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|Game Family=Hook-em-snivy
|Game Family=Hook-em-snivy
|Location=Brooklyn
|Location=Brooklyn
|Description=<p>per Leavy. A biography of Sandy Koufax reports that he played &ldquo;stickball, punchball, square ball, and Gi-Gi ball in his neighborhood. In one 1922 handbook, Square Ball appears to be a variant of Corner Ball in which the peripheral plugging team and the central target team are equal in number, and is which the ball, after hitting a player on the target team, can be retrieved, &ldquo;Halt!&rdquo; called, and the ball thrown at &ldquo;frozen&rdquo; members of the peripheral team.</p>
|Description=<p>per Leavy. A biography of Sandy Koufax reports that he played “stickball, punchball, square ball, and Gi-Gi ball in his neighborhood. In one 1922 handbook, Square Ball appears to be a variant of Corner Ball in which the peripheral plugging team and the central target team are equal in number, and is which the ball, after hitting a player on the target team, can be retrieved, “Halt!called, and the ball thrown at “frozen” members of the peripheral team.</p>
|Sources=<p><span>&nbsp;Jane Leavy [Koufax bio, page needed].</span></p>
|Sources=<p><span> Jane Leavy [Koufax bio, page needed].</span></p>
<p><span><span>Emily W. Elmore,&nbsp;</span><em>A Practical Handbook of Games</em><span>, (Macmillan, NY, 1922), pages 17-18.</span></span></p>
<p><span><span>Emily W. Elmore, </span><em>A Practical Handbook of Games</em><span>, (Macmillan, NY, 1922), pages 17-18.</span></span></p>
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per Leavy. A biography of Sandy Koufax reports that he played “stickball, punchball, square ball, and Gi-Gi ball in his neighborhood. In one 1922 handbook, Square Ball appears to be a variant of Corner Ball in which the peripheral plugging team and the central target team are equal in number, and is which the ball, after hitting a player on the target team, can be retrieved, “Halt!” called, and the ball thrown at “frozen” members of the peripheral team.

Sources

 Jane Leavy [Koufax bio, page needed].

Emily W. Elmore, A Practical Handbook of Games, (Macmillan, NY, 1922), pages 17-18.

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