Handmade Sports Equipment

The esoteric collection of objects appearing in the accompanying image is actually an assortment of handmade sports equipment.

Can you find the baseball?

Well, maybe not. But there's a surprisingly battable Paper ball, made of: "crushed paper bound with masking tape." And the soccer-worthy Sock ball - being a "sock, stuffed with other sock or paper and tied off." And of course, the footballish Foam ball, made of: "block or pieces of foam rubber, stuffed inside pantyhose." Not to mention the volleyball-transforming Garbage bag ball. Actually, "a garbage bag filled with balloons or crumpled newspaper."

And then there's the handmade hangar-and-pantyhose tennis-racquet-like thing, and the paper hoops for something quite Quoits-like, and the variety of wonderfully flingable sock-and-ball tether balls...

It's a truly inspiring collection - inspiring us to make our own stuff, and play our own sports with our own rules, just for the fun of it.

Because that's what sports are really for. The fun of it. Aren't they?