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I remember playing a variation…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on July 12, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsJuly 12, 2000
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I remember playing a variation of Hit the Coin (we called it The Penny Game): You play to 11. However, if you got to 10 you had to move back one sidewalk square, which made your next toss twice as far. Not a good position to be in especially if the penny was closer to your opponent to begin with! Also, if you went over 11 (flipped the coin when you had 10) you went back to 0. That really, really hurt when you got to 10, moved back a square, and spent 20 throws finally hitting the thing to find out that it flipped! The key was to get to 9 and catch the end of the penny to flip it. Game over!

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Does anyone remember playing…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on July 11, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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Does anyone remember playing a game called Bottle top Baseball? There was also a TV show on Sat. morning that featured a baseball player and they would play the game with the host.

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Hi…this is Barbara. Just…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on July 8, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsMay 9, 2019
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Hi…this is Barbara. Just got a chance to review the letters….seems to me I recognize plenty of the information and the players. I surely remember the days of the 50’s and the days of betting on games. Bouncer and I bought our first new car with stickball winnings one summer (1966). Bennie, I hope to make the 2001 Old Timers game in Miami. Jay…the winner of the world series is really “up for grabs” since it was not played out as it should have been. Originally the fourth day of the series was to be used for “rained out” games..but that was changed (along with many other “rules”)so it did not happen. Sadly, that added to putting a damper on the series.Both the Youngbloods and the Repo Men were playing great ball.

Posted in Stickball | Tagged Summer

who won the stickball world…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on July 6, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014
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who won the stickball world series??

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Anybody heard Of SLAPBALL?…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on July 4, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsJuly 4, 2000
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Anybody heard Of SLAPBALL? Its this game where you have to hit a tennis ball so that it bounces on the ground then bounces off a wall, ready for the next person to take a shot. you can play: grudges,hardcore,leuge, title,death match, or a duce match. curious? email TIM [at] TIMBRYDEN [dot] CO [dot] UK see ya,

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I REMEMBER PLAYING STOOP…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 26, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014
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I REMEMBER PLAYING STOOP BALL. When you hit the front of the step it was somekind of point. It was so many year’s ago that I forgot. Too bad kid’s don’t know how to have fun any more.

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You can get the pensie pinky…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 18, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014
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You can get the pensie pinky if you buy The Pinky Ball Book and Ball. It includes the pensie pinky ball, made by Penn especially for this book. The book includes all the rules of all the games we used to play.

Posted in Other Spaldeen games | Tagged Pennsy Pinkie, spaldeen types

This is a great discussion…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 17, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsDecember 4, 2019
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This is a great discussion because both the Spalding and Pensy Pinky were great in their own ways. There was nothing better than holding a brand new ball of either brand. The Spalding was preferred but the Pensy Pinky was great also. I recently bought a new Spalding at Toys-R-Us. I got a little of that feeling back but then it immediately faded when I saw the large UPC label imprinted directly on the ball. Why did they do that? Why isn’t Pensy Pinky still making its ball? I think the first engineering project we did as kids was getting a ball out of the sewer after it rolled down there. I think the lifecycle of a ball ends with rolling down a sewer. I remember after a large rain, some of the sewers would overflow with water, bringing up a multitude of the lost balls. It was a rare occurance and a picture worth taking.

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Hey Big Daddy, I…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 16, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsMarch 25, 2016
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Hey Big Daddy, I absolutely remember triangle baseball. I lived in the bed-stuy section of Brooklyn. We used to play on Pulaski St. Between Stuyvesant Ave and Willoughby. It was a one-way street where we played most of our neighborhood games and we played them all. Stickball, chinese handball, fast pitch stickball with automatics, off-the-point, stoopball, boxball, ringalievio, hide-and-seek, kick-the-can, johnny on the pony, skelleys, marbles. All these games were great but I haven’t heard anybody mention – Spinning Tops – a wooden top (shaped like a hot air ballon) with a metal point on the bottom and we would wrap a string around the it then throw the top on the asphalt making it spin. We would play games like crack-the-top. This game was played by two or more players and the object was to shoot your top at the top on the ground in an attempt to crack it.You would choose to see whose top would be layed on the ground. Then taking one turn at a time each player would spin his top attempting to hit the top on the ground. If you didn’t hit it in one shot you could pick up the top in your hand while it was spinning and throw against the top on the ground then you would get another chance.If in your turn, you couldn’t hit the object top then you would have to lay your top down to be the target top. –Making wooden carpet guns–. The easy way to make one was with a piece of 1×4 or anything similar about three feet in length. Then we would attach a thick rubber band to the front with a nail. Toward the back part of the gun on the top edge, we would then attach a clothes pin with one leg cut off using a few rubber bands to hold it in place.This would act as the trigger. We would then cut little squares from a section of linoleoum flooring to use as ammo. We would then pull back the front rubber band holding it in place under the clothes pin. We would insert a piece of ammo between the the two legs of the rubber band and to shoot the ammo we would press down on the leg of the clothes pin thereby releasing the ammo. How about –Scooters–, made out of a wooden box a two by four and a one skate. We would decorate the box with bottle caps, paint and anything we could think of. I live in Florida now and we have a group of about 20 to 30 ex New Yorkers. Every year we have an annual xmas picnic. At the picnic we have a fathers against sons stickball game and we play a serious game of skelleys. Those were the best days of my life and if had it all to do over again, I wouldn’t change one thing from my childhood days growing up on the streets of the big city. By the way if someone knows where I can find some Spalding HI-Bouncers if they still exist please post the info on this site.

Posted in Ace King Queen, Boxball, Brooklyn, Johnny on the Pony, Other Spaldeen games, Stickball, Stoopball | Tagged Chinese handball, Willoughby Avenue

We always used Spaldeens…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 16, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsJanuary 3, 2020
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We always used Spaldeens in the Bronx– One day, Willie’s candy store had Pennyslvania Pinkies for sale — no spaldeens! We bought one to play SLUG with — it was horrible. Later we did the Spaldeen/PP test — droppping them both to the ground at the same time. Spaldeen won — it just had that extra zip to it!

Posted in Ace King Queen, Bronx, Food & Drink, Other Spaldeen games | Tagged candy store, Pennsy Pinkie, slugs (the game), spaldeen types

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