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We used to play Off the Wall,…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on November 3, 2009 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014
Original author: P. Rodriguez
 

We used to play Off the Wall, which we called Flies Up, in East New York, Brooklyn in the ’80s. We also had a very mean version called suicide. In this version, if you touched the ball but didn’t catch it you had to run to the wall and yell “SUICIDE” before someone picked up the ball and threw it at you. If you got hit by the ball before you touched the wall, you had to take your lumps. You had to stand nose to the wall while each player took turns throwing the ball at you. The meaner kids would take a running start and throw the ball as hard as they could either at the small of your back or your butt. Once each player got a chance, play resumed with with you being the new “it” and throwing the ball.

Posted in Brooklyn, Other Spaldeen games, Wallball / Off the Wall/Point | Tagged Off the Wall

I used to play stoopball…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on April 15, 2009 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 13, 2014
Original author: OldSchool
 

I used to play stoopball in Rochdale Village. there were these small little areas where the maintenance crew could access the building. you would go down this small flight of stairs which was partially enclosed and played up against the stairs. I remember if you hit the edge of the stair and caught the ball you would get extra points. this was in the mid to late sixties. We would also play off the wall against the buildings. What great days.

Posted in Locales, Queens, Stoopball, Wallball / Off the Wall/Point | Tagged Off the Wall

I grew up in the Bronx in…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on September 29, 2007 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
Original author: Gary Pearce [e-mail]
 

I grew up in the Bronx in the 1950’s on 146th Street and Brook Avenue. We use to play “Off The Wall” with a Spaldeen. We would stand close to the wall and throw the ball against it to propel it across the street to hit the wall on the other side and you would run bases. Catching the ball off the wall was an out, three outs per inning. If I remember ( I am an active 67 year old) we had three men per team, one on first and third and one in the outfield. You could also “hit” a line drive to the infield to get on base.

Posted in Bronx, Other Spaldeen games, Stoopball, Wallball / Off the Wall/Point | Tagged I grew up..., Off the Wall

Wow! Thanks for the memories.If…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on June 8, 2007 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
Original author: born king zulu
 

Wow! Thanks for the memories.If you came to the block with a bottle cap we would probably under estimate you because that was like a beginners style.I wonder if school chair caps was a Bronx thing ’cause they are the only ones i saw posting it. I used to play on Marion ave. and also Decatur ave in The Bronx during the seventies.We took our mothers can openers to school and took the caps off of the chairs to get a professional’s cap. Small caps were called beenies and large were bullies. Sometimes we used clay instead of wax.If your cap began to roll you’d better yell “no kicksies” or we’d kick it like a soccer ball and more than likely you were guaranteed to lose.I think the drug infested eighties destroyed these games like ringoleavio,slugs,of the curb,stick ball,off the wall,kick the can,…………….you get the idea.

Posted in Ace King Queen, Bronx, Skully, Stickball, Wallball / Off the Wall/Point | Tagged Off the Wall, slugs (the game)

I am almost 48 years old…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on March 21, 2007 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014
Original author: Gary Sharpe [e-mail]
 

I am almost 48 years old and grew up in brooklyn. At Saint josephs school(I was in the last graduating class 1973)we called it cocolivio.St Joseph was on Dean street and vanderbilt avenue.When we moved to the linden houses(off of linden blvd.wortman ave to be exact)I think then it was called ringalivio. At St.Joseph we played cocolivio,skelly,off the wall,stoop ball,kings,hand ball,stick ball,punch ball,we had tops,yo yo’s,and flipped baseball cards.Who needed a play station?GOD I miss those days.

Posted in Brooklyn, Other Games, Punchball, Ringoleavio, Skully, Stickball, Stoopball, Wallball / Off the Wall/Point | Tagged Off the Wall

I lived in Park Slope and…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on February 13, 2007 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 18, 2014
Original author: Danny2107 [e-mail]
 

I lived in Park Slope and we were fortunate that on one side of the street we had the amory. So we would use the domed roof that the building had to benefit when playing stickball. The opposing team would not know where the ball would land. The majority of the times the balls would come back down. Other times they wouldn’t. We had a couple of daring friends the would climb the wall and make it up the roof to retreave the balls that were stuck up there. The pinky balls were tossed down so that the younger kids would play w/them and the spaldeens were kept or tossed down to one of us. We would also use the armory wall to play off the wall. To me, it just depend what you were playing. The spaldeen was good for playing stickball and the pinkee was good for playing king’s.

