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My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.
Danny Aiello

Meaning of "play ball" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PLAY BALL

play ball play
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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PLAY BALL

play a lone hand
play a part
play along
play box
play by ear
play cat and mouse
play clothes
play down
play fair
play false
play fast and loose
play favourites
play for time
play God
play hardball
play havoc
play hell with
play into the hands of
play merry hell with
play off

WORDS THAT END LIKE PLAY BALL

ball
beach ball
billiard ball
bonus ball
costume ball
crystal ball
cue ball
dead ball
debutante ball
eight ball
golf ball
jump ball
masked ball
medicine ball
on the ball
punching ball
stress ball
Swiss ball
tea ball
tennis ball
wrecking ball

Synonyms and antonyms of play ball in the English dictionary of synonyms

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SYNONYMS OF «PLAY BALL»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «play ball» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of play ball

Translation of «play ball» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PLAY BALL

Find out the translation of play ball to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of play ball from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «play ball» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

玩球
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

jugar a la pelota
570 millions of speakers

English

play ball
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गेंद खेलने
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

لعب الكرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

играть в мяч
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

jogar bola
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বল খেলা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

jouer à la balle
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

bermain bola
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ball spielen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

球技をする
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

놀이 공
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Muter bal
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chơi bóng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விளையாட்டு பந்து
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्ले बॉल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

top oyna
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

giocare a palla
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

grać w piłkę
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

грати в м´яч
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

jocul cu mingea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παίζουν μπάλα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

speel bal
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

spela boll
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

spille ball
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of play ball

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PLAY BALL»

The term «play ball» is quite widely used and occupies the 51.186 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PLAY BALL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «play ball» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «play ball» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about play ball

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10 QUOTES WITH «PLAY BALL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word play ball.
1
Danny Aiello
My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.
2
Richie Allen
I wish they'd shut the gates, and let us play ball with no press and no fans.
3
Joe DiMaggio
I think there are some players born to play ball.
4
Louis Gossett, Jr.
I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school. I wanted to play ball; I'm going after a basketball scholarship and be a doctor. I got injured and my marks began to drop.
5
George Herman
You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.
6
Shoeless Joe Jackson
I ain't afraid to tell the world that it didn't take school stuff to help a fella play ball.
7
Joe Kelley
We never went into a game that we did not feel sure of winning, and when we lost, we blamed it on hard luck or the umpires. We never gave any other team credit for being able to play ball, and the result was that we were hard to beat. If I could get my team to be confident, I think we would work our way to the front pretty quickly.
8
Robert Knepper
What I say about actors is you always want to find an actor you can play ball with. You throw the ball at them and you want them to throw it back. Your ball playing is a lot better when you play with good ballplayers, like any sport. Every actor I know feels the same way.
9
Marshawn Lynch
I don't play ball because I want attention. I do it because it gives me the opportunity to bust somebody's head. And I just love to do it. I love what I do.
10
Larry MacPhail
When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLAY BALL»

Discover the use of play ball in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to play ball and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Play Ball!
Eleven-year-old cousins catcher Liam McGrath and pitcher Carter Jones grew up playing baseball together.
Matt Christopher, 2013
2
Play Ball, Amelia Bedelia
Recolored by the original illustrator, perennial favorite Amelia Bedelia is ready to play ball!
Peggy Parish, 1996
3
The Berenstain Bears Play T-Ball
Play ball!
Jan Berenstain, Stan Berenstain, 2005
4
Play Ball
Dave Green, Roberto Ramirez, and Glen Mitchell, friends and teammates on the Rosemont High School baseball team, get a chance to pursue their dreams of playing professional ball when each is drafted by a professional team.
Mark Freeman, 1989
5
Let's Play Ball
Let's Play Ball dramatizes the struggles of two ambitious sisters against the backdrops of immigration, global conflict, and the nation's pastime.
Linda Gould, 2010
6
Play Ball!
Having failed to get their applications in for the middle school summer baseball league, Robbie and Trent scramble to find a sponsor, a coach, and enough players to form their own team.
Dean Hughes, 1999
7
Play Ball!: The Official Major League Baseball Guide for ...
Photographs and text, including tips from professional players, show how to warm up, select the right equipment, and play baseball.
James Buckley, Mike Eliason, 2002
8
Play Ball, Jackie!
On April 15, 1947, Matt Romano and his father watch the Brooklyn Dodgers season-opener, during which Jackie Robinson, a twenty-eight-year-old rookie, breaks the "color line" that had kept black men out of Major League baseball.
Stephen Krensky, 2011
9
Play Ball: The Life and Troubled Times of Major League Baseball
From the Hardcover edition.
John Feinstein, 2011
10
"Play Ball": Stories from the Diamond Field and Other ...
"Play Ball is a casual, humorous stroll through King Kelly's ball-playing past: the teams he played for, the men he played alongside, his relationships with figures such as Cap Anson and Albert Spalding, his early involvement with John Ward ...
Mike _King_ Kelly, Gary Mitchem, Mark Durr, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PLAY BALL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term play ball is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Detroit Kids On Deck With "Let's Play Ball" With The Detroit Tigers …
DETROIT, July 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — More than seventeen hundred Metro-Detroit youth from The Detroit Youth Commission is ready to ... «Satellite PR News, Jul 15»
2
Dallas Cowboys: Why the Cowboys can finally just "play ball"
The reason that the signing of Dez Bryant was so important is because the Cowboys can finally just play ball and focus on the task at hand. «isportsweb.com, Jul 15»
3
Why the Richmond Flying Squirrels could soon play ball in Henrico
RICHMOND, Va. — The ongoing saga of building a new minor league baseball stadium in Richmond will take a less than contentious step ... «wtvr.com, Jul 15»
4
Play Ball: Wilton man passes on his love of baseball to Bhutan's youth
A love of baseball has taken 30-year-old Matt DeSantis to a place about as far as one can go from his native Wilton, a place literally on the ... «Thehour.com, Jul 15»
5
Wounded Warriors play ball with NFL champ
Marines with the Wounded Warrior Battalion West-Detachment Hawaii pose for a photo with Michael Hoomanawanui, a Super Bowl champion ... «DVIDS, Jul 15»
6
Cancer survivor excited to play baseball for Children's Hospital at …
Baseball. WEARE, N.H. —WMUR will partner with the New Hampshire Fisher Cats for the 5th annual Play Ball for CHAD game. Related. «WMUR Manchester, Jul 15»
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Play Ball! And Do It Faster!
Play Ball! And Do It Faster! The 2015 season has been a petri dish for testing out baseball's pace of play initiatives, particularly in the minors. «Grantland, Jul 15»
8
The Daily Hilario: Play ball
WaFFLe: So, time to start thinking about this and gauging interest. We have a pretty solid core of 10-12 players returning from our inaugural ... «We Ain't Got No History, Jul 15»
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Play Ball: Equifax Night Coming to Busch Stadium
Play Ball: Equifax Night Coming to Busch Stadium. PRNewswire {{following ? "Following" : "Follow"}}. July 23, 2015 11:00am Comments. Share: ... «Benzinga, Jul 15»
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Play ball: US, Dominican teams square off
They were tired, perhaps a little hungry, but neither did much to dampen the enthusiasm of 13 Little Leaguers representing the Halcones de ... «Wicked Local Tewksbury, Jul 15»

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