This sporting goods item most likely sad to say could not even be sold to kids today in this sad world without litigation probably being involved. I do have very fond memories of it , it was made by a company named SUN RUBBER, out of OHIO, which had been around since the 30's but went out of business, in the mid 70's. I found one dated SUN RUBBER 1969, at a garage sale, a few years ago. The Red-eye playballs we had as kids are long gone, can't say for sure what ever happened to them. The thing was a crazy looking yellow rubber or rubber/vinyl playball , but it was not practical in the sense you could not roll it normally like most playballs , nor really throw it, except by one of the spikes, it could hurt sometimes if you tried to kick the thing, or even play catch with it, though I gather this was the object of the "game" with this thing, it had 6 spikes ,two of which were painted red. I was only a kid around 7 or 8 when this CRAZY item must have been sold, so I do not remember any tv commercials about it , or much else except for we had our mom buy it for us when we first saw the Red-eye at our local toy store, and I also remember seeing it in other kids yards as well. I damn sure remember blasting my brother & sister (younger) with it playing in the back yard, dodgeball was way more painful once we began using the Red-eye! I also remember them hitting me with it and , when fully pumped with air, it was inflatable just like a football, or basketball, the Redeye would hurt definitely. We got one or two stuck in our trees for a long time and I remember our mom buying us more than one of these at the local toy/sporting goods store.
