STICK BALL : AUTHENTICALLY NEW YORK 

We played stick ball I Ozone Park , NY...In THE 50s and 60s...the manhole cover was homeplate.with holes that you could see ainage the drainage water,sometimes you could get an odor from way below...🤔🤭😷... And if the Pensy Pinky Ball went down the sewer You'd go get a WIRE hangar straighten it out ... Make a hoop shape at the end and reach it way down in the water Below and retrieve the Ball 😱💩👐😖...then continue the game...VERY POPULAR GAME. The neighbors would sit on their stoops and watch us play...not many cars on the street ..then...now it's so many cars ...and it's a one way street...too congested...too narrow...good-bye stick ball😭🪄

Nothin like the OLD SCHOOL. !

patriots stick ball was the greatest