Sentences with phrase «as professional baseball»

He's not a lawyer, judge or law professor — he's a 19 - year - old from Houston who has foregone college to start a career as a professional baseball player.

Frank Borghi, who played in goal when the USA beat England 1 - 0 in the 1950 World Cup Finals, began life as a professional baseball player and always preferred to the throw the ball out rather than kick it.

Not exact matches

As part of the expanded deal, MLB will continue to promote YouTube TV during the upcoming 2018 and 2019 World Series, while the streaming television service will use professional baseball players in its own advertising, among other promotional endeavors.

Much like professional baseball players are acutely aware of their offensive and defensive strengths, in sales it's important to recognize as early as possible what you're good at and what you need to improve.

Bell (TSX: BCE) also has been a rival in mobile television, but now Rogers can offer NHL and professional baseball content, as the owner of the Toronto Blue Jays.

More than a decade after leaving baseball, Cal Ripken serves as one of the best models for how to build a career after professional sports.

During a 20 - year career in professional baseball management, Skip served as CEO for five different franchises.

As a kid, Williams dreamed of playing professional baseball — he grew up loving the fast feet of Rickey Henderson and the 1980s Oakland Athletics — or becoming a teacher.

As a young professional baseball executive Skip made every leadership and workplace communication mistake in the book.

College basketball is very good, but professional basketball is almost as boring as baseball (at any level).

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

Entertainment Abounds While there are nearly two dozen activity options as part of the package, with everything from surf lessons to museums to professional baseball to trampoline and skate parks, I customized an action - packed itinerary that I knew would captivate my own family's imaginations and sense of adventure — one I felt exemplified the grandeur of the «Center of SoCal» package.

Since he was fired from his job as assistant general manager of the Baltimore Orioles in December 1995, Robinson has been unattached to a professional baseball team, and he has been home day after day.

If I wanted to be a disingenuous putz, I could pretend that comparison meant something (as if the bodies of a high schooler and a grown - ass professional athlete wouldn't be markedly different), and I could point out that Jones sure had a noticeable dip in production when he turned 32 and then suddenly got much better (as if that kind of variance doesn't happen in baseball all the freaking time).

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 International Academy of Professional Baseball, or La Academia, as it's known by its Spanish shorthand, is an attempt to bring Latin American player development into the 21st century (and, yes, to profit from the modernization).

JOHN WINTERHOLLER, WYOMING One of the best athletes ever to attend the University of Wyoming — he won 12 varsity letters, including four as a halfback in football — John Winterholler turned down offers to play professional baseball after graduation and went instead to Marine officer - training school.

It's worth pointing out, as our Florida blog did, that Tebow's four bombs this season give him more than Michael Jordan's three during his 1994 foray into professional baseball.

After trying professional baseball as a player (arm trouble forced his retirement after two years), he made it as an announcer via four - year stint in Midwest.

Less than a dozen have come along in the 100 years professional baseball has been played, less than a dozen, to carry the moving - picture analogy farther, who burst upon the scene as accomplished as young Spencer Tracys.

Robards credits his success on the diamond and as a leader to observing Elk Grove baseball greats form years past that have gone on to collegiate and even professional baseball success.

In the caddie shack he was known as a b.s. artist who talked a lot about his luxury yacht, his brother, Eddie, the baseball legend (the difference in spelling didn't come to light until later) and how he was going to make his fortune playing professional golf.

The Pelicans, who in their first year of play in 1870, as amateurs, lost to the Cincinnati Red Stockings 51 - 1, in 1887 issued first rain check in professional baseball (existing custom had been to take a fan's word for it that he had suffered from a rain - out), stoutly continued to play during raging yellow fever epidemic of 1905, stumbled on even when their home park was sold out from under them for a motel site in 1958.

Vincent Edward (Bo) Jackson of the Kansas City Royals hasn't even played 100 games as a professional, and already he's on his way to joining Reggie and Fernando as the only baseball players everyone knows by their first name.

