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Tag: Games of physical skill

  • Choose-Up Games from the Sandlots of Jamaica, Queens NY

    Choose-Up Games from the Sandlots of Jamaica, Queens NY

    Field of Dreams When I was about seven years old I used to play a “let’s pretend” baseball game in our backyard. I laid out 4 rags I’d gotten from the garage and placed them in a diamond form which represented the bases. The bases were about 20 feet apart. Then I looked at our […]

  • Graceless at Lord’s: The Class Goons Strike Back

    What are the English other than their excruciatingly worn class, kitted out with a code of manners revocable at an instant?  A streak of traditional Englishness, as A. A. Gill wrote, stresses bullying.  It made them great in the hope of making others small.  A towering creature like Charles James Fox may well have added […]

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