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Originally Posted by jrheydt
I played roly poly on the sidewalk. Never played hop scotch. Of course we played football, baseball, and basketball also. We played stoop ball where you throw a rubber ball against porch stairs and try to hit the point of the stairs. Another game we played was stick ball where a rectangle was drawn on the school building wall and you would bat using a broom handle and the pitcher would throw a ball and try to hit the rectangle for a strike. When we played we pretended to be a major league team and had to bat either right or left depending on the major league lineup.
John
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In addition to playing all the games that John mentioned, we also played johnnie on the pony, box baseball, chinese handball, off the wall (where one person throws a spaulding or pensie pinkie against the wall and his opponent tries to catch it on the fly), touch football in the street (go out to the chevy and cut left), and a strange game called three feet off to germany. I grew up in Brooklyn, Queens, and New Hyde Park, LI.