The first pictures of Earth taken from space showed a solid ball covered by brown and green landmasses and blue-green oceans.

VOA: special.2011.01.04

Kenya - the birthplace of Barack Obama's father - will host the Africa and International Friends Inaugural Ball.

VOA: special.2009.01.19

Betty Bonney sings about the way DiMaggio hit the ball very,very hard -- how he jolted it.

VOA: special.2011.04.04

The twenty-one year-old throws a sharp breaking ball that cuts across the plate at the last second.

VOA: special.2010.06.18

The bottom of the root ball will look something like the spread-open wings of a butterfly.

VOA: special.2011.04.19

At the base of the hair root is a small ball-like formation called a bulb.

VOA: special.2011.04.05

In nineteen nineteen, he hit the ball out of the baseball park twenty-nine times.

VOA: special.2011.03.27

ERIC: Why you shooting down my game?Let a playa play. MIKE: Yeah, okay.What you playing at, T-Ball?

VOA: standard.other

In the ninth inning, Tampa Bay batter Gabe Kapler sent a ball heading for the stands in left-centerfield, threatening a home run and spoiling Buerhle's perfect game.

VOA: standard.2009.07.24