Games Played With Sticks And Balls

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Games played with sticks and balls.

Hand and ball striking games such as various handball codes rebound handball and 4 square. Pinball bar billiards baseball billiards boules bowling bumble puppy canadian football a game resembling american football played on a grass pitch between two teams of 12 players crazy golf croquet fives a ball game similar to squash but played with bats or the. Stickball is a street game related to baseball usually formed as a pick up game played in large cities in the northeastern united states especially new york city and philadelphia the equipment consists of a broom handle and a rubber ball typically a spaldeen pensy pinky high bouncer or tennis ball the rules come from baseball and are modified to fit the situation. Stickball also relates to a game played in southern england and colonial boston in north america called stoolball.

Stickball game played on a street or other restricted area with a stick such as a mop handle or broomstick and a hard rubber ball stickball developed in the late 18th century from such english games as old cat rounders and town ball. The game today is played on a field roughly about one hundred yards with a tall cylindrical pole or set of poles at each end of the field for goals. Racquet and ball games such as tennis squash racquetball and ball badminton. Goal games such as forms of hockey except ice hockey which uses a hockey puck basketball water polo and all forms of football or lacrosse.