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STALIN [3.7K]
3 years ago
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What is stickball in Mississippi ​

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BARSIC [14]3 years ago
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Stickball is played on a field similar to that of a football field, with two poles 100 yards apart. An equal number of people per team hurl a ball made of scrapped deer skin, dampened and filled with a rounded rock, and sewn together with deer sinew, into the air.
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