46th annual stickball game a successful throwback
Celebrating the good ole’ days, on Saturday, September 27, the 46th Annual Brooklyn Old Timers’ Stickball Game was held in conjunction with the Ragamuffin Parade. The game is set up to reunite old friends who used to live in the neighborhood and make new ones for a friendly yet competitive street game that isn’t played as much these days as it once was.
“Everyone is excited. They look forward to coming every year,” said co-founder and coordinator Peter Syrdahl. “As kids, we played every day until we were teenagers. But then we went away to college. Things happened. So then we started to make it an annual tradition and we came once a year.”
The game is divided into two teams: the older guys versus the younger guys. “This year, it’s older against oldest,” he noted.