Wrecking Ball
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A wrecking ball
Wrecking ball
A wrecking ball is a heavy steel ball, usually hung from a crane, that is used for demolishing large buildings. It was most common during the 1950s and 1960s. Several wrecking companies claim to have invented the wrecking ball...

is a heavy steel ball suspended from a crane that is used for building demolition.

Wrecking ball may also refer to:

In music:
  • Wrecking Ball (Dead Confederate album)
    Wrecking Ball (Dead Confederate album)
    Wrecking Ball is the first full-length album from Athens, Georgia based band, Dead Confederate. It was recorded in Austin, TX with producer Mike McCarthy in January 2008...

  • Wrecking Ball (Emmylou Harris album)
    Wrecking Ball (Emmylou Harris album)
    Wrecking Ball is a 1995 album by Emmylou Harris in which she moves away from the traditional acoustic sound for which she had become known, to team up with rock producer Daniel Lanois and engineer Mark Howard...

  • "Wrecking Ball", a song by Bruce Springsteen
  • "Wrecking Ball", a song by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings from Soul Journey
    Soul Journey
    Soul Journey is the fourth studio album by Gillian Welch. As with all of her previous releases, it is a collaboration with David Rawlings....

  • "Wrecking Ball", a song by Neil Young from Freedom


In literature:
  • Wrecking Ball Press
    Wrecking Ball Press
    Wrecking Ball Press is a small press poetry & prose publishing company, based in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK. Wrecking Ball Press was established and is edited by Shane Rhodes; it was born in the back of a café....

    , a UK small-press publisher
  • Wrecking Ball, a novel by Christiana Spens
    Christiana Spens
    Christiana Spens is a British novelist. She attended the University of Cambridge, where she read Philosophy.Her debut novel, The Wrecking Ball, was published by Beautiful Books Limited in the UK and Harper Perennial in America, in 2008...


See also

  • Mark Recchi
    Mark Recchi
    Mark Louis Recchi is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who played 22 years in the National Hockey League , most notably for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Philadelphia Flyers, Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens...

    , Canadian NHL ice hockey player, nicknamed "The Recchin' Ball"
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