He's hitting the ball hard, in the batting cage, and his whole attitude is improved over this time last year.

I was the first to get my squad on the ball, and anybody thinkin it was easy is pretty damn dumb.

Spahn not only is a superior pitcher but a gentlemanly fine fellow, a ball player's ball player, as they say in the trade.

One example is the Banach – Tarski paradox which says that it is possible to decompose (" carve up ") the 3-dimensional solid unit ball into finitely many pieces and, using only rotations and translations, reassemble the pieces into two solid balls each with the same volume as the original.

For example, the Banach – Tarski paradox is neither provable nor disprovable from ZF alone: it is impossible to construct the required decomposition of the unit ball in ZF, but also impossible to prove there is no such decomposition.

A common anemometer for basic use is constructed from a ping-pong ball attached to a string.

Alexandria is home to what is lauded by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's largest ball of paint.

The term ' ballroom dancing ' is derived from the word ball, which in turn originates from the Latin word ballare which means ' to dance ' ( a ballroom being a large room specially designed for such dances ).

Off-loom beadweaving is a family of beadwork techniques in which seed beads are woven together into a flat fabric or a three-dimensional object such as a ball, clasp, box, or a piece of jewelry.

* SB — Stolen base: number of bases advanced by the runner while the ball is in the possession of the defense.

* A — Assists: number of outs recorded on a play where a fielder touched the ball, except if such touching is the putout

* PB — Passed ball: charged to the catcher when the ball is dropped and one or more runners advance

" Number of times batted, except that no time at bat shall be charged when a player: ( 1 ) hits a sacrifice bunt or sacrifice fly ; ( 2 ) is awarded first base on four called balls ; ( 3 ) is hit by a pitched ball ; or ( 4 ) is awarded first base because of interference or obstruction ..."

In baseball, an earned run is any run for which the pitcher is held accountable ( i. e., the run scored as a result of normal pitching, and not due to a fielding error or a passed ball ).

In the first two cases above, " on an error " includes situations where the batter makes a clean hit ( or walks, is hit by pitch, reaches base on a fielder's choice in which no out is made, or reaches base on a wild pitch on a called or swinging third strike ), but should have been out earlier in his at bat on a foul fly ball which was dropped by a fielder for an error.

The ball is suddenly interrupted by Grigori Rasputin ( Christopher Lloyd ), a sorcerer who was banished by the Tsar for treason.

His school playing career was interrupted for two years after he was seriously injured by a ball that hit him in the groin.

Whilst at the non-striker's end, Hilditch interrupted a throw from mid-on and passed the ball to the bowler Sarfraz Nawaz, who appealed.

The ball is interrupted by an announcement that Napoleon has attacked, and the officers are given three hours to report to their units.

The costume ball that evening is interrupted by the arrival of Clint and Cupidon, who were seriously wounded during a pitched battle with Soule's men.

;* Upon which the Lords and Commons declared ... Here the Court being conscious that their cobweb-coverings were not sufficient to keep out the light of those truths he was going to produce, contrary to the liberty they had promised, interrupted him, under color that what he was about to say, tended not only to justify the action for which he was accused, but to cast a ball of division among those who were present.

I know that I myself felt that it was a mortal shame for a man to be torn open by a British musket ball, as Isaac had been, yet I also felt relieved and lucky that it had been him and not myself.

Other hitters bloomed with more or less vigor in the news and a few even dared to dream of matching Ruth, who was still called Jidge by all his friends, or Leo or Two-Head by those who dared to taunt him ( Leo was the name of the ball player he liked the least ) and who called most of the world `` Kid ''.

The greatest team of this period was unquestionably the New York Yankees, bought by brewery millions and made into a ball club by men named Ed Barrow and Miller Huggins.

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.

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

So he picked up a stroke with the provisional ball and won the tournament by the margin of that stroke.

Given a small ball or marbles, he would invent games and play by himself for hours.

