Talk:Tetherball
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When was tetherball invented and who invented it?
Im guessing some kids thought of attaching a ball to a basketball pole or something that was broken.--Metallurgist 04:10, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Swingball Origins?
Is swingball used in a certain locations or does it vary from place to place? I have never heard it called that in the US, so does anyone know if it is a UK saying or somewhere else?
Never heard of it. Might be a fake name used in a movie. --Metallurgist 02:17, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
It was always called Swingball when I was growing up in the UK (I'm now 38). I'd never heard it called Tetherball before. --Pearcey 02:17, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
The multiple sections on swingball need to be brought together and the idea that you could use a table tennis bat corrected. Turkeyphant 21:02, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
"There is a version of this game called Swingball, where the two opposing players hold bats, and hit a tennis ball that is connected onto the rope.[citation needed] This is substantially different from Tetherball. However, the term Swingball refers to an entire different game involving swings and a soccer ball.[citation needed] In Australia this game is called Totem Tennis.[citation needed]" The portion on 'totem tennis' or the version of "swingball" involving a soccer ball and fundamentally nothing like tetherball it sounds like does not need to be on this page as a disambiguation and should be moved to a separate article on swingball, and if necessary two separate articles for swingball with an appropriate disambiguation page should be created. As it is currently worded, the statement relating to swingball is confusing and has no citations. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.12.35.202 (talk) 03:30, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
