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Line BallA ball sent swiftly from the bat to the field almost on a horizontal line. Other period terms are stinger, whizzer, corker, hot shot, shooter, or straight-outer. A hot ball meant a very swiftly thrown or batted ball.
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Line BallApparently a form of Stickball played in Chicago area streets as early as the 1940s that uses 16-inch circumference softballs (the standard softball is about 12 inches), a slow-pitch delivery, small t [..]
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