Streetplay Discussions
My brother and I play one-on-one…
My brother and I play one-on-one on a handball court in Queens. We chalk a strike zone on the handball wall and pitch as fast as we can throw. A ball hit over the court fence and over the roof of the 7-storey apartment building across the street is a home run. I am 62 and my bro 58. We hail from the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. It’s as much fun as tennis or racquetball and a hell of a lot cheaper.
Since streetplay is mainly…
Since streetplay is mainly centered around sports, I would just like to relate how great a baseball / softball player my Dad was. His name was Howard Friedman and he played on the baseball team at CCNY in the early 30s. He starred as a center-fielder, batted .310 over 3 seasons and was All-City. He had a beautiful, level left-handed swing. While I never saw him play regular baseball, we played on the same softball team when I was a teenager in the 50s. He could hit 300 feet line drives with a mushy softball even when he was older and could barely run the bases. While I never even came close to being as good as he was, he did teach me how to hit, which I put to good use playing not only softball (which I still do), but stickball as a kid in Queens. Jay Friedman Decatur GA
i just remembered jacks…
i just remembered jacks when my granddaughter came over with some and asked me to show her how to play. I also am having trouble remembering all the different rules and games. We used to start with regular oneies, twosies, etc, then did baskets, upsies, downsies, double-ups, double downs, but that is all I can remember. This was our regular formula as each game gradually become more difficult. I would love to hear from anyone who can remind me of other games. thanks
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My first job was as a docent…
My first job was as a docent (volunteer) at the NY Aquarium, later I got paid. I worked in the Children’s Cove, demonstrating horseshoe crabs and starfish and sea urchins in the kids touch tank. I’d flip those poor crabs over and show the kids their claws and stuff. Used to hang out with the older teenagers who worked the refreshment stands, and would always say hi to the dolphins at the end of the day. Don’t get much more Coney Island than that! It was fun. I remember having to wear white pants to go with my blue t-shirt, and I had a pair of those 70’s double-zipper types with flair legs.
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We played Ringolevio in…
We played Ringolevio in Luna Park in the early 70s, during lunchtime at PS 90 (back when they let kids off the grounds on their own!!). We’d cross the street to our favorite playground and eat our bag lunches, and then after lunch we’d have a great game for 30 minutes, girls against the boys. We used electricity. Different pieces of playground equipment were bases, and there was a jail, which was the ladder fort. The boys base was a concrete turtle shape and the girls base was the curved monkey bars. Played all during the school year, but only on that playground. We were all Luna Park kids. We thought we had made up the game! Ha!