I grew up in Summerdale (Oxford Circle) in the early-mid 80s.

We played:
* wireball
* suicide (we called it “sooey”)
* pitched quarters
* flipped baseball cards
* stoop ball (no one called it “step ball”)
* Deadbox (not in Summerdale, but played with my * older cousins in Harrowgate)
* Wall ball
* Hand ball
* stick ball
* halfies
* hose ball (my father grew up in kensington and taught us that)
* wiffle ball (regular wiffle ball and padded bat with tennis ball — a lawn chair for the strike zone)
* Spring
* Freedom
* Knock Knock Zoom Zoom
* King of the Hill
* hide and seek in the back alley/cubie holes
* kick the can
* foot hockey
* 2 hand touch/1 hand touch
* steal the bacon
* straw races (when someone turned on the fire plug and we’d race drinking straws all the way down the street to the sewer)

I can’t count how many pinkies, tennis balls and pimple balls I roofed from the age of 5 to 13!