Talley the Terminator, he gave you Buckets.

By Bob Kuska


"When Archie Talley was about six years old in the late 1950s, his family lived in an apartment complex that straddled the Northeast D. C. and Maryland border.  Not far outside his front door stood a swing set.  But the older kids always swiped the swings, so Archie had to invent his own entertainment.  He started tossing a little ball at a tomato-sized red spot on one of the swing supports.

When Archie got a little older, he wandered up the block to Seat Pleasant Elementary School, saw a set of monkey bars, and invented a new game. He tried his luck lobbing a cantaloupe-sized rubber ball through the narrow gap between the metal handgrips at the top of the monkey bars.  

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