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Who remembers playing Stickball in the streets as a child? I remember it like it was yesterday. We played it on the sidewalk as well as in the street. And back then, in the 70’s I am talking about, the traffic wasn’t so bad. So, we were able to play like that in the city streets. Now, if they tried they would most likely get run over trying to play a game. The old days we had to improvise with playing in the streets. I grew up in Brooklyn and things here were different than the suburbs. We played Stickball and Stoop ball and many other games outside. I also remember hearing stories from my parents and my uncles how they used to play Stickball in the streets when they were kids. And when they were young, there was much less traffic than when I was small. They also played stoop ball. We had a great time in those days. No computers, no smartphones, no internet. We had pure imagination to create ideas and games. We entertained ourselves every single day. I’m not knocking technology, I love it, but it does sort of take some of that raw innocence and innovation away from playing in the streets. But I do believe that anyone, when they’re young, feels that special feeling of doing things for the first time. That innocence. We look back on those days now saying they were magical or wonderful. And we sometimes try to compare our childhood to the younger generation. But in reality, they are all the same. They all feel those same things. Our childhood is just our memories. And the kids today are building their memories. And I see nothing wrong with looking back from time to time. I think that keeps us young. It was amazing how many hours a simple rubber ball gave us. I had a box full of those Spalding rubber balls. I always walked around with at least two of them at all times back then. Because we were always playing ball of some kind. Whether it be stickball, stoopball, box ball, whatever. Those rubber balls were our social circle. it was almost like that rubber ball was the plant and we kids revolved around it. LOL. Nice!!! I thought that sounded good. I am sure you all have some kind of a memory that involved stickball or some game that you played with a rubber ball. Copyright © 2015 Steven Cetta All Rights Reserved TAGS: inertia4, Stickball, Rubber, Ball, inertia4posts Image Credit: CoolText.com