stickball

How To Use stickball In A Sentence

• I always think of him playing stickball with the kids of New York after a major league game.
• Oscar's three children grew up knowing nothing of stickball in the streets or kerosene in the hair.
• NYC was named this because immigrant children played stickball throughout the New York Streets in the 1930s.
• Many rival Native American clans settled disputes through a game similar to modern day lacrosse called stickball, Williamson said as she showed children the traditional "stick" used to play the game. The Daily Sentinel: News
• That meant I played ball in the lots, swung a broomstick in a stickball game, shot baskets in the school yard until dark and starred in hide and seek because I could run fast.
• I was fortunate enough to learn the rules of baseball, or at least its street variants, punchball and stickball, as a very young child. Forbes.com: News
• There really has to be a serious effort in that inner city to get the kids to play today, because there's no more stickball, there's no more throwing it against the steps.
• Some, especially those written for a pre-teen audience, recount happy memories, playing stickball in the vacant lot and bubblegum-blowing contests.
• Plus all the city-street variations of baseball: stickball, punchball, stoopball, curb ball and baseball-off-the-wall. Last Words
• Baer called the stickball photo of Mays his favorite image in sports. The Seattle Times