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[[Image:Queens stickball.jpg|thumb|right|280px|Stickball in New York]]
'''Stickball''' is a [[street game]] similar to [[baseball]], usually formed as a [[pick-up game]] played in large cities in the [[Northeastern United States]], especially [[New York City]] and [[Philadelphia]].<ref name="NYTimes1985"/><ref name="BostonGlobe2013"/><ref name="ESPN2017"/> The equipment consists of a [[broom]] handle and a rubber ball, typically a [[spaldeen]],<ref name="NYTimes2005Spaldeen"/> pensy pinky, high bouncer or [[tennis ball]].<ref name="NYTimes1985"/><ref name="BostonGlobe2013"/> The rules come from baseball and are modified to fit the situation. For example, a [[manhole cover]] may be used as a base, or buildings for foul lines.<ref name="NYTimes1985"/><ref name="BostonGlobe2013"/> The game is a variation of [[Bat-and-ball games|stick and ball games]] dating back to at least the 1750s. This game was widely popular among youths during the 20th century until the 1980s.
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<ref name="NYTimes1985">{{cite news |last=Dandes |first=R. B. |date=May 5, 1985 |title=For These Boys of Summer, the Game Is Stickball |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/05/nyregion/for-these-boys-of-summer-the-game-is-stickball.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |url-access=subscription |access-date=July 2, 2024 |archive-url= |archive-date= |url-status=live |quote=New York City was the hotbed of stickball interest. Devised in the 1920's, for many years the game was called ''One-Bounce.'' A pitcher would bounce a ''spaldeen'' - the little pink rubber ball that cost a nickel - to the plate. When it was hit with the sawed-off broomstick handle that served as a bat without being caught, the batter advanced to impromptu bases (sewers, for instance). [...] Stickball's popularity peaked in the 1950's. By the 60's, with the increasing number of cars that clogged city streets and the mass exodus to the suburbs, the game fell into decline.}}</ref>
<ref name="NYTimes2005Spaldeen">{{cite web |last=Koerner |first=Brendan I. |author-link=Brendan I. Koerner |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/business/yourmoney/the-spaldeen-is-back-even-if-the-dodgers-arent.html |url-access=subscription |title=The Spaldeen Is Back (Even if the Dodgers Aren't) |date=March 13, 2005 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=February 18, 2017 |archive-date=September 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913091540/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/business/yourmoney/the-spaldeen-is-back-even-if-the-dodgers-arent.html |url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="BostonGlobe2013">{{cite news |last=Dupont |first=Kevin Paul |date=May 26, 2013 |title=Stickball in New York is a vanishing game |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2013/05/25/stickball-new-york-vanishing-game/V4bLlDjnO2zlxwCOqkGXFP/story.html |work=[[The Boston Globe]] |place=[[New York City]] |publication-place=[[Boston]] |access-date=July 2, 2024 |quote=What’s more quintessential New York than stickball, right? Uh, no, not right. Stickball doesn’t live here anymore. At least not in the way it does in the mind’s eye, how it did when a young, vibrant Willie Mays swung a broom handle in the street outside his old home in Harlem in the 1950s or when Joe Pepitone did as a stylish Yankee in Brooklyn in the ’60s.}}</ref>
<ref name="ESPN2017">{{cite news |last=Gold |first=Jonathan |date=September 11, 2017 |title=Welcome to Stickball Boulevard |url=https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/20670727/welcome-stickball-boulevard |work=[[ESPN]] |access-date=July 2, 2024 |quote=Stickball was once an integral part of the urban youth experience. Images of ragtag groups of children playing in the street became iconic depictions of New York City and helped shape the world's perception of New Yorkers as the street-smart, rough-and-tumble class of America. Slowly, like so much of Americana, it has faded from the streets, cars and buses rendering the roadways perilous, Xboxes and iPhones commandeering kids' attention.}}</ref>
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