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Sports and Games are considered to be as old as human civilization and with the span of time its arena has expanded to unexpected extents. Sports and Games, especially ball games paved its path all the way from England and America to all over and world almost 200 years ago and still continues to snatch the limelight. Taking into account the professional dimension of these games rigorous amount of scientific and specific physical training is given to the Ball game players. In spite of all the effort, a very important and crucial aspect is neglected and overshadowed which leads to incomplete training results. The very aspect is the Psychological fitness training. The present study focuses on the study of Variation of Mental Health Statuses of different Ball Game players. For the Purpose of the study 40 male university level ball game players of age range 20 to 25 years were chosen from Visva Bharati University, out of which 10 were basketball players, 10 were Cricket players, 10 Football players and 10 were Volleyball players. Six mental variables namely Anxiety & tension, Nervousness, Loneliness, Restlessness, Hopelessness and Anger and Five somatic variables namely Headache, Disturbed sleep, Tiredness, Indigestion and Acidity were selected. Subjects were selected using purposive sampling and the data was extracted using Questionnaire response method using Dr. Pramod Kumar�s Mental Health Checklist. ANOVA was applied to derive the results at 0.05 level of significance and to identify the significant differences among the Mental health status of different ball game players. The result rejected the null hypothesis and showed that Mental Health status differed significantly to each of them.