Baer called the stickball photo of Mays his favorite image in sports. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
Boys of summer in Yonkers played stickball and baseball. From Wordnik.com. [Boys of Summer in Yonkers (Memoir Excerpt # 1)] Reference
Genovese never would have bought a stickball bat as a kid. From Wordnik.com. [Lance Mannion:] Reference
This is the last guy you would choose for your stickball team. From Wordnik.com. [Weiner Doesn't Want Another Lieberman] Reference
ZAHN: Looking for any visible scars from the stickball matches. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 12, 2002] Reference
"You play stickball with lives," Emwaya said, her voice brittle. From Wordnik.com. [Conan and The Gods of The Mountain]
No longer was Joseph at leisure to play stickball with the guys. From Wordnik.com. [Brooklyn Bridge: Summary and book reviews of Brooklyn Bridge by Karen Hesse.] Reference
Later on I get into a stickball game again on Twenty-first Street. From Wordnik.com. [It’s like this, cat] Reference
"Me and the neighbors used to play stickball out in a cul-de-sac,". From Wordnik.com. [Graves answers call to pitch for NL] Reference
JOHN DEBELLIS: The last time I played stickball was with you and Larry. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Lewis and John DeBellis: An Interview with Richard Lewis: Bo Derek, Narcissism, Therapy And Sandwiches] Reference
No, “Lot” was not the place you played stickball | clusterflock etc. From Wordnik.com. [No, “Lot” was not the place you played stickball | clusterflock] Reference
I'll say a Cherokee stickball chant for them and maybe they'll win today. From Wordnik.com. [Another Roadside Attraction]
A more apt one would be the city cracking down on kids playing stickball. From Wordnik.com. [Hey, New York Times! Okay if we build treehouses in Central Park?] Reference
“He used to play stickball with the kids in the street,” Preston said. From Wordnik.com. [Shatterproof Bats from Africa: Austin Merrill] Reference
WARWICK — Every borough of New York City has its own rules for stickball. From Wordnik.com. [Lance Mannion:] Reference
I played stickball on the street with the boys, and my dad said, "OK, enough.". From Wordnik.com. [What I Learned] Reference
I hear it, even when Im playing stickball with the guys halfway down Hancock. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: Brooklyn Bridge by Karen Hesse] Reference
GREENFIELD: I go back, Wolf, to an old stickball rule in the streets of New York. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 27, 2005] Reference
What we're dealing with here is "hardcourt," the cycling equivalent of stickball. From Wordnik.com. ["I'm Your Mama," Quoth Necessity to Invention] Reference
My thoughts return to that eleven year old kid playing in the stickball tournament. From Wordnik.com. [Murray Waas: In Memory of Spc. Nicholas Peters and the Other Boys of Kelly Park] Reference
Here I am, a kid who played stickball in the streets (of New York) working with them. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Scully is game's last link to glory days of radio] Reference
It wasn't stickball or kick-the-can — acceptable losses, though nostalgia ran high. From Wordnik.com. [How We Avenged the Blums] Reference
Panther was still griping about the outcome of the stickball game, which his team had lost. From Wordnik.com. [Armageddon's Children]
From time to time, playing stickball in the street, we could hear him nickering in the yard. From Wordnik.com. [Boys of Summer in Yonkers (Memoir Excerpt # 1)] Reference
I continued to play stickball, but when I heard my dad's car coming, I would sit on the curb. From Wordnik.com. [What I Learned] Reference
Skating races, sled races-an archery contest-could we somehow adapt stickball to snow or ice?. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Rising]
Why does a grown man who plays stickball for a living deserve to be paid 275 million dollars?. From Wordnik.com. ["When I kissed it, I thought the artist would have understood."] Reference
This is the story of joyous afternoons of stickball and dreaded years of schoolyard extortion. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortress of Solitude: Summary and book reviews of The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem.] Reference
Mr. Hamill is good company, a mensch, the kind of guy you definitely want on your stickball team. From Wordnik.com. [Best-Selling Names, One-Liner Prose and Thought Without the Thinking] Reference
When I was not playing stickball I was building and racing cars at the West Hampton Drag Raceway. From Wordnik.com. [Louis J. Ignarro - Autobiography] Reference
He grew up on one these streets with his friends, playing stickball in the road on Sunday evenings. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Man and the Cigarette] Reference
If there were a way to do this, I think America should do what we used to do when we played stickball. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: And the Winner Is... - November 19, 2000] Reference
When we didn't feel like walking over to the school yard we played a modified form of street stickball on Saratoga Avenue. From Wordnik.com. [Boys of Summer in Yonkers (Memoir Excerpt # 1)] Reference
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