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Red Hook Childhood Ball Games and Dodgers Echoes
A Brooklyn reminiscence of stick ball handball and stoop ball on Red Hook blocks in the 1950s and 60s. The piece recalls solo play on stoops, Chinese and American handball, the KINGS game, and evenings after supper before adults socialized on the stoop. It ties town memories to Dodgers and Mets fandom and the 1957 relocation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Hook
Brooklyn
Dodgers
California
Mets
Defonte’s
John & Frank’s
Columbia Street
Ebbets Field
Flatbush
Bedford Avenue
Robert Moses
Atlantic Yards
Flushing Meadows
Ball Park
Walter O’malley
New York Giants