In Popular Culture
In addition to Grogan's eponymous book, the game is mentioned in the Little Italy section of Don DeLillo's novel Underworld and in Daniel Keyes's novel Flowers for Algernon when Charlie remembers a playground scene. It is also mentioned as ring-a-levio and ring-a-leary-o, in George Carlin's autobiography Last Words. A game of ringolevio also figures prominently in the Twilight Zone episode "The Incredible World of Horace Ford."
A 2010 PBS documentary, New York Street Games, featured Ringolevio.
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