Off-point, maybe, query re "stickball"

[Wilson Gray]

In Saint Louis, there is what amounts to a local pastime called
"corkball." in my day, *all* guys played it, regardless of race, creed,
etc.

To play it, you needed a minimum of four guys: pitcher, catcher,
outfielder, and batter, with the max being six guys, so that there were
three fielders. The only equipment required was a broomstick and a
*used* tennis ball, Geoff. But the game was so popular that
professionally-made corkballs, which were cork spheres looking like a
golf balls with  baseball covers sewn onto them, and corkball bats,
which looked like slightly-longer, nearly broomstick-thin baseball
bats, could be had at any sporting-goods store or department store. It
was not a team game; it was every man for himself. The batter was not
obliged to swing at any pitch and there was no base-running, so no
umpires were needed. But, if the batter did swing and he missed and the
catcher caught the ball before it touched the ground, the batter was
out and had to go to left field, the left fielder to center, the center
fielder to right, and the right fielder became the pitcher and the
catcher became the new batter, the pitcher the new catcher, and the
previous right fielder became the new pitcher. If the batter hit the
ball and the pitcher caught it on the fly, the pitcher became the new
batter, the batter became the new left fielder, the old left fielder
became the center fielder, the center fielder became the right fielder
and the old right fielder became the pitcher. If a fielder caught the
ball on the fly, he became the new batter and the old batter became the
left fielder, etc. Whichever of the pitcher or the fielders first
fielded three ground balls became the new batter, etc., etc. Tips and
foul balls, if caught on the fly, were automatic outs and whoever
caught the ball became the new batter, with the usual shifts in
position among the other players. If tips and foul balls weren't caught
on the fly, they didn't count as anything. If the batter swung and both
he and the catcher missed the ball, it was a strike. Three strikes and
the batter was out, with the usual shifting around of the other
players.

Is stickball anything like this?

-Wilson Gray