Square Ball

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Game	Square Ball
Game Family	Hook-em-snivy Hook-em-snivy
Location	Brooklyn
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Description	per Leavy. A biography of Sandy Koufax reports that he played “stickball, punchball, square ball, and Gi-Gi ball in his neighborhood. In one 1922 handbook, Square Ball appears to be a variant of Corner Ball in which the peripheral plugging team and the central target team are equal in number, and is which the ball, after hitting a player on the target team, can be retrieved, “Halt!” called, and the ball thrown at “frozen” members of the peripheral team.
Sources	Jane Leavy [Koufax bio, page needed]. Emily W. Elmore, A Practical Handbook of Games, (Macmillan, NY, 1922), pages 17-18.
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