Sentences with phrase «national league baseball»

The popular Hinchliffe Stadium, home to Negro National League baseball teams, was built in the city along with airplane engines during World War II.

Home of the Texas Rangers of National League Baseball in Arlington, Texas.

The Brooklyn that Eilis travels to in 1951 is still the Brooklyn of early 20th century legend, a place reached by ship, with immigrants from everywhere, clay and brownstone buildings, and a National League baseball team that plays at Ebbets Field.

The Brooklyn that Eilis travels to in 1951 is still the Brooklyn of early - 20th - century legend, a place reached by ship, with immigrants from everywhere, brownstone buildings and a National League baseball team that plays at Ebbets Field.

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The TRX is used routinely by all four branches of the military, and can be found in the locker rooms of Major League Baseball teams, National League Baseball teams, UFC fighters, Olympic - level cyclists, swimmers & runners, and many more types of athletes!

A local attorney and civic leader, Shea was the man most responsible for bringing National League baseball back to New York following the westward flight of the Dodgers and Giants four years earlier.

Not so outrageously avaricious, but just a bit crafty, nonetheless, is the decision of the Houston National League baseball club to have dugouts 75 feet long in its new stadium.

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.

Not exact matches

The Obama administration, artists, actors, Major League Baseball and the National Football League all support the broadcasters.

Some of the biggest cracks so far have shown up at ESPN, the multi-billion dollar broadcasting behemoth controlling access to a huge swath of programming from almost every major sports franchise from the National Football League to Major League Baseball.

This week, millions of people worldwide will have watched the 87th Major League Baseball (MLB) All - Star Game, showcasing 70 top players from the American and National Leagues.

Major League Baseball and the National Football League have lucrative contracts with the television networks and closely guard the airing of their games.

In a deft synthesis of escapism and dreadful reality — like successfully mixing ice cream with Buckley's cough syrup — an unknown sports sophisticate and political junkie named Paul Kaplan (an Atlanta Braves fan, but that's not a crime) sent a letter to his congressman to protest the defeat of his baseball team in the National League playoffs and demand they be crowned the winners anyway.

Their study (also in Southern Economic Journal) looked at how per capita income was affected by work stoppages in the National Football League and Major League Baseball over a nearly three - decade span.

If the National Football League or Major League Baseball wanted to control the country, pass laws, implement public policies, hinder science and affect taxation, I'll just bet you would pay attention.

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.

DraftKings is the exclusive DFS partner of Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League, NASCAR and Ultimate Fighting Championship.

The Brooklyn Burger is also available at New York and New Jersey sports venues which include Yankee Stadium and Citi Field, the home of Major League Baseball's New York Mets; and the Nassau Coliseum, home of the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League.

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.

Danny Litwhiler, onetime outfielder in the National League, now Florida State University baseball coach, hit seven home runs in seven tournament games depite a broken hand, sparked his Tallahassee, Fla. team to the state slow - pitch softball title.

BASEBALL — AMERICAN LEAGUE ALL - STARS evened the score in 1959 All - Star competition by beating National League 5 to 3, at Los AnLEAGUE ALL - STARS evened the score in 1959 All - Star competition by beating National League 5 to 3, at Los AnLeague 5 to 3, at Los Angeles.

His 2010 National League Division Series no - hitter is a sports moment that transcends baseball itself.

Depending on which stat you use, it's either the worst in the National League or the worst in baseball.

Daniel Murphy, Corey Seager, and Kris Bryant are finalists for the National League Most Valuable Player Award, announced on Monday by the Baseball Writers» Association of America, with Mike Trout, Jose Altuve, and Mookie Betts the finalists in the American League.

While the Cards currently lead the National League in runs scored with 518, the Rockies have allowed the most runs in baseball with 584.

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.

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.

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.

• Flaming Cincinnati Baseball fans in Cincinnati, burning with pennant fever for the first time in almost a decade, cast two and three ballots each to place five Redlegs on the National League All - Star team, indirectly set in motion half a dozen plans for amending the selection process next year.

The Nationals were the best team in the NL East, if they weren't the best team in the National League, if they weren't the best team in baseball.

New York's baseball moguls (at least in the National League) seem convinced that the town has no future; its Thoroughbred racing executives are still thrashing through costly difficulties in an attempt to bring the city a modern «dream track.»

Imagine a National Baseball Clubhouse for anyone who has ever played in the big leagues: George Brett behind the bar, wiping out beer glasses with a pine - tar rag.

Sandlot baseball, over - or underage, is as much «real» baseball as the National League West.

Giancarlo Stanton leads this year's crop of players with a National League best 21 home runs and, according to ESPN's Home Run Tracker, leads baseball with an average home run distance of 423.8 feet.

18 The Beast Team in Baseball The well - stocked menagerie known as the San Diego Zoo has been devouring its opponents in the National League by Steve Wulf

BASEBALL — The interleague trading period came to a close with the National League Champion San Francisco Giants sending two pitchers, Stu Miller and Mike McCormick, and Catcher John Orsino to Baltimore for Pitchers Jack Fisher and Billy Hoeft, plus Catcher Jim Coker.

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.

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 problem is that Jansen sees the Dodgers as just one of six National League teams that are even bothering to try to win, and while that's good for Los Angeles» odds, it's not so good for baseball as a whole.

On page 1,967 of the 2,232 - page bill — immediately following a section about the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act and the National Criminal History Background Check and Criminal History Review Program — there is an addendum to a 1939 labor law that specifically carves out an exemption for minor league baseball.

BASEBALL — The Toronto Blue Jays held a three - games - to - two lead over the Kansas City Royals in their best - of - seven American League Championship Series, and the St. Louis Cardinals led the Los Angeles Dodgers by the same three - games - to - two margin in the National League playoffs (page 36).

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).

IN AUGUST of 1969the Chicago Cubs were nine games up in the National League East andseven - year - old Jim Hickey was convinced that he wanted to spend the rest of hislife in baseball.

Oakland Athletics catcher Bruce Maxwell took a knee during the national anthem before Saturday's game against the Texas Rangers at O.co Coliseum, believed to be the first Major League Baseball player to do so this season.

Taking our success forward, we made our debut in the National University Baseball League against the defending champions UCL in week 3.

In an even graver baseball injustice, the day before Gibson's fifth loss, National League owners voted to award new franchises, at an admission price of $ 10 million apiece, to San Diego and Montreal.

The Astros have the best lineup in baseball, and it's not close: their OPS + is 126, while the second - highest in the league is the Nationals at 114.

The baseball operation is run by Bill DeWitt, who became general manager last fall after Gabe Paul left to join the National League's nascent Houston Colts.