Hey Al THATS GREAT < I DID NOT KNOW BUBINGA WAS A REAL WORD!

Where I grew up in South Brooklyn,Stick Ball was our number one game. We had 2 types , regualr with teams and a one on one fast pitching .

The fast pitching version was played with the pitcher standing in the middle of St.Mark's Ave, at the sewer cover and throwing the ball to a strike zone ( drawn with chalk to avoid ball/.strike arguments) on the Phone Company wall. Depeneding on wheter you hit the ball across the street ot the first story=single to the top floor=home run, if the guy pitching dropped the ball when it bounced off the building> then the hitter got the floor value of the hit.

The chalk would stop an arguement by if the ball had chalk on it then it was in the strike zone.

We had this fella, Joey who won more shutouts than an yone could count NO ONE COULD HIT HIM, except for this one fella

CARMINNE, everytime he roofed one ( Instant Home Run) he would say BUBINGA, just to bust on Joey, For years this was the word we used for any home run we were talking about

oh NICE GUITAR!

That's a pretty cool story Muddy.

We used to play wiffle ball in the street when I was younger.  Good memories.