Toy Hall of Fame announces 2014 inductees

The ballots are in and counted, and the new inductees to the National Toy Hall of Fame are Rubik’s Cube, little green army men and bubbles.

Rubik’s Cube and little green army men were pretty cool, though I cannot recall ever lining up the colors of the Rubik’s Cube the way it showed on the package. But bubbles? C’mon. I would have voted for the Hasbro Spirograph before I voted for bubbles.

Last year, I cast a write-in vote for electric football. This year I wrote in BAS-KET, an old basketball game that was played with metallic levers and a ping-pong ball. The only problem is that the committee does not accept write-in votes.

My brother and I once replayed the Indiana high school basketball Hammond sectional with BAS-KET. If I recall, Hammond Morton won. The game wasn’t true to life, as Hammond Morton never won the sectional, at least not in my day.

We also tried to replay the East Chicago sectional. But when my brother pulled way too hard on one of the metallic levers, the ping-pong ball went flying over the backboard and our dog came zipping across the shag carpet and ran off with it.