Sentences with phrase «yankee who»

Even a Toronto Blue Jays fan can appreciate the work ethic and charm of Yogi Berra, the New York Yankee who passed away recently.

Scott insisted on the whole carcass, having once been bamboozled by a Yankee who brought in a pair of ears one day and claimed his bounty, then some time later brought in the paws for another dollar, and finally the tail.

Jersey City has had minor league baseball teams intermittently since 1878 and has fielded some noteworthy players, such as George Stovey, a black pitcher who won 35 games in 1886, and George (Twinkletoes) Selkirk, the Yankee who was nicknamed after a Jersey show girl.

Fittingly, the Interleague World Series began the same way as the final game of last year's real World Series: with Maddux pitching against Key, the former Yankee who started and won Game 6.

While Sanchez has had a strong season by a catcher's standpoint with 13 home runs on the year, it is another Yankee who Stanton will need to watch out for in his quest to repeat as Home Run Derby champion.

Not exact matches

For example, they can show a particular Cheetos ad only to single men aged 17 to 41 who live in New York, are Yankee fans and enjoy the «World of Warcraft» video game.

David Hollinger, professor of American intellectual history at Berkeley, suggests in Science, Jews, and Secular Culture that secularized Jews wanted to promote the reputation of a Yankee aristocrat who was so emphatically non-Christian.

In a welcome departure from the past, evangelicals and Pentecostals who are making great advances in that part of the world were not excoriated as alien «sects» and tools of Yankee imperialism.

The Virginia planter and Fire - Eater Edmund Ruffin, who in 1865 blew his brains out rather than live under Yankee rule, called Toussaint Louverture «the only truly great man yet known of the negro race.»

A man who named his racehorse «Concrete Charlie» showed up, as did one man who said he attended the iconic 1960 game at Yankee Stadium where Bednarik cemented himself into NFL folklore with a knockout hit on Giants halfback Frank Gifford.

Any day now he will announce the conditions under which Yankee owner George Steinbrenner, who had agreed in 1990 to a lifetime ban from the game for having associated with a known gambler, can return to an active role with the team.

BRONX BEST: The two onetime Yankees in the 300 - win club are Gaylord Perry, who went 4 - 4 with New York in 1980 (and two years later beat the Yankees for his 300th), and Phil Niekro, who won his 300th game as a Yankee in»85 and won a total of 32 games for New York in»84 and» 85.

You are giving many F *** monsieur Yankee, otherwise you would not be here speaking to people who know their sh % t.

@pubgooner All the English bosses who once owned EPL teams have went the «yankee» route and sold their shares in English clubs.

«It was obvious to me that he was a pitcher, even if he didn't know it,» says Padre lefthander Chris Welsh, who, like Lollar and LaMarr Hoyt (page 26) came up through the Yankee system.

Desperately need a manager who will not listen to this money minded f ** yankee bosses.

The reason Arsenal is in this sh34t hole is not bec of Wenger or the Yankee but bec the fans are a bunch of losers who have no mentality other than being a bunch of losers

In fact, Mazzone says he had informally accepted the job as Yankee's pitching coach that October, when he got a call from Sam Perlozzo, who had also climbed through the minors, broke briefly into the big leagues, and had just been named manager of the Baltimore Orioles.

I was from out of town (visiting from China) and really wanted to snag an autograph for my brother — he's the one who got me into this predicament of being a Braves fan (I could have been a Yankee or Cardinal fan instead...).

DIED: Former Yankee (1955 - 67) and Red Sox (1967 - 68) Catcher ELSTON HOWARD, 51, who was the American League's MVP in 1963 and was its first black coach (1969 - 79) with the Yanks; after being hospitalized for a heart condition in New York.

Among them is Brian Boehringer, who has been blown off by the Yankee Clipper three years running.

Sure, Chris Capuano, a soft - tossing fly - ball lefty who seems like the worst possible fit for Yankee Stadium.

«I'd like to see us open up a little distance,» says Yankee first baseman Don Mattingly, who has played more games without going to the postseason than any active player.

OL' CASE TAKES THE YOUNG «UNS ASIDE Charles Dillon Stengel set up shop in St. Petersburg, Fla. last week, fully three weeks before the major league training season begins, to look over 30 - odd young baseball players who hope some day to take permanent possession of the revered New York Yankee uniforms they are now wearing.

