I was born in the Bronx in 1947. I lived at 441 E. 139 Steet. I went to PS 9.
I remember playing with the spalding balls where you bounce the ball and cross over the ball with one leg as you chant a rhyme. You had to keep the ball bouncing throughout the rhyme.

Can anyone tell me what the name of that game was called? Do you remember any of the rhymes? One that I remember is:
“One Two Three O’Lary
I spied Mistress Mary
Sitting on a bumble-ary
One Two Three O’Lary”
We would cross our leg over the bounced ball each time we said the words that rhymed.

Hope someone can add some info.
Thanks,
Graysgrandma [at] aol [dot] com