Sentences with phrase «eye from a baseball»

P. T. once got an ugly black eye from a baseball bat I'd flung in anger across a playground.

Morris ponders his own father Alvin's wounded eye from a baseball, thinking that it is no different than a war wound because «part of his life had been shot down.»

Not exact matches

In my mind's eye, though, what I see on East 33rd Street is the old brick horseshoe where I learned baseball from my grandfather Weigel in the late 1950s — and where, a half - century ago, I had a foretaste of the joy of the Kingdom.

Barely a year removed from trading away their top two starting pitchers with an eye toward the future, the Diamondbacks led the NL West and were poised to become baseball's latest worst - to - first story.

Yes, standing in the wake of his fire, you understand perfectly that this is a man who can use a baseball to snip the button from a hitter's shirt, who is the last great hope of geriatric New Englanders and who sent the Cleveland Indians home for the winter, despite an injured arm he could barely lift above his head and with little more of his usual weaponry than the look of a lion tamer in his eyes.

I'm not sure if we've defined the same kind of upper limit for hand - eye coordination and reaction time, especially if baseball moves away from a homer - as - best - result philosophy of hitting.

This gives just enough time for light signals from the baseball to hit the batter's eye, work through the circuitry of the retina, activate successions of cells along the loopy superhighways of the visual system at the back of the head, cross vast territories to the motor areas, and modify the contraction of the muscles swinging the bat.

Under Armour Women's Fly Fast Cap ($ 25, amazon.com) A sporty baseball hat will be fitness lover's most versatile accessory — it shields eyes from sun, covers up greasy locks post-run, and livens up a simple workout ensemble.

Honorable Mentions: 22 Jump Street, Afflicted, The Battered Bastards of Baseball, Big Bad Wolves, Blue Ruin, The Boxtrolls, Boyhood, Calvary, Captain America: Winter Soldier, Citizenfour, Cheap Thrills, Cold in July, Dead Snow 2, The Drop, Enemy, Escape from Tomorrow, Filth, Force Majeur, Frank, Fury, Gone Girl, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Guest, Honeymoon, Housebound, The Internet's Own Boy, Interstellar, The Interview, Joe, John Wick, Locke, Magic in the Moonlight, Moebius, Neighbors, Nightcrawler, Noah, Obvious Child, The One I Love, The Overnighters, The Purge: Anarchy, The Raid 2, The Sacrament, Selma, The Skeleton Twins, Starry Eyes, The Strange Color Of Your Body's Tears, Stretch, The Theory of Everything, They Came Together, Under the Skin, A Walk Among the Tombstones, Wetlands, and Wild, so don't tell me there were no good movies in 2014.

When I graduated from college, he said, with tears in his eyes, that he guessed I must have learned a thing or two fielding baseballs in the backyard.

The world is viewed from Jack's eyes and according to Jack the rules for baseball are like the rules for life.

From the Wii - like characters and its entire eye - popping arcady graphical design to its surprising variety and depth, Super Mega Baseball 2 provides a fun and exciting twist to a sometimes boring and cumbersome sport (sorry basebalBaseball 2 provides a fun and exciting twist to a sometimes boring and cumbersome sport (sorry baseballbaseball fans).