Ball Boy

Ball Boy

Ball boys/girls are individuals, usually youths, who retrieve balls for players or officials in sports such as association football, American football, cricket, tennis, baseball and basketball. Though non-essential, their activities help to speed up play by reducing the amount of inactive time.

Read more about Ball Boy:  Tennis, Association Football

Famous quotes containing the words ball and/or boy:

    “Innings and afternoons. Fly lost in sunset.
    Throwing arm gone bad. There’s your old ball game.
    Cool reek of the field. Reek of companions.”
    —Robert Fitzgerald (1910–1985)

    ““How old is she, Billy boy, Billy boy?
    How old is she, charming Billy?”
    Past six, past seven,
    Past twenty and eleven,
    She’s a young thing, and cannot leave her mother.””
    —Unknown. Billy Boy (l. 21–25)