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By Ben Horney | Front Office Sports
Logan Rose was a bored 13-year-old when he started playing Wiffle ball in his Arizona backyard with friends and family during the COVID-19 pandemic. Six years later, the league he built has gone pro, featuring 10 teams with celebrity owners including actor Kevin Costner, 76ers and Devils part-owner David Adelman, and entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk.
Big League Wiffle Ball started small. Rose and his friends would play in the backyard, film games, and post highlights and recaps on social media. By the following fall, there was a tournament at Scottsdale Stadium, where the San Francisco Giants hold spring training, with 25 teams.
For the next few years, Big League Wiffle Ball continued playing annual tournaments at Scottsdale Stadium. The league evolved—Rose and his friends developed a draft process and started to see people travel from out of state to compete.
“It kind of took off,” Rose, now 19, tells Front Office Sports. “The tournament blew up.”
