Sentences with phrase «league baseball as»

Professional sports franchises including the National Football League and Major League Baseball as well as the NCAA sued to halt that, however.

Guillén played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop for 16 seasons, primarily with the Chicago White Sox, from 1985 to 2000.

Robert Troutwine, Ph.D. is the founder of Troutwine & Associates, Inc., a firm best known for its consulting work with numerous sports teams and programs, including teams in the National Football League and Major League Baseball as well as major college programs.

vs. the newest expansion team, the Napa Silverados, offer a high level of professional, minor league baseball as well as a fun and unique fan experience including great food, family - based entertainment and «outside the box» promotions and special events.

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.

Whether the teams, players, or Major League Baseball as a whole will publicly support the NLBM over the next few days is anyone's guess.

Not exact matches

That's how Tony Fisher got his start — he joined the company as an analyst in 1999, after he was drafted by the Texas Rangers baseball organization and played for two years in the minor leagues.

Investments in technology have also been made at the league and franchise level - virtual reality, in - game wearable tech (the Motus Baseball Sleeve measuring stress on elbows and the Zephyr Bioharness monitoring heart and breathing rates) and the recent announcement of Blast Motion as the official «bat sensor technology» analyzing swings.

However, despite public fear and criticism of Steinbrenner's controversial decisions, eventually he led the team to an amazing comeback, with six World Series entries between 1996 and 2003, and a record as one of the most profitable teams in Major League Baseball.

Soccer still hasn't become as entrenched as football, basketball, or baseball in the U.S. Major League Soccer has grown by leaps and bounds, and often sells out stadiums, but it doesn't generate anywhere close to the merchandise revenues or television fees that the big three pro leagues do.

For example, if someone searches for MLB, he or she may also turn up other suggestions for accounts related to Major League Baseball, such as ESPN or sports reporter Ken Rosenthal, Twitter says.

Major League Baseball's internal streaming and mobile technology operation, known as BAM, has quietly become a powerhouse in that part of the market, and now it has signed a deal to do all of the broadcasting for the NHL as well.

There's not much Major League Baseball can do to compete with the weather, but if they continue to reschedule games at such a high rate, teams might have to begin to find some creative solutions as schedules tighten later in the season.

The company is on a tear: It's struck marketing mega-deals with Major League Baseball, Major League Soccer, NASCAR and UFC, as well as an exclusive partnership with ESPN.

While Manziel, as a Heisman winner, had a legendary college career, his on - field achievements are as yet nothing compared with Jackson's, who had several eye - popping seasons in both the NFL and Major League Baseball.

Called Watch, the feature will include short programs along with live events such as Major League Baseball games, the company announced Wednesday.

On Watch, which Facebook began testing earlier this month, more than 2 billion users can see hundreds of shows from the likes of Vox, Buzzfeed, Discovery Communications (disca), Walt Disney's (dis) ABC as well as live sports like Major League Baseball.

Some analysts say that as subs fall, it will become more difficult for ESPN to make money while paying large fees for rights to the NFL, NBA, Major League Baseball and other sports.

As a former High School and college baseball umpire who volunteered many years as a Little League umpire and has been teaching new umpires in youth baseball now for twenty years AND a Roman Catholic I was thoroughly amused by Mr. Prothero's take on the Series game ending Obstruction call and his big picture analogy from the VaticaAs a former High School and college baseball umpire who volunteered many years as a Little League umpire and has been teaching new umpires in youth baseball now for twenty years AND a Roman Catholic I was thoroughly amused by Mr. Prothero's take on the Series game ending Obstruction call and his big picture analogy from the Vaticaas a Little League umpire and has been teaching new umpires in youth baseball now for twenty years AND a Roman Catholic I was thoroughly amused by Mr. Prothero's take on the Series game ending Obstruction call and his big picture analogy from the Vatican.

So much confusion has been caused by our football team wearing the same name as the Boston National League baseball club... that a change appeared to be absolutely necessary.

Jews have been elected to Congress and appointed to high positions in government in numbers far exceeding their percentage of the population; Jews are arguably America's most affluent ethnic group; Jews have served as commissioners of Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League, as well as presidents of Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and Columbia; and, as the wedding notices in the Sunday New York Times indicate, Jews have not been reluctant to marry Gentiles, or vice versa.

But there are families of language - games just as softball, Little League baseball, and professional baseball have similar rules with a few significant differences.

In 2013, it was awarded the Miami Science Museum and Aquarium located in downtown Miami as well as minor league baseball and performing arts facilities.

