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  • Free audio fiction: "The Stickball Witch" by Peter S. Beagle, read by the author himself. [via The Green Man Review]

    March 2008 2008

  • Free audio fiction: "The Stickball Witch" by Peter S. Beagle, read by the author himself. [via The Green Man Review]

    SF Tidbits for 3/28/08 2008

  • Stickball was played against the wall of P.S. 13, the "Annex," where one of us would free hand a kid sized strike zone with white chalk, a neatly drawn box that went from our skinned knees up to the "letters" (though no one wore uniforms, unless you count the plain white T shirts our mothers purchased at Robert Hall).

    Boys of Summer in Yonkers (Memoir Excerpt # 1) 2010

  • Whether to a through-the-mirror reality where the supernatural intrudes lightly (in "Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel", "The Stickball Witch", and "Spook") or to a completely fantastical world (in "Chandail"), all these vacations were needed.

    Back to our regularly scheduled program... 2009

  • MUNICH Stickball? by Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo on Saturday, Apr 26, 2008 at 2: 01: 37 PM boomerang by Professor Emeritus Peter Bagnolo on Saturday, Apr 26, 2008 at 2: 31: 42 PM

    OpEdNews - Diary: Three New Ideas For Opednews.com Article Formatting!! 2008

  • Stickball, baseball with a pink ball and broom handle, and schoolyard basketball were my culture.

    Richard Axel - Autobiography 2005

  • For example: in the "How to Play Stickball" chapter pretty much the exact same paragraph is used twice, "if the ball flies into a forbidden area...flee the vicinity"

    books review 2007

  • Best of Photojournalism Web entries: lots of wonderful photographs and some nice multimedia entries: Cherokee Stickball, from newsobserver. com; Blue Ridge Parkway from Roanoke. com.

    Behind the News liz donovan 2004

  • Stickball most closely resembled baseball, a game none of the Ghosts had ever seen, though they'd read about in books.

    Armageddon's Children Brooks, Terry 2006

  • A month or two later, the Brits were playing some sort of Stickball during gym, and like I always do, I positioned myself just behind and to the right of the pitcher.

    10/31/02 People who hate Halloween 2002

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