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Even a small space could be enough for boxball - like baseball, minus the outfield.

Rob Weiss, who lives in Mount Laurel now but grew up in Logan, described hours-long games of boxball or wallball, interrupted only by cars driving through or by the occasional cranky neighbor, irritated by the repeated thunk of ball against brick.

That was until the police picked up his friend in the middle of a boxball game - something about attitude - then detained Weiss for laughing at the sight of him in the police car.

To Zakroff, his block of Georgian Road in West Oak Lane was the world’s greatest playground - the pavement a concrete boxball court, a neighbor’s wall home to a variation on handball.

We used to play boxball and dodgeball on East 127th all the time, even though I lived on the West Side.