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 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.

The new Riverside pitcher turned out to have an overhand fast ball that took a hop.

It turned out to be extremely dangerous, and most Australian players sustained injuries from being hit by the ball.

Colorado built a 5 – 2 lead and turned the ball to Street.

Harvard University turned down an invitation to join this group because they preferred to play a rougher version of football called " the Boston Game " in which the kicking of a round ball was the most prominent feature though a player could run with the ball, pass it, or dribble it ( known as “ babying ”).

Hurst turned to shoot and the ball deflected high into the air, looping down on to the right boot of Peters, who smashed it home.

However, he always believed the ball was in the net because of Hunt's reaction – the Liverpool striker was following in as the ball hit the bar and turned to celebrate a goal instead of trying to knock the rebound into the net.

When Guericke held his hand against the ball and turned the shaft quickly, a static electric charge built up.

Ironically, Bradman was bowled shortly thereafter at a memorial match by Grimmett, who produced a perfectly pitched stock ball that turned just enough to remove Bradman's off bail.

On the second play of their ensuing possession, the Patriots turned the ball over again, when receiver Cedric Jones lost a fumble after catching a 19-yard pass from Grogan, and Marshall returned the fumble 13 yards to New England's 37-yard line.

After both teams turned the ball over on downs, Minnesota drove 86 yards in 9 plays to score on a 14-yard touchdown pass from backup quarterback Bob Lee to tight end Stu Voigt.

Super Bowl XII did not start out well for the Cowboys, as they nearly turned over the ball three times on their first two possessions.

After a 33-yard kickoff return by Andre Coleman, the Chargers advanced to the San Francisco 33-yard line, but they turned the ball over on downs when Humphries ' fourth down pass was broken up by Davis.

On their next drive, the Steelers had second down and 2 on their own 47-yard line, but turned the ball over on downs after running back Bam Morris was tackled for no gain on 3 consecutive running plays: a draw play to the left, a run to the left, and one to the middle.

The Steelers responded by driving to the Dallas 40-yard line, but after O ' Donnell threw 4 consecutive incompletions, Pittsburgh turned the ball over on downs with 1: 42 left in the game.

Numerous dolls arrived at the Hofburg as soon as Marie Antoinette turned 13, wearing miniature versions of the ball dresses, afternoon dresses, and gold-trimmed gowns proposed for her.

Holding off two markers, he twisted and turned before feeding the ball to Freddie Ljungberg in the penalty box to score.

The concave ( inner ) surface of the lens is then polished with some fine abrasive paste, oil, and a small polyester cotton ball turned at high speeds.

Gustav III of Sweden was assassinated at a masquerade ball by disgruntled nobleman Jacob Johan Anckarström, an event which Eugène Scribe and Daniel Auber turned into the opera Gustave III.

The ball is turned over to the defensive team.

The ball is then turned right side out by pushing the panels through the lacing hole.

In a late-season game against the Green Bay Packers, defensive lineman Charles Martin grabbed McMahon from behind and body-slammed him to the ground ( after McMahon had passed the ball for an interception and officials had turned their attention downfield ).

1931 had two cylindrical turrets mounted on ball bearings ; each turret turned independently through 240 °.