Baseball cards (Queens)=Tickets (Brooklyn)
Baseball cards are popular all over the country. But why is (or was) the game called "tickets" in Brooklyn? The following citation is the only one I have on this.
8 July 1977, New York Times, "Street Opens Avenues of Imagination for Games" by Fred Ferretti, pg. 54:
Just as nobody really knows why hide-and-seek is called "tap the icebox" in Chicago, or why Johnny-on-a-pony is "bumbay" in St. Louis, or why "baseball cards" in Queens is "tickets" in Brooklyn, or why the old game of marbles in Manhattan is called "fatty-box" in Boston. Even a modified "Dennis the Menace" is called sardines in the outback.
8 July 1977, New York Times, "Street Opens Avenues of Imagination for Games" by Fred Ferretti, pg. 54:
Just as nobody really knows why hide-and-seek is called "tap the icebox" in Chicago, or why Johnny-on-a-pony is "bumbay" in St. Louis, or why "baseball cards" in Queens is "tickets" in Brooklyn, or why the old game of marbles in Manhattan is called "fatty-box" in Boston. Even a modified "Dennis the Menace" is called sardines in the outback.