Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

Dr. Lalaurie and I didn't even know he was in the house until the night of our ball when he came down the stairs ''.

He sits there remembering the tense moment before the ball was snapped ; ;

But he soon saw which way the ball was bouncing.

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

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.

Under the trees, there was a dead redcoat, a young boy with a pasty white skin and a face full of pimples, who had taken a rifle ball directly between the eyes.

Or was it her own first ball as mistress of this big house, a Van Rensselaer bride from way upstate near Albany, from Rensselaerwyck.

There was a significantly greater number in this group who reported a desk as being in a tilted position while a tennis ball resting on it remained stationary on the incline.

To solve the problem of the wheat grains spilling on the floor and getting underfoot, a ball of maple syrup boiled to candy consistency was invented to hold the grains.

Every pitch in the game brought forth a howl from the enraptured audience and every fly ball the visitors dropped ( and because their right fielder was still a little fuzzy from drink, they dropped many ) called forth yelps of derision.

At one point in the game when the skinny old man in suspenders who was acting as umpire got in the way of a thrown ball and took it painfully in the kidneys, he lay there unattended while players and spectators wrangled over whether the ball was `` dead '' or the base runners were free to score.

Babe Ruth, of course, was everyone's hero, and everyone knew him, even though relatively few ever saw him play ball.

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 ''.

Ruth was a delinquent boy still, but he was in every way a great ball player who was out to win the game and occasionally risked a cracked bone to do it.

) The sorry fact about this young man, who was barely of age when he broke into major-league baseball, was that he really was a better ball player than he was given credit for being -- never so good as he claimed, and always an irritant to his associates, but a good steady performer when he could fight down the temptation to orate on his skills or cut up in public.

It is used in ball games, where the play of the game follows the state of the ball as it is hit, kicked or thrown by players.

If a kicked ball goes out of bounds, or the kicking team scores a single or field goal as a result of the kick, the other team likewise gets possession.

; Field goal: Scored by a drop kick or place kick ( except on a kickoff ) when the ball, after being kicked and without again touching the ground, goes over the cross bar and between the goal posts ( or between lines extended from the top of the goal posts ) of the opponent's goal, worth three points.

; Single: Scored when the ball becomes dead in the possession of a team in its own goal area, or when the ball touches or crosses the dead-line, or side-line-in-goal, and touches the ground, a player, or some object beyond these lines as a result of the ball having been kicked from the field of play into the goal area by the scoring team.

* the ball was kicked off,

Drop kicks are mandatory from the centre spot to start a half ( a kick-off ), from the centre spot to restart the game after points have been scored, to restart play from the 22-metre line ( called a drop-out ) after the ball is touched down or made dead in the in-goal area by the defending team when the attacking team kicked or took the ball into the in-goal area, and to score a drop goal ( sometimes called a field goal ) in open play, which is worth three points.

During one game in the 1980s, Hamilton Tiger-Cats wide receiver Earl Winfield was unable to field a punt properly ; in frustration, he kicked the ball out of bounds.

The rules do not allow the person who kicked the ball to gain advantage from the kick, so the ball will automatically be passed on to the opposing team.

For example, a pronoun may play the role of subject (" I kicked the ball "), of object (" John kicked me "), or of possessor (" That ball is mine ").

Languages such as Ancient Greek, Latin, and Sanskrit had ways of altering or inflecting nouns to mark roles which are not specially marked in English, such as the ablative case (" John kicked the ball away from the house ") and the instrumental case (" John kicked the ball with his foot ").

He batted and kicked the ball into the end zone, where he fell on it for the game-tying touchdown as time ran out.

" I was trying to kill the ball, and I kicked it bad ," he said.

They ultimately changed the lyrics from " The ball is kicked " to " The ball is tipped ", and the song is now played at the end of the network's NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship coverage.

His hands snatched at an imaginary bucket, swooping down hard to grab it and coming away with equal snap like a ball that's been bounced hard.

`` That permitted us to start controlling the ball right away '', said Stram, quipping, `` I think I'll put that play in the book ''.

A subset of the base on balls, an intentional base on balls ( IBB ) or intentional walk is when the pitcher deliberately pitches the ball away from the batter in order to issue a base on balls.

This is generally used to knock either the jack or another ball away to attain a more favorable position.

A Chicago Cubs fan by the name of Steve Bartman, of Northbrook, IL, reached for the ball and deflected it away from the glove of Moisés Alou for the second out of the 8th inning.

Under NFL and NCAA rules, once the quarterback moves out of the pocket, and there is no good option for a forward pass, the ball may be legally thrown away to prevent a sack.

If he throws the ball away while still in the pocket then a foul called " intentional grounding " is assessed.

A play from scrimmage is the activity of the games of Canadian football and American football during which one team tries to advance the ball, get a first down, or to score, and the other team tries to stop them or take the ball away.

Another way is through a change of possession play, when the offensive team, having surmised the unlikelihood of scoring or achieving a first down within four attempts, kicks the ball away in what is known as a punt.

Once the booster falls away, the warhead continues on an unpowered ballistic trajectory, much like an artillery shell or cannon ball.

In the Test matches, Bradman countered bodyline by moving toward the leg side, away from the line of the ball, and cutting it into the vacant off side field.

When the ball bounces, the spin causes the ball to deviate sharply from right to left, that is, away from the leg side of a right-handed batsman.

Left arm orthodox spin bowlers generally attempt to drift the ball in the air into a right-handed batsman, and then turn it away from the batsman ( towards off-stump ) upon landing on the pitch.

The ball turns away from the batsman, as if the bowler were an orthodox left-arm spinner.

Since taking over the franchise, Attanasio has worked hard to build bridges with Milwaukee baseball fans, including giving away every seat to the final home game of 2005 free of charge and bringing back the classic " ball and glove " logo of the club's glory days on " Retro Friday " home games, during which they also wear versions of the team's old pinstriped uniforms.

As the firing velocity is increased, the cannonball hits the ground farther ( B ) away from the cannon, because while the ball is still falling towards the ground, the ground is increasingly curving away from it ( see first point, above ).

If the cannonball is fired with sufficient velocity, the ground curves away from the ball at least as much as the ball falls — so the ball never strikes the ground.

Off spin is a type of bowling in the sport of cricket which is bowled by an off spinner, a right-handed spin bowler who uses his or her fingers and / or wrist to spin the ball from a right-handed batsman's off side to the leg side ( that is, towards the right-handed batsman, or away from a left-handed batsman ).