Sentences with phrase «american league baseball team»

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In other major North American sports leagues, the Detroit Tigers (No. 22 overall) are the highest - paid Major League Baseball team, the Oakland Raiders (No. 108 overall) are the highest - paid NFL team, and Washington Capitals (No. 71 overall) are the highest - paid NHL team.

The Los Angeles Angels joined Major League Baseball as an expansion team in 1961 and have since gone on to win 10 American League Western Division Championships, host three All - Star games and capture the 2002 World Series Championship.

Jan 04,2016... During a season in which Seattle's American League team is thetoast of baseball (page 34), the Inter...

While baseball mourns the loss of Harry Caray, Florida laments the breakup of its World Series - winning nucleus, and American League teams bemoan mediocre Milwaukee's move to the senior circuit, we cheer a quintet of Opening Day games.

That's not to be condescending to the team or country at all: it's just that baseball in the country is still in the early stages of development, and the roster was filled out by American minor - league and role players.

As soon as his eldest son was old enough for Little League, Ron Sr., now a supervisor in the machine shop, started coaching his baseball teams — and did so all the way through American Legion ball.

The Los Angeles Angels have been baseball's busiest team on the waiver trade deadline day, and the American League Wild Card contenders added another player on Thursday, acquiring second baseman Brandon Phillips and cash considerations from the Atlanta Braves, the teams announced.

During the 1997 MLB season, teams from the American League and National League competed in regular season competition for the first time in the long and illustrious history of Major League Baseball.

And although major league teams view Cuba as a talent pipeline, Cuba itself is not hung up on the American conception of baseball.

Baseball purists argue that there's an unfair advantage based on ballpark since American League pitchers don't take batting practice and National League team's rarely have the bench depth to install an above average designated hitter.

The rules of baseball have, since 1973, required that every team in the American League fill a position known as «the designated hitter»

Things get started on Tuesday night with the American League Wild Card Game at Yankee Stadium, with the New York Yankees hosting the Minnesota Twins, the latter the first team in baseball history to reach the postseason one season after losing 100 games.

In a 1945 letter thanking Gila River internees for their support, he wrote of the healing power of baseball: «I will be returning to Fresno and while I am there will try to make a team to play in the league in the city, [to] try to speed up the mutual feeling between the Americans and the Japanese.»

In professional sports, I've always pulled for the Oakland A's in the American League (my first Little League team circa 1990 when the «Bash Brothers» reigned) and the Atlanta Braves in the National League (on every night via Turner Broadcasting, and for much of my childhood the only true «Southern» baseball squad to pull for).

A group of Scouts Gathered behind home plate before a Royals - Red Sox game this spring and determined that 1) the American League West is the best it has ever been: 2) the AL West is stronger than any division in baseball in the last 10 years; and 3) the AL West has the three best teams in baseball: Oakland.

It's definitely got elements of social and political subtext, especially as it captures the strange world of the Dominican «baseball academies,» where that nation's raw talent is nurtured for North American harvest in a sort of plantation system controlled by Major League Basebalbaseball academies,» where that nation's raw talent is nurtured for North American harvest in a sort of plantation system controlled by Major League BaseballBaseball teams.

The Indians have been one of the teams on the forefront of sustainability efforts in baseball, launching an ongoing recycling campaign in 2008 that now includes organic - waste composting and become the first American League ball club to use alternative energy with their 2007 installation of a solar - panel array.

An annual Native American pow - wow, a Pride Festival, minor league baseball, hockey, and basketball teams, plus numerous high schools and two college campuses combine to make this California city entertaining for the whole family.