do one's bit vs play ball

do one's bit

verb
  • To make an individual contribution toward an overall effort. 

play ball

verb
  • To work together; to cooperate. 

  • An expression used at the beginning of a game of baseball or softball. 

  • To start anything tumultuous. 

How often have the words do one's bit and play ball occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )