Edward Ball

Edward Ball may refer to:

  • Ed Ball (musician) (born 1959), London musician and executive of Creation Records
  • Edward Ball (American author) (born 1958), American writer of non-fiction
  • Edward Ball (businessman) (1888–1981), manager of the duPont trust and reformer of the Florida East Coast Railway
  • Edward Ball (congressman) (1811–1872), U.S. Representative from Ohio
  • Edward Ball (MP) (1793–1865), English MP for Cambridgeshire
  • Edward Ball (cricketer) (1859–1917), English cricketer

Famous quotes containing the words edward and/or ball:

    “Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly “forgot it” and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.”
    —W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)

    “The ball loved Flick.
    I saw him rack up thirty-eight or forty
    In one home game. His hands were like wild birds.”
    —John Updike (b. 1932)