21.  I mean we swing the bat, take good cuts, hit the ball hard and nothing.

22.  I swing as hard as I possibly can and try to hit the ball as hard as I possibly can.

23.  I hit the ball as hard as I could.

24.  In it, two players throw a ball as hard as they can, taking a step closer to each other after each catch.

25.  In fact, Vizquel hit the ball so hard it blasted past first baseman Brian Daubach before he could get his glove down.

26.  In defending Thomas against allegations that he had sexually harassed a former employee, Anita Hill, Thompson employed what some critics thought were hard ball tactics.

27.  In my last start against Minnesota, I threw the ball as hard as I have all year.

28.  It was one hit in five at-bats on the night but he had another two hard hit balls caught in center field.

29.  It may have started out as a friendly Christian game of softball, but six years later, Kenneth Greer is still playing hard ball.

30.  It tends to forget that he is also a single-minded general, who specializes in hard ball.