Still captained by Bradman and now featuring the potent new ball partnership of Ray Lindwall and Keith Miller, Australia were convincing 3 – 0 winners.

However, Bradman made a second ball duck, bowled by a Eric Hollies googly that sent him into retirement with a career average of 99. 94.

While there are numerous variations, stockless anchors consist of a set of heavy flukes connected by a pivot or ball and socket joint to a shank.

In February 1994, watchdog group Morality in Media claimed that the death of 8-month-old Natalia Rivera, struck by a bowling ball thrown from an overpass onto a Jersey City, New Jersey highway near the Holland Tunnel by 18-year-old Calvin J.

The group said that Settle was influenced by the episode titled " Ball Breakers ," in which Beavis and Butt-Head loaded a bowling ball with explosives and dropped it from a rooftop.

* GO / AO — Ground ball fly ball ratio: number of ground ball outs divided by number of fly ball outs

* H — Hits: times reached base because of a batted, fair ball without error by the defense

* G / F — Ground ball fly ball ratio: ground balls allowed divided by fly balls allowed

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General technocentric enthusiasm even led some designers to take the " work kitchen " approach even further, culminating in futuristic designs like Luigi Colani's " kitchen satellite " ( 1969, commissioned by the German high-end kitchen manufacturer Poggenpohl for an exhibit ), in which the room was reduced to a ball with a chair in the middle and all appliances at arm's length, an optimal arrangement maybe for " applying heat to food ", but not necessarily for actual cooking.

To make matters worse, during the battle, Napoleon's close friend and Grand Marshal of the Palace, General Geraud Duroc, was mortally wounded by a cannon ball and died hours after the battle.

General Kamanin's diary later gave the landing location of the Voskhod 2, ( ball ), as: " 54 deg 12 min North, 45 deg 10 min East.

At the time of invention, both Hugh and Stanley Rockwell ( not direct relations ) worked for the New Departure Manufacturing Co. of Bristol, CT. New Departure was a major ball bearing manufacturer that, in 1916, became part of United Motors and, shortly thereafter, General Motors Corp.

" MRS. GENERAL TAYLOR AND DAUGHTER .-— At a late ball, at East Pascagoula, General Taylor, his lady and daughter and Major Bliss, were present.

To regain the confidence of his troops, the General used a large kite to carry a fire ball into the sky.

The leader of the Austrian cavalry General Römer received a fatal head shot from a Prussian musket ball and with both leaders of the wings dead, an officer asked Schwerin where they should retreat to.

In July, 1779, being in garrison at the post of Stoneypoint, on the Hudson river, the place was stormed at midnight by a strong force of the Americans under General Wayne, and after a sharp and close conflict of more than an hour, during which the young ensign was wounded in the shoulder by a musket ball, he found himself a prisoner of war.

On 1 August 1895, the Schweinfurter Präzisions-Kugellagerwerke Fichtel & Sachs General Partnership ( oHG ) was founded in Schweinfurt by inventors Ernst Sachs ( 1867-1932 ) and Karl Fichtel, to produce ball bearings and bicycle hubs.

On the following day a cannon ball, probably fired from Captain Hiram Bledsoe ’ s State Guard Battery, struck the courthouse only about one hundred yards from General Price ’ s headquarters.

He directed the construction of new defences for the city, and along with John André, he was one of the planners of the lavish ball, the Mischianza, given in Philadelphia in honor of General Howe.

When Boris leaves to pursue a career in the staff of General Mikhail Kutuzov, their friendship evaporates, and at her first ball, Pierre introduces her to Prince Andrei Bolkonsky.

The Common became home to the Public Gardens, Camp Hill Cemetery and Camp Hill Hospital, Saint Mary's University, Dalhousie University, the Civic, Victoria General, IWK and Grace hospitals, Citadel High School, Gorsebrook Junior, and Inglis Street schools, as well as other parks, play sets, ball diamonds and fountains.

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