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• n  a form of baseball played in the streets with a rubber ball and broomstick handle

• Street stickball was a welcome interruption.
• But despite the camouflage, if he were taken prisoner by the Daily News, his cover would be blown when he couldn't recite the rules of stickball.
• The Ronettes playing stickball on Manhattan's Mott Street.

• stickball game

News & Articles

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• Linkage: Toboggan In Times Square Next Winter; McCarren's Makeover
  · Revisit the everything-is-imported-from Italy OTT UES manse asking $30M · Get ready to ride a toboggan and take out tourists in Times Square · On the Bronx's Stickball Boulevard, the old game still rules · Finding bits and...
  June 11, 2013 - Curbed New York

Quotes

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• Chipper Jones in USA Today
  It was just an in-between hop,Jones said. "I've played stickball in parking lots softer than that field. You have to hold your ground right there. Unfortunately, it hit my chest. Anything to my right, I can step on third, anything to my...
• Linda Sanchez in San Diego Union Tribune
  The trajectory many teenagers follow takes them from "stickball to Xbox," Sanchez said.
• Whitey Ford in New York Times
  The name rings a bell, but we are talking about more than 60 years ago,Ford said. "He and I were no different than most of the kids in Astoria back then. We played baseball, stickball and roller hockey. We stayed busy."