In the game of baseball, the hidden ball trick is a play in which the runner is deceived about the location of the ball, in an effort to have him tagged out.
Famous quotes containing the words hidden, ball and/or trick:
“And the unfailing sense of being young
Spread out like a spring-woken tree, wherein
That hidden freshness sung,
That certainty of time laid up in store....”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“Eatings going to be a whole new ball game. I may even have to buy a new pair of trousers.”
—Lester Piggott (b. 1935)
“If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for loves sake only. Do not say
I love her for her smileher lookher way
Of speaking gently,for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (18061861)