childhood rhymes

[Mark A. Mandel]

 Sam Clements <SClements at NEO.RR.COM> quoth:

>>From my reading, a "spaldeen" was a pink rubber? ball that was used to play
stickball, stoopball, Chinese handball, and boxball.  This in in NYC.

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I second that. pink rubber balls, sold in every corner store, called
"spaldeens", < "Spalding", the mfr's name imprinted on many balls.
(NYC, late 50s / early 60s)

-- Mark A. Mandel