As the business of baseball evolved and the professional leagues stopped hiring castoffs from vaudeville, the umpire's apparel became less formal and more functional.

As kids often choose a preferred group of players to cheer for on the football field, baseball diamond, or basketball court, young golfers have only individuals to follow and root for on the professional tours.

Olympic athletes, NFL teams and Major League Baseball have all strongly embraced sport psychology professionals as core members of their athlete development staffs.

Baseball is arguably the most profitable sport for professionals, as the strenuous 2,430 - game MLB schedule creates ample opportunity for shrewd bettors to pinpoint and exploit mispriced lines.

In»54 Bauman became the only one of the hundreds of thousands of men who have played professional baseball in the U.S to hit as many as 70 homers in one season.

The pres and many sportsmen savagely denoun ed the proposal for fear that professional baseball as well as the Olympics would be tainted with gambling.

As a professional Hitting Coach, Division I Hitting Coach and an Associate Scout for the Detroit Tigers, Coach Lisle has worked with every level of hitter from the big leagues to the little leagues in both baseball and softball.

«I've done all kinds of cool things as an actor: I've jumped out of helicopters and done some daring stunts and played baseball in a professional stadium, but none of it means anything compared to being somebody's daddy,» Chris Pratt said about his toddler son, Jack, whom he had with then - wife Anna Faris.

As a former public address announcer for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball and Chicago Wolves of the American Hockey League, Mike has seen his fair share of reactions in professional sports.

The Professional Baseball Athletic Trainer's Society website serves as a portal to excellent internship opportunities for students and young professionals year in and year out.

PBATS serves its members by providing for the continued education of the athletic trainer as it relates to the profession, helping to improve their understanding of sports medicine so as to better promote the health of the constituency — professional baseball players.

The mission of the Professional Baseball Athletic Trainers Society (PBATS) is to serve as an educational resource for the Major League and Minor League Baseball athletic trainers.

As an entertainment franchise, the Syracuse Chiefs, Syracuse's Triple - A professional baseball team, are in a challenging situation — trying to generate attendance and fan loyalty when the performance of the team is a byproduct of the decisions made by its parent organization, the Washington Nationals.

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

In this day and age of pampered, over-compensated (and occasionally criminal) professional athletes, Mr. Bell appears to deserve his reputation as «the nicest guy in baseball.»

Vinci uses the patterns for professional baseball gloves to make these glove as professional grade as they can.

Small, an expert on the brain imaging of human behavior, uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study how the brain of professional athletes plans complex movements, such as swinging a baseball bat.

«I've done all kinds of cool things as an actor — I've jumped out of helicopters and done some daring stunts and played baseball in a professional stadium, but none of it means anything compared to being somebody's daddy,» Pratt said.

Steroid use soon became rampant in weightlifting, bodybuilding (along with many other professional sports such as football and baseball) and has been so ever since.

After grad school he went on to professional baseball where he worked for 3 years as a strength and conditioning coach.

Inside the Interwebs About Blog Rays Index is an independent sports blog, that covers The Tampa Bay Rays Professional Baseball Club as well as their minor league affiliates.

Mexico About Blog The world's leading English - language source for news on professional baseball in Mexico, where there's no such thing as an off - season..

Mexico About Blog The world's leading English - language source for news on professional baseball in Mexico, where there's no such thing as an off - season..

Inside the Interwebs About Blog Rays Index is an independent sports blog, that covers The Tampa Bay Rays Professional Baseball Club as well as their minor league affiliates.

Based on a true story, Million Dollar Arm follows struggling sports agent J.B. Bernstein (Jon Hamm) as he hatches a scheme to transform two Indian athletes into professional baseball players.

Standing over the charred remains of her house, they discuss a prized baseball that's been passed down through several generations of her husband's family, which she eventually sells to a professional collector, Will (Jon Hamm), who works through his own misery and regret, such as his unresolved feelings over an ex-wife.