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To: oh8eleven; sodpoodle
We also played stickball with the pink air balls, and the same with pimple balls, and with "star balls", and half balls, and wiffle balls, and "hose ball" (with short lengths of hard hose and a stick, which if the hose piece was hit and begin rapidly tumbling in towards you, and you didn't catch it, but you got hit in the face, it would hurt, and make a painful welt stick out).

We played roof ball, and wall ball, and wire ball, and handball, and run-the-bases, and prisoner's base, and tag football, and "P-I-G" shot taking and matching on a basketball court. Those games were fun and free to play, and you didn't get isolated back then on special smartphones/electric-games/computers, away from socializing with lots of other kids in the neighborhood.

51 posted on 07/31/2017 7:30:39 AM PDT by Songcraft (Pray without ceasing. 1 Thessalonians 5:17)
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To: Pray All Day
pink air balls, and the same with pimple balls, and with "star balls", and half balls ... and "hose ball"
I grew up in the NYC area, and never heard of any those. Maybe they were local to where you lived?
Nevertheless, we were always busy and we sure as hell always had fun.
56 posted on 07/31/2017 8:16:23 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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