Sentences with phrase «at baseball games in»

Whit Stillman is a director fascinated by the idea of people gladly displaced from their own time: foppish debutantes abide by romantic era courting rituals in»90s Manhattan in Metropolitan; a good old limbo contest trumps modern jazz in Barcelona; and lovers of disco music band together while boxes of wax platters are torched at baseball games in The Last Days of Disco.

What do you give away at a baseball game in Texas?

You can see this at a baseball game in Los Angeles or a subway train in Oakland where Samoan, Chinese, Vietnamese, Indian, Filipino and a dozen other «hyphen Americans» represent the community's broad diversity.

Not exact matches

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.

This weekend pays tribute to a specific era, 1985 - 89, and features a host of initiatives like cars with old - school car paint schemes, commemorative ticket and program designs, specially - designed apparel, retro food offerings at the track... unlike, say, baseball or football throw - back games where the only real change is the team's uniforms, Darlington and its partners goes all in.

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.

You, on the other hand, make a mean Saturday - afternoon BLT and have been known to occasionally indulge in a hot dog at a baseball game.

Theres no escaping Christmas, the holy music you hear in stores, people handing out jesus saves fliers, and the singing if God Bless America at every baseball and football game halftime in the last 10 years.

At least in the baseball game there is entertainment value... the church has lost it's entertainment value just under 6000 years ago except for the times they massacred or indoctrinated entire civilizations in the new world....

I only watch baseball if the Cubs are involved in an important game, which means I go years at a time without watching baseball.

This is also a great potato salad to brighten your winter, take to a spring baseball game, bring as a potluck for a summer picnic or tailgating at a football game in the fall.

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!

But my most vivid memory is from a baseball game in thelate 1960s at the University of Miami, when head coach Ron Fraser was knockedunconscious by a line - drive foul ball while in the third base coaching box (Hitin the Head, April 20).

For at least 33 percent of every game, the Yankees will have three pitchers among the best in baseball at limiting runs.

The odds are at least decent that you saw a dumb run like that in the last baseball game you watched.

The over / under was set at 2 minutes, 1 second, following Idina Menzel's 2:01 performance in the Major League Baseball All Star Game this past summer.

I feel comfortable in this assessment because when I first read about the young girl at Yankee Stadium, I was watching a baseball game from behind a protective net.

They're playing much better baseball than you would suspect given their run differential, too: the Giants have given up at least 10 runs in four games this year, losing all of them by a combined score of 51 - 20.

Harvey's Legacy Harvey Haddix, who died of emphysema last week at age 68, will forever be remembered for the 12 innings of perfect baseball he threw for the Pittsburgh Pirates on May 26, 1959, arguably the best - pitched game in history.

Unless you're some sort of phenom, odds are good that if you are headed to a quality four year baseball program, you're not going to see a lot of the field for the first two years; you may possibly even redshirt as a freshman and not get any game action in at all.

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.

The Cardinals opened the season at 12/1 to win the title, but with a 19 - 6 start through the first 25 games of the season and the lowest team ERA in baseball at 2.44 the Cards have moved their way up the betting board.

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.

• Mayock, a college safety at Boston College, on his draft day — April 29, 1981, when he was chosen in the 10th round, by the Steelers, 265th overall, just 257 picks after a slightly more famous defensive back in the draft, Ronnie Lott: «I was the captain of the Boston College baseball team, and we had games on both days.

According to a 1979 study of 39 professional baseball games, 77 % of the fights in the stands occurred in the least expensive seats; 69 % happened at night; and 70 % in the last four innings, when alcohol had taken hold.

When he stands in the first or third base box, yelling, sleeping, blowing kisses, spraying water, there is an actual baseball game going on, and some managers — Gene Mauch and the late Paul Richards, for instance — tried at various times to keep Max from taking the field.

Now Cleveland I don't want to tell you how to play baseball, give you're arguably the best team in the game, but maybe stop swinging at splitters that are hitting the ground.

In the manner of the NHL and the NBA, baseball has decided to let no game go unmediated; no inning, no at bat, no single moment is allowed to pass without a deafening infusion of prerecorded enthusiasm.

It's no use predicting winners at this point, though: anything can happen in a single baseball game, and what happens in Wednesday's will determine who is going home whether it was fair, fluky, or expected.

Ken Harrelson of the Athletics told everyone he would win the baseball players» golf tournament in Miami, and he did — just as he has been beating people at the game of their choice for most of his 24 years

He'd played on a baseball team in Australia, where parents applauded and cooed, «Awwww, bad luck, mate,» whenever a boy or girl on his team swung and missed by a foot — and he'd played on a traveling AAU baseball team in the U.S., where parents stormed the dugout and seethed at coaches for pulling their sons out of games so benchwarmers could have a chance.

Listen, Derek Jeter stopped being a shortstop at least a decade ago, and the Yankees still let him play there in actual baseball games.

It reminded me of the heckling my friends and I used to do in college at baseball games: If we stuck to straightforward and somewhat devastating statements without any vulgarity, security couldn't make us leave.

Why you should watch: Football games in baseball stadiums might not be for everyone, but something about events at Yankee Stadium in cold weather makes it hard to look away.

Baseball has been my first love since somewhere in 1983, when I flipped on a Dodgers - Cardinals game at 8 years old and chose LA because I liked blue more than red.

The umpires took a look at Bauer's fingers and agreed that yes, this was definitely gross and shouldn't be happening in a baseball game.

«I do want to be remembered as someone who is madly in love with the game of baseball, someone who loves it at every level,» Rodriguez said.

Johnny Manziel isn't just good at making headlines for partying in Las Vegas or taking a bunch of girls to a baseball game.

The 2016 major league baseball season is officially underway, with Francisco Liriano the driving force behind the Pittsburgh Pirates» 4 - 1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday afternoon at PNC Park in the first game of the season.

At Bronco Baseball Academy, we believe that every camper can improve their skills, have fun with friends, and increase their love of the game in a fun, safe, and challenging environment.

Of course, you know the San Diego Chicken, the clown in fowl costume who entertains crowds, mainly at baseball games.

And the baseball that evening and the next two was sublime: a gem by Roger Clemens followed by two games in which the Yankees got last - at - bat hits to avoid defeat.

The best seats in baseball are still at Tiger Stadium, maybe 10,000 of them that put the spectator closer to the game than he would be at any other stadium.

Unlike baseball where the home team receives the last at bat of every game, there is no tangible in - game advantage to home field advantage in football with the exception of crowd noise.

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.

Today, in London alone there are 380 soccer fields, and the attendance last season at games played by teams of Great Britain's four major leagues was more than 34 million — more than twice as many as attended major league baseball games in the U.S. this year.

Things get started on Tuesday night with the American League Wild Card Game at Yankee Stadium, with the New York Yankees hosting the Minnesota Twins, the latter the first team in baseball history to reach the postseason one season after losing 100 games.

But in Givins's senior year at Lakewood High, he struck out twice in one game and decided baseball wasn't for him.

Tommy Jones, his manager at Class AA Memphis for two months last summer, observed that Jackson probably reached the majors with less baseball experience — 89 games in college, 53 with the Chicks — than any hitter since Eddie Gaedel.

A spot behind or next to a dugout gives a baseball fan the opportunity to see a ballplayer sweat, hear what little infield chatter remains in the game and dodge potentially lethal projectiles whizzing at more than 100 mph.