In South Philly our ball of choice was a “pimple
ball”, white or rather greyish rubber with 1/8″
dimples with bands running latitudily and stars
embossed on both poles. It was used in many
games, stickball, wallball, wireball, boxball,
miniature,ledgies, points, dinky and the ultimate
and most sublime of the street games, Halfball.
In further postings I will detail the sublimities
of this most enjoyable game.