stickball

These days, the game of choice is not stickball but football.

I asked a police officer if he'd seen stickball games on the street recently.

In stickball as I know it, there are no rules.

Stickball, by the way, was not played on every street corner.

Half a century later, the members of the stickball team had gathered again.

"You know what has led to the decline of stickball?"

In the game of stickball, one foul and you're out.

Young people played stickball and Indian ball in this area.

Several weeks ago we had a stickball party for the players and their wives.

It was stickball time, you could hear kids up the street yelling.

It was caused by a stickball accident at the age of 9.

"I grew up with a stickball bat in my hand."

And they had no clue what a stickball bat was.

But with stickball we're talking size: the game ran a city block long.

When asked why stickball interested him, he gave a response that spoke for many.

"I grew up playing stickball with the boys in the streets," she said.

The Cherokee people, for example, hold dances before stickball games.

Three blocks down, a stickball game was going on in the fading light.

They seemed to be placing one hand above the other's to choose sides for a stickball game.

I too played stickball and basketball on what used to be quiet back streets.

Stickball or any other game played in the street would simply be too dangerous to contemplate.

The trouble is, a stickball isn't at all like a baseball.

"I'm going to come to your house and play stickball in your street!"

Now, after several lean decades, stickball is making a comeback.

Groups of us played street games like stickball and hide-and-seek.