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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina
Yup - and a big part of Beddington Heights was "marble season". Every spring we would all take our marbles to school in our Crown Royal bags and have at it. Marbles were banned from our school for a brief time after a fight erupted over a game involving a King Kong Steely (which in reality was nothing more than a big ball bearing but at our school it represented the heavyweight championship of marbles).
The chap that had the King Kong Steely always demanded you played him 5:1 odds - he would just have to hit you once, you had to hit him 5 times. I lost my best marble in such a game. Anyhoo he finally lost it to another kid but refused to relinquish the marble - leading to a near brawl. Marbles were banned from our school and a letter was sent home to parents.
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Haha, I remember that. There were quite a few marble related fights.
I played that kid a few times, I think I even got up to 3 or 4 before losing some good marbles. Man, "marble season", those were the days. I recall it was usually after the snow melted for good.