Sentences with phrase «home from a baseball»

MORRISONVILLE, Ill. — Matt McCormick was in the seventh grade when Father Alvin Campbell gave him a ride home from a baseball game.

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President Donald Trump makes a statement about the student returning home from North Korea and Rep. Scalise, shot at a baseball field at a Congressional baseball practice.
The incident occurred at an apartment complex under construction directly across from Minute Maid Park — home of baseball's Houston Astros.
Companies with Baltimore headquarters let employees work from home Tuesday, while the Orioles postponed their second - straight baseball game.
Years after his death, baseball legend Honus Wagner hit a home run for a group of nuns, who will use proceeds from the sale of his extremely rare baseball card to do charitable work.
When I got home from my son's baseball game after 8 last night, I was starving and needed to make something fast.
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.
Since he was fired from his job as assistant general manager of the Baltimore Orioles in December 1995, Robinson has been unattached to a professional baseball team, and he has been home day after day.
On the day Robinson visited the boyhood home of Jackie Robinson, there was a news release from the office of the baseball commissioner.
Harvey has already forced the Astros to play on the road for a significant amount of time due to the conditions in Houston, so this has hit close to home for baseball from the business side even before you consider the fans, supporters, and employees that call Houston home.
That home run put the Rangers up 30 - 3, an American League record, a score that was topped only by a Colts / Colonels game from 1897, when baseballs were made out of leather swatches wrapped around shrunken raccoon skulls.
Yet besides Yu Darvish's collapse (which itself was the Hangover 2 of the series since basically the same thing happened four games prior) and Springer's dirt - on - the - grave home run (which was the second season of Stranger Things of the series because it had all happened before but not in quite the same way) there weren't any events that baseball had never seen before to actually merit the anxiety that seeped from this game.
Henry Aaron is about to be displaced from his spot atop the alltime home run list, but 755 will endure as one of baseball's magical numbers, a lasting monument to an underappreciated star and to the courage and integrity with which the Hammer attained his crown
And if teams are wrong — if the import business brings more Ariel Prietos than Hideo Nomos — baseball, already suffering from a lost generation of good young pitchers, will continue to look more like the All - Star Game's home - run - hitting contest on a daily basis.
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.
Andy Morales, a member of the 1949 Bowie High baseball team, used to walk the eight blocks from his home up to Alameda Avenue, the local stretch of U.S. Highway 80, the artery that ran from San Diego to the Georgia coast.
The Pelicans, who in their first year of play in 1870, as amateurs, lost to the Cincinnati Red Stockings 51 - 1, in 1887 issued first rain check in professional baseball (existing custom had been to take a fan's word for it that he had suffered from a rain - out), stoutly continued to play during raging yellow fever epidemic of 1905, stumbled on even when their home park was sold out from under them for a motel site in 1958.
Although Nelson Cruz led baseball in home runs last season, oddsmakers projected that his move from Camden Yards (Baltimore) to the pitcher - friendly Safeco Park (Seattle) would limit his power production.
• Stephen Talley, 5 - year - old Cincinnati baseball fan, asked by his mother after he got home from a Reds game whether they played The Star - Spangled Banner: «No, they played the Cardinals.»
In the space of only a year Baltimore has remade itself from a home - run - slugging crew into a pitching - and - defense club that's likely to finish with the best record in baseball and the distinction of having led the American League East wire to wire.
A home run in Caribbean baseball is likely to induce a salvo of rockets from the tops of buildings adjoining the park.
On his way home from Ann Arbor, he talked in the car about baseball, about how much he wanted to bring a minor league team to Fort Wayne, about business ventures he wants to get into and about how wonderful it is to be free again and how a man can take for granted all the small, surpassing pleasures in life until prison takes them away.
9 Alexander Cartwright The New York - born author of modern baseball rules is buried in Honolulu, where he began teaching the sport to kids on his way home from an aborted visit to China in 1849 and decided to stay.
They have played their home games at Pride Park since 1997 after moving from the Baseball Ground.
The campaign gets its name from the asterisk that originally found its way into sports in 1961 - when Major League Baseball commissioner Ford Frick decided that the new single - season home run record set by the Yankee's Roger Maris of 61 homers would be accompanied by an asterisk to denote the fact that it was set over a 162 - game season eight games longer than the 1927 season in which Babe Ruth had hit 60 homers - but which has been given a whole new meaning in the 2000's as denoting records tainted by an athlete's suspected steroid use.
