Crossword clues for stickball
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A street game similar to baseball, played with a stick, a ball and various ad hoc materials; found primarily in large cities in the northeastern United States
WordNet
n. a form of baseball played in the streets with a rubber ball and broomstick handle [syn: stickball game]
Wikipedia
Stickball is a street game related to baseball, usually formed as a pick-up game played in large cities in the Northeastern United States, especially New York City and Philadelphia. The equipment consists of a broom handle and a rubber ball, typically a spaldeen, pensy pinky, high bouncer or tennis ball. The rules come from baseball and are modified to fit the situation. For example, a manhole cover may be used as a base, or buildings for foul lines. The game is a variation of stick and ball games dating back to at least the 1750s. This game was widely popular among youths growing up from the 20th century until the 1980s.
Stickball is the third album by American saxophonist Charles Williams recorded in 1972 for the Mainstream label.
Usage examples of "stickball".
Fat Mancho, played stickball in front of his candy store and helped his bookie operation rake in thousands a week, their powerful support insuring that no one dared back down from a phone-in bet.
Then Huge arrived to play in the Burton Street Games, teaching us possibilities in the sport of stickball no one had suspected.
By the end of that same summer I had participated in the ultimate stickball game, hit the fly ball to end all fly balls, and discovered that even the suburbs can be touched, however briefly, by marvels.
They were like tiny versions of the portal that had opened during the stickball game, like the door Mitch and I saw in the sky the day before.
He took the stickball bat from my hand and held it out to me, a look of ecstasy on his face.
Now, at the bright weary end of summer, Henry and Mingus Rude were stickball captains, unexplained.
One stickball game was your whole career, your whole life to this point.
Kids were playing stickball in the street, blocking traffic and exchanging insults with an impatient truck driver who wanted to get through.
Shoals of dirty brats with runny noses, nits, and impetigo playing noisy games of kick-the-can or stickball in the street while unshaven out-of-work men in stretched, sweaty undershirts talked in loud voices from stoop to stoop on hot summer nights as they sucked at quart bottles of ale.
It was rl they won the stickball game, will laugh her laugh, it will hang on the tinkle like glass.
This Sali guy might just be a rich kid playing stickball out in the traffic, but .
His moods were too unpredictable: one minute he would be in an almost catatonic funk, crouched in the back seat of a black Cadillac limousine with an overcoat over his head -- and then, with no warning at all, he would suddenly be out of the car at a red light somewhere in the Bronx, playing stickball in the street with a gang of teenage junkies.
Skating races, sled races-an archery contest-could we somehow adapt stickball to snow or ice?
Eddie saw people from the old neighborhood: Jimmie Polio, the kid with the clubfoot, and Tommy Fredericks, who always got so excited watching the street stickball games that he made faces and the kids called him Halloween Tommy.
You could hear the kids shouting for a last innings of stickball before real darkness descended.