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The Remains of the Game

Conventionally understood as historical linguistics, philology is close kin with folklore. Practitioners of both will rake the embers of bygone days looking for traces of what fired the customs of present times, but where students of language are content to identify the remains, folklorists tend to fan the embers, hoping to revive just a bit of the old flame.

A July 1 article in the New York Times, "Anyone Up for Stickball? In a PlayStation World, Maybe Not," by Timothy Williams and Cassie Feldman, detailed the improbable survival in the Crown Heights area of Brooklyn of such presumably vanished games as stickball, skelly, ringolevio, and curb ball. In my experience, coming upon a game of ...

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