Sentences with phrase «american leaguers»

FAST FACTS: For more on Young, who got 17.6 % of theunderrated vote among American Leaguers, see page 44....

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Alderson had peddled reserve outfielder Felix (the Other) Jose, who had been filling in for the injured Henderson, and two more minor leaguers to St. Louis for centerfielder McGee, whose.335 average with the Cardinals may well be good enough to win the National League batting race — at just about the time McGee swings into the American League Championship Series.

Doby wasn't just the second black major leaguer; he was the first in the American League, meaning that, like Robinson, he took the field among all white peers.

There have been 79 Latin American major leaguers, starting with Cuban William Bellan, who played third base for Troy and New York in the American League back in 1871 - 73.

Maybe I can go to the American League as a busted - up National Leaguer and serve as DH.

WHILE Venezuela has emerged as a productive pipeline of Latin American talent, it can't exactly boast the hordes of established big leaguers that the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico can.

Israel, composed largely of Jewish American minor leaguers and former major leaguers, will next face Brazil on Friday in a game scheduled for noon, a starting time that assures completion before sunset and the Jewish Sabbath.

While Walker's accomplishment rests solidly in the shadow of Robinson, another player may be coming out of even more obscurity to supplant him as the true first African American Major Leaguer.

As far as it's known, Garcetti, an Ivy Leaguer and Rhodes Scholar, has not asked the poor and working - class Latino and African American parents at 24th Street Elementary what they think is needed for education reform.