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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