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An oul' game o' rounders
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Smash was when you'd take turns at kicking the ball off a wall. You'd try and hit the wall at an angle so that the ball would rebound as far away as possible making it tricky for the next person to hit the wall. You miss the wall and you're out.
Ah yes, that game! Forget what we called it!
World Cup with 15 people was always epic. And playing Crossbar
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We used to call it 'kick the can'....north Dublin scum
When ye were playin curbs did ye play for 50 points if you got the ball back over while throwing it over an an comming car?
the amount of ford escorts with dented rear passenger doors round my estate was testament to my skill at 50 point shots0 -
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Ah now i remember it. Cant remember if we called that smash tho.Smash was when you'd take turns at kicking the ball off a wall. You'd try and hit the wall at an angle so that the ball would rebound as far away as possible making it tricky for the next person to hit the wall. You miss the wall and you're out.
Anyone ever do the catwalk? You'd start at the bottom of your road, it would have to be dark and go along all the back walls to the end of the road. One of our lads fell through a glass greenhouse and cut himself to bits
You'd never do that these days, you'd probably get shot if someone saw you on their back wall 0 -
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Anyone ever do the catwalk? You'd start at the bottom of your road, it would have to be dark and go along all the back walls to the end of the road. One of our lads fell through a glass greenhouse and cut himself to bits
We called it's 'Hedges' where we'd jump over the walls/hedges of the front gardens on the road. Had to race from one end of the road to the other, each on opposite sides of the road.
Ah good times. Mr Smyth's hedge had a hidden fence 'inside' it.....Tommo Burke jumped that and can't have kids now...0 -
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ibarelycare wrote: »Tennis ball and any number of players. One person would throw the ball directly up in the air and call someone's name. That person would have to catch the ball while everyone else would run as far away as possible. When the person caught the ball everyone had to freeze and the ball-catcher would have to try and hit someone with the ball from the spot where they caught it. If they hit the person, that person would become Sick (or move up to Dying, Dead, etc etc) but if they missed then they themselves would become sick. You were out once you became "Forgotten!"
This is like psychotherapy - all these buried memories resurfacing
Although in all these memories the sun is shining gloriously, so there's a bit of the old enhancement going on.0 -
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speedboatchase wrote: »Can anyone tell me what the main differences between rounders and baseball were? Thinking of watching MLB next time it's on
If you didn't have a baseball bat it instantly became rounders.
I only knew one fella with a baseball bat back in the day. t'was considered posh.
maybe: in rounders you could hit the runner with the ball, they were out. so if you caught it you could lash it at the runner. it was always a tennis ball so no big deal with that.
that's the only 1 I can remember being different, and it may have been a local rule in the first place.0 -
If you didn't have a baseball bat it instantly became rounders. I only knew one fella with a baseball bat back in the day. t'was considered posh.
maybe: in rounders you could hit the runner with the ball, they were out. so if you caught it you could lash it at the runner. it was always a tennis ball so no big deal with that.
that's the only 1 I can remember being different, and it may have been a local rule in the first place.
I think you can do that in baseball as well.
I'm really not sure what the major difference is, besides the pyjamas and statistics.0 -
Smash was when you'd take turns at kicking the ball off a wall. You'd try and hit the wall at an angle so that the ball would rebound as far away as possible making it tricky for the next person to hit the wall. You miss the wall and you're out.
Ah yea remember something like that. The way we played it, whoever kicked it called out a name and that person then had to hit it back, call out a name etc, think you were allowed once bounce.
We just called it walls
Loved rounders too. Also vaguely remember some game where you'd flip a coin across a road and it had to land as close as possible to the wall on the other pavement....or something like that, memory ain't what is used to be. Whoever was closest won the money0 -
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