Sentences with phrase «good baseball story»

This is a very good baseball story.

The best baseball stories are only nominally about sports.

Not exact matches

Yes, the story is of the too - smart - for - its - own - good kind, though Madden is able to wrangle it enough so that it doesn't completely go over our heads (if you're a politics junkie, you'll likely love the inside baseball of it).

That's not to slam Rich Hill, who's become one of the better stories in baseball, but it gives you the idea of the trade market.

The best comparison for what would have happened is probably Ken Brett, who is one of baseball's all - time best what - if stories.

While it's possible, if not likely, that the Gallo story has at least one more detour in the minors, this is the perfect time for Rangers fans to ask one of the very best baseball questions: What if?

It's a bittersweet story, but not really a sad one -LRB-» t is better to have loved and lost, etc.), and in it we meet at least a dozen good people to whom baseball is important for reasons wholly divorced from the profit system.

The O's have been one of baseball's best stories this season, defying pre-season expectations.

Junior Guerra is one of baseball's best stories.

In fact, the stories that came out about his holdout with Drysdale and, later on, his retirement from baseball — well, most of them were 90 % fiction.

Baseball freaks know his story well by now: He was state player of the year for Federal Way High School in 2002 and earned a scholarship to Oregon State, but signed with the San Francisco Giants after they selected him in the 21st round of the 2002 MLB draft.

Ostensibly, it is the story of a team of nine - year old hockey players in a Boston suburb, their coach, a former high school baseball coach and local sports hero, the all - male board of directors of the town's hockey club, a hockey mom concerned about her kids emotional well - being, and, at center ice, a set of adorable, identical, competitive, but sensitive twin boys who became, as is all too often the case in the adult - centered world of youth sports, the unintended but innocent victims of a real life power play.

Since then, the two have also written and directed the equally strong 2008 baseball drama Sugar, as well as last year's It's Kind of a Funny Story — which, okay, isn't quite on par with the others, but it was pretty cute all the same.

On a day of mourning for cinema, it is reassuring to see a film like Sugar, an exquisitely filmed, well acted and narratively bold film that takes a smart, and most important, human look at an Illegal immigrant and a story behind so many baseball players we see.

Those charmed by feel - good Capra films might find this gentle baseball nostalgia pic a winner, while I took a more cynical approach as I found myself unmoved by such a hokey ghostly baseball story.

As major events occur throughout the week, additional stories are assigned by vertical editors (i.e. the baseball editor, or the football editor) for print as well as the web.

It was a story about a single mother and her sons, one of whom was really good at sports, especially baseball.

Viz will provide a number of titles, including Cross Game, a baseball / coming of age story; Dawn of the Arcana, a fantasy romance about a princess forced to marry the prince of a rival nation; Kekkaishi, a good - natured battle manga (Shaenon Garrity wrote the best article ever about Kekkaishi); Maoh: Juvenile Remix, Natsume Ono's indy - ish not simple, Sand Chronicles, and the thoughtful sci - fi tale Saturn Apartments, which is my favorite manga of all time.

We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball was well worth the wait.

* Just look at the story of Albert Pujols, who was drafted in the 13th round in 1999, then went on to be one of the best sluggers in baseball.

I've always loved this rollicking memoir by a baseball player, which in 1970 became the best - selling sports book of all - time for its wild and funny stories about the major leagues.

His story about Puckett — baseball's good guy that turned out to have feet of clay — is a story of deep sadness, of wishing for what might have been, of trying so hard to crawl inside the head of someone else to figure out where it all went wrong.

For those of you who are baseball fans, I'm sure you are well aware of this story, and for those who are not you have probably heard Barry Bonds referred to on occasion.

In addition to How to Find a Woman... Or Not, Gary Morgenstein's books include the novels Loving Rabbi Thalia Kleinman, a romance about a divorced man who falls in love with a beautiful woman rabbi; Jesse's Girl, a powerful story about a father's search for his adopted teenage son, and Take Me Out to the Ballgame, a political baseball thriller, as well as the baseball Rocky The Man Who Wanted to Play Center Field for the New York Yankees.