Streetplay Discussions
Philly – a great city and…
Sure I remember this……
I’m 13 years old, and a girl…
I’m 13 years old, and a girl in my cabin at camp this year got some jacks in a care package. she taught us how to play, and now i forgot what she taught me(whoops!) and i was just looking for the different levels to jacks (with 6 jacks) like: onesies to sixies backwards eggies crack-the-egg and i can’t remember what comes next. if anyone can help me, please email me at thank you!
My name is Debbie (Acevedo)…
if anyone out there played…
if anyone out there played the way we did in the projects you would know the pensie pinky was the rich mans ball. I would save for that ball and wait for the sunday morning game to break out that baby. The first three or four batters would have the opportunity to knock that baby senseless. There was nothing like the feeling of a long fly ball coming off your bat from a fresh pensie pinky. Loved that ball.
I’m with John McNulty. Originally…
I used to play stickball…
I used to play stickball on 54th and 9th ave in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn in the 60’s and 70’s. First, spauldings and then Pense Pinkies. Georgie Williams was the first on the block to hit it 3 sewers. Joe Martone spent the entire time out on his stoop to make sure we didn’t hit his cadillac. Lots of fun and memories. I think back and wondered how we could keep our eyes on the ball – through trees, phone and power wires, cars (parked and moving) and still catch a small ball hit two sewers long and five stories high!