"stoop" ball (1909)

[Barnhart]

MW11=1941, as stoop-ball, but:

The boy, whose father, James Monmouth Purdy, is a  process server in the
Jefferson Market Court, got home  from Public School 93, at Ninety-third
Street and Amsterdam Avenue, early in the afternoon, and, with some ten or
a dozen other boys is the block, began to play “stoop” ball in the street.
 Walter stood in the gutter, just off Columbus Avenue, in fron of 101 West
Ninety-fourth Street, throwing the ball against the stoop steps, and
catching it when it rebounded.  “Boy Killed By Automobile,” The New York
Times, May 12, 1909, p 1


This is an interesting article in its own right.  In another article in
this paper, there's a description of a woman falling and being run over by
a subway train, too.

Regards,
David

barnhart at highlands.com