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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

Hello, I am looking…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 17, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014
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Hello, I am looking for definitions to a lot of these games…stoopball…johny on the pony….sewer to sewer stickball….stickball…knock hockey my wife is translating the book “Sleepers” can anyone help us find such descriptions of these games or phrases? this must have been the days to live in!!!!

Posted in Other Games, Ringoleavio, Stickball, Stoopball

Levine Stoopball, my Mothers…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 7, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014
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Levine Stoopball, my Mothers maiden name, is played with 6 inning. The lentgh of the field is 70 feet to the wall, over it is a homer. And fair territory is 40 feet wide, you hit off brick with a TENNIS BALL and basehits are determined by distance, single on a grounderb if it gets by your ONE defender double by grounder is down the right or left line. Double by air is past the double distant line, and triple and homer so fourth. We play TWO fouls/strikes your out same differnce, this occurs the tennis ball bounces behind your brick of out of fair territory. There’re two parts of your field. Your infield is mainly just asfalt and your out field is grass, if you have it. To go foul on a grounder it has to hook before the grass starts, as in baseball. The three original players are cousine, DANIEL SIMON(FROM NY), MICHAEL BISCEGLIA(NJ) AND MAX CUDWORTH(FROM PROVIDENCE). IN a family league each of us represent our cities. We play a six game season every time we go to Pittsburgh to vivit our GrandFather. Each team gets four games of those six. The two second place teams play each other to play number one in a Seven Game LSL(Levine stoopball league) Series Championship.

Posted in Other Spaldeen games, Stoopball

I have a game played in…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 7, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
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I have a game played in Pittsburgh, PA…A neighborhood called Squiril Hill…We play a game called Levine Stoopball…played in a back court yard. We hit off brick though, behind the brick is a wooden fence, if the tennisball hits it we call it a foul, two fouls and you’re out is our motto, since it’s more rare than a strike. Our game is Baseball based, except we don’t run…I actually started it in Manhattan at PS.84 on 91st street between Columbus and Central Park West, I played it at Lunch break. I took the game to my Relitives in Pittsburgh, it’s been played in my Family ever since. We use Imaginary base runners and determine hits in distance. We also play innings as in baseball. Each person is their own team.

Posted in Manhattan, Other Spaldeen games, Stoopball

I wanted to mention that…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 7, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
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I wanted to mention that stoopball goes back centuries…I’m talking 350 years ago…The Jewish immigrants in Manhattan played a ball game on their home steps, this is before British rule. When Peter Stuyvicent was Governor of New York, what was then New Amsterdam. There’s a paiting I saw of it from that period.

Posted in Manhattan, Other Spaldeen games, Stoopball

I can picture a brand new…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on February 12, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsDecember 4, 2019
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I can picture a brand new spaldeen vividly today, almost smell it. What a great feeling to go to the local “candy store” and buy a new spaldeen. Always preferable to a pensy pinky, which were also good.We used spaldeens in stickball, punchball, fungo, slapball, A’s-up,stoopball, and different “box games”-boxball, box baseball, five boxes, hit the penny, etc., in Bayside, Queens. As far as Johnny Pump goes, it brings to mind the old game “Johnny on the Pony”. I would love to buy some spaldeens, if there is a place to order them, I’d like to know.

Posted in Box Baseball, Boxball, Food & Drink, Hit the penny / stick / etc., Johnny on the Pony, Other Games, Other Spaldeen games, Punchball, Queens, Stickball, Stoopball | Tagged candy store, johnny pump, Pennsy Pinkie, spaldeen types

in the bensonhurst section…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on December 20, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014
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in the bensonhurst section of brooklyn in and around seth low jhs, stoop ball was played as described,and a different game when the street was clear and we could really blast the ball, we played single,double , triple…but stoop ball was king, one bounce 5 pts, on a fly ten, pointer 100, and we had a stoop that if u hit the pointer above the top step, which was really the door sill on the top step, it was maybe 1 inch high, so if u hit it just right…500 points, but if you were just a hair high on it, u would hit the door, and thats an “out”. next person would go.

Posted in Brooklyn, Other Spaldeen games, Stoopball

Do you guys remember playin’…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on November 26, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014
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Do you guys remember playin’ wallball & roofball as well as punchball & stoopball? I lived in Yonkers and for wallball we would draw two foul lines and a short & long limit line. You would bounce the spaldeen off the wall & it had to bounce past the short line or drop in front of the long limit line. If it bounced short, too long or foul it was an out. If your opponent cought it on a fly it was an out, but if he didn’t catch it, you got a base per bounce til he got it. Ex. 2-bounces a double & 3 a triple!

Posted in Other Spaldeen games, Punchball, Stoopball, Wallball / Off the Wall/Point | Tagged Off the Wall, spaldeen types, wallball

The ONLY acceptable, official…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on November 16, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
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The ONLY acceptable, official ball to use in my neighborhood in da Bronx to play stickball, punchball, stoopball etc. was the GREAT Spaldeen. We use to pick up two ball at once, hold them at about eye level then let them drop to see which one bounced higher. We’d do this until the candy store owner screamed “Hey you kids..stop makin’ my balls dirty”. Then we’d have to make a quick choice and buy it.

Posted in Bronx, Food & Drink, Other Spaldeen games, Punchball, Stickball, Stoopball | Tagged candy store, spaldeen types

I grew up in Queens and…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on November 2, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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I grew up in Queens and spent the mid 50’s playing stoopball with my buddies. we played it pretty much the same way, screaming single,double ,triple, home run until someone was able to catch a fly ball, we also had strikeouts which was when you missed the stoop.

Posted in Other Spaldeen games, Queens, Stoopball | Tagged I grew up...

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