A Spalding Hi-Bounce Ball, often called a Spaldeen or a Pensie Pinkie, is a rubber ball, described as a tennis ball core without the felt.[1] These balls are commonly used in street games developed in the mid-20th century, such as Chinese handball (a variation on American handball), Australian Handball, stoop ball, hit-the-penny (involving trying to make a penny flip on a sidewalk), butts up, handball, punchball, boxball, half-rubber, Wireball and stickball (variations of baseball).[2]
- ^ The encyclopedia of New York. David Haskell (1st ed.). New York. 2020. ISBN 978-1-5011-6695-2. OCLC 1197762213.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Dickson, Paul (1999). The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary: A Cyclopedic Reference to More Than 7,000 Words, Names, Phrases, and Slang Expressions that Define the Game, Its Heritage, Culture, and Variations. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 978-0-15-600580-7.