GAME #69: Baseball Review
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Game Categories:
Opener Energizer Communication
Team-building Review Topical
❖ Purpose: To use the familiar game of baseball as a backdrop to a competitive review session. ❖ Time Required: 20 to 30 minutes (or longer, depending on the amount of material to be reviewed).
❖ Size of Group: 12 or more.
❖ Materials Required: Masking tape, colored poster board, one large fuzzy die. ❖ The Exercise in Action: America’s pastime becomes the basis of a review game in Catherine Bolin’s sessions. She clears the center of the room (or just a baseline path if conditions don’t permit clearing the entire floor) to make a baseball diamond. Then, she uses masking tape to connect “bases” of colored poster board (bases alone work fine if tape removal poses a problem). Two teams are chosen, and each is seated in a “dugout” of chairs on opposing baselines in “batting order.” The teams create names and logos. Depending on time constraints, participants may design team pennants and flipchart-sized banners. Bolin, a chemistry instructor at Duke Power/Catawba Nuclear Station, York, SC, tosses a coin to choose which team is first at the plate. She then “pitches” a question. Teammates are allowed to shout hints to the batter. If the batter answers correctly, a large die—the kind that is typically hung from car mirrors—is tossed. If a one comes up, the player advances to first base, two equals a double, three a triple, and four a home run. Five indicates a foul, and the player must field another question. There are two ways to be put out: by rolling a six on the die or by answering a question incorrectly. Players who reach a base advance when “forced” by the next runner. After three outs, the other team takes a turn at bat. The process is repeated for as many innings as time permits. Score is kept to keep things lively, but both teams are awarded prizes with the explanation that every- one who learns is a winner.
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