John Ball (29 September 1900 â December 1989) was an English international footballer who played as an inside left.
Ball was born in Stockport with nine older siblings; his father was Welsh and a railway labourer.
Ball played for Silverwood Colliery, Sheffield United, Bristol Rovers, Wath Athletic, Bury, West Ham United, Coventry City, Stourbridge, Hinckley United, Atherstone Town, and Coventry Gas. In the Football League he scored 108 goals in 269 appearances. With West Ham he scored 9 goals in 15 league games.
He earned one cap for England, in 1927.
By 1939 he was married and working as an aero department inspector. He died in Coventry in December 1989, aged 89.