Stickball

In popular culture

• In a scene from the 1976 film Rocky, a group of youths play halfball (a variant of stickball) on the streets of Philadelphia. In the 1979 sequel Rocky II, the main character himself plays stickball/halfball in one scene.
• The season 4 episode, "Lisa's First Word", of the animated series The Simpsons has a scene taking place on the Lower East Side of Springfield (visualized like a typical 1930s urban New York City neighborhood) where a boy asks his friends if they want to play stickball and they agree; instead of actually playing stickball, the group of kids head over to an arcade and play a video game of the sport.
• In the song "I'm The Man" by Anthrax, Scott Ian is said to like playing stickball.
• White Collar TV series (Episode 2.02 - "Need To Know") protagonist Neal Caffrey comes up with a clever plan to create a park in honor of the fictional boy Timmy Nolan, who loved to play stickball.
• In Billions TV series (Episode 2.09 - "Sic Transit Imperium"), character Bobby Axelrod plays stickball and shares a related story of how he grew up playing stickball.
• Billy Joel's song "Keeping the Faith" mentions the lyrics, "Learned stickball as a formal education".