STEGER, IL – A little ’07 highlight video from our friends at Windy City Wiffle:

HARVARD – Jimmy “Chitwood” Galvan captured his third Fat Bastard Championship, along with Eric “It’s Good to Be” King and Lonnie “Snoop Drunky Drunk” Rucker, who claimed his second title, in leading Eatin’ Ain’t Cheatin to victory in the championship game, 7-5, overcoming an MVP performance from Ryan “Where You” Breen along with Ben “Spicolli” Taylor of ‘Tween the Bizzos.
Dustin and Elliot Nichols’ squad, How’s Your Wife and My Kids?, defeated We Shaved Our Balls for This? to take the Baxter Bowl crown.
Breen was the home run champion with 11 and also the Big Stick Award Winner. Chitwood was, once again, the Golden Arm winner, while Susan “Zanner” Sheppard won the Best Hands Award.
Other Than That, Mrs. Lincoln, How Was the Play? was voted Best Team Name.
Much more info, including scores, are available on the 2007 Tournament page. EDIT: A photo slide show is now available on the MEDIA page, with over 350 images, including every team and player.
Congratulations to all participants on another stellar chapter in the Fat Bastard fable.

“I wasn’t drunk I was just sick from the combination of beverages I wasn’t used to consuming. I was framed on the picture. I was just taking a nap before the Hall of Fame ceremony.”
- Lonnie “Snoop Drunky Drunk” Rucker, in explanation for his mid-day siesta.

“This busted my bubble, was hoping to get all this money and me and my team were going to arrive in my ‘Pimp-mobile’ because the Dogg has to arrive in style.”
- Lonnie “Snoop Drunky Drunk” Rucker, upon finding his chain email on Snopes.com and discovering that neither Microsoft nor AOL would be sending him thousands of dollars for forwarding emails to everyone in his address book.

Ebony and Ivory Claims Championship; Discharge Repeats to Win Baxter Bowl
HARVARD YARDS – the 2004 Fat Bastard Wiffle Ball Extravaganza, the fifth annual display of athletic ineptitude, is in the books, presented before 200 wiffle fans at Harvard Yards, near Grand Rapids, Michigan on August 14th.
We’ve seen the Good, the Fat and the Ugly…and a finals game without a Galvan. Chicago’s Ebony and Ivory, consisting of 2004 MVP Lonnie “The Professor” Rucker and Dave “Psycho” Kale, power-pitched and power-hit their way to the title, finishing under the lights and besting Michigan’s The Motherload brother team of Patrick and Kevin Hillary by a score of 3-0 on the strength of a fourth inning tater by the Professor.
Full details of the 2004 Fatty will soon be posted as the Committee sorts through the result to compile our final rankings.
Special thanks goes out to our sponsors: Logan’s Alley and the Cambridge House in Grand Rapids, Captian Jack’s in Muskegon on the Pere Marquette Beach, Zain’s Party Store on M-57 in Harvard, The Winter Inn in Greenville.
Also a huge thank you to our volunteers: Karen “Kiss the Cook” Ringler, Beverly “First Class” Fisher, Hal “Pops” Ringler, Corbin “The Moop” Owens, Ron “Don’t Call Me” Francis, Tonia Miller “Time”, Marci “Three” Dickensheets “in the Wind”, Amy “Chris” Shelton, Jason “The Barrister” Schnelker, Scott “Bubba” Leuchtman, and Christina “Winky” Binkley.

The Fatty has been voted “best tournament” by many other wiffle organizations and is unlike any other. Since the 2003 event, the Fat Bastard has been featured in the Chicago Tribune, The Times Northeast (IN), The Grand Rapids Press, Fast Plastic Magazine (online) and ESPN The Magazine. On the air, we’ve been on The Score (670 AM Chicago), The Locker Room Show (640 AM Grand Rapids) and the nationally sindicated Bob & Tom.
In the past, Harvard Yards has welcomed competitors from seven states and two countries to the friendly grounds.
This year’s activities will benefit the Family Readiness Group, out of Grand Ledge, which supports 90 of our U.S. Troops currently stationed in Iraq, and their families, including our own SGT. Trey Sumner.