How To Use Stickball In A Sentence
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I always think of him playing stickball with the kids of New York after a major league game.
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Oscar's three children grew up knowing nothing of stickball in the streets or kerosene in the hair.
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NYC was named this because immigrant children played stickball throughout the New York Streets in the 1930s.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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Some, especially those written for a pre-teen audience, recount happy memories, playing stickball in the vacant lot and bubblegum-blowing contests.
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Plus all the city-street variations of baseball: stickball, punchball, stoopball, curb ball and baseball-off-the-wall.
Last Words
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Baer called the stickball photo of Mays his favorite image in sports.
The Seattle Times
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Gone are the youth centers, city public parks, outdoor basketball courts, or empty lots where kids can play stickball.
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In the summer there were barbecues and endless games of hide-and-seek and stickball.
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Even baseball has been translated into an urban street sport with stickball.
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Alas - unlike Mort, he hadn't been weaned on stickball, and I was fairly sure he would be even more unnerved at the plate than in the field.
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Even baseball has been translated into an urban street sport with stickball.
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America was a baseball nation, where millions of kids played in thousands of leagues and where games derived from the national pastime—stickball, kickball, stoopball, wallball—deepened childhood ties to the sport.
WILLIE MAYS
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Living in Bensonhurst during the Great Depression, he played all the usual street games - stickball, stoopball, punchball, boxball.
NYT > Home Page
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What we're dealing with here is "hardcourt," the cycling equivalent of stickball.
"I'm Your Mama," Quoth Necessity to Invention
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Plus all the city-street variations of baseball: stickball, punchball, stoopball, curb ball and baseball-off-the-wall.
Last Words
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You can't go down the street and play golf like you can go shoot hoops or play stickball or street hockey.
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One day Thomas went out to play stickball with some of the other boys.
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Fortunately my older brother pointed it out between innings of stickball and my academic career was saved.
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And I shouldn't neglect to say that even as a four-eyes totally bookish wimp introvert, I did a moderate amount of playing with the kids in the neighborhood, in the street: stickball, and punchball, and bouncing the ball off the stoops, and just running around the backyards of houses we shouldn't go near, climbing trees and fences, wrestling, etc.
When having a hobby was my hobby
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Old people roam the streets at night, even playing stickball on street corners with members of the constabulary.
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And I shouldn't neglect to say that even as a four-eyes totally bookish wimp introvert, I did a moderate amount of playing with the kids in the neighborhood, in the street: stickball, and punchball, and bouncing the ball off the stoops, and just running around the backyards of houses we shouldn't go near, climbing trees and fences, wrestling, etc.
When having a hobby was my hobby
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In the summer there were barbecues and endless games of hide-and-seek and stickball.
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World's Biggest Urban Playground. NYC was named this because immigrant children played stickball throughout the New York Streets in the 1930s.
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We played great games of stickball, punch ball and three man basketball on snowy playgrounds when I was a kid without an adult in sight.
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You might as well try to get up a game of stickball on Beekman Place.
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When you live in New York you meet very few true New Yorkers, so there's something rewarding about getting to see the consistency of New York experiences, from stickball to Central Park.
