11.   Even the ball fields are overcrowded.

12.   Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens has turned ball fields into a coastal meadow.

13.   Happily, in most American towns, public facilities like museums and ball fields, libraries and playgrounds, are open to all.

14.   He had done everything right on the play except field the ball.

15.   He crisscrosses the country, combs the run-down ball fields, the streets and Little Leagues.

16.   He stopped frequently at the Lincoln public library, a small, moss-green wood building next to the high school ball field.

17.   Here there was a strip of ball fields running alongside the Hudson River.

18.   Hidden behind the pinkish concrete wall guarding left field, and the thick row of trees behind it, was another dirt ball field.

19.   His cheekbone swelled up and so did the ball field, with both teams emptying their benches.

20.   Hensley ultimately chose the stage over the ball field and said his father, Sam, a civil engineer now retired, supported the decision.