Posted by Steve Wax on August 01, 19101 at 12:39:08:
In Reply to: Re: The Pink Spalding (Spaldeen) Is Coming Back! posted by Michael Weiss on March 12, 1999 at 15:11:23:
: When we played stick ball, the ball to use was not the "Spaldeen", it was, I believe, the "Pensey Pinky" From what I remember, the "Spaldeens" used to split, where as the "Pensey Pinky" used to hold up longer.
: : If you go to the Spalding site, you can see the story of the re-issue of the Spalding.
: : The URL for the story is: http://www.spalding.com/pp_spaldeen.html
Not in my neighborhood. I grew up playing stickball, punchball, and stoopball in Borough Park, Brooklyn.
Spaldeens held up much better than the Pennsy Pinkie, and if they split eventually, it was because they
got more use. The Pennsy Pinky rubber wasn't evenly distributed so that it often took a bad hop, and it
didn't have that great texture of the Spaldeen that let you grip it
better for a pitch. The Spalding also bounced higher and all in all
just FELT BETTER!