Individual who retrieves and supply balls for players or officials in some sports
For other uses, see Ball boy (disambiguation).
A ball girl at the 2014 French Open in tennisThe skaters in yellow vests in the foreground are ball boys at this bandy game.
Ball boys and ball girls,[1] also known as ball kids,[2] are individuals, usually human youths, but sometimes dogs,[3] who retrieve and supply balls for players or officials in sports such as association football, American football, bandy, cricket, tennis, baseball and basketball. Though non-essential, their activities help to speed up play by reducing the amount of inactive time.
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as a ball-boy for a few years. Sports portal Games portal Tennis portal Soccer portal Baseball portal Cricket portal Water boy "Ball Boys and Ball Girls"...
Soccerway. Retrieved 10 October 2022. Hughes, Simon (9 May 2019). "The ballboy who helped Liverpool complete a Champions League miracle". The Independent...
was suffering from food poisoning. Michael Jordan gave the shoes to a ballboy from the Utah Jazz after the game. The shoes were stored in a bank vault...
overseas. Goku, and Dragon Ball in general, evolved from one of Akira Toriyama's earlier one-shot series called Dragon Boy. In this story, the protagonist...
A&M. Caruso grew up around the A&M program, spending many seasons as a ballboy for the Aggies. While studying at Texas A&M he majored in sports management...
one-shot manga Dragon Boy, which he later redeveloped into Dragon Ball. Toriyama loosely modeled the plot and characters of Dragon Ball on the classic Chinese...
old. On 23 September 2017, as a 13-year-old, Hamilton, operating as a ballboy for the Citizens' senior team in a Premier League match at home to Crystal...
first round. Introduced in the 1880s by Ralph Bagnall Bagnall-Wild. Ballboy (also ball girl or ballkid): a person, commonly a child, tasked with retrieving...
semi-final second leg game against Swansea City for kicking a ball out from underneath a ballboy who was lying on it to waste time. Chelsea went on to lose...
Brazil as his surname originated the term used in the country for the ballboy, which is gandula. Gandulla was part of Vasco's squad, but as he spent...
1997 on 3 June 1997. The ball curled so much that the ballboy ten yards to the right ducked instinctively, thinking that the ball would hit him. Instead...
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an additional period of play (overtime) is mandated. Players advance the ball by bouncing it while walking or running (dribbling) or by passing it to a...
voices of Cyborg 007 in the 1968 Cyborg 009 anime series and the sidekick BallBoy in 1984 series Machineman. Machiko also ran her own shop, selling jewellery...
younger son of Tim Mara, who founded the Giants in 1925. Wellington was a ballboy that year. Mara was born in Rochester, New York, the son of Tim Mara and...
and favourite childhood team. Cannavaro initially served as the club's ballboy and would often watch his idols Diego Maradona and Ciro Ferrara play. He...
are held by ball boys around the edge of the pitch. When one ball leaves the field of play, the nearest ballboy will release another ball to a player...
Prix Award for character design. Smart Ball is one of the video games featured in the manga titled Rock'n Game Boy, by Shigeto Ikehara and published by...
team. De Ketelaere joined Club Brugge at the age of 7, also working as a ballboy. He also played tennis as a youth, but chose to pursue football. He made...
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