seriously though, the next person to say that is really just a tosser...you know what I mean, why do you even bother doing anything. Do you have a job, how can you have a job when someone else has a job, hey man you even call your most famous place NY, where is old york? Your country is merely an assimilation of many different, older cultures, you do not make everything up...and because you are so precious about it you need pre-emptive strikes to defend your ideology. Get real, idiots. Fully.
do you think I do not know all this information, why else would you tell me this. Our game has no association with the 1000 year old game of Pila played by the Greeks. That's the real Pila I mean. Our game has no blood, bruises, yet it is very, very cool. Howe can that be so? Is youtube stupid or someone who uses 100 characters to tell us they have run out of characters. Fyi this is almost exactly 499 characters long which leaves around 1 characters left with which to tell you about StickBall..
While I do agree that any game with a stick and ball can be called "stickball", this is not Stickball
Nor is "street baseball" although it's closer in a way. Stickball, the real Stickball, has been around for well over 400 years in the SE United States, and was known by Native American tribes as the "little brother of war". Two sticks, one ball, lots of bruises and a bit of blood. THATS the game. I could go into detail, but Youtube is stupid and limits comments to 500 characters.
This must be Aussie "stickball". But really, stickball has a venerable history in the US-mostly in big, East Coast cities, especially New York, maybe Boston and Philadelphia also. Like someone else said, it's basically a variation of baseball, played with a tennis ball, or pink rubber bouncing ball (preferably, Spalding brand, and pronounced by kids as "Spaldeen"). A broomstick minus the broom was typically used as the bat.
Basically, city kids, often from poor familes, who had no access to a proper baseball diamond in a park, or proper baseball equipment, gloves, catcher's mitt, bat etc., played stickball because it didn't require a lot of money, and could be played in the streets and alleys. Hardly anyone plays it anymore,which is a shame-probably by the 1970ws it was dying out-city kids in NYC play video games and stay indoors. I was a kid in the 1970s and 1980s and managed to play it a few times though.
What beats me here is this idea that this game is not stickball just because there is another game called stickball. If there is a man called stephen does it then follow that there can be no other men called stephen?
Makes no sense.
We never have said there is any similarity in our game to the street baseball game, it is very different however it is a game played, quite clearly, with a stick and a ball. What else should we call it?
Real stickball is playing baseball with random tree branches and a baseball. The tree branches tend to explode and fly everywhere, hurting people. It makes the game more fun!
What kind of ball is being used? can the Stick and the ball become one with one another and favor one stick to the ball or does it have to be universal and play with all without favor. Yes I must find my Bong and solve this query
basically they stole the name from the real “Stick Ball”
lennyf1957 1 week ago
this is a disgrace
jdtornabe 7 months ago
What the hell??
CJS925 9 months ago
The hell is this? That's not stickball.
thebestaround85 1 year ago
is the white peeps stickball (lol)
32SEBY 1 year ago
vwehere iz the end ov zis documentarry hmmmn? i vant to see the end. there is some very clever shots in it ay.
i have three hundred and sixty four characters left.
stykball 2 years ago
i found the end on live video or some thing maybe it could be re loaded to here some how?
i have 402 characters left.
stykball 2 years ago
seriously though, the next person to say that is really just a tosser...you know what I mean, why do you even bother doing anything. Do you have a job, how can you have a job when someone else has a job, hey man you even call your most famous place NY, where is old york? Your country is merely an assimilation of many different, older cultures, you do not make everything up...and because you are so precious about it you need pre-emptive strikes to defend your ideology. Get real, idiots. Fully.
jacobite1972 2 years ago
do you think I do not know all this information, why else would you tell me this. Our game has no association with the 1000 year old game of Pila played by the Greeks. That's the real Pila I mean. Our game has no blood, bruises, yet it is very, very cool. Howe can that be so? Is youtube stupid or someone who uses 100 characters to tell us they have run out of characters. Fyi this is almost exactly 499 characters long which leaves around 1 characters left with which to tell you about StickBall..
jacobite1972 2 years ago
While I do agree that any game with a stick and ball can be called "stickball", this is not Stickball
Nor is "street baseball" although it's closer in a way. Stickball, the real Stickball, has been around for well over 400 years in the SE United States, and was known by Native American tribes as the "little brother of war". Two sticks, one ball, lots of bruises and a bit of blood. THATS the game. I could go into detail, but Youtube is stupid and limits comments to 500 characters.
SarajevoKyoto 2 years ago
this aint fuckin stick-fucking-ball.go throw a fuckin shrimp on the barbie bitch.
MASHMURDERMIKE 2 years ago
bats cannot play stickball.
IOIOIstykball 3 years ago 2
This must be Aussie "stickball". But really, stickball has a venerable history in the US-mostly in big, East Coast cities, especially New York, maybe Boston and Philadelphia also. Like someone else said, it's basically a variation of baseball, played with a tennis ball, or pink rubber bouncing ball (preferably, Spalding brand, and pronounced by kids as "Spaldeen"). A broomstick minus the broom was typically used as the bat.
ShmorgelBorgel 3 years ago
Basically, city kids, often from poor familes, who had no access to a proper baseball diamond in a park, or proper baseball equipment, gloves, catcher's mitt, bat etc., played stickball because it didn't require a lot of money, and could be played in the streets and alleys. Hardly anyone plays it anymore,which is a shame-probably by the 1970ws it was dying out-city kids in NYC play video games and stay indoors. I was a kid in the 1970s and 1980s and managed to play it a few times though.
ShmorgelBorgel 3 years ago
What beats me here is this idea that this game is not stickball just because there is another game called stickball. If there is a man called stephen does it then follow that there can be no other men called stephen?
Makes no sense.
We never have said there is any similarity in our game to the street baseball game, it is very different however it is a game played, quite clearly, with a stick and a ball. What else should we call it?
jacobite1972 3 years ago
This isn't real stickball.
Real stickball is playing baseball with random tree branches and a baseball. The tree branches tend to explode and fly everywhere, hurting people. It makes the game more fun!
megamanx300049 3 years ago
It is a game with a ball and a stick is it not!!
jacobite1972 3 years ago
that is not stickball douchebag
sdlinking234 3 years ago
i love stickball
BUANG88 3 years ago
What kind of ball is being used? can the Stick and the ball become one with one another and favor one stick to the ball or does it have to be universal and play with all without favor. Yes I must find my Bong and solve this query
DaddieRay 4 years ago
it seem very interesting skillful game i would recommend on a picknic day
moodsb6 4 years ago