Public events tend to be either very well organized (like a baseball game) or, like a street fair, offering a wide variety of activities, allowing people to come and go at will.

This is the event flow for a public festival, where participants come and go, and can range from 6 to 600. Maybe 6000.

You, too, can have your very own Junkyard Sports® Fest:

Here's a list showing you the kind of things you might want to think about as you get the Hoseball rolling.

After you've collected all the junk it's a good time to start getting together with maybe five or so people and spending time, from time-to-time, making up as many sports as you can, using as much of the available junk as possible. Or, start out with a bunch of socks and get the Junkmasters-in-training to help you collect everything else.

Starting:

OK. It's event time. Set up the signs, dump the junk, and start playing. As people trickle in, include them in the game. Continue until you get maybe 30 people.

Sports-making:

Once the group of players is large enough - 30 or so - about half the Junkmasters break off and set up a new game somewhere else. They bring all the junk not in use, and begin developing a new sport. This continues for about an hour until at least four different games are going on. Junkmasters then move from game to game, inviting players to do the same.

Closing:

Half an hour before the event closes, Junkmasters begin gathering and distributing junk, awarding junk as if it were a trophy or a diploma. Improvisational glee clubs and junkyard bands, and anyone who wants to, provide musical accompaniment.

Large crowd, lots of time?

Bring uniform-making junk and music-making junk, create an impropmtu improvisational half-time show.

Bring trophy making junk.

Make trophies.