And because New York teems with people who love baseball but refuse to pledge allegiance to the Yankee pennant, Allen's «objective but pro-Yankee» broadcasts can turn a ruly roomful of people into a hating, shouting, blaspheming mob.

Not to say the heckling approaches anything you might hear coming from the bleachers at Yankee Stadium, but no one will be thrown off the grounds if they direct a hearty catcall at anyone who refuses to take part.

Mel Allen is the only sportscaster known to the modern world who has had his day in a major league ball park, in this case Mel Allen Day in Yankee Stadium in 1950, when he received clothes, a Cadillac and $ 10,000 — which he in turn gave to Columbia and the University of Alabama for scholarships.

This was a gentle dig at the Yankee owner, who, after signing Mattingly to a $ 1,375 million, one - year contract the day before arbitration proceedings were to begin in February, is considerably more popular in the Mattingly household now than he was a year ago.

«He had as good a year as anyone I've ever played with — or against,» says rookie Yankee manager Lou Piniella, who has been Mattingly's batting instructor the past three years.

That move, which requires approval by baseball owners, would create a policing nightmare for Vincent, who is said to be ready to monitor phone records and sound out sources in the Yankee organization to make sure Steinbrenner doesn't meddle.

«Justin will be one of the happiest players to have Sacha added in there,» said Kreis, who will return to Yankee Stadium for the second time since NYCFC fired him after failing to make the playoffs in the club's inaugural year.

In the series, premiering Sept. 22, Garcia, who's engaged to New York Yankee Nick Swisher, plays the newly engaged Mia, a woman who «follows her heart, dives headfirst.

Among those who have spent a significant amount of time north of Yankee Stadium, there are two definitions that appear with the most frequency.

Joe DiMaggio — who famously thanked the good Lord for making him a Yankee — and loved Marilyn Monroe so much he would send a dozen roses to her grave until the day he died?

NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina says the city Department of Education will «revisit the policy» that allowed a student who's charged with attempted murder to play at Yankee Stadium in the city's high school football championship game Sunday.

A Green Party member, Tom Syracuse, railed against the new Yankee Stadium, not to mention all the mainstream politicians who allowed it to be built.

Yesterday, Tom Vendikos, a bartender who had spent 27 seasons working at the old Yankee Stadium, filed a complaint against the Yankees with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

de Blasio, also a Massachusetts native, is an avowed Red Sox fan who has maintained a stony silence on the Yankees during his three and a half years as the mayor of Yankee Town.

Off - duty NYPD cops who patrol in uniform inside city stadiums and other high - risk public venues have been sidelined, after the venues like Yankee Stadium and Madison Square Garden could not come to an agreement over liability issues.

Lopez Rivera, who just celebrated his 75th birthday, leveled the Yankee - go - home rant Sunday in remarks broadcast on the Spanish - language TV station Telemundo.

Ferrara, who first floated the idea of renaming the street outside Yankee Stadium to The Post's Mike Vaccaro, also sent a letter to the City Council asking that body to consider changing the street name to Rivera Avenue.

The lower estimate came from the Parks department, who assessed the land as if it were undeveloped real estate, whereas the higher estimate, which was done by the city's Finance department, was the projected value of the land once the new Yankee Stadium is completed.

WAMC's Ian Pickus talks with Mike Spain about a Schenectady police officer who was arrested over the weekend and former New York Yankee Derek Jeter returning to the Capital Region.

The Boulders, managed by former New York Yankee pitcher Dave LaPoint who was recently honored along with the rest -LSB-...]

Ronnie Cho, a former Obama White House staffer who attracted high profile support but on Monday had to backtrack from a claimed endorsement by Yankee great Derek Jeter, came in third - trailing Rivera and attorney Mary Silver.

Commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease (after the famed New York Yankee slugger who succumbed to it in 1941 at age 37), ALS is a poorly understood, incurable disorder characterized by the degeneration of motor neurons (nerve cells that control voluntary motion).

Entergy Corp., which last week received NRC approval for a 20 - year operating license extension at its Vermont Yankee plant, must in the wake of Japan's crisis obtain final approval from Vermont lawmakers, who last year voted against re-licensing the facility after 2012.

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This week, Deadline reports that Clooney is now attached to direct an adaptation of David Grann's New Yorker article, The Yankee Commandante, in which he explores the life of William Alexander Morgan, an American who helped Castro during the Cuban revolution, ultimately receiving the designation of Commandante only to be imprisoned under suspicion of spying and killed at the age of 32.