Sentences with phrase «stoop ball»

Stoop ball is still another kind of game, and one with inherent urban hazards.

In those days, the early»40s, stoop ball was as popular as stick ball or punch ball, but I suspect it is now dying out; there are fewer stoops — the old brownstones that bore them are being torn down — and more cars are crossing the field of play, impeding the game and endangering the players.

My brother's memory no doubt serves him better than mine, but I recall yet another glorious event that in some ways surpasses even my romantic reconstruction of the stoop ball play.

Aside from these perils, stoop ball, like stick ball and punch ball, is basically a variant of baseball.

Not exact matches

We could end up with $ 10 million in revenue this year, but we're not going to stoop to low - balling bids like some other companies.

Australia's cricketers were once known as tough but fair, but the latest ball tampering scandal has many asking how some of the leading players could have stooped so low.

The stoops of my youth were long, sandstone flights, their balustrades ornamented with blind lions or terminal objects that looked like great pineapples or artichokes, and the rubber balls we threw against the steps into so many evenings were «spaldeens.»

The striker stooped to beat Johnson to the ball with a header that Butland got a hand to but he could only push the ball into the corner.

Edmonds - Green stooped down low to make connection with the ball and he put his header past Crowe into the Ipswich net.

Giroud attacked the ball brilliantly with a stooping header to find the gap at the near post.

Playing ball (rolling it between the two of you) Being able to stoop from a standing position Stand unaided with greater confidence and move around the room holding on to furniture.

So then, why would your beautiful little fur ball stoop to such a vulgar level?