But this was enough for these high-strung athletes, to whom the cry "play ball" was like a bugle call.
One of those pitchers used to play ball on a professional team from Los Angeles," said McRae, who was standing near.
What a slugger he'd make if he knew how to play ball.
I'm not going to lie down and be walked on, nine or no nine, and I'm going to find some way to play ball, at that!
He can put me on probation for I won't tell, but it doesn't matter, for I don't play ball.
We came here to play ball, and the first crack out of the box that fellow goes and tells us we can't.
But he could play ball; there was no doubt about that; and it was to that fact that he owed his election to the captaincy.
Once more came the thrilling cry of the umpire: "Play ball!
Oh, I know how to play ball," retorted the pitcher.
He was a very good basketball player too, but he loved to play ball.
These were adjusted satisfactorily, and once more the inspiring cry rang out: "Play ball!
Oh, Cornell may row us but she can't play ball us," declared Jimmie Lee.
Play ball," called the umpire again, and the first of the Yale batsmen took his place.
Well, they may sing, but they can't play ball," said Spike.
You see, Jimmie had gone off with the boys in the lots back of the duck pond to play ball, and Alice had gone shopping with her mamma.
I'm afraid I won't be able to play ball to-day after all, boys.
Come on, let's play ball," called Jimmie to Johnnie and Billie.
There was laughter, and cheers, the band blared out, and then the umpire called: "Play ball!
The bleachers and grandstand were well filled when the umpire gave his echoing cry of: "Play ball!
With the thermometer of his spirits registering zero, the dismayed youth, whose punishment was surely fitting the crime, heard the Umpire bellow: "Play ball!
What an incontestably preposterous thing for you to say that you are not going to play ball.
Many silly fellows have taken it as a personal affront that you refuse to play ball.
Had he not full permission to play ball, or do anything else he chose!
When you come out on this field, you come out to play ball.
There was another gathering under the maple tree; and out in deep center a third group lounged on the grass and waited for the call of "Play ball!
Visiting teams no longer worried him--not before the umpire's cry of "Play ball!
With a Lakeville High banner streaming in the wind, she shrieked at the top of her voice: "Play ball!
You can't blame me because Rodman can't play ball.
More fans stamped their feet and yelled, "Play ball!
It's Miss Allie Todd," explained Reg Barker, "and her ladyship is offering to show us how to play ball.
I wanted to learn how to play ball, and knowing Reg Barker, asked him to teach me; that's all.
As for learning to play ball, the mere fact that you want to shows that you are made of good stuff, and I don't mind giving you a lesson right now.
All the boys, big and little, had disappeared immediately after luncheon, to play ball in more distant fields.
She would have gone with them to play ball, but Rosemary held her back.
Who's a trustee, that he should tell gentlemen where they are to play ball!
If he wants people to play ball on his premises, let him cut down his roses.
But finally the other players didn’t like Bawly to do that, for the beans came down all around them, and tickled them so that they had to laugh, and they couldn’t play ball.
So Bully went to play ball, with the puppy dogs, and Bawly went hunting, after his mamma had said that he might, and had told him to be careful.
He wanted to go play ball, and have a lot of fun with his friends, and he was thinking what a queer world this is, where you can be happy and singing a song, and eating a sugar cookie one minute, and the next minute be caught by a wolf.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "play ball" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
