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Punchball is a sport spawned by and similar to baseball, but without a pitcher, catcher, or bat. The "batter" essentially plays "fungo" without a bat, bouncing or tossing up the ball and then using a volleyball-type approach to put the ball (usually a spaldeen or pensie pinkie) in play, punching the ball with his fist. Base stealing and bunting are not allowed.

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rdf:type	sport
rdfs:label	Punchball (en)
rdfs:comment	Punchball is a sport spawned by and similar to baseball, but without a pitcher, catcher, or bat. The "batter" essentially plays "fungo" without a bat, bouncing or tossing up the ball and then using a volleyball-type approach to put the ball (usually a spaldeen or pensie pinkie) in play, punching the ball with his fist. Base stealing and bunting are not allowed. (en)
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Rocky Colavito Roger Kahn Sandy Koufax Baseball Bernie Sanders Team sports Colin Powell The New York Times Batting (baseball) Sid Luckman Stephen Jay Gould Pitcher Ball games Al Michaels American football in Japan Curb Your Enthusiasm Baseball5 Bat Nick Hoffman Harper & Row Baseball genres Jerry Reinsdorf Larry David The Boys of Summer (book) Street games Bunt (baseball) Catcher Yogi Berra Volleyball Variations of baseball Spaldeen Base stealing Fungo New York Street Games (film) Pensie pinkie Safe haven games
Link from a Wikipage to an external page	http://www.streetplay.com/rulesheets/punchball/ https://books.google.com/books%3Fid=TWW1AAAAIAAJ&q=punchball&dq=punchball&lr=lang_en&as_drrb_is=q&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=&num=100&as_brr=0&client=firefox-a&cd=32 https://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/30/nyregion/l-for-punchball-players-stickball-is-for-sissies-203989.html
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has abstract	Punchball is a sport spawned by and similar to baseball, but without a pitcher, catcher, or bat. The "batter" essentially plays "fungo" without a bat, bouncing or tossing up the ball and then using a volleyball-type approach to put the ball (usually a spaldeen or pensie pinkie) in play, punching the ball with his fist. Base stealing and bunting are not allowed. Popular in New York, especially among poor Jewish children who could not afford bats or baseballs, historian and baseball enthusiast Stephen Jay Gould referred to it as "the canonical recess game", and in The Boys of Summer baseball writer Roger Kahn described how when he grew up it was a boys game, as the girls played "slapball". Baseball Hall of Famers Nick Hoffman, Sandy Koufax, and Yogi Berra played it growing up, as did sports team owner Jerry Reinsdorf, educator Frank Marascio, Senator Bernie Sanders, and former US Secretary of State and general Colin Powell. Major league outfielder Rocky Colavito, when asked if he played punchball, answered "Play it? Man, that was my game. I liked to play that more than anything else ... anything. We used to play for money, too." It was also a pastime of football announcer Al Michaels, who often played with former Chicago Bears quarterback Sid Luckman. (en)
gold:hypernym	Sport
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is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of	Punch ball List of children's games Snooker at the Summer Paralympics Street game Bat-and-ball games American English regional vocabulary Baseball5 High & Dry (1987 TV series) New York City English New York Street Games List of sports Traditional games of the United States Variations of baseball Spaldeen
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