Category Archives: Spaldeen games
I remeber playing a SPALDEEN…
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I remeber playing a SPALDEEN GAME in the 60’s. We called it “A my name is” How is worked was that you would bounce the ball to “A my name is alice and my husband’s name is Al, we come from Alabama and we sell apples.”. Each time an “A” word was mentioned you had to cross your leg over the ball while bouncing it. You would continue with the whole alphabet. You would either miss crossing over the ball for one of the words, couldn’t figure out a name beginning with the letter, or miss the ball completely.
My name is willie Gregory….
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My name is willie Gregory. brother of Lefty Gregory. Our Team the Home relief from 114th & Madison Ave. In the middle fifty’s we went down to Hells Kitchen in the 60’s to play an allstar team which consisted Snookie and Alby from Pleasant Ave. Guy’s from the Locomotives and the greek brothers Mario, etc. The game was worth $1,500 dollars. Top of the ninth, no score up comes Lefty Gregory and gets a hold of one that not only goes 3 sewers when it crosses the Ave.,but reaches the 4th sewer,we won 1 zip
I grew up on Gerard Ave….
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I grew up on Gerard Ave. in the Bronx in the late 50’s and early 60’s, one block from the Stadium. We used to play stickball from sewer to sewer by bouncing and hitting or by pitching to the box on the door to the garage for the Bronx County Courthouse. Best game was sewer ball using the manhole covers at the corner of 157th St and Gerard Ave. Home, first, second and third. 4 infielders and sometimes one outfielder. Put the wire trash can lying down across the sewer behind 2nd base. Still lost many balls down that sewer. A really great time! Jeff
ANYONE HERE REMEMBER THE…
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ANYONE HERE REMEMBER THE YARD? RIGHT BY THE 4 TOWERS IN QUEENS BETWEEN MARATHON PARKWAY AND LILLTE NECK PARKWAY? THE TOWN WAS CALLED DEEPDALE/BEECH HILLS. TO THIS DAY WE STILL FIGHT ABOUT WHICH SPOT HAD THE BEST LOOKING BABES. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON’T KNOW THERE IS A WEBSITE. IT’S AT WWW.BEECHHILLS.HOMESTEAD.COM/ IF ANYONE REMEMBERS THE YARD TAKE A LOOK AT THE WEBSITE. YOU WILL SEE FACES YOU HAVEN’T SEEN IN 40 YEARS. DENNIS GORME
Up on simpson street in the…
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Up on simpson street in the bronx we hung out on the rooftops. We would plug in a record player to the hall light and dance on the sticky tar.Sometimes we would climb down to the street via the firescape and many times that top ladder to the roof was ajar from the building and shook enough to send us tumbling to the street below if we did not watch it. On the way down,being Puerto Rican neighborhood we would have to jump over jugs of a formenting drink called mavi.Each landing had a different aroma of pork chops, pastelillos, rice and beans and fried chicken. We would reach the bottom of the back yard starving and we had to be quick because there always was a mean dirty dog named buster waiting to bite someone. We would then go out to the street and play kick the can.ringolivio, stickball, marbles, johnny on the pony, skully or hitch on the back of trucks that we leave us somewhere in long island.A typical day back in the fifties.we had mucho fun.
louie from brooklyn the…
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louie from brooklyn the spaldeen is the best.We played stickball in the school yard and hit the the ball from one side of the school yard to the other and over the fences.In the steet we counted the sewers one would be a double 2 would be a triple and three would be a homer. the only ball that would do that would be a spaldeen.
In high school we played…
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In high school we played a form of handball (any number could play) wherein the server threw the ball on a bounce to the wall. The next player (in line) had to hit the ball (on the fly, but usually on no more than one bounce) on the ground first before it hit the wall. Then the next player did the same thing. Etc. Is there actually a name for this form of handball/non-boundry boxball?
Grew up in Kensington in…
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Grew up in Kensington in Philly, great neighborhood, Stickball was the best. Pimple Balls were the best to play with, We’d play like 10 games a day in the summer time. They made the blue pimple balls before they stopped making them, would be nice to have one of each. We also played Freedom for hours on end. Freedom was a game where you had at least 5 or more on two teams and you set boundaries of the neighborhood, usual 2 or 3 block radius. The goal was to catch all the members of the opposite team and bring them back to base. The other members would have to touch base and say “Freedom!” and the ones that were caught would run and the whole game would begin again. Hours and hours played at Elkin School in Kensington. Oh yeah, when you caught a person you’d have to say “1-2-3 your my man no breaksies, no locksies, and throw away the key”.