Posted in Brooklyn, Other Spaldeen games, Stickball, Wallball / Off the Wall/Point | Tagged Off the Wall, Pennsy Pinkie, spaldeen types

This is a South Bronx tale:…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on November 18, 2006 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
Original author: Louis Acosta [e-mail]
 

This is a South Bronx tale: the setting is mid to late ’60s, Kelly Street 10 hundreds block = longer than most with wall to wall five story tenement buildings. We played stickball starting from the second fire-hydrant sewer lid (homeplate) towards the end of the block. Anything over the “wire” not caught was an automatic homerun. Only two guys ever hit the ball onto the roof of 1069 thanks to a favorable wind: Manny and Junior. We seldom played pitch ball but rather bounced the ball before hitting it or hit it in the air. Balls stuck on fire-escapes or on the roof before the “wire” were outs, down the basements were doubles. sidewalks were all you can run. The wire was a cable hanging across the street behind the second sewer lid which was a few feet behind second base. Only players from our street were allowed to toss their sneakers onto the wire. Those trophies were never taken down. When there weren’t enough guys to play a game, two guys with bats would hit the ball back and forth one from homeplate and the other from the third sewer lid towards homeplate. Spaldeens were the prefered ball, used also for slugs off the wall of Mr. Friar’s building 1045 Kelly Street; or hitting off the stoop of 1048 Kelly Street. Louie, Jorge, Mickey, Augie, Joel, Victor, Junior, Moses, George Pinocchio were the regulars. Stickball on Kelly Street died in 1978 when the whole block was nuked for redevelopment. We also played a mean game of skelzies and had the best aerial kite battles between glass-cord diamonds and razorblade sneekies. Those were the days!

Posted in Ace King Queen, Bronx, Brooklyn, Other Spaldeen games, Skully, Stickball, Street Fashion, Wallball / Off the Wall/Point | Tagged Off the Wall, slugs (the game), sneakers, South Bronx

So glad I found this site….

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on May 10, 2006 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
Original author: Tom Louie [e-mail]
 

So glad I found this site. I played Chinese handball in Manhattan in the late 70s. I remember a favorite trick among my friends was to give the ball a lot of top spin on the return hit, so that when it came off the wall, it would hit the ground and reverse direction from the receiver!

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

What an excellent site….

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on February 2, 2006 by Streetplay DiscussionsOctober 20, 2014
Original author: Tim Bull [e-mail]
 

What an excellent site. I was just talking to a co-worker about pimple balls and decide to do a search. I came upon this site. Man, in Mayfair/Holmesburg life was great in the 70’s and 80’s. Wall ball, ass ball, step ball, wire ball, stick ball, half ball, homerun derby, man hunt, hide the belt. All classic games only played in Philly as far as I knew anyway. Oh, can’t forget wiffle ball. We had the perfect field for wiffle ball. We would play ovet at Forrest Elementry at Cottage and Bliegh St. We played between two buildings. Hitting the ball past the defense and the ball hitting the wall below the ledge was a single, above the ledge but below the window was a double, in the area where the window was, was a triple and above the window was a homer. The defense could catch it off the wall and it was an out. If they missed it and it hit the ground then it was a hit. Great game!

Posted in Halfball, Locales, Philadelphia, Stickball, Wallball / Off the Wall/Point | Tagged Off the Wall, pimple ball, spaldeen types, wallball

I grew up in philly in the…

Streetplay Discussion Archive Posted on November 18, 2005 by Streetplay DiscussionsNovember 19, 2014
Original author: patti
 

I grew up in philly in the 60’s we had a game you played by yourself or with friends it was called mimseys. You threw the ball and sang a little song. Mimseys to clapseys tworl my hands to bapseys my right hand my left hand as high as the sky as low as the sea touch my knee touch my hell touch my toe and under we go each time you threw the ball against the wall and did a trick… mimseys was just throwing and catching then you threw and clapped and then caught the ball then you threw the ball and rolled your hands and then cought the ball.for bapseys you touched both of your shoulders and then caught the ball next you threw the ball and caught in your right hand and then the left next you threw the ball as high as you could and then catch it after that you threw it the tiniest that you could and caught it. then you threw the ball and touched your knee and caught it then your heel then your toe then you threw it under your led to the wall and caught it. IF you made all this perfectly you started all over but you must clap and the new skill for every catch Ex. clap and catch in right hand then clap and catch it in your left hand. This whole game was played off the wall with a pink ball

Posted in Other Spaldeen games, Philadelphia, Wallball / Off the Wall/Point | Tagged I grew up..., Off the Wall

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