Sock ball

[sikeston bulldog2]

Nice thread, brings back a lot of great memories. Played a number of games mentioned in here and we'd often use whatever we could rig up for a ball and bat.

This ain’t no [shirt]. We even used tree limbs and rocks, and still made contact. We were just outside all day long. Heck, I’m a tree climbing fool.

[OldRed]

Nice thread, brings back a lot of great memories. Played a number of games mentioned in here and we'd often use whatever we could rig up for a ball and bat.

Thank you and yes it does for me also. I wish I could go back and do it all over again.

"There has to be a little boy in us to play this game." Roy Campanella.

[sikeston bulldog2]

Did anyone ever play sock ball? We played with a pitcher and hitter, different distances for doubles, triples and home runs. It was actually a sock tied in knots and turned inside out and used a broom stick for a bat. Like cork ball a swing and a miss was an out.

Dirt Claude fights. You think we were good ball players, try a Claude fight. It even had rules.

[Hoosier59]

Use to play a lot of backyard ball, my family(5 of us) against my parents’ best friends family (5 of them) . Really good times.
As for myself, I use to spend hours batting rocks. We had a pasture field that was set up perfectly for a ballpark. I would play imaginary games with teams current at the time, and I’d hit like those hitters, left or right handed. My favorites were Lou Brock, Reggie Smith, and Bake McBride.
My Dad never said much about it, until one day he asked when I was going to start hitting the rocks back into the driveway! He was right, finding good rocks to hit was getting hard to do, soooo. One day I went down the road in our old truck, on a seldom used road, and shoveled up a bunch of gravel. Came back home and spread it all out on our driveway. Dad came home from work and saw the rock immediately. He asked where I got it all, and when I told him, he got all over me! He said “ you can’t do that! That’s a County road!” Oh well! I had plenty of new rocks to hit.
A buddy of mind played in a league that used wooden bats and he’d give me the ones that were broken to use. I’d hit so many rocks, the bats would end up with no ends on them anymore! What kids will do to entertain themselves, right?

[tgharris]

Did anyone ever play sock ball? We played with a pitcher and hitter, different distances for doubles, triples and home runs. It was actually a sock tied in knots and turned inside out and used a broom stick for a bat. Like cork ball a swing and a miss was an out.

Dirt Claude fights. You think we were good ball players, try a Claude fight. It even had rules.

How about apple or walnut fights?

[Absolut]

For many years cork ball was a St. Louis area game. They had leagues in Forest Park.

We created our own neighborhood league. Wiffle ball, wall ball. Any individual game.

The collective games of left field ball, Indian guardians ball, street ball, etc were just daily games.

In my day, even hotbox Was huge.

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It’s my understanding that Indian ball came from the Indian culture. Like others, they had their game of baseball complete with rules. I don’t know that the Indians baseball team had anything to do with it.

Dont be so literal!

[sikeston bulldog2]

For many years cork ball was a St. Louis area game. They had leagues in Forest Park.

We created our own neighborhood league. Wiffle ball, wall ball. Any individual game.

The collective games of left field ball, Indian guardians ball, street ball, etc were just daily games.

In my day, even hotbox Was huge.

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It’s my understanding that Indian ball came from the Indian culture. Like others, they had their game of baseball complete with rules. I don’t know that the Indians baseball team had anything to do with it.

Dont be so literal!

I hear ya. The only difference in Indian ball and left field ball, to us, was the opening up of center field. By adding another player.

Left field ball had our right boundary line, into left center. Anything to the right of the line was a foul. You get two fouls to each side, or your out. If hit in the air to the right of the boundary, an out. So many of our games focused on pull hitting, to stay away from the right field out.

Indian ball opened up from left center to dead center. Same rules. Only difference as I remember it. Based on amount of players.