A variation of
baseball that has been played in the St. Louis,
MO, area since the early 1900s. Servicemen during World War II helped spread the game to other parts of the country. The game differs from
baseball, stickball, and other bat-and-ball games in that there is no base running.
There are several corkball clubs in the St. Louis area, where the sport is still
played at area parks with
special corkball fields over a hundred years after it was
first played.