Always assumed it meant stepping up from playing softball (denigrated as a girls' game) to "real" baseball
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Correct. Softball is long since integrated in the US. I've only been refused play in Oz on the grounds of gender discrimination.
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nerdish response: 'This term originated in baseball, where it alludes to using the standard ball as opposed to the slightly larger and minimally softer ball of softball.' Having played all 3 (indifferently) I'd guess a cricket ball is harder, and we catch it without prissy mitts.
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If my memory serves me correctly, “hurling” in Scotland is projectile vomiting after a heavy night out.
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To hurl ( spew) would have come from Ireland originally.
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I believe a baseball is harder than a cricket ball.
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A cricket ball is harder and heavier. Some pitchers can throw faster than a bowler.
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people die of cricket ball related injuries regularly. i never heard of this with baseball
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Having personally been hit by both I concur. :(
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I got hit in the face with a softball at age 7..that was pretty goddamn hard
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It means not playing Softball which is supposed to be easier due to the bigger ball and underhand pitch. “Hard Ball” is indeed a harder ball (Baseball) which is smaller, harder and pitched overhand.
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Baseball games can be played using one of two sorts of ball, either soft and large, or smaller and hard. The latter harder to hit and catch and hurts more. When I played kids league, one team had the right to choose which ball was used. Playing HB was about a psychological edge
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involves Keanu Reeves apparently, so draw your own conclusions.
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Snooker ball in a sock - the English nunchaku
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Nothing's harder than a cricket ball
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It is the English version of “juego de pelota maya” which is thousands of years old.
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Would curling count as a hard ball , or is it called something silly like a puck
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