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.

Slug the kid, grab his dough -- at least enough to get to Philadelphia -- and then have a rockin' ball with the doll.

Player then had the choice of punching the ball safely out of the woods to the 9th fairway and settling for a bogey 5, or gambling.

The pitcher then pitches the ball to that side several feet outside from home plate, usually outside the reach of the batter.

It is a violation to move without dribbling the ball ( travelling ), to carry it, or to hold the ball with both hands then resume dribbling ( double dribble ).

* Corollary If X is a Banach space, then X is reflexive if and only if X ′ is reflexive, which is the case if and only if its unit ball is compact in the weak topology.

From then on, the side which does not have the ball closest to the jack has a chance to bowl, up until one side or the other has used their four balls.

The aim is to carry the ball from the " Salting Pool " via the old A30, along Callywith Road, then through Castle Street, Church Square and Honey Street to finish at the Turret Clock in Fore Street.

The winner of the game is the team who completes the set circuit of six hoops ( and then back again the other way ), with both balls, and then strikes the centre peg ( making a total of 13 points per ball = 26 ).

* Hand / Foot Shot: The player may place his ball next to the ball he hit, place his hand or foot on top of his ball, then strike his own ball such that his opponent ball moves while his own ball remains in place.

) When the striker ’ s ball hits a ball that he is entitled to then take a croquet shot with.

* Triple peel ( TP ): To send a ball other than the striker ’ s ball through its last three hoops, and then peg it out.

For a distance penalty, if the yardage is greater than half the distance to the goal line, then the ball is advanced half the distance to the goal line, though only up to the one-yard line ( unlike American football, in Canadian football no scrimmage may start inside either one-yard line ).

The ball is then turned over to the receiving team ( who gained the two points ), by way of a kickoff from the 25 yard line or scrimmaging from the line on their side of the field.

The other team then scrimmages the ball at the same 35-yard line and has the same opportunity to score.

This is followed by a layer of wadding ( often nothing more than paper ), and then the cannon ball itself.

To fire the cannon, the fuse located in the vent is lit, quickly burning down to the gunpowder, which then explodes violently, propelling wadding and ball down the bore and out of the muzzle.

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.