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|Game Family=Kickball
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|Description=<p>This is a variation of baseball in which a rubber ball is punched, and not hit with a bat, to start a play. One set of modern rules is at <a href="http://www.spaldeen.com/punchball.html" target="_blank">http://www.spaldeen.com/punchball.html</a>. Johnson (1910) lists Punch Ball under &ldquo;Baseball games.&rdquo; An urban form of this game is recalled by Gregory Christiano.</p>
|Description=<p>This is a variation of baseball in which a rubber ball is punched, and not hit with a bat, to start a play. One set of modern rules is at <a href="http://www.spaldeen.com/punchball.html" target="_blank">http://www.spaldeen.com/punchball.html</a>. Johnson (1910) lists Punch Ball under &ldquo;Baseball games.&rdquo; An urban form of this game is recalled by Gregory Christiano.</p>
|Sources=<p><span><span>G. E. Johnson,&nbsp;</span><em>What to Do at Recess</em><span>&nbsp;(Ginn, Boston, 1910), page 32.</span></span></p>
|Sources=<p>G. E. Johnson, <em>What to Do at Recess</em> (Ginn, Boston, 1910), page 32.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.myrecollection.com/christianog/games.html" target="_blank"><span>http://www.myrecollection.com/christianog/games.html</span></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.myrecollection.com/christianog/games.html" target="_blank">http://www.myrecollection.com/christianog/games.html</a></p>
<p>A brief 4/30/1989 letter to the New York Times argued that stickball was a "sissyfied" sport in comparison to punchball. &nbsp; "We played with six or seven players, nickel a player.&nbsp; We had one-sewer homers and two-sewer homers. The game was so popular in Brooklyn that a daily newspaper, The Graphic, sponsored a punchball tournament, pitting one street against another."&nbsp; The players used a spaldeen, and chalked in foul lines and first and third bases.</p>
<p>A brief 4/30/1989 letter to the New York Times argued that stickball was a "sissyfied" sport in comparison to punchball. "We played with six or seven players, nickel a player. We had one-sewer homers and two-sewer homers. The game was so popular in Brooklyn that a daily newspaper, The Graphic, sponsored a punchball tournament, pitting one street against another." The players used a spaldeen, and chalked in foul lines and first and third bases.</p>
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This is a variation of baseball in which a rubber ball is punched, and not hit with a bat, to start a play. One set of modern rules is at http://www.spaldeen.com/punchball.html. Johnson (1910) lists Punch Ball under “Baseball games.” An urban form of this game is recalled by Gregory Christiano.

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G. E. Johnson, What to Do at Recess (Ginn, Boston, 1910), page 32.

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A brief 4/30/1989 letter to the New York Times argued that stickball was a "sissyfied" sport in comparison to punchball. "We played with six or seven players, nickel a player. We had one-sewer homers and two-sewer homers. The game was so popular in Brooklyn that a daily newspaper, The Graphic, sponsored a punchball tournament, pitting one street against another." The players used a spaldeen, and chalked in foul lines and first and third bases.

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