Sentences with phrase «around baseball in»

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With the first game of the World Series playoffs around the bend, it's hard not to feel the buildup of excitement for the baseball teams in the running.

Hall of Fame baseball player Cal Ripken Jr., is in the Twin Cities, and speaks about honoring teachers from around the U.S., as well as his best advice for saving money.

We're not sure what's in the water in Pennsylvania, but after one school district in the Keystone State distributed buckets of rocks around school to pelt shooters as a last resort, and another handed out tiny baseball bats to thwart would - be attackers, we asked readers what you thought of these...

They'd also make a perfect snack for when you're sitting around watching some Monday Night Football (or baseball or whatever sports is in season) and need something to munch on, don't ya think?!

As the years rolled on, I found myself sticking around to watch baseball games with my brother, homework in hand of course.

The food, the margs, riding around in a red convertible, soaking up the sunshine, swimming at night, baseball games, Mexican food, Froyo, plus a trip to Sprinkles cupcakes!

On occasion, baseball fields were laid out more or less side by side where we played, and if the game I was taking part in was not sufficiently interesting, I would turn around and watch another or pass the time with my neighboring exile, a forlorn and uncoordinated wretch who had been banished to the right field of his game.

Instead, he's a Traded Dodger Walking, and he might be a story we tell young baseball players around a campfire in a decade.

Even if you don't believe in the eight - win player that Baseball - Reference says he was in 2013, he's still the kind a team could build around.

A left - handed reliever with one of the highest strikeout rates in baseball over the last few years, also around for the next three seasons.

Pitchers who could make the rotations of 20 teams around baseball were going to start in the minors.

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.

Starting in the 1870's and 1880's, semi pro baseball leagues started sprouting up all around the country, it was a time that America was fiercely and proudly isolated from the rest of the world.

Over the years Simont has illustrated a variety of subjects for us, including motor sports (I still happily remember the girl in the towering straw hat in his drawings of Nassau's race week), football, bullfighting, dog racing and golf, but the greatest part of his work for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED has been in and around baseball.

His story strains credulity: After graduating from high school, he turned down a scholarship to Texas A&M and swore off the game; underwent treatment for drug abuse and depression; embarked on a four - year odyssey around the country in search of spiritual understanding before he was led back to baseball; was drafted in the 23rd round in 2010; then made the Braves» Opening Day roster a year after starting the»12 season in high A ball.

On the more serious side, he took an active role in the Indians» chapter of the Baseball Chapel, which he calls «one of the neatest things around.»

This is the story of how a grown man — a grown man with a mortgage, two kids and no time to screw around with baseball cards — fell in love with baseball cards for the first time.

He recedes into the Mets dugout for the top of the inning but then reemerges to do his Rock Around the Clock bit, in which he goes through all sorts of silly baseball gyrations to the tune of Bill Haley's 1955 hit.

That written, it's time to look at the holes every team still has around baseball, along with the ability of the team to fix the problem this late in the offseason.

Kershaw has leveled up enough to walk around bored in the RPG of baseball if he wants to, fighting random encounters by mashing the A-button repeatedly.

The pitcher in the first video looked like he just stepped off the teacup ride, disoriented and a little nauseous, as baseballs were knocked around the field.

«So was I.» But while Sain may have been ahead of his time, today many in and around baseball seem to think that Mazzone is behind.

Bowie's baseball coach made sure his players didn't wallow in want and ethnic victimization, diverting them instead with such requirements as daily classroom attendance, executing the hit - and - run and mastering the nuances of English by speaking nothing else around him.

A surprising amount of talent — 58 players in all — got shuffled around, especially by the Cards, at baseball's annual winter meetings in Dallas

I'm looking forward to joining hundreds of other baseball fans in ignoring the game for few minutes to turn around and look across the fence to the track around 7:35

The doctor had not been successful in his own handicapping — but was toying around with the idea of forecasting baseball games with a computer.

Unique baseball cultures developed in nearly every Latin American country, each built around early heroes who served as templates for later ones.

Then I had read somewhere that only about 7 % of all baseball rookiesever make it in the major leagues, and I thought about traveling around inbuses in the minors and I hate buses.

