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| <ASPhalt¹NYC>
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| <JohnnyM>
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Can't say as I ever have but it sounds like fun. We'd have a hard time rounding up that many players in my neighborhood
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We played stickball in an intersection, usually Edison Ave and Morris Park Ave, using old broom and mop handles as bats. Eventually someone started marketing a fatter stick with tape on the handle and you could literally buy a stickball bat in a toy store. I'm told you can still buy spaldeens in some stores in New York and I believe you can get them on the internet. Those were the days of "do it yourself". We used to fish our spaldeens out of the sewers with a one pound coffee can (the older flatter ones) nailed to a pole with holes in the bottom of the can. We even used to go to other neighborhoods to empty out their sewers.
"A special breed of man will sacrifice everything for the security and freedom of so many unthankful others" --Unknown Author "We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." -- George Orwell |
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| <CATHY13>
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i can't even begin to tell you , what i think of these kids today...unreal...no imagination, over weight,no inovation, no sense of humor, too sensitive,AND BORED..it's all attibuted to STUPID VIDEO GAMES. on and on and on.....
i can't believe the games, and things i created myself from being bored... the street games i loved were, scully - played w/ bottle caps with melted wax in the center.. era's- like stick ball , only you drew a batters box on a wall, which was the strike zone, pitcher pitched the ball and you hit it..great game if you didn't have alot of kids, say 2 or 3 kids... johnny on a pony...buck buck how many horns are up?? ringoleevio.....red rover.....red light green light 123....mother may i......king queen...... stoop ball... |
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Cathy, I'll give you 3 guesses who is to blame for today's kids being like they are.
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"Stooges Rule!" |
1. Moe 2. Larry 3. Curly NOT being viewed by today's generation!!!!!! Bring back the old stuff...too many indoor activities such as DVD's and video games...makes for overweight, lazy ass kids. We made our own fun, as Cathy said, all the street games....we jumped rope...hell, even the boys did it too! Especially the more challenging double dutch and double orange. We were always outside except when it rained...then, we'd listen to Beatles' records or played board games. "Truth is stranger than fiction, Judgie Wudgie!!" ~ Jerome "Curly" Howard |
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Ya think?
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| <ASPhalt¹NYC>
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Stickball is still played today in the Bronx and Harlem as well as other parts of the country. Check it out. http://streetplay.com/stickball/2001/memorialday/
Un amico è qualcuno che li conosca bene, ma li ama tuttavia. |
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| <Norie>
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Laura you are so right! Remember Johnny on the pony! haha. We had some good times back then. And yes we were all skinny back then. I have been told they are doing away with P.E. class nowadays, and we wonder why kids are over weight and coming down with Diabetes. |
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I loved playing fast pitch with the box on the wall. Used to play at PS72 and PS14. |
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My favorite Bronx sport was playing touch football in the street or schoolyard.
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Cathy, It is a pleasure to read someone who enjoyed the same childhood games. Here in CA when talking to some people of my childhood they do not have a clue. thanks for your memories. Janet |
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cathy, trying to delete "STOP putting dwn BX. was not meant for you.
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Other games we played were "Hide & Seek" , "Simple Simon" (take 3 giant steps forward , "May I") Hop scotch , where you drew connected squares with chalk, and wrote numbers in each square.
Then there was "hit the stick" , where you would place a popstick on the pavement , and bounce a ball , back & forth between two people , and see who hits the stick most often. And , we used to save the popsticks from the icepops , and intertwine them , in and out , and made fans. We made scooters out of old wooden produce boxes , and the middle board was a plank of wood , onto which you would attach the wheels of an old skate to the front and back. Some of the kids would decorate them with soda bottle caps. And two sticks on the top of the box were the handles. You wanna talk inventive , we were absolute geniuses. We coulda taught Tyco , about invention , not bilking stockholders. |
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Oh , I almost forgot , Immies, the games we played with marbles. Aggies , puries.
Tossed the picture cards we would get in the bubble gum , and see who would win someone else's stack. You would either place them up against the building wall , and see how the fell, or flip them onto the floor. |
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Living across the street on Harrison Ave. across from the Macomb's JHS 82 schoolyard, I played lots of softball with an occasional stickball. Never had to use the streets. I would just go across the street with my glove and get in the field with someone hitting the ball out. If enough guys showed up, we choose up a game. "Schoolyard Rules".
And, yes, Hide and Seek at night in front of 1700 Harrison Ave. with the lamppost as home base. |
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| <ASPhalt¹NYC>
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to stickball in much the same way that i'd prefer handball to paddleball |
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Ahh, stickball. I haven't played that in years.
I rememeber the bums and crackheads would always jump into the game when we played. They were pretty good too. We used to play in the projects, then smash the ball into the parking lot. That was a homerun. When we didn't play there, we played against a handball wall. I've seen some wackos play on major streets like Webster Ave or the Concourse, not my thing. |
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