"One time somebody just whacked it real hard, and I had that ball (imprinted) on my leg for three days," says Kathy Stuckenschneider.
He zeroed in on Adventures in Advertising, a company in Neenah, Wis., that makes promotional items like pens, coffee mugs and golf balls imprinted with company logos.
The move comes a month after the inquiry chairman, Judge John Gomery, rejected their request to step down for the comments, made in media interviews, including one in which he described Mr. Chrétien's distribution of golf balls imprinted with his initials as "small-town cheap".
Once again Onions had six balls to imprint himself in the history of English cricket rearguards.
In an era of instant replays and computer-generated assurances, there is an old-world charm to ball marks, little imprints of evidence left behind in the fraction of a moment that a ball touches the brick dust of a French Open tennis court.
Konrad Lorenz was the first who proposed the "imprinting" name for the phenomenon of behavior of neonatal birds, as a reaction to the first object with whom they meet after birth, independent on being their mother or a spotted ball, and this imprinting has a life-long effect (Lorenz 1957).
My ball -- bearing the imprint of Bobby Brown, then the American League's president -- was signed by Bob Milacki (six innings), Mike Flanagan (one inning), Mark Williamson (one inning) and Gregg Olson (one inning) and remains in a manila envelope and tucked away in my desk drawer.
"As the ball leaves a clear imprint on the clay, there isn't any need for Hawk-Eye and the charm of bringing the chair umpire all the way down from his perch is also, happily for us, retained," writes Suhrith Parthasarathy, whose explanation stacks up, but fails to account for those occasions when players and umpires disagree over which ball-mark is the one they're looking for.
Using the back of a fork, gently flatten each ball, leaving a light fork imprint.
But he said he never had a headache after Blanco's hit, never saw stars, and escaped with only a small bump — and maybe, he added, an imprint of the ball's seams.
