No.304
Alaskan Baseball: Run around Your Team
Japanese name: アラスカン・ベースボール（仲間の周りを走る）
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Diagram key
- A
- Attacking team: run outside your teammates.
- B
- Defending team: pass the ball along the line.
Materials
- 1 soft ball
- Markers for the running route and boundaries
How to play
- Divide into attacking and defending teams. Attackers form a small circle with a running route around its outside. Defenders wait in a separate ball-retrieval area.
- One attacker throws underarm towards an unoccupied part of the defending area, then runs around the outside of their teammates’ circle. Each completed lap earns one point.
- Defenders form a single line behind the person who retrieves the ball. Pass it from front to back, alternating over the head and between the legs.
- The last defender calls “Stop!” on receiving the ball. The runner stops. Count only fully completed laps, not a partly finished lap.
- Swap attacking and defending teams and repeat. Choose a different thrower-runner each time. Finish when everyone on both teams has taken that role once, then compare total points.
Ways to adapt
Younger primary: walk the laps and pass only at waist height. Older primary: alternate overhead and between-the-legs passes. Keep team sizes as equal as possible.