By the 1850s, several Manhattan-based members of the National Association of Base Ball Players were using the grounds as their home field while St. George's continued to organize international matches between Canada, England and the United States at the same venue.

Osgood returned to Chelsea in December 1978 following a disappointing stint in the United States with the Philadelphia Fury, where he scored only 1 goal in 23 matches for a team which also included Alan Ball and Johnny Giles.

* The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York plays two matches with the Washington club, soon afterwards named Gotham.

The crowning moment of Šuker's career was the 1998 World Cup in France, where he became the top goal scorer and won the Golden Boot by scoring 6 goals in 7 matches and also won Silver Ball 1998 at France as second best player of tournament ( behind Ronaldo ).

For the 1865 season George was hired by the Philadelphia Cricket Club ; that summer he played in five matches for the Olympic Ball Club of that city.

* 6 March 2006 — Mick McCarthy is sacked as manager of Sunderland after his team accumulated just 10 points in 28 matches, with Kevin Ball made caretaker manager for the remainder of the season.

By this time, Ball had made a total of 77 appearances in league and cup matches.

Anyone who matches all four white numbers in any order plus the Mega Ball wins or shares the jackpot.

Notable Philadelphia Fury players included Johnny Giles, Alan Ball and Peter Osgood, all of whom starred in England before joining the club ; although Osgood was a major disappointment ( 1 goal in 23 matches ), Giles was a solid performer, and Ball was a star ( and served as player-coach in 1978 after the dismissal of manager Richard Dinnis ).

In July 1874, Samuel Hippey, a six-year-old child, playing with lucifer matches beneath a straw stack of Mr Ball, the baker, started a conflagration that spread to two cowsheds.

Nelson originally played its home matches on a pitch behind the Golden Ball pub.

* BBC Radio Humberside broadcasts both Hull FC and Hull KR matches on The Oval Ball and does simultaneous broadcasts when games clash.

Ball games, especially football, required some attention, and other organized sports may have attracted him as participant or spectator.

* December 15 – Jerry Ball, American football player

After these disillusions, he briefly retired from international football but returned to the national team in 2005 and captained France to the 2006 World Cup Final where he won the Golden Ball as the tournament's most outstanding player.

Ball security is a term used to describe the ability of a player to maintain control over the football during play and thus avoid a fumble.

New Egypt also has a recreation field which includes four baseball fields, a football field, a softball field, and a basketball court and three small fields used for Tee Ball.

Angel Oktoberfest is one of the largest of its kind in the U. S. The festival can attract upwards of 350, 000 people and includes beer and wine gardens, softball tournaments at Ebner Ball Park, a local football game and volleyball invitational tournament, carnival rides, crafts, a wide assortment of German food, and a two-day car show.

Ball struggled in his first season in charge, 1989 – 90, and Stoke was relegated to the third tier of English football after finishing bottom of the Second Division.

* Alan Ball ( American football ) ( born 1985 ), American football player

Also during the campaign, on May 30, 1974 a photo by photojournalist Doug Ball showing Stanfield fumbling a football thrown by Geoffrey Stevens at a stopover, in North Bay, Ontario, became one of the defining images of his career.

He also presented Quiz Ball ( a football quiz ) on BBC television during the early 1970s and he was the original host of the long running sports quiz A Question of Sport ( at that time only broadcast in the North of England ); and in the late 1990s he presented Going, Going, Gone, an antiques quiz show for the BBC and provided the voice-over for God's Gift for Granada.

The Kats football team, which competes in the Northeast JC Football Conference, plays at Jim Ball Stadium, an 1800-seat natural grass facility located adjacent to Ralph Wilson Stadium in Orchard Park, New York.

The city has also an american football club, Vikings de Villeneuve d ' Ascq ( Division 2 ) and an handball club, Hand Ball Club Villeneuve d ' Ascq ( HBCV ) ( Division 2 ).

He won the Golden Ball ( for most outstanding football ) and Golden Shoe ( for most goals scored ) awards at the 2001 Confederations Cup in Korea / Japan.

Early soccer leagues in the U. S. mostly used the name " football ," for example: the American Football Association ( founded in 1884 ), the American Amateur Football Association ( 1893 ), the American League of Professional Football ( 1894 ), the National Association Foot Ball League ( 1895 ), and the Southern New England Football League ( 1914 ).

In football, sponsor of Club Atlético River Plate from 1992 to 1995 and Coritiba Foot Ball Club from 1995 to 1999.

* Golden Ball ( Czech Republic ), an association football award

* Golden Ball ( France Football ), an annual association football award

* Golden Ball ( stadium ), an Irish association football stadium

* Vietnamese Golden Ball, an annual association football award

* Ball jacket, often specified as a baseball jacket or football jacket, a casual jacket with knitted cuffs, collar, and waistband and a zippered front

Many Ukrainians also played for the USSR national football team, most notably Igor Belanov and Oleg Blokhin, winners of the prestigious Golden Ball Award for the best footballers of the year.

Adjacent to the stadium is 1, 800-seat Jim Ball Field, the home field for Erie Community College's football team.

the Golden Ball ), is a Swedish football award given by the Aftonbladet and the Swedish Football Association to the best male Swedish footballer each year.

* Ball dress ( No. 2 ) – undress tailcoat, gold epaulettes, gold-laced trousers, white waistcoat, black bow tie, cocked hat

St John's College is well known for its choir, for its members ' participation in a wide variety of inter-collegiate sporting competitions, and for its yearly May Ball.

The players also compete in 7's competitions throughout the country, but mainly in their host competition " Jon Ball 7's ", which is a charitable tournament held at the Newton Park campus every May.

* Other events the station-have promoted and ran competitions for tickets including the originated Capital London's Summertime Ball and Jingle Bell Ball in 2009, 2010 and from 2011 as part of the Capital network held at The O2 Arena ( London ) in early June and December, respectively.

Vova also competed individually and won the Endurance-Clubs, 5 Ball 360s ( together with Thomas Dietz ), 3 Club 360s, 5 Club 360s, 5 Ball Freestyle, 7 Ball Freestyle, 3 Club Freestyle, 5 Club Freestyle competitions.

The club currently fields sides in the NSW Cup ( Opens ), S. G. Ball Cup ( Under 18's ) and Harold Matthews Cup ( Under 16's ) competitions.

Other former regular competitions hosted included Viaduct ( named by Simon Mayo when asked for a suggestion about what to call the quiz when Moyles stood in for Zoe Ball on the breakfast show ).

The film explores the elaborately-structured Ball competitions in which contestants, adhering to a very specific category or theme, must " walk " ( much like a fashion model's runway ) and subsequently be judged on criteria including the " realness " of their drag, the beauty of their clothing and their dancing ability.