40/40 Club

Casey became the third member in 2001

It's easy to look at one particular number, or one feat when trying to find the best wiffleball player in the league. But if you really want to find who's put up the best all-round season, it's hard to ignore the members of the "40/40 Club."

It's a very exclusive club, boasting only three members. Part of the exclusion is thanks to the enormous accomplishments it asks its members to produce. Essentially, if you want to be a member (and really, who doesn't?), you have to put up good enough numbers to get a 40.00 rating in BOTH your hitting and your pitching. Believe it or not, only three players in the history of the league have pulled it off. Expectedly, Scott Carmichael is one of them, and he was also the first, forming the club in 1996. He's since pulled off the feat four more times (1998-2001).

Close but no cigar Name Year Bat. Rat. Pit. Rat Matt Holmberg 1999 40.72 38.72 Joey Creighton 2001 45.30 38.12 Ian Byrd 2002 36.56 43.68 James Vassar 1999 34.23 47.12

Joey Creighton was the second to do it, in 1999, and he did it again in 2000. Finally, Casey Sylvester joined the club in 2001, barely making the cut with his bat, posting a 40.15 rating. Numerous other people have come close, but there's something about the "40/30 Club" that just doesn't have the same ring. Still, we think they deserve mention.