Is Over The Line played anywhere with any regularity other than in San Diego?
Good thing you mention this, I was picturing something like this
They call them Medizinball in German and they are torture for kids in the hands of sadistic physical education teachers. They are made of thick leather and can weigh up to 11 kg! Horrible things, horrible memories.
“Red hots” just means throwing the ball at the batter (vs first base, etc.) to record an out. Also done with tennis-ball “baseball” and whiffleball. There was a strategy to getting a batter out this way, especially with a cabbageball. Throw it from too far away, it was easy to dodge. Try to get in too close to make the red-hot a gimme, then the batter might reach base.
EDIT: “Red hots” are the kind of thing that’s called different things in different places. There were even alternate names for it here, but I can’t remember them anymore.
See also “ghost runners”. I can’t remember if all the ghost runners would be out if the fielder pegged the batter out with a thrown cabbageball.
Just for comparison: from left to right is a 16" Chicago-style softball, a “regular” (12" circumference) softball, and a regulation baseball.
@kenobi_65 , that thing’s not gray and has no thread hanging out of it. No dog’s teeth marks anywhere. Are you sure that’s a legit cabbageball 
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Pesäpallo. It’s Finnish baseball.
Teqball. It’s a combination of soccer and… wait for it… table tennis. It’s popular in Hungary
LOL! Clearly it is in non-well-loved condition.
Also called “medicine balls” in US English. Heavy weighted things used for various calisthenics. And ritual abuse by high school coaches. Medicine ball - Wikipedia.
I remember one game we played in school with a medicine ball that was actually fun. The class got divided into two teams who gathered in each half of the field. Every player started with a small rubber ball in his hand. A medicine ball was placed at the middle spot. Now everybody threw their little rubber ball at the medicine ball with the goal of driving it deep into the half of the other team. If it made it over the base line, it was a point. We often played this as the last activity of a two hour sport ed class, to end it with a game (almost) everybody could enjoy.
I don’t remember the name of the game, or if it even had an official one.
Google Gemini offers:
- Balltreiben / Ball vertreiben (German): Translating directly to “Ball Driving” or “Ball Expelling,” this is the official textbook term used in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
- Rollmops (German/Swiss): A very common gym class variant. In some versions, teams roll smaller medicine balls to push a volleyball, while in others, gym balls are thrown to push a central medicine ball.
- Schweinetreiben (German): Literally translating to “Pig Driving”. In this slightly chaotic variant, teams use small balls to drive a central medicine ball toward specific boundaries or opposing benches.
May all be true, but I don’t remember any of these names.
ETA: but I like Rollmops the best, because it’s a funny word. It is a German culinary specialty and literally means “rolled pug”, but don’t worry, no dogs have ever been harmed in making it.
There’s a sport that’s a combination of volleyball and soccer. I know it’s played in Brazil, usually at the beach. Don’t know if it has a distinct name. Searches for Brazillian beach volleyball just get hits about regular beach volleyball.
I’m having a hard time seeing how to combine soccer with any net sport…
A similar game is often played by footballers for fun, at the end of a training session, on a volleyball or tennis court, or a on a beach volleyball court. Similar rules like tennis and/or volleyball, but with a football and only with the feet or head. In Germany it’s called football tennis (Fußballtennis).
(sorry, only German link)
Ice Tennis is a new sport, so far I think just in Canada.
A friend of mine calls it Ostfriesensushi, because they are popular in East Frisia. It looks like this
They are a great hangover cure for breakfast.
First time I hear the term used for a “sport” with medicine balls. It fits the OP’s question, that’s for sure.
To be honest, I like them better than real sushi. The one time I tried that, I was underwhelmed, Rollmops is much more savory.
ETA: and if you’re wondering (@Pardel-Lux and maybe others) why I as an outspoken vegetarian praise Rollmops: I reintroduced fish and sea fruit into my diet a few years ago, but very rarely. I still use to call myself a vegetarian, because ovo-lacto-pescetarian-vegetarian is much too clumsy…
Like kickball?
That’s because you are not Brazilian.