After all, the Gators and Demon Deacons have done far more sitting around waiting than actually playing the sport of baseball this weekend, and managing to control the ebbs and flows of one's emotions — from in - game preparedness and focus to the boredom of doing nothing at all — can probably run a player psychologically ragged.

Baseball can work around rain because the fields are state of the art and can generally get a game in despite mucky weather.

It's not a magic number, something you bounced around in your head as a kid while you stared at baseball cards.

This is fixed in time, the tetherball pole of the baseball universe, with everything spinning around it, as it remains forever still and unchanging.

So yes, you could argue that in a league where there is a crap ton of money floating around for owners that baseball clubs players are not making their fair share.

Remember that the Marlins aren't actively shopping Stanton and how it sure makes sense for the new owners to keep him around as an example of how baseball can be great in Miami.

It depends on which version of the 2016 team shows up, as they had the best record in baseball before the All - Star break, and were one of the more pathetic teams around after it.

Baseball stars, Children's books, Famous writers, Football stars, Popular baby names from around the world, Popular in Spain, U.S. presidents

At Briar Pointe Park off Heron Avenue, in the south part of the village, the Park District is creating a playground, gazebo, tennis court, multi-use court for in - line skating and basketball, a practice soccer field, a practice baseball field and a bicycle path around the perimeter of the 4.2 - acre property.

There's lots of different things they do on Papa time - this week has included a lot of baseball; a lot of dirty clothes; a little more time in the woods; nachos for lunch; trying to solve the Rubix Cube (I think Calvin's going to walk around muttering, «clockwise, clockwise, counterclockwise» until he solves it), and a healthy dose of You Tube too - this week, introducing the kids to the wonders of The Electric Company -(Knock Knock Rock, and One Word Comes After Another are the most requested around here - because Morgan Freeman is groovy).

A youth baseball game in Greely, Colo., ended in tears for its 10 - year - old players as they stood by and watched 20 adults in a brawl that resulted in a man getting kicked in the groin while other parents wrestled around on the ground.

I have our summer bucket list in a notebook that I carry around so that if bad weather cancels Jake's baseball game I can come up with an indoor activity to do.

At Briar Pointe Park off of Heron Avenue, in the south part of the village, the Park District is creating a playground, gazebo, tennis court, multi-use court for in - line skating and basketball, a practice soccer field, a practice baseball field and a bicycle path around the perimeter of the 4.2 - acre park.

The Center for Working Families is out with a report highlighting how the richest team in baseball enjoys spreading its wealth around New York's political landscape.

dialed Boomer and Craig up on Friday morning to discuss the inaugural Borough Cup Little League Baseball tournament, in which 150 teams around the city compete for a chance to compete in a championship -LSB-...]

dialed Boomer and Craig up on Friday morning to discuss the inaugural Borough Cup Little League Baseball tournament, in which 150 teams around the city compete for a chance to compete in a championship game at Yankee Stadium.

In the Long Beach Independent of May 2, 1948 — on the sports page — a columnist described an offer made by an inventor to baseball teams around the country.

In the 400 milliseconds it takes a professionally thrown fastball to reach the plate, the batter has to budget time for locating the baseball, identifying its spin, deciding whether and where to swing, and actually whipping the bat around to the right spot.

In our sheet analogy, these would appear as five additional wells created at specific locations around the bowling ball - baseball system.

There, a group of seven young men and one man in his 40s are gathered around O'Hearn, who is dressed in red denim jeans, black loafers, a snow cap, and a «Titan Tour 2015» baseball T - shirt bearing his power bodybuilding logo — the letters «PB» stuffed inside a Superman crest.

Each stroke leads to greater range of motion around the shoulder joint and through the torso and hips, which is particular helpful for sports that demand rotational motion like baseball, golf, or even the throwing motion in football.

Instead, this is about looking, feeling and performing like a million bucks — being able to leap out of bed in the morning, jump and click your heels together, and tackle the day; being able to not just see your grandkids hit a home run but actually be out on the baseball field throwing the ball around with them; being able to have sex, climb mountains, do triathlons, lift weights and experience life's adventures in your 70's, 80's, 90's and beyond.