Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 00:23:15 EDT

From: Larry Horn LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU

Subject: Re: put up, off-the-point



I don't remember "off-the-point", but it sounds like a vertical version of a

game we played in its horizontal variant, stoop ball: you threw the spaldeen

down hard at the edge of a stoop (of the sort all our apartment houses had);

if it was caught on the fly, it was an out, if it bounced n times (n 4) it was

an n-base hit, and if it bounced 4 or more times, it was a home run. Perhaps

the vertical version had similar conventions. Dennis B? You were there

during the same period if I'm not mistaken (the "saloogi" 50's), right?

Larry