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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

In the streets. In addition, we played stick ball when a pitch was thrown on a bounce to the hitter. We used a broom handle with the Spaulding ball. We should have had shares in Spaulding as we hit many balls into area's where they were unretrievable especially the sewers. I slid into second base on concrete. How that for dedication and or stupidity?

Also Johnny Rides the Pony buit not too many times a it got a little rough. Hide and seek.

Football was go long or cut to the left towards the Buick and I'll throw it you you.

There was also a punch ball league that was played in the back of P.S 18.
A Spaulding ball that was throw one a bounce above the shoulder and was punched. It was interesting as this school had many windows and crevices where crazy bounces would result.

We had a building where we used the point with the other building 30 feet away. One time, someone really hit the point with the Spaulding really good and it went to the third floor through an open window that was opened slightly. We thought we lost the ball as a usually mean Jenny C. would never give it back to us. We started to scatter and then Jenny open the window and was laughing. She threw the ball back to us and explained the ball came through the window and bounce into her husbands bowl of salad. First and only time I remember her laughing. Obviously, she thought it was hysterical.