Catch-A-Flyer-Up--Any Brooklynites Out There???
Posted by Bruce Kahl on February 01, 2004
In Reply to: Catch-A-Flyer-Up--Any Brooklynites Out There??? posted by Ward on January 31, 2004
: : Coming of age in the late fifties in the NYC area of Brooklyn, we played a street game entitled "catch a flyer up".
: : Riding with some coworkers this week we could not agree on what the game was exactly or how it was played.
: : We all sorta think it was a variation of stoop ball wherein a Spalding (not one of those cheapo "pinkies" )was thrown against the sharp point of a stoop to score a single, double, triple or HR depending on the distance the ball traveled.
: : Anybody???
: ::In Tarrytown, NY in the 40s and 50s (up the Hudson River) we called it stoopball. The rules as I recall were -- you threw the ball against the edge of the step -- if the ball was caught on the fly, you were out -- and the other player was up. If the ball bounced -- each bounce was a base -- and a double bounce was a double, etc. We played it for hours at a time, along with 'stickball' with a tennis ball and a broomstick -- that took more players than stoopball.
Thanks Ward.
Still looking for the catch a flyer up game.
In my travels I found the site linked below which you may find interesting.
- Catch-A-Flyer-Up--Any Brooklynites Out There??? Ward 01/February/04