The Gulf States Newsroom’s Joseph King went to a few games at the 76th annual Choctaw Indian Fair to report on one of the oldest sports in the nation.

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During the championship game against another Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians team, Kristin Josh leads Ittibah Achafah in a team chant. Josh formed the team just a month before the championship ...

Perry Hill has been a coach in Major League Baseball for 24 years and in professional baseball for 33 years. The current Seattle Mariners first base/infield coach remembers developing his philosophy ...

BODIES ARE BANGING all over the field. It is a sultry Sunday evening in Philadelphia, Mississippi and roughly 50 men are scrimmaging at a stickball practice and suddenly it’s clearer why the Choctaw ...

Stickball is an East Coast tradition. It's more or less street baseball, but with what amounts to a sawed-off broomstick as a bat. The neighborhood becomes the field. A manhole may act as second base, ...

Ryker Sixkiller did not have to pretend much when he stepped onto the Atlanta area set for his acting role in this year’s Marvel “Echo” television series. Bare-chested, partly painted blue and wearing ...

For a certain breed of baseball fan, there's nostalgia not merely in remembering the awkward, spastic world of children's t-ball games, but in the chaotic and bouncing world of stickball. At its most ...

Hoss Villa, Bobby Burkes, Brian Larney and Eli J. Hickman vie for the ball at the stickball club DFW Kabutcha Toli's practice on Sunday, May 1, 2022 in Oak Cliff's Kiest Park. The U.S. government ...

America’s favorite pastime is arguably the only sport you could play while simultaneously taking a nap, but when the action ramps up and the bases are loaded, the excitement of each pitch, swing, dive ...