However, the clouds rolled over and those wine-dark Dukes – England seem to have procured a box of balls that delivered the Duke Ellington philosophy "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got swing" – were at their most mischievous in Anderson's delicate fingers.
At first, Sprague envisioned his product attached to, say, a box of Titleists as a value-added extra that might attract customers deciding which box of balls to take off the shelf.
Damian Hamblin, a senior, said, "Mostly I deal with public relations," as he worked after school in a windowless second-floor workshop strewn with wires, planks, boxes of ball bearings and electrical doodads of all sorts.
People often reveal their true natures in death: a spiteful will, a secret family, a box full of ball gags.
There were boxes of balls he had also signed, stacked like crates of oranges.
"They'd bring boxes of balls and stuff like that over to Ted, and he'd say, 'Give it to Willard, Don Fitzpatrickick, the Red Sox clubhouse man in the 1950's, remembered.
Snarfed a whole box of Lindt balls while no one was looking?
His only fee for informal summer classes for younger writers was a box of golf balls, Mr. Post said.
Amazon doesn't care that it doesn't make a "profit" on the sale of a box of Uni-Ball pens that it ships for free.
To play for a day, if you're not speed balling and not using an automatic marker, about $35 will get you a box of 2000 balls, and will last you a while.
