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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 | |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> | |Sources=<p><span> Jane Leavy [Koufax bio, page needed].</span></p> | ||
<p><span><span>Emily W. Elmore, | <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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Latest revision as of 08:51, 28 November 2012
Game | Square Ball |
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Game Family | Hook-em-snivy |
Location | Brooklyn |
Regions | |
Eras | Derivative |
Invented | |
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Description | 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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