Batmobile prize tonight

C'mon, it's only a buck!

One of the more fun promotions at Alumni Field  is the Batmobile tennis ball toss. This kind of thing is pretty common in the NECBL and minor league baseball.

Every night, people are invited to purchase the right to throw a tennis ball at the Batmobile. Buy a ball for a buck, the ball has a number, give your name and number when you buy the ball.  Of that dollar, half goes to the team.  Of those tennis balls that make it into the car, one ball gets 25% of that night’s pot. The numbered ball is taken from the bunch that make it into the Batmobile, cross referenced with who bought it and...We have a winner!

 Some nights, the winner gets 10 bucks or as much as $50.00.

I wasn't there but Vicki says it looked like this.
Photo NOT  by Doc Gordon.

Dan Moylan played on the Memphis Redbirds, one of his teammates was named Skip Schumaker*.

Skip bought a junker of a car to get around and for laughs, would sometimes drive it on to the field and encourage fans to throw numbered tennis balls at the car. If your tennis ball made it, it got put into the season-long list of winners. From that list, a champion tennis ball was chosen and the car was awarded to the lucky tennis ball tosser.

After Vicki Bacon, Dan’s Mom, saw this in Memphis and returned to Keene, she told Kevin Watterson and a promotion was born. KeeneAuto Body helped in a big way with a donated car.  

Tonight’s the night for the season draw, the lucky winner will walk away with about $500.00

The view from inside the Batmobile.

*Skip is now with the Cincinnati Reds.