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spitball

baseball that has been altered by the application of saliva or other foreign substance
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spitball

Summary

spitball ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (533 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • spitball's subclass of is recorded as pitch[2].
  • spitball's sport is recorded as baseball[3].
  • spitball's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/027zy_[4].
  • spitball's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as sports/spitball[5].
  • spitball's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 04288269-n[6].

Why It Matters

spitball ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (533 views/month).[1] spitball has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[7]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). spitball. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/spitball
MLA “spitball.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 10 Apr. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/spitball.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_spitball_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{spitball}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/spitball}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-10}}
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