Prehistoric Autographed Base Ball
circa 1,250,689,311 BCE
During the Plasticene Age, a popular rite of passage for young men was the sport known as Base Ball.
The game was played with a smooth round rock, known as a Ball. The object of the game was to hunt and kill a primitive flesh-eating beast known as The Base.
The Base was a gargantuan carnivore towering sixty to seventy feet in height. Huge front legs could grasp and crush a young player; an oversized mouth was able to ingest a complete teenager in one gulp.
The sport was played deep in the primeval woods. All the young men of the tribe would surround The Base in a huge circle, each hurling a stone Ball at the predator’s head.
The hunter who killed the creature got to go back to the village and autograph the deadly Ball; the ones who didn’t became prehistoric lunch.
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