Category Archives: Locales
I am so attention-deficit…
Original author: Paul Morrison [e-mail]
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…
Original author: Paul Morrison [e-mail]
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??
I was born in the Bronx…
Original author: David Klein [e-mail]
I was born in the Bronx in 1947. 29 west 181st St between Burnside Ave and Davidson Ave. Went to PS 91 near University Ave then Creston JHS and De Witt Clinton. Played stickball, punchball, PBC(Pitcher, Batter Catcher) Grand Concourse was the greatest- Lowes Paradise, Krums, Alexanders. Love to hear from anyone!!
In the Bronx in the the…
Original author: Anthony Little [e-mail]
In the Bronx in the the late 60’s and 70’s we played a game called off the curb. We had two players on each team you throw the ball down on the curb a ground ball caught by the infielder was an out as so were fly balls balls hit over the parked cars on a fly were a double if the ball hit the building in was a triple or home run depending how high it hit. Anthony
Aside from the 1998 “Welcome…
Original author: TB [e-mail]
Aside from the 1998 “Welcome Back to Brooklyn Street Fair,” are there any other events/gatherings where Skully enthusiasts can get together and engage in a friendly game? How about something in the Big Apple this summer?
I remember a game like that…
Original author: denise [e-mail]
I remember a game like that in the ’70’s with this song: Hello, hello, hello, Sir Meet me at the gro-cer no, sir Why, sir? Because I have a cold, sir Where’d you get your cold, Sir From the north pole, Sir What you doin’ there, Sir? Catchin’ polar bears, Sir How many did you catch, Sir? One, Sir Two, Sir Three, Sir….etc.
Yo Guys! PIMPLE BALLS ruled…
Original author: John McNulty [e-mail]
Yo Guys! PIMPLE BALLS ruled my neighborhood in Philly! They were the only balls you could make sail on a peg in from the outfield (the next block.) They were the best for halfies after they died and you may even go home with a star shaped welt on your butt after a heated game of “assball” If anybody knows where I can find PIMPLE BALLS please let me know we’ll choose you in if you do!!!
I was born in the Bronx in…
Original author: graysgrandma [e-mail]
I was born in the Bronx in 1947. I lived at 441 E. 139 Steet. I went to PS 9. I remember playing with the spalding balls where you bounce the ball and cross over the ball with one leg as you chant a rhyme. You had to keep the ball bouncing throughout the rhyme. Can anyone tell me what the name of that game was called? Do you remember any of the rhymes? One that I remember is: “One Two Three O’Lary I spied Mistress Mary Sitting on a bumble-ary One Two Three O’Lary” We would cross our leg over the bounced ball each time we said the words that rhymed. Hope someone can add some info. Thanks,