Laura Rovick has heard the sounds of trash talking, rubber balls hitting the sides of buildings and sneakers rushing along the pavement outside her condo on a special fall weekend for 11 years. A ...

Stickball players from across the region gathered in Durant Saturday morning to start the new year by celebrating their cultural heritage.

POLK COUNTY, Texas (KTRE) - The Alabama Coushatta tribe is trying to grow their cultural impact. One of the ways they do that is by promoting the game of stickball. The game is translated to several ...

NEW YORK -- It's nearly noon on the last Sunday in May, and Pedro Eliza walks hurriedly toward a parked black Mercedes SUV in which his friend, Eddie Espada, sits with a baggie of unused syringes.

BODIES ARE BANGING all over the field. It is a sultry Sunday evening in Philadelphia, Mississippi and roughly 50 men are scrimmaging at a stickball practice and suddenly it’s clearer why the Choctaw ...

TROY, N.Y. — The Friends of Little Italy awarded this year’s Golden Stickball Bat Awards to three deserving recipients ahead of its “Stick It to Child Homelessness” stickball tournament. The 18th ...

CHOCTAW, Miss. (AP) — As the drummers walk onto the field, the players behind them smack their hickory sticks to the beat. The rhythm envelops the stands and a palpable sense of anticipation flows ...

The sweet spot on a broomstick is fractional. Like true love, or social justice, it might not exist at all. Doesn’t help that your tendency when playing stickball is to over-swing. “Crush it,” the ...

Steve Viola's pregame routine consisted of the customary three warmup pitches and more trash-talking than usual. He gloated about the three shutouts he had compiled in the young season. After a ...

Indigenous Stickball, considered to be one of the oldest team sports in North America, was in the spotlight Saturday at a tournament and summit in Atlanta. According to organizers, for the first time ...

On the first day of Native American Heritage Month, the Saint Paul-based Indigenous artist Marlena Myles reimagined the Google logo to honor the North American Indigenous game of stickball. In the Nov ...