In baseball, any pitch at which the batter does not swing, and which, in the opinion of the umpire, is not in the strike zone is called a ball. A batter who receives four balls in an at bat is entitled to a base on balls.
... in the Mahaabhaarata and other epics. Vernacular Sanskrit may have developed into the Prakrits (in which, among other things, early Buddhist texts are written) and the ...