Sentence examples for build a ball from inspiring English sources
He is the target for critics who want to discredit using statistics to build a ball club; pundits crowed that Oakland's absence from the postseason from 2007 to 2011 meant his strategy was a failure.
Ochs hired a sign designer to build a ball of iron, wood and 100 light bulbs, which a crew lowered from the flagpole of One Times Square on New Year's Eve 1907.
In 2008, the Chinese built a ball field — boy, what a ball field — known worldwide for its lattice-like architecture as the Bird's Nest.
And, as if to close the loop on Americana, baseball makes a token appearance with a copy of "Farm Team," a novel about a boy who builds a ball field in a cow pasture.
So at seemingly ruinous cost, he razes the cornfield and builds a ball field, and is rewarded with an endless stream of ticket buyers stretching to the rural Iowa horizon.
In 1983, Leichman cleared a corn field with other kibbutz residents and backed by American donations, built a ball field within six weeks.
This can make the situation a lot worse as you either feed off one another and build a great ball of negativity together, or you frighten those around you with your vehemence and anger.
Mr. Schulman, who was general manager of the State Council of Parks for New York City at the time and was eager to promote more green spaces in the city, floated the idea of using state financing to build a park with ball fields and a skating rink.
Scientists met last week to discuss how to build a better crystal ball to gauge the effects of rising CO2 emissions on ocean acidity.
Later, he built a disco ball a yard wide, sticking each mirrored panel on by hand.
