Find a stick and ball, close off some of Little Italy's streets, and bring in out-of-towners from New York City. Those are essential ingredients for San Diego's annual Labor Day stickball tournament.
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.
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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.
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.
What's the matter? Nobody can pitch anymore cuz you grew up playing with your so-called smart phones instead of going outside and building up your pitching arms? This ain't real stickball.
