How many adults did this kind of stuff as a kid: Find a vacant lot, claim it as your turf, and play ball all day. Or, worse - like me, they just played ball in an elderly widow’s neighbor’s yard until she threatened to call the cops.

Some teens in Greenwich did just that - they recently converted a town-owned plot of land and made it their own Wiffle Ball sandlot. They built it, and the kids are coming to play.

But the Riverside Lane neighbord aren’t too thrilled. They want their field of dreams, complete with a 12-foot high Fenway-esque Green Monster in left field, taken down, and the kids to scram.

And the neighbors have the right to do that. The plot of land is not designated as a park, and it’s not not the kids’ property to build on. Back in the days of The Little Rascals, or even Fat Albert, kids could get away with building club houses on public property and get away with it.

So now we have the question: Should the kids have to rip down something that they built on someone else’s property? Well, if I added on to my house without going to Planning and Zoning, the City of Bridgeport would make me tear my work down.

And if the Town of Greenwich lets the field stand, will it spawn a town on regional Wiffle league with stadiums build on vacant lots all around? Who knows?

I can understand the neighbors being upset - you have a quiet neighborhood, and suddenly it’s swarmed with kids and cars. But these kids could be doing a lot worse things this summer, don;t you think?

Creativity and exercise has been replaced by the X-box and the Wii (OK, you get some fitness with the Wii). So I think it’s great that these kids are doing what they are doing. Nut I also think they’re learning an important civics lesson through all this: Get permission and go through the proper channels before you start a project.

And the civics lessons have begun. One of the teens involved, recent Greenwich graduate John Agostino tells me there’s a meeting Tuesday night at the Cos Cob Fire Department. The public may attend the 7 p.m. meeting.