Sentences with phrase «baseball commissioner»

and undertaken with the permission of baseball commissioner Bud Selig, found that every team in Major League Baseball had a connection to one of the players accused of using steroids.

Questioned By House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform chairman Henry Waxman, the accuracy of testimony given by baseball commissioner Bud Selig and union head Don Fehr during the March 2005 congressional steroid hearings, according to The New York Times.

A week after baseball commissioner Fay Vincent's action against New York Yankee owner George Steinbrenner (SCORECARD, Aug. 6), many questions, some of them troubling, remain:

The postponement of Monday night's Orioles game against the Chicago White Sox at Camden Yards because of escalating unrest stemming from the death of Freddie Gray last week has put the team's homestand in doubt, but new baseball commissioner Rob Manfred...

Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred said Tuesday all 30 teams will wear the Parkland school's hats during pregame warmups for their exhibition openers.

Besides Greenberg and Koufax, the film features such former players as Al Rosen and Shawn Green (who spoke after the screening in Atlanta and stayed around to sign autographs), along with players» union lawyer Marvin Miller (who belongs in the Hall of Fame for his impact on the game) and current baseball commissioner Bud Selig.

«Joe West is the most senior umpire in our ranks, having served MLB since 1976, under six different baseball commissioners.

• Arnold Weber (SCORECARD, Jan. 10), the president of Northwestern and a front - runner for the barely remembered office of baseball commissioner, is a member of the board of directors of the Tribune Co., which owns the Chicago Cubs and holds the telecast rights to seven major league teams.

[Thumb Down] To baseball commissioner Fay Vincent, for biting the hand that feeds the major leagues $ 100 million a year when he said at the winter meetings, «Where would ESPN be without baseball?

Rob Manfred, new baseball commissioner, sent the baseball - nerd world into a tizzy.

In the 1920s, Federal Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis took a second job as a Major League Baseball commissioner.

On the day Robinson visited the boyhood home of Jackie Robinson, there was a news release from the office of the baseball commissioner.

In Los Angeles, a widely heard rumor is that Ueberroth will only keep the baseball commissioner's seat warm, returning to California in either»86 or»88 to run for the Senate.

In 1935, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the baseball commissioner, barred Husing from covering the World Series for having called the umpiring in the previous Series «some of the worst I've ever seen.»

Ford Frick, baseball commissioner, has stated that there can be «no more of that kind of stuff.»

Remember when Ford Prick was baseball commissioner?

When Federal Judge Newell Edenfield upheld Bowie Kuhn's suspension of Ted Turner last week, the ruling was hailed as another triumph for the powers of the baseball commissioner.

At an event with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo at the governor's mansion, Piazza said the Mets never gained permission from the baseball commissioner to wear the caps of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the NYPD and the NYFD to honor the first responders at the game.

January 6, 2016 • Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens should be interrogated by the baseball commissioner the same way Pete Rose has been, opines sports commentator Frank Deford.