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Society and culture

• Blackballing, ostracizing someone socially, e.g. prevention of finding local or field-specific employment, blacklisting from a club or other organization, etc. The name derives from an early voting system.

Blackballing was used in elections to membership of a Gentlemens club (and similarly organised institutions, such as Freemasonry). ...

Geography

• Blackball, New Zealand, a small town located on the western coast of the South Island of New Zealand; see also Blackball Branch in the "Transportation" section, below.

Blackball is a small town located on the West Coast of the New Zealand. ...

Games and sporting

• Blackball (pool), a variant of pocket billiards, sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association, and popular in the UK and Australia among a few other places, and closely related to the American-style game of eight-ball
• Blackball, a pejorative term used to represent the Black baseball movement including the formation of Negro league baseball
• Blackball, a sport invented very recently in Romania.It was invented by children from Mark Twain Int'l School. Everything started from trying to play baseball. Simplified and adapted it became Blackball; a sport where somebody throws a ball and another one (who stays in a circle) catches it with a velcro disc. It is played with a squash ball or a tennis ball.

A kick shot in action. ... Bud Fowler, the first professional black baseball player with one of his teams, Western of Keokuk, Iowa The Negro Leagues were American professional baseball leagues comprising predominantly African-American teams. ...

Communications

• "Blackball", a nickname for the letter "i" flag among the international maritime signal flags, featuring a black solid circle on a yellow background, and having specific additional meanings in certain contexts ("no diving allowed in this area" at lifeguarded beaches or swimming pools, "gale warning" in a harbor, etc.)

The system of international maritime signal flags is a way of representing individual letters of the alphabet in signals to or from ships. ...

Film

• Blackball, a 2003 film starring Paul Kaye
• Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, a 2004 film starring Rob Corddry

Blackball is a film about Cliff Starkey (Paul Kaye), a rebellious young bowls player. ...

Music

• "Blackball" (Offspring song), a song by the punk band The Offspring, on their 1989 album The Offspring
• "Blackball", a song by the industrial band KMFDM, on their 2003 album WWIII
• Blackball Records, a record label that releases music from the punk band Jawbreaker among others

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