Your Flipping Coin

[Rich]

Originally Posted by The Roamin' Umpire

Like a few other folks, I use a circa-1970 dollar coin. With middle school games, I show both sides heads and tails, and then I tell the visitors "Ok, if you can tell me who this is, you can have the ball."

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Silence. Or occasionally someone comes up with "Roosevelt?"

Then I try the home team. Same response. So I say "Guess we'll have to flip it."

I haven't figured out yet what I'm going to do if someone actually gets it right.

I used a Kennedy half dollar until last season when I lost it. My wife found some 1970's era silver dollars at a coin shop in Maui last year on vacation and bought them and gave them to me as a little Christmas present. She knows me, so she bought me TWO of them. I hope they last the season. I couldn't use anything too sentimental as I tend to lose things