Sentences with phrase «era of baseball»

After the second world war's end, baseball players left the trenches for the baseball field and the modern era of baseball began.

Yet in an era of baseball dominance rivaling Andy Reid's early Eagles and Allen Iverson's Sixers, none of us expected to be zooming down Broad Street one night in 2008.

Before the modern era of baseball (since 1901) Cleveland (in N.L.) won only 20 of 154 games in 1899.

Not exact matches

The Civil War, Baseball and Jazz are just a few of the incredible deep dives he has done into the eras and moments that define who we are as Americans.

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.

It reminds me of the steroids era in 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.

So for now, give me Salazar over all the above because of that full win he has over almost everyone according to Baseball - Reference's WAR, the league - leading ERA and ERA +, and as a general nod to the entire Indians» rotation, which has been stunning.

He's the best pitcher in baseball, and it's why he's the proud owner of a 0.91 ERA, which is the lowest in the NL, obviously.

Pete Rose is the all - time leader for hits in Major League Baseball history, and that's indisputable, but what Ichiro did, spanning two decades and two countries, in an era of LOOGYs and power closers, while performing at a high level and not writing himself into the lineup, just might be more impressive.

The proper analog would be 1968, when the entire National League had a collective 2.99 ERA, which was boring as heck and followed by Major League Baseball lowering the height of the pitcher's mound.

A finalist to be the Mr. Baseball State Player of the Year, Gambrell led Buchanan by going 12 - 0 on the mound with a 0.69 ERA.

If dingers are a rare, desirable commodity in this pitching - friendly era, the Diamondbacks will have an advantage over most of the teams in baseball.

Here we have one of the worst hitters in baseball history, a symbol of the post-Mays era, a player who was booed so much by San Francisco fans that he once took the field with «BOO» stitched on the back of his jersey, and one of my favorite players as an adolescent.

And Giancarlo Stanton will have played in one of the highest home run eras of all time, with a suspect baseball that just might be different.

«I was nearly run out of baseball in 1986 for having a 4.50 ERA,» Eckersley says.

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.

Piazza and Stewart discussed his new book, Long Shot, steroid use in baseball and the Hall of Fame shutting out steroid - era players.

If the era of contending Royals baseball is going to continue, it's going to look a lot different.

But it's a rising generation of good young pitchers that may be driving baseball into an era in which the little things matter again

In fact, a lot of baseball writers have actively worked to eliminate that era from the history books.

There were other moves and events that probably signaled this era of contending Reds baseball was probably over.

The best pitcher in baseball has the lowest career ERA (2.60 in his six seasons) of any starter in the live - ball eERA (2.60 in his six seasons) of any starter in the live - ball eraera.

The allure of 2:55 games isn't enough to make anyone rethink their distaste of the steroid era and start considering it to be baseball's golden age.

He was one of baseball's best pitchers in the second half last season and finished the year with a 9 - 12 record but a respectable 3.61 ERA.

Maddon and VP of baseball operations Andrew Friedman have once again shown that you don't need big dollars to get small relief ERAs.

It would be short - sighted to believe the Nationals will continue to lose 80 % of Edwin Jackson's starts if his ERA remains close to 3 and it would be downright foolish to assume Lincecum will remain one of the worst pitchers in baseball — even if he's not always a good bet.

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With baseball's bestpair of aces (lefthanders Johan Santana and Francisco Liriano, who were acombined 14 — 2 with a 2.06 ERA since May 19), a superior defense and a balancedlineup (since June 8 they've led the majors with a.371 on - base percentage andranked second with a.295 average), Minnesota marched into the All - Star breakas baseball's hottest team, winning 22 of its last 28.

The league probably realized that many elements of the steroid era were good for ratings and if you don't want players juicing, why not juice the baseball?

I'd imagine that if baseball has another season where the baseball flies out of the ballpark at a historic rate, then we'll probably end up seeing MLB enter into the Humidor Era for 2019.

The IRS couldn't touch his baseball pension of $ 37,000 a year, his reward for a lifetime 133 - 131 record and 3.30 ERA.

Shields has been one of the 10 best pitchers in baseball by ERA + since 2011.

As a senior at Wichita State in 1993, playing in his hometown, at the school where his father, John, was and still is a professor of history, Darren went 11 - 1 with a 2.48 ERA and, as the Shockers» DH, batted.327 with 22 homers and 66 RBIs; his accomplishments won him the Golden Spikes Award as baseball's top amateur player.

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.

He has the third - highest ERA of any starter with 50 starts or more since 2014, and the two pitchers with worse ERAs are a non-roster invitee (Kyle Kendrick) and someone who's out of baseball (Tim Lincecum).

HUNTER SCHILPEROORT Westmont - Campbell — Baseball — Senior The dominant two - way player earned multiple Player of the Year honors after posting a 9 - 2 record with a 0.79 ERA with 86 strikeouts in 79 innings, and logging a pair of postseason shutouts, including a no - hitter against Santa Clara.

The steroid era sure seems like it was the era of steroids, but it's still probably improperly named, since there were plenty of other aspects at play that caused offense to rise: smaller ballparks, multiple expansions in the decade that (temporarily) diluted the talent pool in MLB, and juiced baseballs as proven by studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and written about by Jay Jaffe.

Gray spent all of 2014 at AA Tulsa and posted 22.2 % strikeout rate, 8.1 % walk rate, a 1.19 WHIP, a 3.91 ERA and a 3.43 FIP in 124.1 innings pitched in his age 22 season in a league with an average age of 24.5 according to Baseball America.

Jim Rome On Showtime, Season 3, Episode 1: Former Chicago White Sox slugger Frank Thomas calls out Skip Bayless for questioning his accomplishments during the «steroid era» of baseball.

Brad Pitt makes it look effortless in Moneyball (Sony), a drama about the business of baseball in the era of multi-million dollar payrolls based on the non-fiction bestseller by Michael Lewis.

While the early years of Major League Baseball might be looked upon as a Golden Era to many historians, one can not overlook the fact that some of the game's best players never qualified to compete for the World Series simply because of the color of their skin.

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.

With its fascinating details about life as a black person in America, from Jim Crow through the current baseball era, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the history of baseball, African Americans and race.

Robert Weintraub, author of The House that Ruth Built, returns to the subject of baseball, shedding light on an era that new generations of baseball fans never experienced and will doubtless be fascinated by.

Ken Moraff in Ithaca, New York, whose winning book is It Happened in Wisconsin, is the general fiction category winner, about a Depression - era baseball team and the dynamics of its players relationships.

With more than 2,000 players to choose from, you'll have the opportunity to select players from the pages of baseball history — from legendary greats like Jackie Robinson to the brightest stars of the modern era like Ken Griffey Jr. — to answer some of baseball's greatest questions...

Before the modern era of handheld consoles, quality portable baseball simulations were few and far between.

RAYMOND PETTIBON A beloved figure among artists, Raymond Pettibon's drawings are existentially irreverent, political and poignant, mining music subcultures, baseball and the era's perpetual state of war.

Presenting the work of a true American original, an umpire turned artist whose hand - painted baseballs capture the nostalgic magic of a golden era.