Circle City Wiffle Ball All-Star Night raises money for childhood cancer fund

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — When Brendan Dudas archetypal decided to commencement the Circle City Wiffle Ball league, it was conscionable a mode to enactment connected with immoderate of his puerility friends.

While successful mediate school, helium would invitation friends to his parents’ backyard to travel retired and play.

Now, respective years later, his league has 8 teams, sponsors and the aforesaid tract wherever helium grew up is present called “The Dirtyard,” which has go known arsenic 1 of the champion successful the state for the sport. During the season, they vie until they crown a league champion, but what Dudas whitethorn look guardant to astir is what happens soon after.

Since 2014, they’ve watched the league’s all-star night turn on with the origin down it: “Wifflin’ For Whitley.”

The fundraiser is named aft Dudas’ niece who died successful 2015 warring a uncommon signifier of encephalon crab called DIPG. All of the wealth they rise from the lawsuit goes toward probe and projects attached to the Whitley’s Wishes fund. Dudas says it’s a mode to marque radical alert of the crab portion keeping her representation alive.

He says astatine their archetypal all-star nighttime successful 2014, they had 18 radical attend, but successful 7 years, he’s seen the enactment for the lawsuit and the origin turn successful a large way.

“Now radical enactment the obstruction with fireworks,” Dudas said. “It’s amazing. I can’t enactment it into words what it means and it’s connected the backs of everybody successful the assemblage and each the players that travel retired present and truly attraction astir what we’re doing.”

Watch the videos to perceive much from Dudas and the league’s lawman commissioner, Rudy Lyon, who besides got to trial immoderate of his champion pitching connected News 8’s Randall Newsome.

Click here to get tickets to Circle City Wiffle All-Star Night.