stickball
noun
stick·ball
ˈstik-ˌbȯl 
: baseball adapted for play in streets or small areas and using a broomstick and a lightweight ball
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But about an hour later, the kids separated into teams for a game resembling backyard stickball.
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Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 9 June 2026
Some days, the police closed the block off from cars, and children came out to play stickball, and skelly, a game reminiscent of marbles.
—Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 6 June 2026
No horses, no bicycles, no gymnastics, no tree climbing, no leaping from barn windows into stacks of hay, no stickball, no tetherball, no relay races.
—Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
A number of Indigenous alumni quoted in the book say their next goal is to host a campus powwow, a colorful festival filled with Native drummers, traditional dancing, crafts, frybread, meat pies and Native games like stickball, which evolved into lacrosse.
—Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Oct. 2025
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Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 9 June 2026
Some days, the police closed the block off from cars, and children came out to play stickball, and skelly, a game reminiscent of marbles.
—Naaman Zhou, New Yorker, 6 June 2026
No horses, no bicycles, no gymnastics, no tree climbing, no leaping from barn windows into stacks of hay, no stickball, no tetherball, no relay races.
—Literary Hub, 8 Dec. 2025
A number of Indigenous alumni quoted in the book say their next goal is to host a campus powwow, a colorful festival filled with Native drummers, traditional dancing, crafts, frybread, meat pies and Native games like stickball, which evolved into lacrosse.
—Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Stickball.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stickball. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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stickball
noun
stick·ball
ˈstik-ˌbȯl
: baseball played on the street or in a small area with a broomstick and a lightweight ball
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