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How stickball became the signature sport of New York City

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What happened

"Second base was the manhole, third base was the red car," Kim Ng, childhood stickball player and current commissioner of the AUSL, told me in a recent interview. "We didn't have the facilities like there are now. So, we made do." Stickball is a sport that has been played in

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Why it's spreading

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