Make Your Own Softball ACRE

Described as an “unorthodox, satirical theater art softball game” by The Courier, a local Steuben newspaper, the SWWMYOSBL Championship Game pit rival made-up softball teams, the Steuben Sissies and the Crawford County Kick-A-Poos in an all-too-real knock-down drag-out battle for first place. Each of the 12 bats and 10 balls were designed and built by the artist/players from scavenged sticks, boards, tape, rocks, bicycle tubes, saran wrap, and farm implements.

2010
Dimensions variable
Artist-made bats and balls (goldenrod, found farm implements, galvanized pipe, plywood, carved found wood, cow femur, tape, bike tubes, dustmasks, glue, sawdust, dust, plastic wrap, rock, rubber bands, water balloons), hand-silkscreened team jerseys, megaphone, hayfield.

Photo by Jennifer Ray.