Back in my day, we used to continue a game without stopping, sonny boy! You wouldn't have anybody play stickball and then run off with the stick and a ball, because that ball might have cost you four pennies, and that was a lot of money back then, and, if you had a stick, well, you knew you could use it to keep yourself walking if you woke up with Polio.
I cast a spell on you, wizard!