The current title was derived from a book Matthews wrote in 1988, Hardball: How Politics Is Played Told by One Who Knows the Game.

Hardball: How Politics Is Played Told by One Who Knows the Game was Chris Matthews's first book that led to the creation of the show.

Sometimes the sport is called Quad Hockey, Hóquei em Patins ( PT ), Rolhockey ( NL ), Rollhockey ( DE ), International Style Ball hockey, Rink Hockey ( FR ), Hockey Su Pista ( IT ), Hoquei sobre Patins ( CA ), Hockey sobre Patines ( ES ), Rulleskøjtehockey ( DA ), Rullbandy ( S ), Rulluisuhoki ( ET ) and Hardball hockey ( US ), depending on which region of the world it is played.

* The Hardball Times is a website as well as an annual volume that evaluates the preceding major league season and presents original research articles on various sabermetric topics.

Buchanan stated on the September 7, 2004 edition of Hardball with Chris Matthews, " There is a chance I would vote for Peroutka.

On March 12, 2009, Gaffney appeared on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews and accused former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein of being involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and the Oklahoma City bombing, " There is also circumstantial evidence, not proven by any means, but nonetheless some pretty compelling circumstantial evidence of Saddam Hussein's Iraq being involved with the people who perpetrated both the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center and even the Oklahoma City bombing.

Christopher John " Chris " Matthews ( born December 17, 1945 ) is an American news anchor and political commentator known for his nightly hour-long talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, which is televised on the American cable television channel MSNBC.

In 1997, Matthews began his own talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, which originally aired on CNBC but is currently on MSNBC.

Reich is a political commentator on programs including Hardball with Chris Matthews, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, CNBC's Kudlow & Company, and APM's Marketplace.

* Hardball is a free computer game similar to Breakout which was made for the Palm OS.

Guerriero is an advocate for equality, having appeared on major television programs such as Nightline, Hardball with Chris Matthews, The Today Show, and The O ' Reilly Factor.

He is periodic contributor and guest host on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Hardball with Chris Matthews and NBC's Today Show.

Crossballs: The Debate Show is a Comedy Central television show which poked fun at cable news networks ' political debate shows, especially CNN's Crossfire and MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews.

The MSNBC ticker is seen during the network's morning and daytime broadcasts, but is removed during live prime-time broadcasts of The Last Word with Lawrence O ' Donnell, Hardball and The Rachel Maddow Show.

She anchors Andrea Mitchell Reports airing at 1pm – 2pm ET weekdays on MSNBC, has appeared on and guest hosted Meet the Press, and is often a guest on Hardball with Chris Matthews and The Rachel Maddow Show.

( Hardball squash is a North American variant of the game, played on smaller courts with a faster-moving ball.

Hardball with Chris Matthews is a television talk show on MSNBC, broadcast weekdays at 5 and 7 PM hosted by Chris Matthews.

Hardball is a talking-head style cable news show where the moderator advances opinions on a wide range of topics, focusing primarily on current political issues.

Hardball has had a variety of guest hosts when Chris Matthews is unavailable.

Matthews told Malkin that Hardball " is not a show for this kind of talk.

The Hardball Award is an award created in 2009 that recognized individuals " who displays a combination of guts and political moxie to win not just the day but our fondest admiration.

There is 40x20 ( small court ), the traditional 60x30 Softball & Hardball ( big alley ) and One-wall handball.

Hardball 5 is notable in its features which have since become standard in modern baseball video games:

One Hardball Times writer predicted that the Giants ' old players would stop producing in the future.

He also wrote a book called Hardball.

About the same time Austen wrote and drew the semi-autobiographical black-and-white pornographic comic book series Strips, as well as Hardball.

* Hardball, a comic book series written by Chuck Austen

Kuhn later wrote in his autobiography, Hardball: The Education of a Baseball Commissioner, that he was shocked at what he called a " foolish gamble " by the Senators, and predicted that the trade would turn out to be a Tiger heist.

In August 2004, following claims by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that presidential candidate John Kerry had exaggerated his record during the Vietnam War, Malkin appeared on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews and stated that there were " legitimate questions " over whether Kerry's wounds were " self-inflicted.

* Hardball with Chris Matthews, a talk show on MSNBC hosted by Chris Matthews

The Hardball Times, a popular baseball statistics website, uses a slightly different FIP equation, instead using 3 *( BB + HBP-IBB ) rather than simply 3 *( BB ) where " HBP " stands for batters hit by pitch and " IBB " stands for intentional base on balls.

Hardball appeared on the October 9, 2005 episode of The West Wing, " Message of the Week " ( which was written by frequent Hardball guest Lawrence O ' Donnell ), with Chris Matthews playing himself.

Never known for his speed on the basepaths, Phillips was picked as the slowest active ballplayer by using a formula based on Bill James ' speed scores by the Hardball Times in April 2006.

He has also written a number of mystery novels, including a series featuring Western writer Taggert Roper beginning with The Next Victim ( St. Martin's Press 1993 ), as well as novels marketed by the publisher as Action / Adventure, beginning with Hardball ( Berkley Jove 1992 ).

After passing a leadership course, Gravity was made the leader of Nevada's Initiative team, the Heavy Hitters, where he was joined by Initiative graduates Hardball, Nonstop and Telemetry.

However, the plan backfireed when Hardball felt betrayed by Komodo and his team.

Another member of the jury, Ann Redington, who broke down and cried as the verdict was being read, also told Chris Matthews, in a March 7, 2007, appearance on Hardball, that she hoped Libby would eventually be pardoned by President Bush ; she told Matthews that she believed Libby " got caught in a difficult situation where he got caught in the initial lie, and it just snowballed " and added: " It kind of bothers me that there was this whole big crime being investigated and he got caught up in the investigation as opposed to in the actual crime that was supposedly committed.

Following Mitchell's appearance on Hardball, on October 29, 2005, The Washington Posts Dafna Linzer reported that no formal damage assessment had yet been conducted by the CIA " as is routinely done in cases of espionage and after any legal proceedings have been exhausted.

Franks rejected the critical comments on Hardball with Chris Matthews on 17 April 2006.

* Chris Matthews, television talk show host and pundit, known for a nightly hour-long talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews on MSNBC

In addition, the programs Morning Joe, The Ed Show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, and The Rachel Maddow Show all finished ahead of their time slot competitors on CNN.

* Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews.

On August 31, 2006, Harris was interviewed on Hardball with Chris Matthews, where she responded to the criticisms from her former staffers with " We have their email traffic, we know what was behind all that, we know who's been paid and who isn't.

MSNBC correspondent David Shuster summarized Fleisher's testimony on Hardball with Chris Matthews:

Although his ratings were less than 1 / 6 Bill O ' Reilly, whose The O ' Reilly Factor shared the same time slot, Donahue was the highest rated show on MSNBC at the time it was canceled, managing to beat out Chris Matthews ' " Hardball " in the ratings .< ref name = surr >

On March 22, 2009, Matthews renewed the contract for Hardball with Chris Matthews through 2012.

* Hardball with Chris Matthews

Shortly thereafter, Miller appeared in an interview with Chris Matthews on the MSNBC show Hardball.

He has also appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews speaking for Obama.

In May 2009, Saint Joseph's University gave an honorary degree to Chris Matthews, host of Hardball.

He appears on such television programs as Special Report with Bret Baier, Good Morning America, Nightline, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Real Time with Bill Maher, Larry King Live, Your World with Neil Cavuto and most recently the Glenn Beck Program and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

* Hardball with Chris Matthews, 7 April 2004.