One on one. Just two players, pitcher vs the batter (with a large square strike zone chalked out on a wall) was the best way to go. The pitcher would throw a high mph fast ball. Talk about intense. In the version seen in the video the batter does not need a skill set. We used to do this at PS 181 in NY.
Yes!! One on one and exactly as you describe it. I lived in Northern NJ just 4 miles over the GWB, since age 7 but moved there from the Bronx. We played at the school yard using the chain link fence as a back stop. We would tie a light jacket to the fence for the strike zone and it was fast pitch, anything goes. Batter got one out only and anything caught by the pitcher was an out. We used as a bat a 1' inch by about 38 inch dowel (or a broomstick) for a bat and either a Spalding Hi Bounce (pronounced "Spaldeen" or a tennis ball. We played from about 8 am right thru dark with a 20 min break for lunch and dinner. One game after another and we never got tired. This was in the 1950's and damn we had a good time.
Spaldeen - a new release on Amazon by an author I’ve been following for a couple of years. My dad used to tell me about the little ball he played stickball with in the Brooklyn neighborhood where he grew up. …A novel approach to storytelling, but I enjoyed it and flipped my copy to my dad. I think he’ll like it.
Yeah, in the schoolyard. But we were playing it all the time including our own block which you had to play this way, and you would often try to hit the car of the neighbor who complained about we hooligans.
That's right. We did the same on Staten Island. That's real stickball. Spaldeen - a new release on Amazon by an author I’ve been following for a couple of years. My dad used to tell me about the little ball he played stickball with in the Brooklyn neighborhood where he grew up. …A novel approach to storytelling, but I enjoyed it and flipped my copy to my dad. I think he’ll like it.
Here are some cities that need stickball: Boise, ID Denver, CO Cheyenne, WY Toronto, ON Portland, OR Salem, OR Vancouver, BC Phoenix, AZ Los Angeles, CA Las Vegas, NV
Baroque Obama if the hipsters in Portland start playing stickball, I’m burning my bat.
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Trash talk is NOT PART OF THE GAME when I grew up in Brooklyn. There was pitching stickball, fungo (self hitting) and if you only had 3 players, catch a flys up.
Spaldeen - a new release on Amazon by an author I’ve been following for a couple of years. My dad used to tell me about the little ball he played stickball with in the Brooklyn neighborhood where he grew up. …A novel approach to storytelling, but I enjoyed it and flipped my copy to my dad. I think he’ll like it.
No it was born in Philadelphia and they don't play in the street they play in a park got to have a fancy got to have boundaries but I'll School yards and s*** we started it with handball
Spaldeen - a new release on Amazon by an author I’ve been following for a couple of years. My dad used to tell me about the little ball he played stickball with in the Brooklyn neighborhood where he grew up. …A novel approach to storytelling, but I enjoyed it and flipped my copy to my dad. I think he’ll like it.
One on one. Just two players, pitcher vs the batter (with a large square strike zone chalked out on a wall) was the best way to go. The pitcher would throw a high mph fast ball. Talk about intense. In the version seen in the video the batter does not need a skill set. We used to do this at PS 181 in NY.
Yes!! One on one and exactly as you describe it. I lived in Northern NJ just 4 miles over the GWB, since age 7 but moved there from the Bronx. We played at the school yard using the chain link fence as a back stop. We would tie a light jacket to the fence for the strike zone and it was fast pitch, anything goes. Batter got one out only and anything caught by the pitcher was an out.
We used as a bat a 1' inch by about 38 inch dowel (or a broomstick) for a bat and either a Spalding Hi Bounce (pronounced "Spaldeen" or a tennis ball. We played from about 8 am right thru dark with a 20 min break for lunch and dinner. One game after another and we never got tired. This was in the 1950's and damn we had a good time.
Same as growing up in Metuchen, NJ
Same here in Boston.
Spaldeen - a new release on Amazon by an author I’ve been following for a couple of years. My dad used to tell me about the little ball he played stickball with in the Brooklyn neighborhood where he grew up. …A novel approach to storytelling, but I enjoyed it and flipped my copy to my dad. I think he’ll like it.
I'm from NY and we didn't play it like that...we painted a strike zone on the side of a building and had real pitching..
Yeah, in the schoolyard. But we were playing it all the time including our own block which you had to play this way, and you would often try to hit the car of the neighbor who complained about we hooligans.
That's right. We did the same on Staten Island. That's real stickball.
Spaldeen - a new release on Amazon by an author I’ve been following for a couple of years. My dad used to tell me about the little ball he played stickball with in the Brooklyn neighborhood where he grew up. …A novel approach to storytelling, but I enjoyed it and flipped my copy to my dad. I think he’ll like it.
Here are some cities that need stickball:
Boise, ID
Denver, CO
Cheyenne, WY
Toronto, ON
Portland, OR
Salem, OR
Vancouver, BC
Phoenix, AZ
Los Angeles, CA
Las Vegas, NV
Baroque Obama if the hipsters in Portland start playing stickball, I’m burning my bat.
Trash talk is NOT PART OF THE GAME when I grew up in Brooklyn. There was pitching stickball, fungo (self hitting) and if you only had 3 players, catch a flys up.
thats what I'm talking about that was real fun. Back in the day in Hoboken N.J.
And there's a picture that bounces it in and we started with hockey sticks cut
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Another America only sport I think
bath beach stick ball was the best
I’m not a fan of the no pitcher thing.
Spaldeen - a new release on Amazon by an author I’ve been following for a couple of years. My dad used to tell me about the little ball he played stickball with in the Brooklyn neighborhood where he grew up. …A novel approach to storytelling, but I enjoyed it and flipped my copy to my dad. I think he’ll like it.
Neither am I. A lot of little leaguers learned how to put junk on the ball by pitching in stickball games.
No it was born in Philadelphia and they don't play in the street they play in a park got to have a fancy got to have boundaries but I'll School yards and s*** we started it with handball
Yous guys wanna play stickball
Spaldeen - a new release on Amazon by an author I’ve been following for a couple of years. My dad used to tell me about the little ball he played stickball with in the Brooklyn neighborhood where he grew up. …A novel approach to storytelling, but I enjoyed it and flipped my copy to my dad. I think he’ll like it.
@@r-leanmygirl-gj2kt We even played touch football with it in the schoolyard during our lunch hour.
at don't look like Little Italy to me.
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nice hai
I'm sure this never hits cars🤡
in real italy there isnt teenagers like that. there are all skinny
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But yeah, we were toothpicks growing up in Boston yrs ago too..
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Trash talk: Lets teach all the kids how to be a
@Bin yahoo- New Yorkers never did have an educational system as good as Boston.
I won't hold it against you..
at don't look like Little Italy to me.