An Easy Word Problem

I have always loved words but I have hated "word problems" since early high school math class.  But here's an easy one--that even I can solve!

If you spend $1.10 on a baseball glove and ball, and the glove cost $1 more than the ball, how much did the ball cost?

See?  I told you it was easy!

What?  The ball didn't cost ten cents?

Two things I've learned from this:

1.  I still hate word problems.
2.  The obvious answer is not always the correct answer.