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As the off-screen narrator explains the rules, we watch a game of donkey baseball, with the score tied, well into extra innings. The pitcher, catcher and batter are on their feet; all other...
Depending on the time of year, we play either Donkey Basketball, Donkey Baseball or run “Celebrity” Donkey Races! Any sport you choose consists of 1-1/2 hours of donkey-loving fun for all ages!
In its 1934 manifestation, donkey baseball let the donkeys run, and the players ride. " [A]ll participants, excepting the catcher, pitcher and the batsman are astride donkeys. After hitting the ball it is necessary for the hitter to get on the back of a donkey and make his way to first base before the fielders, also on donkeys, retrieve the ball."
Donkey baseball is baseball on donkeys — with modifications. The pitcher and catcher are not astride donkeys. Neither is the batter, at first.
Donkey Baseball: Directed by John Waters. With Pete Smith, Eddie Baker, Jack 'Tiny' Lipson, Robert Milasch. Highlights the odd 1930s fad of playing baseball while riding donkeys.
But while we wait for some genius billionaire to fund the Equestrian Baseball League, there is still one sport fit for kings and ballplayers alike. I speak, naturally, of donkey baseball. It's the perfect combination of baseball, animals and rules like : "All fielders must ride their donkeys to within one step of the ball before dismounting to ...
Donkey baseball requires the ball playing ability of Mickey Mantel, the horsemanship of a rodeo performer, the vocabulary of a Missouri mule skinner, the sense of humour of Bob Hope all rolled into one.
It was never quite as rollicking as its name seemed to promise, and if something else killed vaudeville donkey baseball was certainly one of the death convulsions of House of David baseball....
In 1934 an alternate method of playing baseball was founded by the self-proclaimed “father of donkey baseball,” Ray L. Doan of Muscatine, Ia. This form of baseball was so popular, and amusing John Waters directed a short written and narrated by Pete Smith in 1935.
For the uninitiated, donkey baseball is baseball played while riding donkeys—the game we all know with a few additional rules. You could get off your donkey to field a ground ball or...