Stick ball is played with a "Pink" ball. Not "red". It was a "spall-deen" and perfect for my falcon but I use tennis balls instead because they are less expensive (free) and compress to scrub the bore with the fuzz.
There! Now the "Forum-Fuzz" can't bust us for "off-topic".
Stoop ball was another pass-time.
For youse hicks: a stickball bat was a broom stick and a stoop was the front steps (from the Dutch). Yizz see......My accent is very old and regional with Dutch over-tones. Old New (Amsterdam) York. The "york", with the aspirated R is fairly universal; not just New York City.
My affected usage , e.g. youse, yiz, deez, dose, dat, dem are New York & Boston Irish-speak (from the immigrants of the 1840's, when the Irish came to the new world because of being starved to death with the potato famine and the Victorian solution to the British "Irish Catholic Problem") is being used by me to dilute the other affected regional speak, e.g. y'all, right-much, rat-nice, etc..
As for the "aw-r" in york; allow me to propose this: How is the "yor" as "yawr", different from "yawr", as in, "the land of yore"?
Ahh you see? The pot often calls the kettle "black".
Crackers say "hollER"; not "hollow"; so perhaps the hunchback cannot see the hump on his own back?
Me? I live in in the mountains in "Archibald Hollow"!
I can seriously tell you why the southerners speak the way they do ( "African Mammy Syndrome") but we ain't gawnuh git uh-way wit diss tred if DDs stirrin.
Rich
