Games and Sporting
- Blackball (pool), a variant of pocket billiards, sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association, popular in the UK and Australia among a few other places, and closely related to the American-style game of eight-ball
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- The black ball or 8 ball in that game and in British pool in general
- Blackball, a pejorative term used to represent the Black baseball movement including the formation of Negro league baseball
- Blackball, a monster in the Mystara campaign setting of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
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Famous quotes containing the words games and, games and/or sporting:
“In 1600 the specialization of games and pastimes did not extend beyond infancy; after the age of three or four it decreased and disappeared. From then on the child played the same games as the adult, either with other children or with adults. . . . Conversely, adults used to play games which today only children play.”
—Philippe Ariés (20th century)
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“I once heard of a murderer who propped his two victims up against a chess board in sporting attitudes and was able to get as far as Seattle before his crime was discovered.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)