Spinners fans recently set the world record for most people popping bubble wrap simultaneously.
According to an article in Baseball Ink, Saturday July 17, 2010 at a Lowell Spinners baseball game in Lowell, Massachusetts, history was made when the World Record for most people popping bubble wrap simultaneously was set during the third inning of the game. The World Record was set to celebrate bubble wrap’s 50th birthday.
As fans arrived at the stadium, they were given a 1×1 sheet of bubble wrap and strict instructions to not pop it until the middle of the third inning. When the third inning came, the Spinners promotional team led a countdown as everyone in the stadium, including players, staff and members of the media. popped bubble wrap for 30 seconds. After the 30 seconds passed, the popped sheets were collected by staff to be counted. The final tally was 3,692 popped sheets, a new world record.
This isn’t the first world record set at a Spinners came. In 2004, the record for the largest game of “Duck, Duck, Goose” was set at the stadium and recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records.
The world record wasn’t the only way the Spinners fans celebrated bubble wrap’s 50th birthday. There was also a bubble wrap covered dance floor where 50-year-old fans danced to 50 cent. Also the 50th fan to enter the stadium won a year’s supply of popcorn when the 50th out of the game was made.
For more information, read the full article at BaseballInk.com.