His ingenuity can adapt sticks and stones to a variety of uses, but the street makes a sorry substitute for a ball-field, and while the girl may content herself with the sidewalk and door-steps, the boy soon looks abroad for a more satisfying occupation. ❋ Henry Kalloch Rowe (N/A)
English, or that one who is careful about his manners and pronunciation in school will display the slightest heed to them among his companions on the ball-field. ❋ Irwin Edman (N/A)
One of them was to be injured on the ball-field in his last term, and to die at home a month later. ❋ Henry B. Fuller (N/A)
Not what others have done, but perfection, is the only true aim, whether it be in the ball-field or in the graver tasks of life. ❋ W. F. Markwick (N/A)
Tennis-courts and ball-field were alive with active figures. ❋ Albert Walter Tolman (N/A)
This should be capable of formation into a ball-field. ❋ John Wood Campbell (1940)
It was a wonderful playground, bordering on the river and having swings and sand boxes for the children; seats for tired mothers; and a large ball-field with bleachers for the men and boys. ❋ Sara Ware Bassett (1920)
Accordingly in the schoolroom our hero passed as Burton and on the ball-field as Chris, and since his existence alternated 'twixt these two worlds, he was Christopher Mark Antony Burton only at breakfast and at bed-time -- intervals so brief that they were endured with cheerfulness and complacency. ❋ Sara Ware Bassett (1920)
Boats were beginning to thicken on the Lake and the clang of incessantly arriving trolleys announced the return of the crowds from the ball-field. ❋ Unknown (1917)
At the other side of green lawns on which were a running-track, swings, trapezes, parallel bars, and a ball-field, were woods. ❋ Gouverneur Morris (1914)
There aren't many who ever hit 'em any further or oftener than Chiz on the old Annapolis ball-field. ❋ Unknown (1912)
Through the open window came sounds from the grid-irons and ball-field; shouts, the honking of Manager Black's horn, the cries of the coaches and players, the crack of bat and ball where the Nine was holding Fall practice; even, now and then, the voices of the tennis players far down the field. ❋ Ralph Henry Barbour (1907)
At Chautauqua there were no racks, even in the place's historical museum; and no sweat, except possibly the gentle moisture on the brow of some lecturer, or on the sides of some player in the ball-field. ❋ William James (1876)
You have every sort of athletic exercise from sailing, rowing, swimming, bicycling, to the ball-field and the more artificial doings which the gymnasium affords. ❋ William James (1876)
Upon seeing this pristine ball-field, Drayton had to fight back the urge to prop up the Chick Fil A Cows on its nonexistent foul poles. ❋ Unknown (2010)
It slammed into a metal bench cemented into the ground alongside a ball-field near the base of the sledding hill. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Both teams had to wait out a 50-minute delay at the start of the game when a power outage knocked the lights out at the Sumrall ball-field. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Finally, after a long skid on the level ball-field at the bottom of Panic Peak, we came to rest and toppled off. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Some other engaging species delighted the team along the way-jewelweed seed pods ready for popping, a tree cricket causing a racket while clinging to a ball-field fence, an Eastern cottontail rabbit, wild cucumber and loan wandering humans, politely referred to by a city Parks Department officer as participants in the local "non-profit sexual environment." ❋ Unknown (2009)
