Sentences with phrase «ex-big leaguer»

We rounded up 30 of the smartest celebrities in Hollywood who are high - school valedictorians, Ivy Leaguers, MENSA members, and certified geniuses in their own right.

Hard - core leaguers can tweet about their picks and pans — and follow all the action — via #FortuneLeague.

«She wasn't your typical ivy leaguer.

He's been an All Star every year since he became a full - time big leaguer and has finished either first or second in AL MVP voting every year he's been eligible for the award.

With baseball season opening, it's time to take a look at the homes owned or recently sold by 10 current or ex-major leaguers.

U of T and Cornell shared the 16th last year, but now Toronto has edged the Ivy - leaguer into 17th place and remains among the Top 20 for the third year in a row.

Because of that, he drew the attention of people from all walks of life who were much smarter than him, from executives, ivy leaguers, programmers, doctorates, attorneys, bankers and more.

Of course, you don't need to be an east coast Ivy Leaguer to make it on Wall Street.

The culture of our corporations is shot through with the type of mild retardation that only Ivy Leaguers possess.

I like to think of it the way ex-big leaguer Jim Bouton talked about pitching.

Among those roughly 75 men are lawyers, a medical doctor, a congressional staffer, professional musicians, a radio host, several PhDs and professors, a particle physicist from Stanford, a former Google employee, a dean of admissions at a medical school, Ivy Leaguers, Golden Domers, and more who were successful in the world, but sought a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ and his Church, and desired to serve his people.

That opened a legal niche to be quickly filled by younger, more aggressive, firms formed (as Lincoln Caplan points out in his chronicle of the rise of the Skadden firm) by Catholics, Jews, and non-Ivy Leaguers who had been snubbed by old - line firms.

Becky [my classmate and fellow Luther Leaguer] picked $ 12.00 worth!»

Maudoodi entered the lists against the Muslim wing of the Indian National Congress by writing a book on Muslims and the Present Political Struggle, in which he argued so forcefully against the stand taken by the Muslim Congress that the Muslim Leaguers hoped he would come over to support the Pakistan movement.

I grew up rooting for the Celtics so I have hated the Knicks ever since another Ivy Leaguer, Princeton's Bill Bradley, patrolled Madison Square Garden in the 1970s.

They always make it sound like they hang with the «major - leaguers»

«Now lithe and listen lordlings, while the Christians» hap I tell, That, as they lay in leaguer, from hunger them befell.

Sorry guys didn't know we had a bunch of Ivy leaguers on here follow all of this dbags 400 page papers about stuff no one cares about.

Since it opened in 1986, Mike Shannon's Steakhouse and Seafood has been a destination for locals and visitors looking to mark a special occasion and admire the retired major leaguer's one - of - a-kind collection of baseball memorabilia.

Lester sat there in 2004, a minor leaguer controlled by a franchise of doom, watching as the doom swirled around his parent club, knowing what to expect, the pain that was going to happen.

But the only other minor leaguer who can fill a similar role to Fisher is Kemp and I'm pretty sure they're higher on Fisher.

Prior to the postseason, Marwin Gonzalez had fielded 77 chances in the outfield as a major leaguer.

It was also a value win for the Pirates, in that they received three major league players who each retain very high upside and have already established themselves as «good major leaguers» at worst, plus an interesting and toolsy prospect.

He became a highly skilled major leaguer only after years of hard work.

You won't give him credit for throwing as many D - leaguers in the mix as he could to unearth a free, high - quality acquisition like Covington.

A team that's waiting for its stars to come around is much more dangerous than a team waiting for mediocre players and random minor leaguers to assert themselves.

Rob Manfred and Tony Clark will text back and forth about different things they can take from amateur players and minor leaguers until there's a compromise.

It said that Frank Robinson had been named director of baseball operations of the Arizona Fall League, an eight - week developmental league for minor leaguers showing particular promise.

But if you want a player after July 31, those major leaguers will have needed to pass through revocable waivers first.

Very, very rarely, they turn into major leaguers as valuable as Cole Hamels.

Why, even among Ivy Leaguers, who connects Princeton with Woodrow Wilson anymore since Bill Bradley took Old Nassau to the Final Four?

Helloo Suburbs Leaguers.

They along with Danny Kostas have joined forces with a few of Team Goldin's Chicago Hoops Leaguers — Brandon Lathon and Justin Cornelius — along with some All Sports Series Rooks..

However, the Cal State Fullerton - commit already has shown a level of maturity that would be the envy of any big leaguer.

Minor leaguers (who don't have a union) can get heavy suspensions for weed, but there's nothing in MLB's Joint Drug Prevention and Treatment Program that says big leaguers can get suspended for it.

Well, two weeks into the 2016 season, Team Darcy has defeated Team Lalez (who have won 4 total All Sports Crowns), and Team Cohen, which was laced with former NBA D - leaguers on Tuesday night.

A graceful fielder and a stylish lefthanded hitter, Terry was the last National Leaguer to hit.400 in a season -LRB-.401 in 1930).

$ 14,303 to former Maryland center and current G - Leaguer Diamond Stone, who signed with another agency out of college.

They are all sons of former major leaguer Jose Ortiz, who also was once MVP of the Pacific Coast League for the Sacramento River Cats in 2000.

Major league baseball's annual ritual for drafting minor leaguers is here again — with memory tests for the tappers

In his first four seasons as a major - leaguer, first with the New York Mets and since 1972 with the Expos, Foli managed to get into more fights with opposing players, umpires, and even his own teammates, and to hit more innocent bystanders with thrown helmets, bats and balls than the average high - spirited player might in a 20 - year career.

The workshop included a trip to a Rockies — Red Sox game at Fenway Park and a three - part assignment: tape a stand - up introduction, interview a player in the seats and jostle for position during batting practice to grab a big leaguer for questions.

On a much smaller scale, Torii Hunter and Astros pitcher LaTroy Hawkins recall the story of a former major leaguer from the Dominican Republic whose adviser took care of all his financial matters.

There are 198 men in the Hall of Fame, but only one other major leaguer, pitcher Wilmer (Vinegar Bend) Mizell, has ever had a vote under the Capitol dome.

I figured it would take a lot more than two minor leaguers to get Harold Baines.»

I think meals [that are healthy] would be great [for the minor leaguers to have].

Do you think MLB and MiLB should do more to ensure their minor leaguers are getting access to the food and nutrition they need?

Alderson had peddled reserve outfielder Felix (the Other) Jose, who had been filling in for the injured Henderson, and two more minor leaguers to St. Louis for centerfielder McGee, whose.335 average with the Cardinals may well be good enough to win the National League batting race — at just about the time McGee swings into the American League Championship Series.

I think it's better to play the Spurs, Rockets and Warriors on B2bs with no rest and on the road... At least then we would have an excuse for looking like G - Leaguers..

All of which have to do with Alderson, whose moves no longer amaze A's relief stud Dennis Eckersley (himself an Alderson acquisition, plucked from the Chicago Cubs in a trade for three minor leaguers in 1987).