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Canarsie. Peak years: 1970…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on August 11, 2001 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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Canarsie. Peak years: 1970 – 1974. Hangin’ out on the corner of Avenue L and 102. John Barleycorn, Live at the Fillmore, Europe ’72, NRPS, Owsley White……all mixed together with Chinese Handball at Kevelson’s. Only in Brooklyn.

Posted in Ace King Queen, Brooklyn, Locales | Tagged Canarsie, Chinese handball

Re: Chinese Handball Might…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on November 14, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
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Re: Chinese Handball Might as well share with all. It’s been over 35 years since I played chinese handball in Queens, but here goes: Unlike handball, where you have to hit the wall on a fly, in chinese handball you have to hit the wall on a bounce. If you hit it on a fly you’re out. If you hit it on 2 bounces you’re out. If the ball bounces twice before you hit it, you’re out. You can hit it off the wall on a fly, but again you have to bounce it once before it hits the wall. You would decide how large the court was. If you hit it out of bounds you’re out too. Like handball, you could only score a point on your serve. It the ball hit off a crack and went at an odd angle, it was a “hindoo” and you played the point over. Hope this helps.

Posted in Ace King Queen, Other Spaldeen games, Queens, Wallball / Off the Wall/Point | Tagged Chinese handball, Off the Wall

Hi – I grew up in Jackson…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on November 12, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsJanuary 3, 2020
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Hi – I grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens and played all of the street games everyone else did: Handball, stickball, stoop ball, Chinese handball, boxball, single-double-triple, slapball, errors, etc. Pensie Pinkies definitely were higher bouncers than Spaldeens and easier on the hand for both punchball and handball, especially on cold days. I haven’t seen a Pensie Pinkie in maybe 30 years, but I recently bought a “Spalding” at a Modell’s where I now live in Fairfax County, VA. It cost $1.99 – a far cry from the 15 cents or so when I was a kid, but probably equivalent with 35-40 years of inflation. Anyway, I got to play some fungo stickball with my 10 year old son today, and also introduced him to boxball. I have a stickball bat I bought about 10 years ago. If anyone knows where you can currently get a Pensie Pinkie, let me know. It was great finding this site.

Posted in Ace King Queen, Boxball, Other Spaldeen games, Punchball, Queens, Stickball, Stoopball | Tagged Chinese handball, I grew up..., Jackson Heights, Pennsy Pinkie, spaldeen types

hello, if any one knows…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on October 30, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
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hello, if any one knows the rules to chinese handball, will you please e-mail me at musclecars45 [at] aol [dot] com

Posted in Ace King Queen, Other Spaldeen games | Tagged Chinese handball

The program on WNYC brought…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on August 27, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
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The program on WNYC brought back many memories of Brooklyn, Quentin Road > between West 4th and 5th street. We played all the games you mentioned and > some variants. Playing Association with a rolled up Daily News or Mirror > for a football or square or triangle using a spaldeen. The dificulty with > square was that Mrs. Deutch had a window between second and third and we > had to avoid a tag as well as the water she threw at us. > We also played Chinese handball both with our hands and and our FEET. We > also had a novel form of stoop ball. It was played on Mr Bock’s “stoop” > with a spaldeen and invisible runners. The stoop was not steps but a > “correctly” slanted wall surrounding his lawn. Mr. Bock was also an a > constant thorn in our side by calling the police. > During WWII we play “Commando Tactics”. At dark we would meet and find a > route thru the yards of a neighborhood. It was more than once people in > their homes would come out to see who was there. It was a miracle that we > had no ‘wounded”. > Thanks for the memories!! >

Posted in Ace King Queen, Brooklyn, Other Games, Stoopball | Tagged Chinese handball

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

Here are some games: stickball…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 6, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
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Here are some games: stickball punchball kickball off the wall catcher flies up handball chinese handball 5 box 2 box Ringelevio tag around the block spud rover, red rover running bases johnny on the pony salugi blind mans bluff 2 hand football

Posted in Ace King Queen, Johnny on the Pony, Other Games, Punchball, Spaldeen games, Stickball, Wallball / Off the Wall/Point | Tagged Chinese handball, Off the Wall, running bases

Does anyone out there remember…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on March 31, 2000 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 17, 2014
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Does anyone out there remember all the steps involved in a game called “Russian”???? We used to play it in Queens in the mid-60’s…..involves a “pinky” thrown again an apt.wall while doing a bunch of things in numerical order…. Also, I remember Chinese Handball too (and Saludgee…sp?)- also, in Queens in the mid-60’s played on the street against apt.retention walls….

Posted in Ace King Queen, Other Spaldeen games, Queens, Spaldeen games | Tagged Chinese handball, Pennsy Pinkie, Russian 7/10/12 (the game), spaldeen types

Slug aka Chinese Handball…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on November 30, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
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Slug aka Chinese Handball – does anybody remember playing “Slug”? That was the name we used in the Bronx in the early ’50’s. In Queens it was known as Chinese Handball or Ace-King-Queen.

Posted in Ace King Queen, Bronx, Other Spaldeen games, Queens | Tagged Chinese handball, slugs (the game)

Pete, Ron Heller mentions…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on October 27, 1999 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
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Pete, Ron Heller mentions Chinese handball in a post of his in the ‘Running Around’ section. We used to play it in Queens, too, of course. Like regular handball, except the ball had to bounce once instead of everything being on the fly. As kids, we probably played more Chinese than regular handball, which was more for the older guys. We’d start to get more into regular handball as we reached HS age.

Posted in Ace King Queen, Boxball, Other Spaldeen games, Queens | Tagged Chinese handball

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