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How to pronounce stickball in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms stickball game
Type of ball, baseball, baseball game

Examples of stickball

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There was so little traffic that stickball could have been played on State Street.
From the timesunion.com
We played stickball and we played football where the sewer was the goal line.
From the dailynews.com
The stickball games would involve as few as twenty or as many as 300 players.
From the en.wikipedia.org
A Jesuit priest referenced stickball in 1729, and George Catlin painted the subject.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Guys who played stickball in the streets and took the younger kids bowling.
From the fresnobee.com
He was always reading a book when he wasn't playing baseball or stickball.
From the freep.com
Stickball in the alleys, the smell of pasta sauce wafting through the air.
From the sfgate.com
A black-and-white scene of kids playing stickball in the streets of Havana.
From the orlandosentinel.com
He'd heard how Iraqi youngsters play stickball with a ball made of tape.
From the charlotteobserver.com
More examples
  • A form of baseball played in the streets with a rubber ball and broomstick handle
  • Stickball is a street game related to baseball, usually formed as a pick-up game, in large cities in the Northeastern United States (especially New York City and Jersey City). ...
  • Lacrosse has its origins in a tribal game played by all eastern Woodlands Native Americans and by some Plains Indians tribes in what is now Canada. The game has been modernized extensively by European immigrants to create its current form.
  • (Similar to Lacrosse) A ballgame played with sticks with nets at one end and a deer hide ball. The object is to use the netted sticks to throw the ball into the goals at the ends of the fields.
  • Wheeler Hall is the most storied of the resident halls, known for its unique traditions. It is also the site for a popular campus sport known as stickball, a long standing Holy Cross tradition usually played by Wheeler residents. ...