Reflecting on those youth sports experiences — he played baseball, golf, tennis, soccer and hockey — Parise sees how valuable that home environment was in his childhood and urges parents of young players today to let them have fun participating — and refrain from pressuring and criticizing.
And when it comes down to it, if given the choice, my kids would rather have a (relatively) rested, calm, relaxed and PRESENT mom to come home to after school and to tuck them in at night than one who is their class mom and girl scout troop leader and baseball team mom and who runs the school store organizes the school fundraiser and is on every board there is to be on in town (I don't do all that stuff, but you get the point) and who is also a complete and total stressed out and spread thin raging lunatic from the moment they get home until the moment they are in bed.
He has written and lectured extensively on issues pertaining to innovative classroom instruction, and is the author of Understanding Waldorf Education: Teaching from the Inside Out, Covering Home: Lessons on the Art of Fathering from the Game of Baseball, which received the National Parenting Publication's gold award, and Navigating the Terrain of Childhood: A Guidebook for Meaningful Parenting and Heartfelt Discipline.
«From 423 miles in space, we'll be able to see an object the size of home plate on a baseball diamond,» says Brender.
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Financed, produced, directed and starring Oscar - winner Robert Duvall, this film is a down - home yet very grittty at times story of a disgraced preacher on the run from the police after beating his soon - to - be ex-wife's new boyfriend with a baseball bat at a baseball game.
Light as a feather for most of its two hours, this Dazed and Confused throwback about a college freshman baseball player adjusting to his first time away from home revels in its utter lack of stakes.
Playing baseball with a nudge from his father (Martin Short), Martin's home run ball is retrieved by an excited Sparky, who is hit by a car while crossing the street.
When an American baseball scout recruits some young players from India, he becomes more involved with helping them adjust to their new home than he expected in Million Dollar Arm.
In Digital Entertainment, continued strong performance from titles like «JIKKYOU PAWAFURU PUROYAKYU» and «Professional Baseball Spirits A» in their home nation of Japan.
Andrew Sarris, who is equally at home discussing athletics and aesthetics, looks back at 60 years of sports movies — from Chaplin and Keaton in the ring to Cooper and Stewart's baseball exploits — and, mostly, he sighs.
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Murder in the Ball Park, from MysteriousPress.com and Open Road Integrated Media, opens with a murder scene in the mid-twentieth century during a game being played at the Polo Grounds, the historic New York baseball stadium that for decades was home to the New York Giants before they departed the Big Apple for San Francisco in the 1950s.
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Far from Home: Latino Baseball Players in America.
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There's even a local baseball team, the Lancaster Barnstormers, who usually play their home opener against the York Revolution, who hails from just down the road.
The hotel is located across from the Great American Ballpark, home of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team.
Minutes away from shopping centers and just a short drive from Sedona, the Grand Canyon and the bustling cultural center home to the Phoenix Open, Spring Training baseball, five Major League sports teams, Arabian horse shows and more.
No matter what season brings you to sunny Scottsdale, Arizona there is always plenty to do - minutes away from shopping centers and home to the Waste Management Phoenix Open, Spring Training Baseball, Arabian horse shows and more.
11.30 mile (s) from Greenville Drive Baseball, come see why Fluor Field at the West End was chosen as the 2006 Ballpark of the Year and why the Greenville Drive is known as the home for affordable family fun and entertainment!
A week and a half ago, I came home from work to my fiancee watching a baseball game.
It's a lot like buying the game - winning home run ball from your favorite pro baseball player, or having Michael Jordan sell you a pair of signed basketball shoes, and it lends a sort of authenticity to the entire system that other games have yet to successfully replicate.
Best known for his iconic album covers and zine - style ink drawings featuring surfers, old - time baseball players, gangsters, religious nuts, trains, Gumby and the character Vavoom from the old Felix the Cat cartoon, Pettibon is also the author of a series of super-low-fi home videos, made with his friends beginning in the 1980s.
Best - known for his iconic album covers and zine - style ink drawings featuring surfers, old - time baseball players, gangsters, religious nuts, trains, Gumby and the character Vavoom from the old Felix the Cat cartoon, Pettibon is also the author of a series of super-low-fi home videos, made with his friends beginning in the 1980s.
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