sphere; globe; ball; sphere; counter for pitches
fireball; bolide; fireball
baseball club (at a university, corporation, etc.); baseball team
earthling; earthman; terrestrial; citizen of Earth
straight ball (pitch); direct (e.g. question); blunt
Ryukyu; chain of southwestern Japanese islands comprising Okinawa Prefecture
school inter-class ball-game competition
globular shape; spherical shape
balloon (hot-air, weather, etc.); blimp
spherical; globular; globe-shaped
baseball stadium; ballpark
pitching; throwing a ball; bowling (in cricket); pitched ball
breaking ball (pitch); curve ball; screwball
ball game (e.g. baseball, tennis, soccer)
hitting (a ball with a bat, racket, golf club, etc.); batting; batted ball; struck ball
white blood cell; leukocyte; leucocyte
celestial sphere; the heavens
red blood cell; erythrocyte
amateur baseball; sandlot baseball
using all of one's strength (to); giving (it) everything one has got; going full-out; throwing a ball as hard as one can
baseball player; ballplayer
baseball ground; baseball field; baseball stadium; ballpark
Earth globe (model); terrestrial globe
white ball (baseball, golf ball, etc.)
miniature light bulb; midget lamp
hard ball; regulation ball
table tennis table; ping-pong table
table tennis club; ping-pong club
extraterrestrial life; ET
throw; pass (in basketball, etc.); handball
straightforward approach; playing it straight; fair deal
return throw (esp. from an outfielder); returning the ball (in tennis, volleyball, etc.)
pitcher's first pitch (to batter, or in the game)
celestial globe; armillary sphere
yakyūken; strip version of rock, paper, scissors (similar to strip poker)
spherical surface; sphere
speed of a pitch; velocity
high-school baseball player
football (soccer, rugby, American football, etc.; esp. soccer)
base on balls; walk; pass
light bulb; incandescent light bulb
combination of (varied) pitches, serves, etc.
baseball-playing teenager; high-school baseball player
pickoff throw; pickoff attempt
good pitch (to hit); easy pitch
eosinophil; eosinophile; acidophil; acidophile; eosinophilic leukocyte; acidophilic leukocyte
terrestrial planet; telluric planet; rocky planet
extraterrestrial being; extraterrestrial life
earth orbit; geocentric orbit
pneumococcus (Streptococcus pneumoniae)
western hemisphere; the Occident
umpire-in-chief; plate umpire
neutrophil; neutrophilic leukocyte
earth-friendly; ecological; sustainable
golden staph (Staphylococcus aureus)
small ball; globule; spherule; pellet
miniature light bulb; midget lamp
ball park; field for ball games
pro baseball team; professional baseball team
baseball tournament between non-professional teams sponsored by corporations
Ryukyuan food; Ryukyuan cuisine
pitch that hits the batter
batting eye; ability to judge whether a pitch will be called a ball or a strike
weather balloon; sounding balloon; observation balloon; espionage balloon; trial balloon
to play (baseball, softball, etc.)
putting one's heart and soul into each pitch
Ryukyu Islands; southern chain of the Nansei Islands comprising Okinawa Prefecture
regulation baseball (as opposed to the variety played with a rubber ball)
Japanese version of baseball played with a hard rubber ball
eastern hemisphere; the Orient
fast, heavy ball; fastball
head (of cabbage, lettuce, etc.); forming a head; coming to a head
hard ball to hit; bad pitch
earth science; geoscience
pre-ejaculate; Cowper's fluid; pre-cum
failing to catch a ball; dropping a ball; flubbing a catch
billiard hall; pool hall; tennis court
National Intercity Nonpro Baseball Championship Series
global citizen; citizen of the earth
bulbous bow (on a ship to reduce drag)
Okinawan kobudo; traditional martial arts of the Ryukyu Islands
earth station (for a satellite)
global environment problems; global environmental issues
prevention of global warming
ball which is hard to hit or catch
oculolinctus; worming; eyeball-licking fetishism
cone; strobile; strobilus
bases on balls and pitches striking the batsmen
Invasion of Ryukyu (1609)
National High School Baseball Tournament (held annually in August at Koshien Stadium); Summer Koshien
batted ball that strikes the batter
infectious mononucleosis; mono; glandular fever
ruptured eye; globe rupture
night-light bulb; (lit.) jujube bulb
swarming (of honey bees); ball of bees; bee ball
global environment conservation; global environment preservation
bad throw; wild throw; throwing error
methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus; MRSA
sickle cell anemia (anaemia); sickle cell disease
Streptococcus pyogenes (bacterium that causes group A streptococcal infections)
Ryūkyū tatami; sturdy and durable tatami that has a facing weaved from Shichito matgrass
subconjunctival hemorrhage; subconjunctival bleeding; hyposphagma
University of the Ryukyus
whole-team effort; pulling together
wet and dry-bulb thermometer
earth observation satellite
leukocytosis; hyperleukocytosis
Okinawan scale (hemitonic pentatonic scale: do, mi, fa, so, ti)
sickle cell anemia (anaemia); sickle cell disease
lunar globe; globe of the moon
tungsten lamp; tungsten bulb
characteristics of a (thrown) ball (light, heavy, etc.)
