Object: a bat or bats, plastic as young children might use, and/or regulation bats.

Do you like to play baseball? (Swing a regular bat if you have room.) Or are you practicing to play softball? (If a child has brought the practice plastic bat, have them show their batting style.)

When your grandfathers were ball players there may have been pinch hitters but not designated hitters. I am not sure of the rules so I am not going to go into detail. In our sandlot games, a pinch hitter was someone to go to bat when another player was injured. Sometimes one of our friends was going by and we called him (or …