Pinners

Pinners[1] is a Chicago neighborhood game[2] played on the front-stoop[3] or walls with angled bricks/stones which can be used to pop the ball up in the air.

The scoring rules[2] is similar to baseball, but with runs being virtual determined by where the ball lands.

A single, double, triple or home run would be predetermined landmarks (i.e. sidewalk, trees, cars, street, curb/sidewalk lines) from the batting area.

Many of the schools built in Chicago have a horizontal perfectly angled section of decorative brick, at the right height, that was used for the game.

Here are specific personal testimonies about name variants by players in various neighborhoods previously deleted from this entry but all of which are very much accurate and relevant.