Play Ball

1.  Cooperate, as in The opposing attorneys refused to play ball with us. [Slang; c. 1900]
2.  Get going, start, as in It's time to get a move on; let's play ball. This usage comes from the baseball umpire's call to start a game. [Slang; late 1800s]

Play Ball may refer to:

• A phrase spoken by umpires at the start of an American baseball or softball game
• Play Ball (manga), Akio Chiba's 1970s manga, later adapted to anime form
• Play Ball (serial), 1925 film by Spencer Gordon Bennet believed to be lost
• "Play Ball!" was an episode in the fourth season of the children's television show Barney & Friends
• Play Ball: Stories of the Ball Field, King Kelly's 1888 autobiography

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