Abstract: Game apparatus comprising a basketlike target held by a support in spaced relation to the ground, a ball, and a bat having a flat ball-engaging surface for employing the ball towards the target when the ball is thrown into the air and struck thereby. The bat is of one or two piece construction. When made of one piece construction, one end of the tubular piece of material is swaged to form a handle and the other end thereof is flattened to provide a ball-engaging surface. When made of two pieces, an elongated flat piece of material is fixed to a tubular piece of material, a portion of the latter extending beyond the flat piece of material to provide a handle.