4 QUOTES WITH «STICKBALL»
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stickball.
We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.
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.
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.
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.'
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STICKBALL»
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stickball in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
stickball and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Stickball and Egg Creams: A Bronx Boy's Memoir
Now in his mid-seventies, Racond chronicles his life from childhood to adolescence. Written with humor and heart, "Stickball and Egg Creams" provides a glimpse into this special time in America.
2
The Choctaw:
Stickball Players of the South
This series explores and supports standards under "The History of Students' Own State or Religion," and "The History of the United States," as required by the National Center for History in the Schools; and "Culture and Cultural Diversity," ...
Rachel A. Koestler-Grack, 2003
3
Causal Learning : Psychology, Philosophy, and Computation: ...
Children were introduced to the stickball machine described in the section on
inferring the existence of unobserved causes. Children were told the following: “
Some stickballs are special. Special stickballs almost always make other
stickballs ...
Alison Gopnik Professor of Psychology University of California at Berkeley, Laura Schulz Professor of Psychology Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 2007
4
Stickball on 88th Street: Poems
Stickball employs an original form, neither free verse nor traditionally formal, but rather lexical. Instead of meter and syllable counts, the book uses individual words as its units of measure.
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They Do Not Play
Stickball in Milwaukee
On the trail of a missing nephew, novelist Dylan Klein and retired NYPD detective Johnny MacClough discover a chilled trail layered in blood and intrigue
Reed Farrel Coleman, 1997
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A Whole New Ball Game: An Interpretation of American Sports
"3 For my present purposes, the most intriguing examples of pre- modern sports
are not the "meteorological play-forms" but the stickball game of the Southeastern
tribes and the Jicarilla Apache "relay race." Stickball was the most widely ...
7
The Great Ball Game of the Birds and Animals
When Bear and Terrapin tell two small furry animals that they cannot compete in the important stickball game between the animals and the birds, the two are welcomed by the birds, who find a way for them to fly.
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The Limits of Idealism: When Good Intentions Go Bad
Chapter. 3. Messianic. Stickball. THE. STICKBALL. MENTALITY. If morality is not
what we believe it to be, then what is it, and how is this related to idealism? The
answers to these questions are surprisingly complex. Perhaps the best way to ...
9
Seabury Place: A Bronx Memoir
Combine a broomstick, a pink “spauldeen” (a high-bounce rubber ball made by
the Spalding company), and a minimum of five players on each side and you
have the basic elements of a New York City institution, the Stickball game. In the
late ...
10
Stickball, Streetcars, and Saturday Matinees: Illustrated ...
Recounts the author's experiences growing up in Bayonne, N.J. during the Depression, and discusses amusements such as listening to the radio, visiting the corner store, and playing street games
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STICKBALL»
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stickball is used in the context of the following news items.
Crown Heights stickball game unites NYPD cops and kids
The “First Annual Block Party Style Stickball/Fitness Community Engagement” in Crown Heights, co-sponsored by the NYPD and the Daily News, drew New ... «New York Daily News, Jul 15»
Keetoowah Cherokees host three-team youth stickball tournament …
The Nighthawk Juniors team placed first in the United Keetoowah Band Youth Stickball tournament at the UKB tribal complex grounds Saturday, July 18. «Tahlequah Daily Press, Jul 15»
Keetoowah Cherokees Host Three Team Youth Stickball Tournament
Three teams participated in a double-elimination stickball tournament, the Warriors, UKB Summer Youth Camp players; NDN Outlaws, Cherokee Nation of ... «Native Times, Jul 15»
Stickball championships underway
Rain or shine, the action continues this week in the 66th annual World Series of Stickball which is being held this week in conjunction with the Choctaw Indian ... «Philadelphia Neshoba Democrat, Jul 15»
World Series of Stickball starts this Thursday
Stickball is a traditional game for the Choctaw Indians which dates back for centuries. Instead of wars, disputes between communities were settled by stickball ... «Philadelphia Neshoba Democrat, Jul 15»
Batter up! Old Little League teammates reunite for stickball
Jon Hopkins fires a pitch in the early innings of the Legends of Riverdale stickball game at Spuyten Duyvil Playground in Riverdale, Saturday June 13, 2015. «The Riverdale Press, Jun 15»
Keats siblings lead Beaver Dam to 8-3 win in stickball
Beaver Dam's J'Haven Smith reaches out to tackle Warriors' Quincy Farmer Thursday during the stickball competition at Choctaw Central High School during the ... «Meridian Star, Jun 15»
Senior Stickball League Brings Retirees Back To Boyhood
Every few seconds, a yellow rubber ball is launched up into the air, and the men laugh and joke as they call out for it. This is the Palm Beach Senior Stickball ... «WUWF, May 15»
Stickball on Sunday to help fight hunger in Troy
TROY — Old-time N.Y. Stickball, which will benefit Joseph's House and Shelter and local food pantries, will take place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at Little Italy ... «Albany Times Union, Apr 15»
Stickball demonstration Thursday on UCSO lawn
Members of TRIBAL, Murray State College's Native American student organization, will be hosting a stickball demonstration from 3 to 5:30 p.m. Thursday on the ... «Daily Ardmoreite, Apr 15»
