The Eastern League has played at the AA ( Double-A ) level since 1963.

Over his career, Stairs has played for six other minor league teams: The Indianapolis Indians ( Triple-A ) in 1992, the Ottawa Lynx ( Triple-A ) in 1993, the New Britain Red Sox ( Double-A ) in 1994, the Pawtucket Red Sox ( Triple-A ) in 1995, the Edmonton Trappers ( Triple-A ) in 1996 and a few rehab games for the Nashville Sounds ( Triple-A ) in 2003.

Originally, Michael Jordan, who played with the White Sox's Double-A Birmingham Barons in 1994, was signed to play the 1995 season as a non-drafted free agent for the Sounds.

He made his professional debut in the Arizona Fall League in 1999 and then played briefly with the A's Double-A team, the Midland Rockhounds.

Two teams named the Suns have played in Jacksonville since 1962: a class Triple-A International League team from 1962 – 1968, and the current Double-A team from 1970 to the present.

The modern Suns club has played in the Southern League longer than any other, and its 41-year association with its city is the longest in Double-A baseball.

The Suns have played in the Southern League longer than any other team, and their 41-year period in Jacksonville has become the longest consecutive association between any city and a class Double-A team.

In 2000 and 2001, he played for both Clearwater and the Double-A Reading Phillies.

He played in 2006 with the Double-A Chattanooga Lookouts, and 2007 with Triple-A Louisville.

During this time, he played with the Class A ( Short Season ) Brooklyn Cyclones, Double-A Binghamton Mets, and Triple-A New Orleans Zephyrs.

In 2010, he was signed to a minor league contract with the Milwaukee Brewers and played for their Double-A Huntsville Stars.

On January 10, 2007, Torrealba signed with the Detroit Tigers and played for their Double-A affiliate in Erie.

In 1989, the team moved to Canton, Ohio, becoming the Cleveland Indians ' Double-A affiliate, and played eight seasons at Thurman Munson Memorial Stadium as the Canton-Akron Indians, one of many entities ( another example is the Akron-Canton Regional Airport ) to use the names of both cities.

The team, which played in the Texas League, was the Double-A affiliate of the Kansas City Royals major-league club from 1995 to 2007, and of the San Diego Padres from 1987 to 1994.

Salazar joined the Orioles system in 2007, when he played for the Bowie Baysox of the Double-A Eastern League.

Whitaker first played with shortstop Alan Trammell while with the old Double-A Montgomery Rebels.

Upon graduation from Harvard, Lupien signed a professional baseball contract with the Red Sox and played the 1939 season for the Double-A Scranton Red Sox Eastern League championship team.

López played three different infield positions ( second base, shortstop and third base ) in 132 games with the Double-A San Antonio Missions in 2003.

He played in both the Double-A and Southern League All-Star Games and was recognized as MVP of the Southern League All-Star Game.

In 1998, when playing for the Double-A Arkansas Travelers he led the league with 86 walks and 139 games played.

During the 2005 season, he was signed by the Baltimore Orioles and played with their Double-A affiliate, the Bowie Baysox.

Cintrón played in 125 games for the Double-A El Paso Diablos and hit. 301 with 30 doubles, six triples, four home runs and 59 RBIs in 2000.

He then played with the Hornell Dodgers of the Class-D PONY League in 1950, the Elmira Pioneers of the Single-A Eastern League in 1951, the Mobile Bears of the Double-A Southern League in 1952, and the St. Paul Saints of the Triple-A American Association in 1953 and 1954. Zimmer nearly died after being hit with a pitch in the temple while with St. Paul in.

During 2002, Lee played for Double-A Harrisburg, and compiled a 7 – 2 record with a 3. 23 ERA in Eastern League play by mid-summer.

Babe Ruth, as he always did in the Stadium, played right field to avoid having the sun in his eyes, and Tommy Thevenow, a rather mediocre hitter who played shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals, knocked a ball with all his might into the sharp angle formed by the permanent stands and the wooden bleachers, where Ruth could not reach it.

A 2005 vintage base ball game, played by 1886 rules.

Another early reference reports that " base ball " was regularly played on Saturdays in 1823 on the outskirts of New York City in an area that today is Greenwich Village.

Before the Civil War, baseball competed for public interest with cricket and regional variants of baseball, notably town ball played in Philadelphia and the Massachusetts Game played in New England.

Basketball was originally played with a soccer ball.

The first known use of the word ball in English in the sense of a globular body that is played with was in 1205 in in the phrase, "" The word came from the Middle English bal ( inflected as ball-e ,-es, in turn from Old Norse böllr ( pronounced ; compare Old Swedish baller, and Swedish boll ) from Proto-Germanic ballu-z, ( whence probably Middle High German bal, ball-es, Middle Dutch bal ), a cognate with Old High German ballo, pallo, Middle High German balle from Proto-Germanic * ballon ( weak masculine ), and Old High German ballâ, pallâ, Middle High German balle, Proto-Germanic * ballôn ( weak feminine ).

Several components that eventually played a key role in the development of the automobile were invented for the bicycle, including ball bearings, pneumatic tires, chain-driven sprockets, and tension-spoked wheels.

Bocce ( sometimes anglicized as bocci or boccie ) is a ball sport belonging to the boules sport family, closely related to bowls and pétanque with a common ancestry from ancient games played in the Roman Empire.

Bandy is a team winter sport played on ice, in which skaters use sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal.

Bandy is played on ice, using a single round ball.

The first explanation is that the ancestral game was introduced to Britain from France during the reign of Charles II of England, and was played under the name of paille-maille or pall mall, derived ultimately from Latin words for " ball and mallet ".

In his 1810 book entitled The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Joseph Strutt describes the way pall mall was played in England in the early 17th century: " Pale-maille is a game wherein a round box ball is struck with a mallet through a high arch of iron, which he that can do at the fewest blows, or at the number agreed upon, wins.

Two of the most notable differences are that the balls are always played in the same sequence ( blue, red, black, yellow ) throughout the game, and that a ball's " deadness " on other balls is carried over from turn to turn until the ball has been " cleared " by scoring its next hoop.

* Ball in play: A ball after it has been played into the game, which is not a ball in hand or pegged out.

In the late 1970s, Kerry Packer established the rival World Series Cricket ( WSC ) competition, and it introduced many of the features of One Day International cricket that are now commonplace, including coloured uniforms, matches played at night under floodlights with a white ball and dark sight screens, and, for television broadcasts, multiple camera angles, effects microphones to capture sounds from the players on the pitch, and on-screen graphics.

In 1879 Essendon played Melbourne in one of the earliest night matches recorded when the ball was painted white.

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

One of the attractions of association football is that a casual game can be played with only minimal equipment – a basic game can be played on almost any open area of reasonable size with just a ball and items to mark the positions of two sets of goalposts.

When the ball is played on the right side of the field, the defensive players on the right side move upfield.

For the purposes of the rules, all players on the team in possession of the ball are attackers, and those on the team without the ball are defenders, yet throughout the game being played you are always " attacking " your goal and " defending " the opposite goal .< ref > Anders, ELizabeth.