Little League elbow; pitcher's elbow; baseball elbow
sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas); potato (Solanum tuberosum)
waiting for a good hit at a pitch
Disposition of Ryukyu; forced assimilation of Okinawa into Japan, ending its tributary relations with China and abolishing the Ryukyu Kingdom (1872-1879)
Nippon Professional Baseball Organization; NPB
Japan High School Baseball Federation
global positioning system; GPS
earth observation (satellite, platform, etc.)
bulbus glandis; knot (of a canid penis)
human leukocyte antigen; HLA
sickle cell disease; sickle cell anemia (anaemia)
polycythaemia; polycythemia; hypercythaemia; hypercythemia; erythrocytosis
baseball fever; enthusiasm for baseball
career of a baseball player
olfactory bulb; bulbus olfactorius
exophthalmos; proptosis; bulging eyes
extraterrestrial life form
vestibular bulb; bulb of the vestibule
National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament (held annually in March at Koshien Stadium); Spring Koshien
Japan Amateur Baseball Association
think globally, act locally; think global, act local
National High School Baseball Invitational Tournament (held annually in March at Koshien Stadium); Spring Koshien
boy who spends all of his free time playing baseball
domed stadium (esp. for baseball)
global problem; global issue
bulb with reservoir; double balloon
Baseball Writers' Association of America
global positioning (system, satellite, etc.)
eye movement; ocular movement
climate engineering; geo-engineering
Global Change Observation Mission; GCOM
intentional walk; intentional base on balls; IBB
football pitch; soccer field
Global Earth Observation System of Systems; GEOSS
Conference of Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
red globular shape; red ball signal shape (marine safety context)
Earth Similarity Index; ESI
Earth light (illumination of the moon by light reflected from the Earth); earthshine
Institute of Earth Education
Council of Ministers for Global Environment Conservation
earth mass (astronomical unit of mass)
aspherical surface; aspherical
erythrocyte sedimentation rate; ESR
global warming potential; GWP
small round structured virus; SRSV
Global Legislators Organization for a Balanced Environment
wet-bulb globe temperature; WBGT
(satellite) earth station
polymorphonuclear leukocyte; polymorphonuclear leucocyte
International Table Tennis Federation; ITTF
streptococcal throat infection; strep throat
ball-and-ring method; ring-and-ball test
polymorphonuclear leukocyte; polymorphonuclear leucocyte
group B streptococcus; group B strep
zona glomerulosa; glomerular zone
Central Baseball Organization
Pacific League of Professional Baseball Clubs
haemagglutination; hemagglutination
sideroblastic anemia; sideroblastic anaemia
bulb of penis; urethral bulb
vancomycin resistant enterococci; VRE
sickle cell anemia (anaemia); sickle cell disease
United States Military Government of the Ryukyu Islands (1945-1950)
legendary player (of a ball game)
spherical segment; segment of a sphere
bulbourethral gland; Cowper's gland
United States Civil Administration of the Ryukyu Islands (1950-1972); USCAR
pyococcus; coccoid bacterium that forms pus
association football; soccer
official history of the Ryukyu Kingdom (compiled between 1743 and 1745); Kyūyō (poetic name for the Ryukyu Islands)
erythroblastosis (abnormal presence of erythroblasts in the blood)
spotlight bulb (e.g. in interior lighting)
disk-flicking game; crokinole; carrom; pitchnut
envelope (of a hot air balloon)
wheat bulb; wheat grain light bulb
spherical cap; spherical dome
jankyū; combination of Japanese pinball and mahjong
Government of the Ryukyu Islands (1952-1972)
pneumococcus (Streptococcus pneumoniae)
bulb (of an animal's hoof)
streptococcus; lactococcus
luchu pine (Pinus luchuensis); Okinawa pine
Assam indigo (Strobilanthes cusia)
whitetail dascyllus (Dascyllus aruanus); humbug dascyllus; banded dascyllus; white-tailed damselfish
Ryukyu black-breasted leaf turtle (Geoemyda japonica); Ryukyu leaf turtle
Habenaria longitentaculata (species of bog orchid)
Pacific swallow (Hirundo tahitica)
Ryukyu sweetfish (Plecoglossus altivelis ryukyuensis)
Kandelia obovata (species of mangrove)