Sentences with phrase «baseball history when»

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Baseball had a whiff of offense in their air during a cold and wet April, when strikeouts exceeded hits during a full calendar month for the first time in the sport's nearly century - and - a-half history, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

Baseball had a whiff of offense in their air during a cold and wet April, when strikeouts exceeded hits during a full calendar month for the first time in the sport's nearly century - and - a-half history, according to...

I know there are those who will accuse me of exaggeration when I say this, but, until baseball appeared, humans were a sad and benighted lot, lost in the labyrinth of matter, dimly and achingly aware of something incandescently beautiful and unattainable, something infinitely desirable shining up above in the empyrean of the ideas; but, throughout most of the history of the race, no culture was able to produce more than a shadowy sketch of whatever glorious mystery prompted those nameless longings.

When it comes to baseball history, these are already two of the longest championship droughts that have ever existed in the sport.

It's perfectly fine if this is the end: A-Rod is one of the greatest players in baseball history, a lightning rod in the industry well before PEDs ever came up, and he did his time when he was caught with them, anyway — well, when MLB obstructed a federal investigation to make sure he was caught with them so Bud Selig could use his last year as commissioner as a victory lap, but who remembers such unimportant details?

When the history of 2015 is written, when the confetti is swept up and the championship T - shirts are all sold, we'll get a chance to reflect on all the special baseball stories and sort them in order of importaWhen the history of 2015 is written, when the confetti is swept up and the championship T - shirts are all sold, we'll get a chance to reflect on all the special baseball stories and sort them in order of importawhen the confetti is swept up and the championship T - shirts are all sold, we'll get a chance to reflect on all the special baseball stories and sort them in order of importance.

Baseball fans were buzzing after Friday night's game when Derek Jeter surpassed Lou Gerig's record for the most hits in Yankee history.

Baseball legend Satchel Paige, one of the greatest pitcher in the history of the sport, had a simple philosophy when it came to pitching: Keep the ball away from the bat.

I guess those people are completely zoned out to the history of major league baseball when they've never heard of Sandy Koufax or Sandy Alomar Jr..

Ozzie Guillen was the first Latino professional baseball manager to ever win the World Championship, and that alone is a striking accomplishment when looking at the history of the sport and how discriminatory it used to be.

When Dean was in tenth grade, his father started teaching American and Bible history at Gospel Light, and it would have been easy enough for him to let Dean play baseball after school and then drive the boy home at the end of the day, but his father insisted on leaving school at three o'clock so he could go home and read in his study.