Group Wants to Bring Half Ball Back to Charlestown

A group of local organizers are trying to bring Half Ball back to Charlestown. They're hosting a planning meeting this Saturday from 2:30 to 4 p.m. at the and everyone is welcome to attend.

Here's what organizers are saying in their Facebook event invite:

If you lived in and around a major city in the 1950s and 1960s, you probably played halfball all day long. In fact, you probably thought you invented halfball. 

Halfball began when a group of kids were playing a stickball game and the white pimple ball split in half. Having no money for a new ball, the boys started throwing the ball at each other. All of a sudden one of the halfballs began to float toward the batter like a flying saucer. Legend has it that the batter doubled off a triple decker. Halfball was born. 

Not only from school walls to triple deckers, from Dorchester to Roslindale, and all the way to the Cape, the game still flourishes today in cities and neighborhoods across the country, and in the memories of those of us who don't swing so hard anymore. 

Today's kids are discovering halfball. They benefit from finding a new game away from the computer, and away from having nothing better to do.

Sounds good to me. For more info, you can also email organizers at halfballtourney@gmail.com. You can also friend them on Facebook.