Games Played With Sticks And Balls

Hand and ball striking games such as various handball codes rebound handball and 4 square.

Games played with sticks and balls.

Stickball is a street game related to baseball usually formed as a pick up game played in large cities in the northeastern united states especially new york city and philadelphia the equipment consists of a broom handle and a rubber ball typically a spaldeen pensy pinky high bouncer or tennis ball the rules come from baseball and are modified to fit the situation. Points are scored by hitting the pole with the ball or game sticks while holding the ball or running through the set of poles with the ball. Goal games such as forms of hockey except ice hockey which uses a hockey puck basketball water polo and all forms of football or lacrosse. Racquet and ball games such as tennis squash racquetball and ball badminton.

Stickball also relates to a game played in southern england and colonial boston in north america called stoolball. Pinball bar billiards baseball billiards boules bowling bumble puppy canadian football a game resembling american football played on a grass pitch between two teams of 12 players crazy golf croquet fives a ball game similar to squash but played with bats or the. Bat and ball games or safe haven games are field games played by two opposing teams in which the action starts when the defending team throws a ball at a dedicated player of the attacking team who tries to hit it with a bat. The game today is played on a field roughly about one hundred yards with a tall cylindrical pole or set of poles at each end of the field for goals.