Half-rubber
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Half-rubber, also known as halfball or halfies,[1] is a bat-and-ball game similar to stick ball or baseball. The game was developed in the American South around the beginning of the 20th century, moving north with the Great Migration in New York City and Philadelphia where it was widely played by the 1950s in addition to stick ball. It can be played with as few as three players and involves no running of bases.[2]
The sport was typically played on a city street, now played in parks or the beach, using a baseball-sized rubber ball, that has been cut or sawed in half. Legendary origins of this "half-ball"' vary: from kids splitting a ball so that two games could be played at once;[3] to an accident where a pimpleball broke in half and kids had no money to buy a new one so they played with a half-ball;[4][5] to an innovation by adults who wanted to reduce the chances of the ball breaking windows on nearby buildings.[6]