| I always think of him playing stickball with the kids of New York after a major league game. |
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| Even baseball has been translated into an urban street sport with stickball. |
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| In the summer there were barbecues and endless games of hide-and-seek and stickball. |
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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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| Gone are the youth centers, city public parks, outdoor basketball courts, or empty lots where kids can play stickball. |
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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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| Fortunately my older brother pointed it out between innings of stickball and my academic career was saved. |
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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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| 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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| Greene recalls playing stickball and stoop ball with his friends growing up, and he believes that such games still offer important lessons to today's kids. |
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| One day Thomas went out to play stickball with some of the other boys. |
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| On the way home they passed the Sweets-N-Freeze and Looney Lou spinning in the roses and a bunch of ill-dressed boys playing stickball. |
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| Remember those quaint ethnic communities, once teeming with stickball games and eggplant-shaped old women wielding rolling pins? |
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| This all sounds a long way off from the pastoral clinking of wood on leather, or the chatter of a city stickball game. |
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| Lacrosse is one of many varieties of stickball games played by Aboriginal people long before the arrival of Europeans. |
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| You might as well try to get up a game of stickball on Beekman Place. |
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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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| 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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| My daughter wandered over and somehow Nelson, the guy I was shooting with, got onto the subject of stickball, which he explained to her, and in so doing conjured a teeming, unsupervised world of childhood. |
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| Although kicking games were played by the indigenous peoples of North America, they were much less popular than the stickball games that are the origin of the modern game of lacrosse. |
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| The Big Apple also closes some streets near schools during breaks and after dismissal, so that children can run around a bit. Traditional street games like stickball, skelly and stoop-ball are dying out. |
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| To recognize the rich Cherokee heritage of the area, stickball games were organized. |
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| Pick-up games of baseball, basketball, touch football, tag and stickball were the norm. |
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| A synopsis: Born in pre-television Park Slope to a Ukrainian couple, name changed from Lappe, with a sister and two brothers, both stickball players. |
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| I loved baseball like most boys growing up and played a lot of stickball. |
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| Kaiser first learned the value of cooperative effort playing stickball and stoopball on the streets of New York City, where he was born and brought up. |
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| He examines Luiseno dance and stickball in some detail, but his most revealing discussions center on indigenous concepts of spiritual power and religion. |
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| The first episode of the series saw Sxwithul'txw travel to Mississippi to learn about the ancient sport of Stickball. |
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