Its components include a chess-piece-like female figure; a hanging, not quite human spine; a soaring, skeletal bird-thing; a ball nested in a spoonlike shell; and a bit of glass ceiling.
A piece of bronze can be made into a lot of different things: a ball, a sword, etc.
"Every organization has its own way of doing things, from A-ball on up, and these guys get used to waiting for some sign from the manager to tell them what to do," Mr. Lyle said.
She did very few things in a ball gown".
"Most of my friends and neighbors just don't seem to see as I do," he continued, "even looking at simple things like a ball of string.
Dudes with xisteras (curved bat things) swing a ball at crazy speeds against a wall, (usually) barely avoiding injury.
Baseball is a business - it is the business of entertaining millions of fans by having incredibly gifted and talented young (and increasingly not so young) men do fabulous things with a ball, a glove, and bat.
This is the land that birthed people like Pele and Garincha and Socrates and Ronaldo, who did things to a ball physicists and physiotherapist struggle to explain and who always seemed to perform their timeless magic, dancing between defenders and pylons, to "Mais Que Nada" on the soundtrack.
You feel... it's a good thing, a physical thing, like hitting a ball.
"It's not an everyday thing to be a ball person," McIntosh said.
It was one thing to design a ball to withstand the serve and volley of wooden rackets.
