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stickball

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a form of baseball played in the streets with a rubber ball and broomstick handle

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If you're going to play stickball in Canarsie you better learn Brooklyn rules. Rene Balcer

Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, ‘I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.' Ernie Harwell

Brooklyn, when I was growing up, was awesome. It was stoopball and stickball - a lot of kids... the baby boom generation were all in the area. It was just a really great place. Jerry Doyle

William C. Canby, Jr., American Indian Law in a Nut Shell, St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Co., pp. 23-33 Norma Howard (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), award-winning watercolor painter with Choctaw stickball sticks made by her son. Source: Internet

Choctaw dresses are trimmed by full diamond, half diamond or circle, and crosses that represent stickball sticks. Source: Internet

The stickball games would involve as few as twenty or as many as 300 players. Source: Internet

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