The game we want to call attention to is punchball.

Or that punchball was compressed action for quick hands.

Industry is simply too important, with too many people's jobs depending on it, to be a party political punchball.

Patterson's head was like a punchball flung all ways as he tried to dodge and search at once.

Punchball was played with a full field.

At recess, during a punchball game in the schoolyard, she made a daring slide on concrete.

Punchball is a sport spawned by and similar to baseball, but without a pitcher, catcher, or bat.

His brother, Charles, spoke of schoolyard stickball and punchball games.

These include a skateboard and a punchball.

When they got bored, they bounced them off the punchball square chalked on the wall.

We were so let down, we left the theater immediately and went to play punchball in Poe Park.

My spaldeen and my punchball glory exist only in my memory.

An echo of the boxing booth remains with boxing or punchball machines being common around fairgrounds.

I remember I was happy to see hime whenever we would meet, and sometimes we played punchball during lunch period.

They hopscotched, jumped double-dutch rope, and played punchball, volleyball, basketball and billiards.

Director of social work Ian Baillie claimed the Kirk was being used as a 'punchball' between central and local government.

The game was so popular in Brooklyn that a daily newspaper, The Graphic, sponsored a punchball tournament, pitting one street against another.

"The fire hydrant was a touchdown," he said, running through some of the rules of street football, punchball and other games he played in the 50's.

Major league outfielder Rocky Colavito, when asked if he played punchball, answered "Play it?

A 2010 PBS documentary, New York Street Games, includes punchball.

One of 12 children, she was the block's tomboy, preferring punchball, stickball and softball to what were then regarded as more feminine pursuits.

"I played stickball and punchball in the streets, I played baseball at the Parade Grounds," he said.

Brighton Second Street near the boardwalk was the headquarters of punchball, slapball and, of course, stickball.

The streets had been ours for stickball, punchball, ring-o-levio, marbles, hangman, whatever we felt like playing, and now there were these - cars.

(Two-sewer hitters await computerdom's use of stickball, curb ball and punchball.)