stickball

plural stickballs

1. uncountableA street game similar to baseball, played with a stick, a ball and various ad hoc materials; found primarily in large cities in the northeastern United States.

   Boys were playing stickball in the damp, cold streets; dressed in heavy woollen sweaters and heavy trousers, they danced and shouted, and the ball went crack as the stick struck it and sent it speeding through the air.

   1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, Penguin Classics (2001), page 34

2. countableThe ball used in this game.