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beanball

NOUN
  1. a baseball deliberately thrown at the batter's head

How To Use beanball In A Sentence

  • The pitcher beanballed purposely at the head of the batter.
  • The A.L. marks for teenage prowess in those categories belong to the unfortunate Tony Conigliaro, whose career was cut short by the effects of a beanball incident.
  • Marcelo and Denise exchange barely perceptible grins; they remember when Motorola COO Mike Zafirovski fired the same beanball at Marcelo's head back in 2000.
  • Girardi says he wants to avoid tit-for-tat beanball wars. Yankees Won't Engage in a Beanball War
  • He may have to duck a few beanballs and be prepared for some serious heckling.
  • Reminds me of the time, way back in the mid-sixties, when a baseball player or coach or something said that anyone who throws a beanball is a "Communist. Dawg's Blawg
  • There was the mini blowup in the dugout when one of his pitchers failed to retaliate for a beanball at Guillen.
  • Pitchers in the Gibon era pitched off a mound that was nearly a foot higher than the current one, they had the advantage of a larger strike zone, and they were allowed to use the beanball to injure and intimidate at will.
  • In the 1960s, populated by its own demons, a baseball player in the American League once said that any pitcher throwing a beanball was a "Communist. Dawg's Blawg
  • Yet such was Bradman's dignity that when asked about the cricket equivalent of a baseball beanball war, he said, β€˜It was not, you might say, in the spirit of the game.’
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