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Another ball game. …
Another ball game. We took a pensy pinkie or a spaldeen and put it into a knee-high sock. Then we stood with our back against the wall, and arms and legs spread, grabbing the open end of the sock with the right hand if you were right handed, and reach over and bounce the ball between the left arm and leg and back across to the right side off the wall. You could bounce it between your legs too going up and down between the wall there and back up to the right of you. I think we did this to some kind of rhyme, but I really can’t recall. Perhaps we just counted.
Pensy Pinkies had a smoother…
On beach 79th street in…
Hi all you old timers, Just…
Hi all you old timers, Just Kidding. I’m a 22 year old student and bartender. Recently a customer of mine began talking about the old school yard games he used to play. In the conversation he asked me if I ever heard of a pensi pinky. Anyway, to make a long story short he asked if I could buy some off the internet. I said I would try, so if anyone knows where I met be able to order some on line please let me know at CAESAR934 [at] aol [dot] com. You might help bring a smile to an old mans face. Thank You
I have been desperately…
I have been desperately searching for a pimple ball to fulfill my good friends birthday wishes. He is a former player who would like to introduce his grandson to the greatest game ever invented – half ball. If you know where I could purchase one, please respond as soon as possible. Time is running out.
What is a pinky ball? How…
I’ve only bumped into one…
I’ve only bumped into one other person who remembers playing what we called “Salughterhouse”, back in East NY in the fifties/sixties, and he lived in Queens. Basically, one person played american style handball wil a spaldeen (harder) or pinkie (softer, bouncier). His job, while maintaining the flow of a solitaire handball game, was to strike one of several other players on the fly with the ball. The other players, typically three or four, were lined up against the wall facing the handballer, with on foot on the wall at all times. Their job was to avoid being struck, and/or to catch the ball on the fly, ending the handballer’s serve, and taking the role themselves. Our games took place along the sidewall of the Biltmore Theater on Wyona St. at New Lotts Ave. It’s long wall was about 20ft high and 75ft long, one of the great handball venues of East NY. It also had a recessed high wall about 20ft wide and 40ft high, with about thirty feet of pavement at the base. It made for the fabulous off-the-wall baseball games (until the theater owners would come out and chase us away).
I am trying to buy halfballs…
Does anyone out there remember…
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….