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J.J. Wiffleball League
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JJ Wiffleball League is an independent, ran wiffleball league ran by two young men in Dedham, Massachusetts.The League began in 2005, with only two teams, there is currently four teams now (Red Sox,Twins,Blue Jays,Cubs).The current JJWL Champions are the Eagles, in which now they are extinct with the new four franchises. The League is ran on a regular season, and a annual post season, or playoffs. The regular season is on a ten game schedule or 7 games. Three rounds in the playoffs. The league rules do not include a designated hitter for each team. The old rules included this, but were changed as there would be only one player on each team. After the expansion teams were included in the league, The JJ Wiffleball league's offices declared there would be two division's. The two divisions were made the Western Division and the Eastern Division.

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2005 Season
The JJ Wiffleball League dates back to May 2005, when Jeff Hammersley, and Joey Connoly were thinking about creating a new league. Their dream came true when they signed a bill to create the league.In June 21st 2005, the first ever game in league history was played. It was called Opening Day 2005. The League still uses the Opening Day slogan every year on the first game of the saeson. The score of the fist game was Chieftans(now called the Bulldogs)12, and the Cougars 7. After that game no more games were played due to dissagrements between the two parties. The season was called, and it ended on strike, without a plyoff tournament. This meant the first season had no champion. The dispute over weather the Chieftans won the championship ended in the beginning of 2007 season, after it was ruled their was no playoffs.Which meant there was no champion.

2006 Season
The 2006 season began without any arguments from the 2005 season. It began with spring training going for three months, which is now a league law. It runs throught March and goes to the end of May. The season began on June 20th 2006. The first game was another Bulldogs victory. This year was the first ever playoffs which began in August. The championship series between the Bulldogs and the Cougars, went to three games. The Bulldogs won the championship two games to one. The championship M.V.P was named Joey Connoly of the Bulldogs. After the championship, the first ever Father vs. Son game was played. The sons beat the fathers by 10. The year was called the greatest in league history.

2007 Season
The 2007 season was one of the best as the Cougars and Bulldogs played in the greatest wiffleball game ever on Opening Day 2007. The Bulldogs ended up winning again, making it 3 straight years that the Cougars had lost on Opening Day. The season ended short, as the League had no more resources. The 2007 playoffs began at Jeffway Park, with the Bulldogs, the number 1 seed, vs. the Cougars, the number two seed. The Bulldogs were heavy favorites, but the Cougars did not let that hurt their chances on a championship upset over their rivals. The Cougars defeated the Bulldogs in game 1, 2-1. It was a pitching duel which went down to the wire. Game 2 outcome was similar to the first as the Cougars defeated the Bulldogs 2-0 to win their first championship. It was the first shout out in champinship series history, and first sweep as well.

2008 Season, The Expansion Year
Following the record setting 2007 season, the JJ Wiffleball League needed more money for it's annual revenue at the end of the year. The league decided to create a expansion format to the league.With this, the league would be able to have more money for the teams. The expansion teams would consider of only two teams. The teams which were chosen were to be played by Mike and Brian Burke. They were chosen basely on how they are his first cousuins. Their teams were the Rams and Eagles. They were to be in a completely different division, which was created for the expansion teams by the league president. This set up two divisions in the league. This would be the first time that there would be more than two teams in the history of the JJ Wiffleball League. The year went as suspected as the Bulldogs to be the favorites, along with the defending champions, Cougars. The Cougars struggled early along with the Eagles, which gave the Bulldogs the advantage they needed for a chance at a undefeated season. That is what they accomlished by destroying the Cougars and Eagles in every game they played against each other. The Playoffs came around and the Bulldogs were seated #1, Rams #2, Cougars #3, and finally Eagles #4. The Bulldogs easily defeated the Eagles in the first round, as the Cougars snuck by the Rams with a walk-off grand slam. This set up the 3rd time that the Bulldogs franchise would face the Cougars.The series began at Connolly Field with the Bulldogs winning the first game 6-2. The second game began amazingly. The score was at zero at regulation, as it went to extra innings. The Bulldogs snuck by by getting a two run single in the 5th. They became the fisrt team in the league to win the championship more than once.

2009 Season, the fifth anniversary
The Fifth season of the JJ Wiffleball League was the last year for one of it's original members Jeff Hammersley of the White Sox. Jeff told the entire JJWL fans and players eralier in the year that he would retire from the league for good.

JJWL All Star Game
The First all star game was played at Jeffway Park in 2006. It was with the players of the Terriers and the Cougars. There was ahome run derby before the game, which was the most exciting thing about the game. As the game's result was useless, the game was eventually droped from the schedule. In 2008, the all star game came back, this time with more than two people. The game featured the eastern all stars against the western all stars, for the right at home field advantage in the playoffs to the winner. The Western all stars crushed the eastern all stars to earn home field in the playoffs.No All-Star game was played in 2009.