[Hot Tabasco]

I would bet those kids who played stickball

From what I recall, "Stickball" was played in the back alleys of cities such as Chicago and New York due to the unavailability of baseball playgrounds.......

As a side note, while I was raised in northern Michigan, I spent the summers of the 1950's with my grand parents in Detroit.

At that time, my grandfather was a Detroit police officer and on his bedroom cabinet he had a baseball signed by all the Detroit Tigers in a plastic case. Well, me and my buddies needed a baseball so I took that baseball out to the park and we played with it. My grandfather never said a word but in retrospect, he should have whipped my butt.......

[driftless2]

I remember seeing a lot of school walls that were near the school playground that had a strike zone chalked on them. I didn't live real close to a school, but I remember seeing two guys playing what they called "corkball" (which was just a hard rubber ball) a lot at a particular junior high not terribly far from my home.

Usually it involved just two guys, a hitter and a pitcher. If a ball got past the pitcher, it was a single. Against the school fence, a double or a triple. Over the fence, homer. No running involved.