Sentences with phrase «big league baseball»

A middle - aged man with a fast arm gets a chance to play in big league baseball in The Rookie.

Big league baseball is no longer a novelty, but still the throngs spill into Los Angeles» Coliseum to watch the pennant race in the game's strangest but most exciting setting

I played football in college and big league baseball.

Why should big league baseball be the monopoly of the East?

Not exact matches

The move would make Powell Jobs one of the most influential female investors in America's «Big four» sports leagues — baseball, basketball, football, and hockey — which remain dominated by male ownership.

Soccer still hasn't become as entrenched as football, basketball, or baseball in the U.S. Major League Soccer has grown by leaps and bounds, and often sells out stadiums, but it doesn't generate anywhere close to the merchandise revenues or television fees that the big three pro leagues do.

Some of the biggest cracks so far have shown up at ESPN, the multi-billion dollar broadcasting behemoth controlling access to a huge swath of programming from almost every major sports franchise from the National Football League to Major League Baseball.

During the run - up to baseball's 2014 season, the big guys realized they couldn't ignore Meenan any longer, and he signed a licensing agreement with Major League Bbaseball's 2014 season, the big guys realized they couldn't ignore Meenan any longer, and he signed a licensing agreement with Major League BaseballBaseball.

Major League Baseball has partnered with tech giant Intel to bring some big surprises to this year's Home Run Derby and MLB All - Star Game.

Signing musicians to recording deals is like playing big - league baseball: Even future Hall of Famers retire with far more strikeouts than home runs.

As a former High School and college baseball umpire who volunteered many years as a Little League umpire and has been teaching new umpires in youth baseball now for twenty years AND a Roman Catholic I was thoroughly amused by Mr. Prothero's take on the Series game ending Obstruction call and his big picture analogy from the Vatican.

With Major League Baseball season officially kicked off, I say we celebrate with ballpark food for the big game.

A bumptious millionaire's money and a profound dislike for former bosses have helped build big - league baseball's most successful expansion club

Every baseball player is a unique snowflake, a thumbprint, a story that takes them from their first tee - ball game through their teen years, into their first professional experience, hundreds or thousands of miles from home, surrounded by peers who would all garrote each other to make the big leagues.

To have this type of incident happen at any time or place in baseball is unacceptable, but to have it happen on as big a stage as the World Series should have the league even more concerned and diligent about recourse.

In a less public way, other athletes from the nation's three biggest and most profitable leagues — the NBA, NFL and Major League Baseball — are suffering from a financial pandemic.

For the purpose of keeping parity in the league and to keep it from becoming major league baseball, a game for big market teams.

Even before pledging that baseball would investigate Belle's gambling, acting commissioner Bud Selig reminded the press that betting pools and friendly wagers are a part of every big league clubhouse.

The Cubs» long - awaited prospects arrived in the big leagues and matured immediately under new manager Joe Maddon, who has always looked, in his baseball cap and black - framed glasses, like a Dateline correspondent concealing a camera in his spectacles.

At baseball's annual winter meetings, you see, the National Association, which is the governing body of the minor leagues, honors someone as the King of Baseball at its big baseball's annual winter meetings, you see, the National Association, which is the governing body of the minor leagues, honors someone as the King of Baseball at its big Baseball at its big banquet.

When the renegade Federal League took the established baseball big leagues to court in a 1915 antitrust action, Landis delayed his ruling long enough that the frustrated Federal League officials — after 11 months of waiting — submitted to a buyout.

The announcer who keeps Spanish - speaking America al día with big - league baseball is broad - shouldered Buck Canel, a swivel - tongued, fortyish man with a slender black moustache.

We're going to skip the editorial and get right to the stories this morning, as baseball lost two players to car accidents in the Dominican Republic on Sunday morning: Royals» pitcher Yordano Ventura and former top prospect and infielder for a number of big - league teams, Andy Marte.

The superstar of the Little League World Series, Philadelphia pitcher Mo'Ne Davis, who hopes to go to UConn and play basketball for Geno Auriemma, has shown that she has all the tools to make it big in either baseball or basketball.

