I played a similiar game : A my name is Alice and my husband’s name is Al we come from Alabama and we sell Apples. B my name is Betty … Every time you use that letter your leg goes over the ball.When you missed a pass or lost control of your ball it was the next player’s turn I spent hours doing this.
peter piper picked a pair of pickeled peppers if peter piper picked a pair of pickeled peppers off the pickeled pepper tree, how many pickeled peppers could peter piper pick? peter piper could pick tons and tons of pickeled peppers off the the pickeled pepper tree if peter piper could pick pickeled peppers. its a very long one.
My brother, Clyde, and I grew up in Queens, where, like all our peers, we played several versions of stickball. We are now 67 and 64 years old, and while I now live in Georgia and he on Long Island, every so often we get together to play a 2-man game with tennis balls and a manufactured bat. Our latest game was just a month ago against a wall at an elementary school near his house. He is still a good pitcher and we both still hit well, and since the baseball adage “good pitching will always beat good hitting” is true in stickball, too, he won the game. It was great.
I’m a child of the late ’60s early ’70s Brooklyn…this is how I remember Miss Mary Mac. Miss Mary Mac, Mac, Mac, All dressed in black, black, black With silver buttons, buttons, buttons All down her back, back, back She asked her mother, mother, mother For 50 cents, cents, cents To see the elephants, elephants, elephants Jump over the fence, fence, fence They jump so high, high, high They reached the sky, sky, sky And never came back, back, back ’til the Fourth of July, July, July
Just read the article in the New York Times (Sunday July 1st) Jackson Projects representing: 156 Street and Courtlandt Avenue. Skelsies was the game of the day along with Hot Peas and Butter. Wow, what great times. I’m down for a reunion challenge and make it official, the Bronx Crew are the best! Bottle tops were okay but we in Jacksons knew how to create the best spin top for skelsies. Can’t tell you all our secrets, just set up the games and let the fun began!
OH, SKULLY.brings back such fond memmories of my childhood playing in the street in N.Y.C ,in the 74-78 era my name is henry from 96st west side of manhattan,i play’d SKULLY with the boys on my block and kid’s i went to school with,Back in the days when there was no cell phone ,Pc’s laptops and video games only attari pong ,and if you did have it you were one prrrichivilleged Kid!anyways gonna try to bring this skully game back for all to enjoy!If you lived in this area at that time,send me an E -mail like to here from