headbutt]

I don't think he has an agenda at all here. Out of all the games I played as a kid, 500 would be among the very last I'd ever think would be able to kill anyone. This is just amazing.

 

[JR]

Boom always has an agenda. If it had been posted by anyone else I wouldn't give it a second thought.

Or maybe he always thought Prince Edward Island was in the English Channel and wanted to share his newfound knowledge.

 

[Boom_70]

Boom always has an agenda. If it had been posted by anyone else I wouldn't give it a second thought.

Or maybe he always thought Prince Edward Island was in the English Channel and wanted to share his newfound knowledge.

ok jr you caught me. My agenda is that my sister knows the family and is terribly crushed by such a sad story. She asked me if I ever heard of 500 which I had not . So I figured someone here could explain it. It does seem hard to fathom how someone could be killed playing it.

You can go back to being the asshole that you always are.

 

[Mayfly]

What next? Run-down?

 

[Boom_70]

I don't think he has an agenda at all here. Out of all the games I played as a kid, 500 would be among the very last I'd ever think would be able to kill anyone. This is just amazing.

FHB - how does game work ? a batter hitting non pitched ball to other players? seems safe enough.

 

[21]

Jesus, jr, a 13 year old boy was killed playing with his family on vacation. Get the **** over yourself already.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

I don't think he has an agenda at all here. Out of all the games I played as a kid, 500 would be among the very last I'd ever think would be able to kill anyone. This is just amazing.

The way we played it, I'm shocked we DIDN'T kill anyone. We did it with a baseball, but it really found its groove when we switched from a baseball in a field to a volleyball in the pool. 100 points for catching the ball, 50 for retrieving it after it hit the water. Whoever got the ball was the next one to throw. 500 wins (duh). Of course, we always threw it so someone couldn't catch it, so they couldn't get the 100 points, and the person who eventually got the ball earned it. Like a rugby scrum. It was so brutal, if we played it now, we'd call it 300.

And I'd go ape**** to play it again right now.

 

[Boom_70]

I don't think he has an agenda at all here. Out of all the games I played as a kid, 500 would be among the very last I'd ever think would be able to kill anyone. This is just amazing.

The way we played it, I'm shocked we DIDN'T kill anyone. We did it with a baseball, but it really found its groove when we switched from a baseball in a field to a volleyball in the pool. 100 points for catching the ball, 50 for retrieving it after it hit the water. Whoever got the ball was the next one to throw. 500 wins (duh). Of course, we always threw it so someone couldn't catch it, so they couldn't get the 100 points, and the person who eventually got the ball earned it. Like a rugby scrum. It was so brutal, if we played it now, we'd call it 300.

And I'd go ape**** to play it again right now.

So is it a free for all with fielders all battling for ball?

 

[Mystery_Meat]

I don't think he has an agenda at all here. Out of all the games I played as a kid, 500 would be among the very last I'd ever think would be able to kill anyone. This is just amazing.

The way we played it, I'm shocked we DIDN'T kill anyone. We did it with a baseball, but it really found its groove when we switched from a baseball in a field to a volleyball in the pool. 100 points for catching the ball, 50 for retrieving it after it hit the water. Whoever got the ball was the next one to throw. 500 wins (duh). Of course, we always threw it so someone couldn't catch it, so they couldn't get the 100 points, and the person who eventually got the ball earned it. Like a rugby scrum. It was so brutal, if we played it now, we'd call it 300.

And I'd go ape**** to play it again right now.

So is it a free for all with fielders all battling for ball?

Pretty much, yeah, though I don't think we ever played with a bat. Throwing a ball is obviously a lot safer than batting it, at least for the fielders. Sounds like someone got too close to the batter to get the ball, because even without a bat, we all played pretty far from the thrower.

 

[HoopsMcCann]

we played with a football too -- and it was like a punt return with some folks preferring to hit people instead of going for the ball

 

[Mystery_Meat]

we played with a football too -- and it was like a punt return with some folks preferring to hit people instead of going for the ball

Come to think of it, we might have tried it with a football a couple of times too. We tried with a frisbee, but y'know, just no.

 

[doubledown68]

we played with a football too -- and it was like a punt return with some folks preferring to hit people instead of going for the ball

That's how we played it... and it was a death scrum. Though the ball was dead if not caught on the first bounce.

 

[Huggy]

We tried it once during a practice with my son's t-ball team this year but with the kids racing around looking up for balls and crashing into each other or falling down with other kids landing on top of them we figured it was just a tad too dangerous for this group.

 

[Moderator1]

We did it with a pitcher when we had enough. The batter moved to the pitcher's spot and then back to the scrum. No pitcher, you'd toss it and hit it. The rules vary slightly. But basically it was indeed 100 for a fly, 75 for a one bounce and so on. You could call others off but you'd get negative points if you missed and they stayed with you even when the batter changed. Everything else was reset to zero.

The pitcher was the only guy we had in the infield. Someone would have to hit a hell of a shot to kill someone.

 

[Boom_70]

seems like the greater danger for injury is from the scrum . I can't imagine who the other kids must feel . Just a heartbreaking story .

 

[Flying Headbutt]

We generally used a football. Only the person throwing would call out a number anywhere between 1 and 499. And there was a scrum, yes. It was like a full contact, free for all punt return.