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So for now, give me Salazar over all the above because of that full win he has over almost everyone according to Baseball - Reference's WAR, the league - leading ERA and ERA +, and as a general nod to the entire Indians» rotation, which has been stunning.

Sirs: Either the Orioles are the greatest team in the history of baseball or the National League simply is not as good as some people would have us believe.

Manny Machado is essentially the perfect baseball player, so he doesn't count, but the rest of the lineup has warts, even as they're on pace to be one of the greatest collections of sluggers in league history.

According to Major League Baseball, the standings at the start of Tuesday featured as much parity as we've had since 1995, with 18 teams within at least five games of a postseason berth.

Baseball - Reference doesn't have the pitch counts of all his minor league starts, with gaps during his time in the California League, but as far as we can tell, his 51 pitches were a careerleague starts, with gaps during his time in the California League, but as far as we can tell, his 51 pitches were a careerLeague, but as far as we can tell, his 51 pitches were a career high.

[Update 9/27/17] It took more than a month to get final approval, but according to the Associated Press, Derek Jeter and his ownership group have officially succeeded in buying the Marlins, as the rest of Major League Baseball's owners approved them.

Most teams will be forced to expose a lot of high - priced players in the expansion draft — as baseball teams did in the major league expansion draft last year — and the Bottles and the Cakes, with decent coaching, should win some games early.

To have this type of incident happen at any time or place in baseball is unacceptable, but to have it happen on as big a stage as the World Series should have the league even more concerned and diligent about recourse.

Unfortunately for us fans, no league has locked its players out as often as this one over the last two decades — 1,698 regular - season games lost, more than major league baseball, the NBA and the NFL combined.

Don't read that as saying the Cardinals should have been hit even harder by Major League Baseball, however.

The proper analog would be 1968, when the entire National League had a collective 2.99 ERA, which was boring as heck and followed by Major League Baseball lowering the height of the pitcher's mound.

The 68 - year - old baseball veteran has been the Mets skipper since 2011, after joining the organization the year before as a minor league field coordinator.

Also if you're still here this far into this depressing piece, now is as good a time as any to remind you that the Marlins» ownership — regardless of who that is — and Major League Baseball do not care one bit about you.

Major League Baseball lists cannabis as a drug of abuse, alongside cocaine, opiates, MDMA, LSD, and a handful of other Schedule I and Schedule II drugs.

So the teams make nearly zero investment up front, as opposed to hockey and baseball where they have to spend a draft pick prior to putting the kid into their minor leagues.

ESPN.com does use wire services like the Associated Press for most game recaps and much of the league's day - to - day news, and the AP uses software as described by Cuban to recap some minor league baseball games.

If bowling — yes, bowling — does not instantly supplant baseball, football, basketball and hockey as the nation's No. 1 spectator sport, it will not be for any lack of optimism on the part of the proprietors of the new National Bowling League.

NBA players have five times as many road games as their NFL counterparts and far more free time on trips than do major league baseball players.

It's why two detectives are assigned by Major League Baseball to protect him around the clock when the Cardinals are on the road, even when he merely crosses the street in front of the team's hotel, as he did in Fort Lauderdale on Sept. 1 to eat lunch at Chuck's Steakhouse.

Over the years, even as black youths turned away from baseball and toward football and basketball, JRW blossomed into one of the most successful and heralded youth baseball leagues in Illinois.

Everyone knows that California is as rich in major league baseball prospects as it is in avocados.

By midsummer you could plainly see Leo Durocher leaping and pivoting at shortstop when Brooklyn played Cincinnati in the first televised major league game, inaugurating a new era in baseball and perhaps a new era in ham acting as well.

And with Major League Baseball focusing on bringing the game back to urban areas, the rise of JRW could not have come at a more opportune moment for baseball as an institution in America, the first sport to desegregate its ranks by admitting the great Number 42, Jackie Robinson, Baseball focusing on bringing the game back to urban areas, the rise of JRW could not have come at a more opportune moment for baseball as an institution in America, the first sport to desegregate its ranks by admitting the great Number 42, Jackie Robinson, baseball as an institution in America, the first sport to desegregate its ranks by admitting the great Number 42, Jackie Robinson, in 1947.

At baseball's annual winter meetings, you see, the National Association, which is the governing body of the minor leagues, honors someone as the King of Baseball at its big baseball's annual winter meetings, you see, the National Association, which is the governing body of the minor leagues, honors someone as the King of Baseball at its big Baseball at its big banquet.

MILEPOSTS — ELECTED: As commissioner of baseball by the major leagues» 26 owners, FAY VINCENT, 51, replacing the late Bart Giamatti.

If Indy baseball clubs can do that, I'm sure that g league clubs can as well.