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“Gotta” tell “ya”..this…

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Original author: Suzie Kusnetz
 

“Gotta” tell “ya”..this is the very best site, EVER…. After 30 years I ‘found’ my best friends on the Internet…Bobby Stone, Jerry Hertz (introduced me to Dylan and guitar playing) Irene Mossberg (who I grew up with, on Alabama Ave. in Brooklyn, and who I went with, as kids to Coney Island and Prospect Park and Botanic Gardens) and last but not least, IRA MOSCOWITZ who I danced with and made-out with so both of us would know what to do when we started dating others, for real!

Sure I remember this……

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Original author: Suzie Bobele
 

Sure I remember this… we, in Brooklyn, called it “Boys, Girls… The categories were (and we used a heel from a shoe, that we got at the shoemaker’s shop) Boys (names) Girls (names) colors, cars, actresses, actors, dogs, numbers… It was a New York game and all the girls played it.

My name is Debbie (Acevedo)…

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Original author: Debra Acevedo Keneipp
 

My name is Debbie (Acevedo) Keneipp from Bay Ridge & Park Slope, Brooklyn, I have seen many a stickball game in my neighborhoods. I am doing some research on urban stickball/handball terminology. I would like any terms that are current — that kids playing today are using. Thanks for your help.

if anyone out there played…

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Original author: joel [e-mail]
 

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…

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Original author: Doug Fisher
 

I’m with John McNulty. Originally from South Jersey we played stick ball, half ball and wire ball with a pimple ball. Just like he said you could throw it home on a rope.I need to locate a pimple ball anyone have any idea where I can get my hands on one ?

I used to play stickball…

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Original author: Dave
 

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!

Grew up in East New York…Alabama…

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Original author: Suzie Kusnetz [e-mail]
 

Grew up in East New York…Alabama and Blake. Went to PS 174.. JHS 149 (my older sister went to JHs 109 and to Jefferson, 1957) and then we moved to Eastern Parkway in 1961 and I graduated from Wingate in 1964…. Played my guitar and figured I’d become a folksinger and call myself Suzanne Martin… Looking for Jerry Hertz and Bobby Stone, …. found Ira Moscowitz, Phil Sobrane and Irene Mossberg….Still have my ‘spaldeen’ and top…. I played ball with the boys and double-dutch with Leonore, Irene, Michelle and Dorothy… get in touch if you’re out there. Sheindie (Suzie Kusnetz Bobele)