Most of the Brooklyn natives I have interviewed for this “Brooklynites in Florida” series, especially those who grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, played stickball in the streets of Brooklyn at ...

Read about Coney Island’s first annual Brooklyn Stickball Challenge, which took place in 2016. The 7th came and went. So did the 8th and the 9th. They were followed by the 10th, 11th, and 12th.

When I was growing up in the late '40s and early '50s, a popular game played on the streets of Brooklyn was stickball. The game was played with a stick and a pink rubber ball.

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The Brooklyn Stickball Old Timers’ annual tournament pitted younger players against their older counterparts for a series of stickball matches on 80th Street between Third and Fourth avenues on Oct. 1 ...

The Ragamuffin Parade wasn’t the only game in town on Sept. 29 — a group of friends and family members gathered in Bay Ridge to keep another great Brooklyn tradition alive. With police barricades up ...

Henry Terranova pitches to Gio Gorgio during a game of Stickball in Brooklyn on Friday, Sept. 17, 2021. Four of the players were Vietnam vets.

Stickball reigned supreme in the boroughs back then, ... Cusato is under no illusion that the streets of Brooklyn or Manhattan or Queens could one day be full of kids banging around a rubber ...

The second annual Stickball Hall of Fame Day took place at MCU Park, home of the Brooklyn Cyclones. Players of all ages, including legends in the Hall of Fame, came out to play the game they love.</p> ...

The Brooklyn stickball team took on Harlem Sunday for the second annual stickball challenge in Coney Island. The game took place near the boardwalk and is similar to baseball, except players hit a ...

The mayoral contest went old school on Tuesday when some candidates ventured to Brooklyn's Cadman Plaza and stepped up to bat in a friendly but competitive game of stickball.