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The Foxboro Stickball League…

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The Foxboro Stickball League in Columbus, Ohio has recently started its forth season of play. We have also added a new field to the list we already play, Davis Field. The first night game in nearly a year was held last Sunday and lasted 2 and a half hours, ending with a fight in left field. For more information on the league visit www.geocities.com/dukefan08/stickball.html 2000 POST SEASON AWARDS MVP- Kyle Winter Pitcher of the Year- Kelly Winter Rookie of the Year- Willy Muholland Comeback Player of the Year- Jon Paton Golden Gloves- Eric Brunner, Doug Ault, Justin Braun, Jonathan “Crusher” Braun, Joey McDaniel Silver Sticks- Kyle Winter, Kevin Hayes, Matt Selhorst, Jonathan “Crusher” Braun, Doug Ault

I am so attention-deficit…

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I am so attention-deficit its not funny….I read the archives as found a few other people mentioning the 1-9 configuration and was relieved that my memory was intact. In 1981 I did a term abroad in Seville, Spain and lived in a barrio that was very urban with many apartment buildings. I enjoyed hanging with the kids better than the college students and remember showing a group of kids there how to play skully. When I left Seville 10 weeks later I spotted a few 1-9 skully boards chalked into the sidewalk over a mile away. Its a really satisfying thing to pass on….a piece of your childhood in Brooklyn! My kids, Caitlin and Connor, and me are in the process of bringing skully to Delaware and Schoharie counties

I lived in Brooklyn in the…

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I lived in Brooklyn in the late 60’s and played lots of skelly/skully on Bay Ridge Avenue between 18th and 19th avenue and West 8th between Bay PArkway and avenue O. I now live upstate and just made some caps with crayons and pennies with my kids. We then found this website and I am seeing that the boards we made back then seem to be atypical…..numbered just 1 through 9 with the area around the 9 called “mud”. Does anyone else recall this board configuration??

As a kid, I grew up playing…

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As a kid, I grew up playing this game. I’m now 36 with 2 boys and I thought that they’d love it. I grew up in Newark, NJ and we called the game “tops”. I never heard of scully until I started researching to refresh my memory to teach my boys. I know there has to be someone out there who knows the game by “tops”. I now live in OK and I’m going to introduce it to my sons and their friends. It brings back good memories to read about the game.

We played Skelsies on 174th…

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We played Skelsies on 174th St. Clay Ave. Tops were created out of plastic medicine caps with melted wax (usually crayons), glass tops made by scraping the 7 oz soda bottles (10 cents)against the sewers and also metal tops which were taken from the bottom of school chairs. We created a skelly field by digging out the tar in the street or painting it on. Hit a killer, be a killer!

We called the game “SKULLZIES”…never…

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We called the game “SKULLZIES”…never heard it as “Skully-etc.”. This was circa ’63-74, Bay Ridge…56th St between 6th and 7th ave. We would do the melted crayon, sometimes melted over a coin for weight. I remember running a coke bottle over manhole covers too…if you were lucky, the top lip would come off ala glass ring. PS: How about the 4th of July in Bay Ridge! Literally sounded like the bombing of Hanoi!