Sentences with phrase «beginning of baseball»

It'll be a boring few months as we wait for the beginning of baseball season.

It also heralds the Stanley Cup playoffs and the beginning of the baseball season, but that's a different blog for a different day.

WAMC's Dr. Alan Chartock discusses the beginning of baseball season, President Donald Trump's comments regarding fraudulent voting and rapists from Mexico, and Trump's statement that he did not know about his lawyer's payoff to Stormy Daniels.

I opened the WRSU feed expecting to hear the beginning of the baseball game and it was 12 - 0 RU in LAX.

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In the early 1960s, it began making wallets out of the hard, durable leather used in baseball mitts.

Ruth rose above his humble beginnings, inspired thousands and became one of the greatest baseball players of all time.

The network, which launched at the beginning of this year, has big - name investors including Derek Jeter, the retiring New York Yankee baseball player.

Looking for symptoms of my own I realized that I'd begun to find baseball a bit boring.

«So if you want to play [fantasy] baseball, you can play today's games; you don't have to start at the beginning of the season.»

On Watch, which Facebook began testing earlier this month, more than 2 billion users can see hundreds of shows from the likes of Vox, Buzzfeed, Discovery Communications (disca), Walt Disney's (dis) ABC as well as live sports like Major League Baseball.

The beginning of March signals the start of preseason exhibition games for Major League Baseball...

With over half of the team's season tickets sold by brokers the team stands to make a large profit off of the booming business of resale., signalling the beginning of a new era of Canadian baseball business.

Jose Canseco, former baseball pro: «It is the end of the beginning for cryptocurrency, bitcoin at $ 10k by New Years Eve»

In the 1960s, when many of professional baseball's earliest heroes began passing away — starting with Ty Cobb in 1961 — Ritter embarked on a five - year, 75,000 - mile journey, criss - crossing the country in search of the stars of yesteryear.

I know, like when they aborted the 1994 World Series on September 14 of that year due to an ongoing strike by the Major League Baseball Players Association, which had begun on August 12.

My baseball fever began to rise in 1957, when I was six and the O's managed to play.500 ball over the course of the then - 154 game season.

Detroit was still in first place, but the student of baseball was beginning to nod his head knowingly.

In hearings scheduled to begin this week, a congressional committee attempts to discover how far the stain of steroids has spread over baseball

So in reality, 16 games of poor baseball is not even beginning to approach the level of mediocrity we saw for over half of last year.

Through trades and purchases these two rogues began building a team that would lead the borough out of the baseball boondocks.

After the Black Sox scandal in 1919, states began passing athletic bribery laws, but most of them related only to baseball.

An exciting part of September baseball is watching teams clinch their berths in the postseason and seeing the stories of the playoffs begin to form throughout the month.

Conductor Erich Leinsdorf showed up in Houston the other day to begin rehearsals for the opening of the local symphony season, but music took second fiddle to another Leinsdorf love: baseball.

The two began discussing passing mechanics, and soon Harbaugh and another quarterback, Bubby Brister, were behind the centerfield wall of an old baseball stadium getting a 90 - minute lesson from Walsh on drops and footwork.

SABERMETRICS — THE ADVANCED, computerized and occasionally counterintuitive analysis of baseball statistics — is beginning to take hold in Cuba.

He began playing in the peewee baseball league at the age of seven, a year before he was really eligible.

OL' CASE TAKES THE YOUNG «UNS ASIDE Charles Dillon Stengel set up shop in St. Petersburg, Fla. last week, fully three weeks before the major league training season begins, to look over 30 - odd young baseball players who hope some day to take permanent possession of the revered New York Yankee uniforms they are now wearing.

Then, after I fax my ballot to the secretary of the Baseball Writers» Association of America, I'll begin contemplating the 2014, 2015 and 2016 Hall of Fame ballots.

While steroid testing with penalties seems to be the default answer to every change in baseball since the drug - screening era began in 2004, the biggest change in how the game is played is the proliferation of strikeouts.

My baseball - induced anxiety began this fall when Derek Jeter — the new owner of the Marlins and, it turns out, their Supreme Dismantler — let Giancarlo Stanton, the Marlins» biggest boy, walk up the Eastern Seaboard and into a pair of pinstriped pants.

9 Alexander Cartwright The New York - born author of modern baseball rules is buried in Honolulu, where he began teaching the sport to kids on his way home from an aborted visit to China in 1849 and decided to stay.

Gallaraga saved that MLB a lot of trouble that might have endured if fans and players began questioning the integrity of umpires and not understanding why baseball is the only sport that doesn't use instant replay.

If I gave in and began negotiating baseball contracts through an agent, then I set a precedent that's going to bring awful pain to general managers for years to come, because every salary negotiation with every humpty - dumpty fourth - string catcher is going to run into months of dickering.

In December of 1968, the rules committee of major league baseball voted to shrink the strike zone and lower the pitcher's mound, beginning with the 1969 season.

The outspoken general manager of the Dodgers, currently baseball's most successful executive, begins a four - part series on his joys and troubles in the front office with an account of the famous contract hassle in which pitching stars Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale «came at me as a pair»

The bombshell was still whistling eight days later, when the baseball season was scheduled to begin, bringing with it relief from the roil of real life.

And since we've been part of the process of compiling the FAB 50 national rankings (beginning in 1999), the WCAL really has no peer for baseball in the entire country.

In fact, I asked our press department recently to study the idea of the commissioner not giving any interviews during the baseball season, that maybe once the game begins, administrators should try and take a backseat.

And so began a typical Friday morning conversation on National Public Radio's (NPR) Morning Edition between host Bob Edwards and Baseball Hall of Fame announcer Red Barber.

-- A big home series for the U of L baseball team against Virginia begins tonight.

Update: On August 1, 2012, USA Baseball announced in Salt Lake City that Anna had been selected as a member of the 20 - player 2012 Women's National Baseball Team, which will head to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada for World Cup competition scheduled to begin on Friday, August 10, 2012.

NEW LENOX — Weary of the hassles over space and scheduling created by dealing with two rival youth baseball associations, New Lenox park commissioners want to see the two groups begin a dialogue.

The $ 1.7 million project, awarded to Lamp of Chicago, will begin after the summer season and is expected to be ready for use when the baseball season begins in 2001, said Jerry Handlon, parks executive director.

PARK RIDGE — The Park Ridge Park District will begin collecting a $ 3 fee for each member of its outdoor affiliate programs, including youth baseball, football and soccer teams.

The day the Tribune began making calls about the condition of Columbus Park baseball diamonds, park district workers went out to try and prepare the fields.

Ty Cobb was a former baseball hall of Famer, although he began to gain a reputation for violence and racism, which may have deterred some from using the name.

She had a menengioma tumor the size of a baseball removed summer 2013 and had a lot of infections after and has only recently begun to walk again.

Before I began my journey and my quest in natural bodybuilding I played numerous sports growing up as a kid beginning with baseball at the age of 5, I also picked up and played basketball and football.

With seemingly nothing else going on in her life, Lisa takes the questionable step of moving in with Matty Reynolds (Owen Wilson), a star Major League Baseball relief pitcher she has recently and casually begun dating.

In the fashion of the television show, The Wonder Years, Scotty Smalls (Tom Guiry) begins the movie as an adult, and starts reminiscing about a summer when baseball was the only reason for a young boy to live.