stickball
[stik-bawl]
- a form of baseball played in the streets, on playgrounds, etc., in which a rubber ball and a broomstick or the like are used in place of a baseball and bat.
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Origin of stickball
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Examples from the Web for stickball
Contemporary Examples
One day we were playing punchball—like stickball, only you used your fist to hit a Spaldeen or a bald tennis ball.
Remember those quaint ethnic communities, once teeming with stickball games and eggplant-shaped old women wielding rolling pins?
Weren’t Those the Bad Old Days? The Poison of New York City NostalgiaMichael Moynihan
January 6, 2014
Historical Examples
He knew the general rules of big-league baseball, but the kid-business of stickball did not register.
The Fourth RGeorge Oliver Smith