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"Off the wall"


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We called it running bases in our neighborhood. We used the four sewer grates at the intersection in our neighborhood as the bases and then people's yards and the streets as the outfield. Over certain driveways was a home run. Only one guy ever hit it over one of the houses. It was a guys cousin and he only was in town a few times during the summer. He was like a fucking legend. :lol:

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We called it "fastpitch" and we had the perfect place to play. It was an empty carlot with lightpoles at the end of it. We pitched up against the wall with the painted strikezone and would try to hit it over the lightpoles for a homerun. Those were simpler times back then.



Is Fast Pitch the same game as Home Run? In Evanston we called Fast Pitch "Strikeout".

Also, isn't RR talking about pinners?

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On the southwest side you also played fast pitch under a viaduct.

which you pronounced VY-dock

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On the southwest side you also played fast pitch under a viaduct.

which you pronounced VY-dock


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Is this the same as Off the Wall? i.e., where the box is spray painted on the side of a school. I don't see those rubber balls they used to sell when we were kids but a lacrosse ball is the right weight if you have like 500 feet to play with. Fucker flies like a golf ball.

That's what I thought he meant....never heard of Home Run, but Off the Wall, yes. Those 98 cent rubber balls made some cool noise off the bat and off the wall. We also called it Fast Pitch.


"Off the wall" was throwing a tennis ball off the wall for the other kids to try and catch. In urban :wink: :wink: civilization we called it strikeout. The "artificial runners" were what we called them.

And what the rest of you hillbillies called run down or pickle was running bases on Chicago sidewalks. I'm scared to think of what passed for Piggy in the no sidewalk zones..

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Ah, that's right (both "Off the Wall" and "Running Bases"). Or, at least, it jibes with my experience. "Fast Pitch" was with the rubber ball against the wall with a box chalked in as the strike zone.


With a $1 rubber ball that split when crushed.

I still can't believe that we occasionally played with a rubber coated ball. Step in at your own peril


Yeah the rubber coated were pretty hard.



We called that ball a "rubber-coated league". We never used it for Fast Pitch. It didn't really bounce back.

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Fastpitch is also an acceptable answer. And strikeout. Off the wall is different.

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We played "La-Z Man softball", which was essentially 16" softball with no bases. We played against a school building that had a pitched roof, so anything onto the roof was a HR, hitting the building on a fly was a triple, hitting the building on a roll was a double, and a bobbled ball by the fielders was a single. As we got older, we were able to get the ball to roll over the roof (automatic grand slam), and then clear the roof on a fly (automatic 5 runs). We would play for hours, with most scores being in the 70s and 80s. It was great fun, and I miss those days.

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Fastpitch is also an acceptable answer. And strikeout. Off the wall is different.



Off the Wall is "pinners", right?

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Fastpitch is also an acceptable answer. And strikeout. Off the wall is different.



Off the Wall is "pinners", right?


We called it 500 but that may be different

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Hatchetman wrote:
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Fastpitch is also an acceptable answer. And strikeout. Off the wall is different.



Off the Wall is "pinners", right?


We called it 500 but that may be different


This.

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We played 500 with a batter hitting fungoes.

Pinners has no bat. The "batter" throws the ball off the garage or wall.

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We played 500 with a football.

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We played 500 with a football.

A game that should be required for all young boys to play.


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Hank Scorpio wrote:
We played 500 with a football.

A game that should be required for all young boys to play.


In PA here the boys play 500 with a football and somehow award values to the catch and call it Jackpot.

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We played 500 with anything. Football, either tossed or punted, frisbee, baseball (Either thrown or batted) tennis balls whatever. Even would play with a thrower that would launch it up onto a roof that had a lot of weird angles and you'd catch it coming down. Those games got progressively rougher the older we got. It was hard to get any pickup games of more than 5 or 6 guys by the time I was 12 though. We lived in a pretty small town and there were not many kids my age. I think my birthday was peak baby bust time. The place we went to had a whole bunch of kids 5-10 years older than I was an a whole bunch 8-12 younger but it was slim pickings when it came to boys born in the 70's, especially after 74.


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pittmike wrote:
Hockey Gay wrote:
Hank Scorpio wrote:
We played 500 with a football.

A game that should be required for all young boys to play.


In PA here the boys play 500 with a football and somehow award values to the catch and call it Jackpot.

That's what we did as a kid. You shove the kid going up for the ball in the back if you knew him catching it means he'd win. Then you'd tackle each other and fight for a couple of minutes and move on.

That's how you build the man.


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Hockey Gay wrote:
pittmike wrote:
Hockey Gay wrote:
Hank Scorpio wrote:
We played 500 with a football.

A game that should be required for all young boys to play.


