WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 14, 2014: A Spalding High-Bounce ball for the Mine column written by reader Charles Fogelman. (Photo by Deb Lindsey for The Washington Post). (Deb Lindsey/For The Washington ...

IN THEIR YOUTH, they could smack a Spaldeen three sewers. The Carrol Street Boys got together yesterday – as they have for the past 20 years – not to showcase their athletic prowess, but to chew the ...

I was wandering in my old Brooklyn neighborhood last week, through the streets where I grew up in the early 1960s. Spring prickled the air on 11th St. near Seventh Ave., and the Mets were playing ...

The puppy came prancing down the hallway, tail held high and eyes gleaming. From the sheen of the pink object in his mouth, I could tell that he had discovered a Spaldeen, one of the hollow rubber ...

Thanks for the letter on "a pink ball" [Just sayin', Aug. 15], a wonderful reminder of my youth and a cautionary tale for today's. I must, however, offer one small correction. The ball was a Spalding, ...