ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) — A southern New Mexico city is hosting a donkey baseball game.
The Alamogordo Daily News reports (http://goo.gl/H1u3Iv) the Optimist Club of Alamogordo and the Wisconsin-based Dairyland Donkey Ball have invited Alamogordo Police Department and the U.S. Border Patrol to a friendly game of baseball while riding on donkeys.
Optimist Club Secretary Treasurer James Scott said in donkey baseball, the rules are like regular baseball but with a few twists.
The fielders are all on donkeys. They are allowed get off the donkey to pick the ball up but they have to get back on to throw it.