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Post by Stu on Aug 31, 2019 9:21:31 GMT -8
Never heard of it until today, so I watched a video on it. I can say that in 50 years I have never seen anybody play that game in the Tri State area. (CT, MA, RI, not NY). I think we would've gotten into a lot of trouble with that game  . If we had 4 people we'd play wiffleball or tennis baseball (a baseball game inside a double wide tennis court; hit it out of the court' you're out) We played a lot of handball too, usually against a wall at the nearby school. Handball I'm familiar with from TV, but have never seen anyone play it here. I did take racquetball as a PE elective in college  And I've never seen any boys play softball around here, that's for when you're older and fatter |
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Post by Jimmers Nice Guy on Aug 31, 2019 10:13:28 GMT -8
Never heard of it until today, so I watched a video on it. I can say that in 50 years I have never seen anybody play that game in the Tri State area. (CT, MA, RI, not NY). I think we would've gotten into a lot of trouble with that game . If we had 4 people we'd play wiffleball or tennis baseball (a baseball game inside a double wide tennis court; hit it out of the court' you're out) We played a lot of handball too, usually against a wall at the nearby school. Didja play red ass? |
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Post by Ditch Fahrenheit on Aug 31, 2019 10:44:58 GMT -8
We played a lot of handball too, usually against a wall at the nearby school. Didja play red ass? No. Never heard of it. |
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Post by Jimmers Nice Guy on Aug 31, 2019 11:16:23 GMT -8
I thought I brought it up before.Tennis ball,usually thrown at the outside gym wall.If a person touches the ball but not catches it,they have to run and touch the wall before another player picks up the ball and hits the wall with it.An out to this is if you catch the others persons throw off the wall before it bounces,hits the ground.If you fail in this,the person that threw the missed ball is the shooter.You stand against the wall and shooter has three goes to nail you with the ball.Another variation is blue balls.Depends what way you face the bricks. |
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Post by Ditch Fahrenheit on Aug 31, 2019 11:25:26 GMT -8
I thought I brought it up before.Tennis ball,usually thrown at the outside gym wall.If a person touches the ball but not catches it,they have to run and touch the wall before another player picks up the ball and hits the wall with it.An out to this is if you catch the others persons throw off the wall before it bounces,hits the ground.If you fail in this,the person that threw the missed ball is the shooter.You stand against the wall and shooter has three goes to nail you with the ball.Another variation is blue balls.Depends what way you face the bricks. Now I remember. No, we didn't play that. At school we played Dodge Ball inside when it was raining. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2019 11:40:32 GMT -8
I thought I brought it up before.Tennis ball,usually thrown at the outside gym wall.If a person touches the ball but not catches it,they have to run and touch the wall before another player picks up the ball and hits the wall with it.An out to this is if you catch the others persons throw off the wall before it bounces,hits the ground.If you fail in this,the person that threw the missed ball is the shooter.You stand against the wall and shooter has three goes to nail you with the ball.Another variation is blue balls.Depends what way you face the bricks. LOVED that game. LOVED it. Played it CONSTANTLY. |
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Post by Stu on Aug 31, 2019 11:40:43 GMT -8
I thought I brought it up before.Tennis ball,usually thrown at the outside gym wall.If a person touches the ball but not catches it,they have to run and touch the wall before another player picks up the ball and hits the wall with it.An out to this is if you catch the others persons throw off the wall before it bounces,hits the ground.If you fail in this,the person that threw the missed ball is the shooter.You stand against the wall and shooter has three goes to nail you with the ball.Another variation is blue balls.Depends what way you face the bricks. Never heard of that either. We played kickball in memorial school. |
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Post by Stu on Aug 31, 2019 11:43:31 GMT -8
I might have missed some of these because I was playing real sports at the time  |
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Post by Jimmers Nice Guy on Aug 31, 2019 12:18:06 GMT -8
I thought I brought it up before.Tennis ball,usually thrown at the outside gym wall.If a person touches the ball but not catches it,they have to run and touch the wall before another player picks up the ball and hits the wall with it.An out to this is if you catch the others persons throw off the wall before it bounces,hits the ground.If you fail in this,the person that threw the missed ball is the shooter.You stand against the wall and shooter has three goes to nail you with the ball.Another variation is blue balls.Depends what way you face the bricks. LOVED that game. LOVED it. Played it CONSTANTLY. At school,every day at recess,lunch hour and before,if the school bus had enough of us there early. I remember getting a few winter hardened tennis balls in the kisser and other choice spots. |
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Post by Jimmers Nice Guy on Aug 31, 2019 12:20:06 GMT -8
I might have missed some of these because I was playing real sports at the time Inner city school,so no ball diamonds or sports fields,and bringing anything nicer than a hand ball was a good way to get it stolen. What's memorial school? |
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Post by Stu on Aug 31, 2019 12:30:00 GMT -8
I might have missed some of these because I was playing real sports at the time Inner city school,so no ball diamonds or sports fields,and bringing anything nicer than a hand ball was a good way to get it stolen. What's memorial school? Man, that sucks. No parks nearby? No tennis courts? No ice rink nearby?  Memorial school is middle school. I went to memorial school up to 6th grade, junior high was 7 and 8th, then high school. |
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Post by Jimmers Nice Guy on Aug 31, 2019 12:41:21 GMT -8
Inner city school,so no ball diamonds or sports fields,and bringing anything nicer than a hand ball was a good way to get it stolen. What's memorial school? Man, that sucks. No parks nearby? No tennis courts? No ice rink nearby? Memorial school is middle school. I went to memorial school up to 6th grade, junior high was 7 and 8th, then high school. Oh,so the name of your school,like elementary?Ours was kindergarten to grade eight,all in one big post war building-1947-pretty large.Long term beefs and friendships really formed,I started there second grade. We had access to a DIY ice rink in winter,but just below school property,so it was only a special outing thing.There's a big,big field area with play structures and divided into group areas,one to three seperated by a retaining style wall,up there the middle kids up to six played,bigger structure and more fields behinf the school for the older kids.It's built on a hill,so no real good place for soccer,football.Just the five hundred meter circle track that we'd goof of on,maybe play red rover,throw konkers,chestnuts at each other. We did have two full sized gyms,one of them with that deSade looking contraption that folded to the wall,with climbing ropes,ladders whatnot.But since it was like fifty feet high,even in the eighties they were scared to pull it out and let us use it. Last I walked by it,the school was surrounded with twelve foot chain fences,to keep kids in and folk out. |
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Post by Bats on Aug 31, 2019 13:00:21 GMT -8
Inner city school,so no ball diamonds or sports fields,and bringing anything nicer than a hand ball was a good way to get it stolen. What's memorial school? Man, that sucks. No parks nearby? No tennis courts? No ice rink nearby? Memorial school is middle school. I went to memorial school up to 6th grade, junior high was 7 and 8th, then high school. Told you you were posh. Probably playing cricket in all-whites |
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Post by Bats on Aug 31, 2019 13:01:35 GMT -8
I might have missed some of these because I was playing real sports at the time Inner city school,so no ball diamonds or sports fields,and bringing anything nicer than a hand ball was a good way to get it stolen. What's memorial school? We had a field and some posts  |
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Post by Jimmers Nice Guy on Aug 31, 2019 13:04:11 GMT -8
Inner city school,so no ball diamonds or sports fields,and bringing anything nicer than a hand ball was a good way to get it stolen. What's memorial school? We had a field and some posts |
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. If we had 4 people we'd play wiffleball or tennis baseball (a baseball game inside a double wide tennis court; hit it out of the court' you're out)
And I've never seen any boys play softball around here, that's for when you're older and fatter 
