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

Geography

• Blackball, New Zealand
  Blackball, New Zealand
  Blackball is a small town on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand, approximately 29 km from Greymouth.Blackball was named after the Black Ball Shipping Line, which leased land in the area to mine for coal. It was formerly known as Joliffetown and Moonlight Gully.Blackball is a centre...
  
  , a small town located on the western coast of the South Island of New Zealand; see also Blackball Branch in the "Transportation" section, below.

Games and sporting

• Blackball (pool)
  Blackball (pool)
  Blackball is a pool game that is popular in the United Kingdom, Ireland, several Western European nations, Australia and some other countries. In the UK and Ireland it is usually called simply "pool"...
  
  , a variant of pocket billiards, sanctioned by the World Pool-Billiard Association, popular in the UK and Australia among a few other places, and closely related to the American-style game of eight-ball
• The or 8 ball in that game and in British pool in general
• Blackball, a pejorative term used to represent the Black baseball movement including the formation of Negro league baseball
  Negro league baseball
  The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams predominantly made up of African Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be used narrowly for the seven relatively successful leagues beginning in...
  
  
• Blackball, a monster in the Mystara
  Mystara
  Mystara is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role playing game. Although it has officially been dropped from production by its creators, many fans continue to develop and evolve this fantasy setting jointly, continuing its original theme of group development.-Development:It...
  
   campaign setting of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

Nautical

• "Blackball", a nickname for the letter  i  flag among the international maritime signal flags
  International maritime signal flags
  The system of international maritime signal flags is one system of flag signals representing individual letters of the alphabet in signals to or from ships...
  
  , featuring a black solid circle on a yellow background, and having specific additional meanings in certain contexts ("no surfing allowed in this area" at lifeguarded beaches, "no diving allowed in this area" at swimming pools, "gale warning" in a harbor, etc.)
• Black Ball Line (disambiguation), several shipping companies

Film

• Blackball (film)
  Blackball (film)
  Blackball is a 2003 British comedy sports film, borrowed from the Australian film, Crackerjack about Cliff Starkey , a fictional rebellious young bowls player. His dream is to play for his country, but always preferred to play by his own rules, much to the disapproval of the local bowls club...
  
  , a 2003 film starring Paul Kaye
• Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, a 2004 film starring Rob Corddry

Music

• "Blackball" (The Offspring song), a song on their 1989 self-titled album
• "Blackball", a song by the industrial band KMFDM, on their 2003 album WWIII
  WWIII (album)
  WWIII is KMFDM's thirteenth studio album. It follows the common KMFDM practice of naming albums with five-letter words. This is KMFDM's only release on Sanctuary Records. Lyrically, the album is very political. The songs primarily attack George W. Bush's presidency, various US wars in the Middle...
  
  
• Blackball Records
  Blackball Records
  Blackball Records is an independent record label based in San Francisco. It was founded in 1989 by Adam Pfahler, who was the drummer for Jawbreaker at the time...
  
  , a record label that releases music from the punk band Jawbreaker among others
• "Blackball", the second song on the 2008 Bigelf album Cheat the Gallows
  Cheat The Gallows
  - Personnel :* Damon Fox - vocals, keyboards* Ace Mark - guitar* Duffy Snowhill - bass* Steve Frothingham a.k.a. Froth - drums...
  
  

Transportation

• Blackball Branch
  Blackball Branch
  The Blackball Branch was a branch line railway of New Zealand's national rail network on the West Coast of the South Island and worked from the 1900s to 1966. It included the Roa Branch, also known as the Roa Incline...
  
   a branch railway line to Blackball, New Zealand (see "Geography" above).
• Black Ball Line
  Black Ball Line
  Black Ball Line or Blackball Line can refer to:* Black Ball Line , a fleet of packet ships running between Liverpool and New York, the first scheduled trans-Atlantic service, founded in 1817....
  
  , a name for the Puget Sound Navigation Company's ferry system (British Columbia, Canada, and Washington state, US)
• Black Ball Line (trans-Atlantic packet)
  Black Ball Line (trans-Atlantic packet)
  The Black Ball Line initially consisted of four packet ships, the Amity, Courier, Pacific and the James Monroe. All of these were running between Liverpool, England and New York City. This first scheduled trans-Atlantic service was founded in 1817...
  
  , a fleet of packet ships running between Liverpool and New York, the first scheduled trans-Atlantic service, founded in 1817