Category Archives: Stickball

I lived in East Flatbush…

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I lived in East Flatbush during the late fifties to early sixties then after moving out to L.I. came back to hangout with my friends through the early seventies. PS 209, on Ave D and East 48th St., was one place where we played stickball. 209 was shaped like a U and we played strikbox, width wise. We played “automatics” where your hits were determined by where the ball hit the opposite wall. Had lots of fun there. Spaldeens ($.25) were primarily used. We used Pensy Pinkies ($.30) for punch ball and king/queen. “Eggballs” were used as a last resort. They came in various colors. Asses up/ace king queen was played routinely. I also fished balls out of the corner sewers as did many of my contemporaries.

Mick- This is Mike….

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Mick- This is Mike. The one you have sent the E-Mails to. I just foward it all to Kyle by word of mouth. People that have acheived the true long ball in right- Justin B and hes right handed. He has true opposite power. Joey McD. Hes a lefty, pretty good power. I think there is a couple more but those are the only two I personally have seen. W/B Mike P.S- Visit The Pages. www.geocities.com/dukefan08/stickball.html www.geocities.com/dukefan08/players.html www.geocities.com/dukefan08/fields.html

Mick & Pez, You…

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Mick & Pez, You guys have done a service for mankind (at least for Brooklynkind) with this website. I left Brooklyn (Bath Beach/Bensonhurst) almost 55 years ago and I still remember the joys of stickball, punchball, handball, Chinese handball, boxball, Chinese boxball, skully, land, ring-a-levio, three feet off to Germany, odds & evens, knucks, etc. I tried to pass some of these on to my son, but things are just not the same in the suburbs of Cleveland.

To Mick- Yes, this is…

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To Mick- Yes, this is a game we play now. We made it up and are very proud of it! Our ball is a Wiffleball covered in athletic tape. THIS GAME IS HARDER THAN YOU THINK! If you would like a set of rules e-mail Mike @ dukefan08 [at] yahoo [dot] com Thank you for your interest in our game!

Here in Columbus ohio we…

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Here in Columbus ohio we play a type of game called “Foxboro Style Stickball”. This version of stickball is played with all four bases and with one out. Two of our most highly regarded records in a single game are 40 HR by one player and 26 scoreless innings by a single pitcher. The HR wall is in straight away center field and is 35 feet high. The 8 foot wall in right field is a real shot and has only been acomplished a handfull of times. The left field is about 2 miles it seems like and has only been reached five times. We play every day and have been kicked out of four fields and almost been arrested three times. What memories!

In my neighborhood (Brownsville,…

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In my neighborhood (Brownsville, Brooklyn), a Spaldeen was 15 cents–too steep for a lot of kids. An alternative was an ugly, underinflated, evil-smelling, grayish-pink ball with crudely vulcanized hemispheres that we used to call the “eggball.” It got that name because, no matter where you hit it with a stickball bat, it’d go almost straight up, and oscillate wildly in an egg shape. Impossible to catch without it squirting out of your hands. Stickball games were won on lopsided margins on errors alone using eggballs. If we were really lucky, the local toy store or candy store would get a load of “seconds”–Spaldeens that were defective in some way, so they had “second” stamped on them. They were 8 cents or a dime, and were a real bargain.