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Streetplay's mission is to document the great city games that we know and love. Over the years, we've wanted to allow our readers to collaborate with us, to make our knowledge base bigger and better. Now, technology has caught up with our desire and we're proud to announce the Streetplay Wiki (SPwiki for short).

Are there games you played in the street as a city youth? Are you a reasonably good writer with attention to detail? Sign up for a SPwiki account and help us make SPWiki the best web resource for urban games anyone can imagine.

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Some of the best street photography

We've assembled the Streetplay Galleries to present the work of professional artists who have documented the experience of play all over the world. Over the years, we've assembled some stunning exhibitions.

In this gallery, Urban Skateboarding, Tom Callan shows us life before skateboard shops infiltrated suburban malls, where city kids built jumping ramps from plywood and milk crates.

Featured articles

Willie Mays MLB All-Star Event
In the summer of 2008, Major League Baseball decided to hold its annual All-Star game in Yankee Stadium one last time. Willie Mays was invited to his old stickball stomping grounds to celebrate; take a look at our coverage.

Hanging out: Odd man out
What happens when you choose up sides and one person is left over? We think this where the term was coined.

Streeplay photos: Sidewalks
Pictures of the gaming gridwork that is the sidewalk, including some of the games you can play on them.

A Playful World: Brazil
The Playful World project documents the games and play of children from different places around the globe, in this case, Brazil. Please share the joyful aspects of our shared cultures.

Member spotlight: Bearsy
A lot of our readers have shared their stories with us first-hand in our Member Spotlight section. Here, Bearsy tells us about how much it hurts to run into a Buick during a stickball game.

Streetplay humor

Streetplay humor
Over the years, we've put togther quite a few projects just for laughs (like our financial statements). Check this section out and have a laugh.

Site highlights

In Tribute: Steve Mercado, FDNY
Steve Mercado, a leader in the stickball community, was one of the brave firefighters lost in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. This is our tribute to him.
Streetplay at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
The Smithsonian Institution invited us to DC to introduce America to our favorite games. Read how it went!
Essays and Commentary
We're often asked to comment upon the benefits kids get through unsupervised, ad hoc play. Here, we address the evaporation of such activity in modern times
Streetplay Cineplex
Throw some popcorn in the microwave, grab a jumbo-sized soda and watch street games in motion right on your computer!
Streetplay Links
Maybe we're not Google, but we take a shot at listing some of our favorite play-related websites here.

Featured game: Hit the stick

Hit the stick

Hit the stick is one of the many games we cover in The Games section.

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Bernie DeKoven's Junklog
Sports for the fun of it.

Cardboard carton soccer

FootGolf at last
FootGolf, the site explains, “is a combination of the popular sports of soccer and golf.” As far as I’m concerned, that’s all we...

Tugball
You won’t really understand why anything called a Tugball and looking like this: can lead to such athletic grace, almost primal glee, and such deeply...

Strap a Hula Hoop on your head, why don’t you
There’s a new sport. It’s not a serious sport. In fact, it’s not anything you’d think of as a “real” sport. But is...

Mitt Rowdy
So, here’s this game. They call it Mitt Rowdy. It’s my kind of game. Silly. Intimate. Competitive, in a loving way. No score, really. I mean,...

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