edit: HANDBALL!

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Did anyone ever play that game when you're a kid with the large rubber balls that's basically like four-square, except you play against a wall wiht only two people, maybe 3 tops?

And you had to bounce it once before it hit the wall and it could only bounce once coming back before you hit it-- if it bounced twice or just went past you entirely you lost a point. And it was really hard-core with little tournaments and play-offs and stuff. And there were rules like "no cross-country" (i.e. no deliberately bouncing it to the opposite corner of the wall so your opponent would have to run the length of the wall to get to it and probably hit it out) and other stuff.

And then teachers or other people come out and yell at you to stop banging against their walls. Anyone else play that? What was it called anyway?

Edit: I jsut spent about 20 minutes on google trying to find a name for this game or even a description, and I've found nothing. The closest seems to be rules on Foursquare and rules about dodgeball with people lined up against the wall (which we played too, but to a lesser extent as it was somewhat violent.)

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[hecatehatesthat.livejournal.com]

Wall Ball! But we played it with a tennis ball and like 15 kids and one of the lunch aids stood out of the way and umpired. Because we were hard core. We had outs -- if the ball touched you coming off the wall and you didn't catch it, or if you threw the ball and it missed the wall, you had to run up and touch the wall before whoever did catch it could hit the wall with the ball again. If the ball beat you to the wall 3 times, you were out of the game. It was when the games was down to a few people that "no cross-country" got yelled at a lot -- I'd actually forgotten that rule, but when I read it in your post I heard like 5 kids scream it in my head. Good times, man.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

That's definitely a different game I think. We didn't play handball with more than 4 people, usually 2. And not with tennis balls. The point was to bounce it against the wall by hitting it (serves were either thrown straight up and then hit, or bounced straight up and then hit) so when it bounced back the other person missed hitting it-- like four-square. Catching it was an automatic out.