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Levine Stoopball, my Mothers…
Levine Stoopball, my Mothers maiden name, is played with 6 inning. The lentgh of the field is 70 feet to the wall, over it is a homer. And fair territory is 40 feet wide, you hit off brick with a TENNIS BALL and basehits are determined by distance, single on a grounderb if it gets by your ONE defender double by grounder is down the right or left line. Double by air is past the double distant line, and triple and homer so fourth. We play TWO fouls/strikes your out same differnce, this occurs the tennis ball bounces behind your brick of out of fair territory. There’re two parts of your field. Your infield is mainly just asfalt and your out field is grass, if you have it. To go foul on a grounder it has to hook before the grass starts, as in baseball. The three original players are cousine, DANIEL SIMON(FROM NY), MICHAEL BISCEGLIA(NJ) AND MAX CUDWORTH(FROM PROVIDENCE). IN a family league each of us represent our cities. We play a six game season every time we go to Pittsburgh to vivit our GrandFather. Each team gets four games of those six. The two second place teams play each other to play number one in a Seven Game LSL(Levine stoopball league) Series Championship.
I have a game played in…
I have a game played in Pittsburgh, PA…A neighborhood called Squiril Hill…We play a game called Levine Stoopball…played in a back court yard. We hit off brick though, behind the brick is a wooden fence, if the tennisball hits it we call it a foul, two fouls and you’re out is our motto, since it’s more rare than a strike. Our game is Baseball based, except we don’t run…I actually started it in Manhattan at PS.84 on 91st street between Columbus and Central Park West, I played it at Lunch break. I took the game to my Relitives in Pittsburgh, it’s been played in my Family ever since. We use Imaginary base runners and determine hits in distance. We also play innings as in baseball. Each person is their own team.
I wanted to mention that…
I wanted to mention that stoopball goes back centuries…I’m talking 350 years ago…The Jewish immigrants in Manhattan played a ball game on their home steps, this is before British rule. When Peter Stuyvicent was Governor of New York, what was then New Amsterdam. There’s a paiting I saw of it from that period.
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Down by the banks of the…
Down by the banks of the hanky panky Where the bullfrogs leap from bank to banky With a fee fi fo fum Who’s got the little one Oooo! ——— Down down baby Down the roller coaster Sweet sweet baby Wouldn’t want to lose you know Shimmy shimmy coco pops Shimmy shimmy pow Shimmy shimmy coco pops Shimmy shimmy pow Poor old grandma Sick in bed Called the doctor And the Doctor said Let’s get the rhythm in the head Ding dong (wag head) Let’s get the rhythm in the hands (clap clap) Let’s get the rhythm in the feet (stamp stamp) Let’s get the rhythm in the hooooot dog (rotate pelvis suggestively) Put them altogether and what do you get? ding dong, clap clap, stamp stamp, hot dog Put them all backwards and what do you get? Hot dog, stamp stamp, clap clap, dong ding. (Once you get good at it you can do it faster and faster.) See see my baby I cannot play with you For I have got the flu Chicken pox and measles too We slid down drainpipes In 1952 And we’ll be best of friends For ever more, more, shut that door, eat that rat that’s on that floor! —— Eeeny meeny dessameeny You are the one ameeny Educated, liberated (slap buttocks on each down beat) I like you Down down baby down down the rollercoaster Didn’t do the dishes lazy, lazy ????? crazy, crazy [more verses here then back to eeny meeny] Still trying to learn this one from my eight year old god-daughter who know many, but some of them are not for adult consumption, being too