In PA here the boys play 500 with a football and somehow award values to the catch and call it Jackpot.

That's what we did as a kid. You shove the kid going up for the ball in the back if you knew him catching it means he'd win. Then you'd tackle each other and fight for a couple of minutes and move on.

That's how you build the man.


Dat's Right.

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We played FastPitch with the rubber balls (oh what a great sound they made when you made flush contact), and then I recall playing a game called "Pinners" where you threw it or bounced it off the school wall (no bats).

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(Edit) Missed JORR's reference to Pinners...

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We also used to play "3 outs". That was two kids and you double bounced a rubber ball off the bungalow front steps. The second kid stood back away and had to catch it or not.

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Hockey Gay wrote:
pittmike wrote:
Hockey Gay wrote:
Hank Scorpio wrote:
We played 500 with a football.

A game that should be required for all young boys to play.


In PA here the boys play 500 with a football and somehow award values to the catch and call it Jackpot.

That's what we did as a kid. You shove the kid going up for the ball in the back if you knew him catching it means he'd win. Then you'd tackle each other and fight for a couple of minutes and move on.

That's how you build the man.


That's how we did it too. And, to fuck with them mentally, right when a guy's about to win, you call out "one million!" before you throw and then have everyone gang up on him to make sure he can't get it, thus negating all his work to that point.

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Hockey Gay wrote:
pittmike wrote:
Hockey Gay wrote:
Hank Scorpio wrote:
We played 500 with a football.

A game that should be required for all young boys to play.


In PA here the boys play 500 with a football and somehow award values to the catch and call it Jackpot.

That's what we did as a kid. You shove the kid going up for the ball in the back if you knew him catching it means he'd win. Then you'd tackle each other and fight for a couple of minutes and move on.

That's how you build the man.


That's how we did it too. And, to fuck with them mentally, right when a guy's about to win, you call out "one million!" before you throw and then have everyone gang up on him to make sure he can't get it, thus negating all his work to that point.


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We played pick up baseball a lot in the summer as kids. My friend had a public park just past his back yard.

It was awesome. Because we set up the plate the perfect distance for kids 12, 13 and 14 to hit it over the bushes in right field. It wasn't easy. You had to hit it well. I was a righty so I had to go opposite field to hit home runs. There were no bushes in left field.

Those games were some good memories. Same with flag football games.

I enjoyed these games more then the organized sports that I played.


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We called it "fastpitch" and we had the perfect place to play. It was an empty carlot with lightpoles at the end of it. We pitched up against the wall with the painted strikezone and would try to hit it over the lightpoles for a homerun. Those were simpler times back then.



Is Fast Pitch the same game as Home Run? In Evanston we called Fast Pitch "Strikeout".

Also, isn't RR talking about pinners?


Not in my part of Evanston. It was either "fastpitch" or wallball." Used interchangeably.

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We called it "fastpitch" and we had the perfect place to play. It was an empty carlot with lightpoles at the end of it. We pitched up against the wall with the painted strikezone and would try to hit it over the lightpoles for a homerun. Those were simpler times back then.



Is Fast Pitch the same game as Home Run? In Evanston we called Fast Pitch "Strikeout".

Also, isn't RR talking about pinners?


Not in my part of Evanston. It was either "fastpitch" or wallball." Used interchangeably.



You must be a North sider. :lol: It was mostly the brothers who called it "Strikeout".

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We called it "fastpitch" and we had the perfect place to play. It was an empty carlot with lightpoles at the end of it. We pitched up against the wall with the painted strikezone and would try to hit it over the lightpoles for a homerun. Those were simpler times back then.



Is Fast Pitch the same game as Home Run? In Evanston we called Fast Pitch "Strikeout".

Also, isn't RR talking about pinners?


Not in my part of Evanston. It was either "fastpitch" or wallball." Used interchangeably.



You must be a North sider. :lol: It was mostly the brothers who called it "Strikeout".


BINGO! Home field was Lincolnwood Elementary School.

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We called it "fastpitch" and we had the perfect place to play. It was an empty carlot with lightpoles at the end of it. We pitched up against the wall with the painted strikezone and would try to hit it over the lightpoles for a homerun. Those were simpler times back then.



Is Fast Pitch the same game as Home Run? In Evanston we called Fast Pitch "Strikeout".

Also, isn't RR talking about pinners?


Not in my part of Evanston. It was either "fastpitch" or wallball." Used interchangeably.



You must be a North sider. :lol: It was mostly the brothers who called it "Strikeout".


BINGO! Home field was Lincolnwood Elementary School.



I'm from the slums of Ridgeville. We used to play at Oakton School. Are you a Haven guy?

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Haven it was. You must have been Chute?

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