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:
“Most men have like plants hidden properties, which chance discloses.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“Life ... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won’t be got rid of.”
—Anita Brookner (b. 1928)
“It is not possible either to trick or escape the mind of Zeus.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
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