Blackball - Games and Sporting

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
  • 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/or sporting:

    “At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)

    “The Boston papers had never told me that there were seals in the harbor. I had always associated these with the Esquimaux and other outlandish people. Yet from the parlor windows all along the coast you may see families of them sporting on the flats. They were as strange to me as the merman would be. Ladies who never walk in the woods, sail over the sea. To go to sea! Why, it is to have the experience of Noah,—to realize the deluge. Every vessel is an ark.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)