Stickball
noun
A street game that is similar to baseball, where people use a broomstick as a bat and a small rubber ball.
The kids are playing stickball in the street.
Often appears as...
- play stickball
- street stickball
noun
A street game that is similar to baseball, where people use a broomstick as a bat and a small rubber ball.
The kids are playing stickball in the street.
Often appears as...
- play stickball
- street stickball
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Pro Tip 1/3Urban Origins
Stickball originated in urban areas where kids didn't have access to proper baseball fields.
They preferred the asphalt of their neighborhood for a stickball match.
Pro Tip 2/3Improvised Play
Stickball is often played with improvised objects, symbolizing resourcefulness and adaptability.
Using just a broomstick and a tennis ball, they started a stickball game.
Pro Tip 3/3Community Spirit
Stickball is not just a game; it fosters community and brings neighborhoods together.
The entire block came out to watch the stickball tournament.
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Quote examples
Jane O'Meara Sanders
American Educator
It was great growing up in Brooklyn. The neighborhood was the street. Everybody would get together after school. Somebody would sit out on a stoop and then five other people, 10 other people would come out - a game of stickball or stoopball or dodgeball - all revolved around a basketball or dodgeball. We had fun.
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Ernie Harwell
American Celebrity
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.
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Darell Hammond
American Businessman
Toddlers need to get off the soccer field and onto the playground. Children need to get out of the gym and into neighborhood stickball games. We need to give kids room to create their own rules, set their own terms, and move their bodies in their own ways.
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Eddie Alvarez
American Athlete
Where most kids play stickball and hockey, I'd walk down the streets with two sets of boxing gloves and knock on my friend's door and see if he wanted to box. There were boxing gyms on every corner.
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Jerry Doyle
American Actor
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.
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Bob Cousy
American Athlete
We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.
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Jane O'Meara Sanders
American Educator
It was great growing up in Brooklyn. The neighborhood was the street. Everybody would get together after school. Somebody would sit out on a stoop and then five other people, 10 other people would come out - a game of stickball or stoopball or dodgeball - all revolved around a basketball or dodgeball. We had fun.
Quote examples
Ernie Harwell
American Celebrity
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.
Quote examples
Darell Hammond
American Businessman
Toddlers need to get off the soccer field and onto the playground. Children need to get out of the gym and into neighborhood stickball games. We need to give kids room to create their own rules, set their own terms, and move their bodies in their own ways.
Quote examples
Eddie Alvarez
American Athlete
Where most kids play stickball and hockey, I'd walk down the streets with two sets of boxing gloves and knock on my friend's door and see if he wanted to box. There were boxing gyms on every corner.
Quote examples
Jerry Doyle
American Actor
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.
Quote examples
Bob Cousy
American Athlete
We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.
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