The Marcy Projects 1966 to 1972, those were the days I was happy to have either one of these great balls. It meant the games would go on! I had a ball during this time of my life, wouldn’t have it any other way. True sluggers can remember the smell of the pensie pinky ball after it was split open on a good connect.It held the chalk (Strike), well also.
I’m from Bay Ridge Brooklyn and remember the Spalding being the better/best ball to have and play with. I vaguely remember that if a Spalding ball was not there was an inferior ball we played with and it must have been the “pinkie” ball, but the Spalding was the best and more expensive of the balls to play with.
I grew up in Woodside Queens in the 60’s and we played a game where a guy would hit a ball with the bat and if you caight it on the fly, you were up. If you didn’t catch it, whoever got the ball would roll it toward the batter (who had to lay his bat on the ground). If you either missed the bat or hit it and the batter caught the ball before it bounced, he hit again. If the batter missed the ball after it hit, you became the hitter. I tried to bring the game to Long Island when we moved to the burbs but it couldn’t compete with baseball fields.
when I was younger about 10 of my friends and I palayed ARMY we had helmets ,hand granades, guns binoculars and we made all the noise with our mouths ,we would play like playing strutigo or act as if every car comming down the street was the enime. we had a 100 yard football field spraypainted on our street, 22st in brooklyn. we would build human pyramids on the grass , I was the center bottom kid. aaahhhhh memories of growing up in brooklyn.