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Weather is hot today. Well…
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Weather is hot today. Well over 90 degreed. A large crowd turned out to participate in the stickball contest and Five teams registered. In the first 2 games the scores were Old Timers 4 Bad Boys 3 Washington Bombers 10 Harlem Heat 1 Winners were Washington Bombers and Old Timers. The Bombers then went on to play te Clean Machine. Old Timers played the Bad Boys in a classic stickball game. Looked as though old timers had I made, leading 3-1 going into the th and last inning. But the Bad Boys weren’t about to give up. With some good hitting and an error, the Bad Boys scored 2 runs and sent the game into extra innings. Bad Boys were able to recover and take the game in the 9th. Due to the heat, and the length of th games, the final matchup between today’s winners, to determine the Manhattan championship will be played at the end of August
Longball Competition Winners…
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Longball Competition Winners of the 2 sewer pin- Richard Mojica – 260 feet Ron Mercedes – 200 feet Joe Rodriguez – 320 feet Albert Santiago Jr.- 320 feet Michael Lentini Jr. – 230 Feet Carlos Santiago – 300 feet Louis Malofsky – 280 feet Eric Rodriquez – 320 feet Carmello Ramirez – 220 feet Carlos Calderon – 240 feet John Lipsett – 270 feet Russ Terlecki – 230 feet (1st time ever hit a stickball) Mike Lentini Sr. – – 260 feet (member of the Stickball Hall of fame Ernest Correa – 220 feet Jose Mandy Rodriguez – 320 feet Steve Plerqui – 250 feet Raymond Vasquez – 300 feet
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This all brings back many memeries of the guys on CARROLL STREET (now carroll gardens in brooklyn)playing stickball,stoopball and fistballand oh yes slapball(we called it world war three) never a game without disputes.We played against PRESIDENT STREET,FIRST PLACE,SACKET STREET AND SECOND PLASE. Stoopball was great using georges grocery store’s wall and a homer was ralpheals bedroom oh baby !!!BLUPER,BLIMP,SHEA,ERICK,UFATS,THE GANG
> Does anyone remember the…
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> Does anyone remember the four finger drag in Skellzie I don’t remember it being called the “four finger drag,” but I now recall “dragsies” and “pushies”, both bogus cap-flicking techniques abhorred by true Skully players. I will add these variations to my next revision of the “Official Skully Rules”… http://www.westnet.com/~hmcnally/skully/skullyrules.pdf You’ll need the Adobe Acrobat reader to view this, which you can get FOR FREE at http://www.adobe.com/. BTW, the story recounted a couple of days ago by popbet is dead-on accurate… the same Skully cap development happened to me in the Bronx (Fordham Road/Jerome Avenue/St. Nicholas of Tolentine/Alexanders area). I still have my dominator, and, as proven at the recent Back to Brooklyn festival, it still dominates. -HMM
My best day ever ,was when…
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My best day ever ,was when my cousin Sonny took me to see the Dodgers play at Ebbets Field. I got to meet The Duke “DUKE SYNDER”, he was my hero as a young boy and still is. I finally got to meet him again at Studio 54 in New York City many years later at a private party given by our own MANHATTAN SPECIAL SODA COMPANY. I was very sad when the Dodgers left “my” BROOKLYN, I never rooted for a NEW YORK ever again.
Hey, isn’t anybody from…
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Hey, isn’t anybody from Philly?! How about Tarken playground in Oxford Circle? And Solly Avenue? Tarken had the first “twisty slide–” and that’s where I got my first taste of pizza off a truck. It was so great– when Little League games were going on, the trucks would line up along the fence: Mr. Softee, pizza, water ice…. Speaking of which, does anyone remember The Whip (Hint: You rode it, not ate it!)?
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Am enjoying the site. Brings back lots of memories. The one subject > regarding Spaldeens that was not mentioned was their propensity to “go > down the sewer”. The obiquitous street drains at every corner were a > magnet for the Spaldeens. The game had to stop while someone located a > wire coat hanger which was straightened out to it’s full length, with a > two inch circle bent at the end at right angles to the wire. This was > lowered into the sewer and the Spaldeen was fished out of it’s grave so > the game could continue. The gook that was on the balls was of now > concern to anyone. A couple of whacks with the stickball bat would clean > it off. No thought was ever given to sanitation – and it never seemed to > matter in those days! > > With fondest memories, > Alan Steinberg > (Avenue O and 23rd Street, Brooklyn) > gdthings [at] mediaone [dot] net