Pete Hamill was a NYC-based columnist and novelist.  This reading is from his larger work "A Drinking Life" and is all about the ancient and street-sacred game of stickball, an urban urchin variant of baseball played barehanded on the side streets of Brooklyn to this very day, using sawed off broom and shovel handles as bats and a bouncy pink rubber ball called affectionately "a spaldeen".   

I hope you enjoy this throwback reading and my after-comments!

Thanks!  Next episode will drop on Friday this week (9/12/25)