The batter tightens his grip around the bat and stares down the pitcher with a flinty look. The pitcher winds up and hurls the ball with all his might. WOOSH PLOP! As the golf-ball-sized ball lands in the catcher’s mitt, the struck-out batter dejectedly walks away from the plate, leaving his broomstick-width bat behind. Wait, […] This article was originally published on The Art of Manliness.| Games & Tricks Archives | The Art of Manliness
Can put your head through a piece of paper? Even with a full-size piece of printer paper, this can seem impossible. Doing it with just a strip a paper seems doubly so. Challenging other people to stick their head through a piece of paper makes for a fun gag, because its achievement initially seems hopeless, […]| The Art of Manliness
Image from paoloboza I ran across this poem by an anonymous author the other day. I think it sums up nicely how a man should approach life: play fair, don’t whine when things don’t go your way, and bust your butt in everything you do. Play the game of life well, and you’ll be a […]| The Art of Manliness
Benjamin Franklin's 13 virtues: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, humility,| The Art of Manliness
Even though pen and paper games have been supplanted by phone toggling when it comes to passing the time, it’s still handy to keep a few of them handy.| The Art of Manliness