Imagine a National Baseball Clubhouse for anyone who has ever played in the big leagues: George Brett behind the bar, wiping out beer glasses with a pine - tar rag.

The 2017 - 2018 offseason is just the start of something bigger, something we haven't seen in Major League Baseball for decades.

The big three trap shooting programs — Del Oro, Granite Bay, and Woodcreek — all reside in the Sierra Foothill League when it comes to traditional sports such as football, baseball, and basketball, so the natural rivalry has carried over well to the trap range.

Says Coleman of the pattern he found in baseball suicides, «They get to the big leagues, something happens — an injury or a bad season — their career ends, and they have no safety net, no way of coping.»

That fact is bittersweet: Smoltz is delighted to have pitched for only one big league club but saddened that the economics of baseball have driven off his playmates.

Eight years after his last major league job, the once hard - living, big - winning manager Davey Johnson is trying to rally the underdog U.S. in what may be baseball's last Olympic stand

Sirs: As a baseball coach of 35 years standing, with a son in the Milwaukee system, I can say this about Big League Secrets: you have hit a home run with me.

Stratheads can simulate Negro leagues games ordrop players onto big league rosters of yesteryear to see what might havehappened if baseball hadn't waited until 1947 to integrate.

BIG LEAGUE SECRETS: CAUSE AND EFFECT Sirs: As an avid baseball fan, to whom the pitcher has always been the most interesting player on the team (I married one who gave it up to study medicine), I want you to know how much Sal Maglie's fine article (SI, March 17) will increase my enjoyment of the game.

The pursuit of Odom is the first step in Patterson's plan to transform the CBA from a forum for failed or fading pros into a farm system similar to baseball's minor leagues, which develop young players and are subsidized by big league organizations.

Darren Baker may have been born with a baseball in his hand and grew up in Major League Baseball clubhouses, but becoming a Division I signee and potential big leaguer was by no means a birbaseball in his hand and grew up in Major League Baseball clubhouses, but becoming a Division I signee and potential big leaguer was by no means a birBaseball clubhouses, but becoming a Division I signee and potential big leaguer was by no means a birthright.

In the American League the Yankees, dead six weeks earlier, effortlessly contained closing rallies by the White Sox and Orioles to win by the biggest one - game margin in baseball history.

Since the appointment of a new manager seems to act as an automatic hypo to asthmatic baseball squads and since the average big league manager makes $ 40,000 a year, why not let each team have a platoon of, say, four managers - each getting $ 10,000 a year?

Yadier Molina is 34 years old, which is not young for a baseball player, and has over 13,000 innings behind the plate just in his big - league career.

Big League Dreams works with tournament promoters from dozens of organizations that host youth baseball, youth fast...

Big League Dreams works with tournament promoters from dozens of organizations that host youth baseball, youth fast pitch softball, collegiate fast pitch softball and adult slow pitch softball.

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.

Started in 2006, the Raley Field High School Baseball Program invites local (and fairly distant) programs to partner with the pros to raise funds for their school and give their players a big - league experience.

It's entirely possible that Bregman has some sort of weakness that will be exposed by big - league pitchers, and baseball is really hard.

Immediate Big - League Future: There is no such thing as a sure thing in baseball.

For 37 years, the «Game of the Week» has been Saturday's national Main Street, a televised grandstand linking baseball to provinces hundreds of miles from the nearest big league city.

He's now the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, but he's almost as well - known for a code of behavior he wrote after he retired from the big leagues and agreed to coach his son's youth baseball team.

Baseball's Mike Matheny speaks with Fresh Air's Dave Davies about his playing career, managing in the big leagues and the pressures of youth sports.

RNA interference (RNAi), a technique for silencing genes that shows potential for treating diseases, has been like a hot baseball prospect who hasn't proven he can play in the big leagues.

In this episode, former big league pitcher Dr. Dave Baldwin talks about his run - in with Ted Williams, his life in science, the physics of the gyroball versus the slider, and how he finally made it to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

In 2004, she got her big break — a reporting job on ESPN National Hockey Night — and has since become a favorite sideline reporter for college football, the NFL and Major League Baseball.