10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPALDEEN»
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Lambert M Surhone, Mariam T Tennoe, Susan F Henssonow, 2011
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Last Licks: A
Spaldeen Story
Annie's spectacular hit and the ball collector's amazing catch of her Sky High Super Pinkie bring the two former foes together in an unexpected way. By the creators of Getting Used to Harry.
... you took one nickel to the candy store you could trade it for a spaldeen rubber
ball with which you could play stickball which was very nice because we played a
lot of stickball and the spaldeen was considered a very good ball spaldeen was ...
Peter Glassgold, James Laughlin, Fredrick R. Martin, 1979
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L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir
I threw my Spaldeen at them anyway. I hit the point of the stairs and the Spaldeen
fell onto the grass without a bounce. I walked over to retrieve it. There was no
more chase. I throw. The Spaldeen bounced up and banged the glass hallway ...
Annie Rachele Lanzillotto, 2013
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Positively American: Winning Back the Middle-Class Majority ...
There must be thousands of games that can be played with the spaldeen.
Stickball, of course, is the most famous. But growing up, my favorite was called
slapball. We used to play slapball on East Twenty—Seventh Street, where the
traffic was ...
6
The Games We Played: A Celebration of Childhood and Imagination
With the Spaldeen in hand, it's the 1950s in the Bronx all over again. . . . The
Spaldeen was the linchpin for almost everything we did. A 15 cent pink rubber
ball made by the Spalding Company, the Spaldeen was perhaps the greatest ball
...
7
Lithgow Party Paloozas!: 52 Unexpected Ways to Make a ...
“Spaldeen” is how New Yorkers of the 1950s pronounced the name stamped on
the side of the rubber bouncy balls made by the Spalding tennis ball company.
These pink rubber balls were everywhere, and were actually the rejected cores of
...
8
Bronx Boy: Book One of the Zombie Island Trilogy
Rock and roll was still in its infancy and rock and rollers were still too young to get
nostalgic about anything other than a good spaldeen that rolled into the sewer
before anyone could stop it. (12a) (12a) Spaldeen was New York—ese for ...
It was a long time before I ever knew that spaldeen was actually a badly abused
name for a ball made by Spalding. It has been an awfully long time since I
thought about the scooters made from milk boxes and sneaking into the ballpark
on ...
10
Life on and Off the Beat
For a kid growing up in the forties and fifties, the Spaldeen was the greatest
invention since cave men whittled the first wheel. There wasn't a city surface a
Spaldeen couldn't be used against—box ball on the sidewalk, stoop ball against
the ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPALDEEN»
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spaldeen is used in the context of the following news items.
Crown Heights stickball game unites NYPD cops and kids
The smack of the stick on the spaldeen echoed down the street and the scent of burgers and hot dogs drifted in the 90-degree summer air Tuesday in Brooklyn. «New York Daily News, Jul 15»
Serve's up at Seward Park HS tennis courts
Tennis wasn't popular then and playing handball with those pink “Spaldeen” balls was the “in” sport for others and for myself. I didn't know how to play tennis but ... «The Villager, Jul 15»
New Yorkers find fountain of youth with stickball league in South …
It is the streets near DeWitt Clinton High School, where Harlan Beispeil, 69, tried to hit Spaldeens out of sight once, before he tried to hit them all the way to ... «New York Daily News, Mar 15»
How my Irish parents became Yanks in New York City
... off-the-point and the king of all games, stickball – where we used a broom handle to hit a hard pink rubber ball, a spaldeen. The sewer covers were our bases. «IrishCentral, Mar 15»
10 Designs That Helped Shape New York City
Caption: The pink Spalding—or "Spaldeen," as it's said by New Yorkers—balls were originally defective tennis balls taken off the assembly line and sold to ... «Wired, Oct 14»
Mine: The 'Spaldeen'
This is a question I've been asking, usually of fellow New York expatriates in my post-World War II generation, since I found a “Spaldeen” among my belongings. «Washington Post, Oct 14»
Neil Diamond Goes Back to High School for First-Ever Brooklyn …
Those with the proper street cred knew it was a "Spaldeen," the go-to source of entertainment old-school city children, one which Diamond called "better than an ... «Billboard, Sep 14»
Hamill: New Greenwich Village eatery is like a fountain of youth
A couple of years ago, I taught my son how to play stickball. I introduced him to the pink rubber ball called the Spaldeen that was the center of my universe as a ... «New York Daily News, Sep 14»
'A Brief History' Depicts City's Story at Historical Society
... think of as historically significant, like the pink high-bounce rubber ball called the Spaldeen — New York-ese for Spalding, its manufacturer — and the Anthora, ... «New York Times, Sep 14»
Gina Barreca has 15 things you should know about food
Strawberries should be the size of your thumbnail and not, for example, the size of a Spaldeen. If a strawberry is as big as a rubber ball, it will taste like a rubber ... «Hartford Courant, Jul 14»
