Street games that I played in the Bronx in the 40's and 50's

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. basketball
14. catch
15. bounce ball (girls sang songs) "A my name is Alice and my....."
16. punch ball
17. stoop ball
18. grounders
19. slap ball
20. I declare war
21. 1 wall handball
22. 'roofing it' or throw over the roof 5 feet from building
23. triangle
24. off the wall
25. errors
26 running bases
27. monkey in the middle
28. fungo
29. saloogie (although sometimes played with someone elses
ball, it was usually played with someone elses hat)
30. jacks* (played with spaldeen after miniball was lost)
31. rectangle
32. ishkabible