YO,I USE TO LIVE ON WEST FARMS ROAD ON THE CORNER OF HOME STREET AND LONGFELLOW THATS WHERE WE USE TO PLAY STICKBALL, SOMTIMES WE USE TO PLAY ON BRYANT AVE.I STUDIED AT P.S.66,SO IF ANY OF THE GUYS FROM THE OLD BLOCK READS THIS DON’T FORGET TO WRITE.THAT I REMEMBER NOW THEY WERE FELIX,JOHNNY,AND JIMMY CLASS THESE GUYS WERE BROTHERS,THERE WAS CARLITOS,EVERYBODY KNEW ME AS PEEWEE.WE PLAYED ALL THE OTHER GAMES ALSO.
miss mary mack , mack, mack all dressed in black, black, black with silver buttons, buttons, buttons, all down her back, back,back she asked her mother, mo., moth.. for 50 cents, cents,cents to see the elephants, go jump the fence, fence, fence they jumped so high, high, high they reached he sky, sky, sky and never came back until the 4th of july, july, july you lie!
Back in the late 50’s on the Chicago South side at Fernwood School playground we used to play “Buck Buck – how many fingers up”. I never knew that it was also called Johnny on the Pony. Our best player at that time was Dick Butkus (Chicago Bears). When he would jump onto the other teams back’s, almost always would that other team cave in, giving us the win.
I finally remembered the name “fancy” today while teaching my kids my old jacks style (dating back 40 years or so)….I vaguely recalled “sweep the parlor” but the rest were a blank….am pleasantly surprised to see this much company on this subject….so does anyone know if there is a book that explains all or some of the fancies…this has helped me stroll down memory lane …i’d love to go further…
Does anybody remember their dad in the 60s having a drawing (my dad’s was in his office in the store we owned). It was a guy trying to flush himself down the toilet (his head was sticking out of the bowl and his hand was on the flusher) and the caption underneath said “Goodbye Cruel World”? I thought every 60s dad had one of these!
Does anybody remember their dad in the 60s having a drawing (my dad’s was in his office in the store we owned). It was a guy trying to flush himself down the toilet (his head was sticking out of the bowl and his hand was on the flusher) and the caption underneath said “Goodbye Cruel World”? I thought every 60s dad had one of these!
i played chinese handball and i love it my way is much much more lenient. we dont have boxes whatsoever and the last person playing handball was the ace-killer because he was so far away from the ace it made it harder for the ace to get it. I learned many different variations of it including one where your allowed to let the ball hit the floor twice but u have to hit the ball onto the wall similarly like american. I also played watermelon which was not my favorite. I also played asses up but only the person who got the other person out could hit him. Oh well. Im tryin to learn how to cut.
Hi, I am not sure if this game I played in the in the mid 70’s was made up in my neighborhood or not, but it was a form of stickball, we called it SCOONY. We played in a bocce ball court, a pitcher, catcher , second baseman all were inside the bocce court. A centerfielder stood outside the bocce court wall. and the first and third basemen stood just outside the court lined up with their base. The pitcher pitched the ball on one bounce, spining the ball if he wanted. We played with rules of baseball, bunting, stealing, tagging up but when you tried to steal, you could not take a lead, and could only steal AFTER the catcher caught the ball. Another rule was that the batter MUST bat his opposite hand, (right must bat left)and for a bunt to be legal, it had to pass a FOUL line drawn into the sand before the game started. This game was very entertaining and we played it for hours. We used a pinky or a spaldeen, and sometimes a tennis ball ( if we couldnt buy a spaldeen). For a bat we used either a broom handle or a store bought stick ball bat.If anyone else played this game, please email me at and tell me about. I grew up in Long Island City ( QUEENS )