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BRONX SPALDEEN GAMES LIST (thusfar)
These games, for the unaware, were played with the pink Spalding ball, originally sold as flawed tennis ball cores. NO ONE ever pronounced the -ing ending of the manufacturer. Spalding has now started manufacturing this ball again and it is being marketed as the “spaldeen.”

DE GAMES
1. Cans up
2. box ball
3. curves
4. lefty grove
5. bunts
6. hit the penny
7. off the stoop
8. slug [a.k.a. King/Queen]
9. off the point
10. handball
11. stickball
12. baseball
13.… Continue