Book excerpt: Boomerist Fred Lavner takes you back in time for a lighthearted look at the great games we played with a simple rubber ball. Follow Fred as he tells his tall tales of how the rubber plant evolved over thousands of years to create the iconic Spaldeen Hi-Bounce Pinky and the Pimple Ball, so kids of all ages could entertain themselves for hours and days with all kinds of nifty street games.