Basketball isn't the only city game; handball is played all over New York. Our Roger Clark tells us about some handball legends helping a new generation of city kids learn the sport, with free clinics beginning this weekend.

With courts in pretty much every neighborhood in the city, handball is a game many New Yorkers grew up playing.

"About every ten blocks you'll find a handball court," said Paul Williams, the Inner City Handball Association founder and program director. "Get a ball from the corner store, and you can go and play handball with your friends, and it's very inexpensive."

Williams founded the Inner City Handball Association 25 years ago as a way to give back after growing into a competitive player on the national level, honing his craft on the courts of Bedford-Stuyvesant.

"I thought it would be great that if I could have an effect on a number of kids — hundreds of kids — just like it affected me, then maybe it would be a little better society, a little better community," Williams said.

The non-profit organization offers handball programs and runs tournaments for young people year-round.

It has teamed up with the Central Park Conservancy to offer 16 weeks of clinics at the North Meadow Recreation Center beginning Sunday.

"Ages 10 to 23, but it's open to anyone," said Christian Vasquez, the association's president.

"We want to connect New Yorkers to the variety of ways that you can use the park," said Jamal King, the Associate Director of Recreation Programs for the Central Park Conservancy.

Where students of the game can learn from instructors like Danielle Daskalakis, a world champion in the sport, who knows there's more to it than just smacking a ball against a wall.

"You have to really figure out, How do you control the court?" Daskalakis said. "How do I use my body in a way that my opponent has to run around me and I tire them out more than I tire myself out?"

Speaking of tired: me playing some doubles, more than 30 years since I frequented the courts of JHS 190 in Queens.

It's a great workout, though. The kids who benefit from the program get that and more.

"They help me with my form, and it has made me a better player ever since," handball player Michelle He said.

"We're all good friends, and it's just from playing handball," handball player Daniel Pitre said. "We all get a bond because it's like family."

To find out more about the Inner City Handball Associations, their free clinics at Central Park, and everything else going on at the park, just head to CentralParkNYC.org