What is "play ball"

vb. 1 (context idiomatic English) To start anything tumultuous. 2 (context idiomatic English) To work together; to cooperate. 3 (context baseball softball English) An expression used at the beginning of a game of baseball.

is a manga series by Akio Chiba which ran in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1973 to 1978, which was adapted in 2005 and 2006 into an anime series by Magic Bus, aired across Japan on the anime satellite television network, Animax. The series was released concurrently with Chiba's other major work, Captain, the other series for which he won the 22nd Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1977.

Chiba originally wanted to make the series a rugby or American football , but he began to be held up by collecting all the materials needed to make sure he understood the rules well enough to draw an accurate depiction. In order to catch up, he began creating a manga about the high school baseball career of his main character, Takao Taniguchi.

This eventually developed into the series Captain. Play Ball follows the story of the junior high school years of Taniguchi and his teammates.

Nearly twenty-five years later, in 2005 and 2006, the series was adapted into two seasons of an UHF anime TV series in 2005, which was broadcast across Japan by the anime satellite television network, Animax.

Play Ball is a 1925 American drama film serial directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet. The film is now considered to be lost.

Play Ball may refer to:

"Play Ball" is a single by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, and the debut single from their 2014 album Rock or Bust. It was first used on 27 September 2014 in a trailer for Major League Baseball on TBS postseason coverage, and the single was released on 7 October.

AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd was absent from the video shoot for the single, and was replaced by Welshman Bob Richards, who had previously played with Man, Adrian Smith, Asia and Shogun.

The Minnesota Twins, a Major League Baseball team, play the song at home in the Target Field directly after the game's lineup is announced. It plays for about two minutes before the game starts. The Danish basketball team, Svendborg Rabbits, play the song in connection with the gamestarts at home in The Rabbits House.

Play Ball is a short animated film by Terrytoons. It is the penultimate film featuring Kiko the Kangaroo. In reissue prints, the film goes by its alternate title Kiko at the Bat!.