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- noun tennis, baseball, sometimes derogatory A
ball launched withtechnique rather thanspeed .
Etymologies
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Examples
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That junkball inside out single he has off of Coco in the 9th was a damn good piece of hitting.
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We met many years ago when I was in love with her team's junkball pitcher, who eventually went on to break my heart several times before I gave up.
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'' I think the biggest misconception is that he's a junkball pitcher.
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—Barry Bonds, on facing junkball artist Charlie Liebrandt
Baseball’s Even Greater Insults Kevin Nelson 1993
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—Barry Bonds, on facing junkball artist Charlie Liebrandt
Baseball’s Even Greater Insults Kevin Nelson 1993
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—Barry Bonds, on facing junkball artist Charlie Liebrandt
Baseball’s Even Greater Insults Kevin Nelson 1993
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—Barry Bonds, on facing junkball artist Charlie Liebrandt
Baseball’s Even Greater Insults Kevin Nelson 1993
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Omir Santos tried on his new batting gloves, said to slow the impact of a harmful fastball down to the mere annoyance of a junkball, and voiced excitement.
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- Omir Santos tried on his new batting gloves, said to slow the impact of a harmful fastball down to the mere annoyance of a junkball, and voiced excitement.
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Mauch believed in taking a junkball pitcher north from spring training and putting him in his rotation for the first month of the season, believing that hitters who could time a fastball in April still couldn't get it right against the soft stuff.
The News Tribune Blogs newstips@thenewstribune.com (LARRY LARUE; Staff wr 2010
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