"nothing ball" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1941 Franklin P. Huddle \"Baseball Jargon\" (April 1943) American Speech Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 103-111",
          "text": "If he cannot throw a fast ball, he may be able to get by on a nothing ball (a term coined for Wes Ferrell's looping delivery, which, though it doesn't curve, is hard to hit)."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1951 August, Paul Horowitz, “They've Got Plenty of Nothing”, in Baseball Digest, pages 21–22",
          "text": "two of the leading pitchers in the major leagues use the \"nothing ball\", a term used derisively by batters to describe change of pace deliveries.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a pitch which has neither much speed nor much spin"
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(baseball) a pitch which has neither much speed nor much spin"
      ],
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        "ball-games",
        "baseball",
        "games",
        "hobbies",
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        {
          "text": "2010 Harry Redknapp, quoted in \"Relegated Burnley produce comeback\" (9 May 2010) ESPNsoccernet\nI was very disappointed (with the first goal) because it was a nothing ball over the top, Brian Jensen was way out of position and should have been sweeping that up."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "a ball which presents little attacking threat"
      ],
      "id": "en-nothing_ball-en-noun-LF6KLqXJ",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sports, British) a ball which presents little attacking threat"
      ],
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  "word": "nothing ball"
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        {
          "ref": "1941 Franklin P. Huddle \"Baseball Jargon\" (April 1943) American Speech Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 103-111",
          "text": "If he cannot throw a fast ball, he may be able to get by on a nothing ball (a term coined for Wes Ferrell's looping delivery, which, though it doesn't curve, is hard to hit)."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1951 August, Paul Horowitz, “They've Got Plenty of Nothing”, in Baseball Digest, pages 21–22",
          "text": "two of the leading pitchers in the major leagues use the \"nothing ball\", a term used derisively by batters to describe change of pace deliveries.",
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        "(baseball) a pitch which has neither much speed nor much spin"
      ],
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        "hobbies",
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          "text": "2010 Harry Redknapp, quoted in \"Relegated Burnley produce comeback\" (9 May 2010) ESPNsoccernet\nI was very disappointed (with the first goal) because it was a nothing ball over the top, Brian Jensen was way out of position and should have been sweeping that up."
        }
      ],
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      ],
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        "(sports, British) a ball which presents little attacking threat"
      ],
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