Sentences with phrase «league ball»

If I'd been able to sign after my freshman year I might possibly have had two years of major league ball by now.

Let's see how the rest of the transfer window plays out and how our players work together before judging our season before the premier league ball has even been kicked.

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Leroy «Satchel» Paige starred with a number of major league ball clubs, breaking in with the Cleveland Indians.

About Blog Minor League Ball gives comprehensive coverage of the minor leagues, with feature stories, analysis, and prospect lists.

When he played minor league ball in Des Moines, he reviewed movies for an AM radio station on a program called Brant Brown's The Big Show.)

Jack Cooke of Toronto, 45, is a manufacturer who got into sport by way of the Toronto baseball and hockey teams, and now talks of big league ball in Canada like a Crusader discussing a plan to capture the Holy Land from the Turks.

Nita married her high school sweetheart, Rick, who pitched in minor league ball for the St. Louis Cardinals & coached college baseball at NEO & the University of Arkansas.

When I was a young boy, I remember playing Little League ball and having a fear of being hit by a pitch.

The game (it ended in a 1 - 1 tie) also proved that Grade A soccer played against the comfortable accommodations of a major league ball park will draw a good crowd even in the U.S..

Just one more reason I wish the Mariners were a National League ball club: We'd get to see Mark Grace.

In addition to a community of contributors to LTN, Monica went out of her way to make you feel a part of the community, whether at LegalTech, coffee at her office or when she took us to major league ball games during her travels around the country.»

The large set comes with «Octane» and «Dominus» remote - controlled cars, a Rocket League ball, and a custom field mat that looks like it's straight out of the video game.

On cross-examination from Kevin Keating, Edward Mangano's attorney, Edelstein said he recalled discussion about building a stadium for a minor league ball team as part of the discussion.

Then, while playing summer league ball, he felt a searing pain in his right knee and experienced swelling so severe he couldn't step into his jeans.

In four years of minor league ball Mattingly's average was.332, and before that, at Reitz Memorial High in his hometown of Evansville, Ind., he hit.500 and.575 his last two years.

Grant shot back: «Jack reminds me of a Debbie Downer little league coach who lines up the kids and says, «I don't mean to sound discouraging, but in the big leagues the ball comes in at 93 miles and hour, and most guys wash out.»

Traverse City Beach Bums — This Frontier League ball club offers much more than reasonable ticket prices.

The Indians have been one of the teams on the forefront of sustainability efforts in baseball, launching an ongoing recycling campaign in 2008 that now includes organic - waste composting and become the first American League ball club to use alternative energy with their 2007 installation of a solar - panel array.

It's been a big day for leaks, with England's potential Euro 2016 home kit and the new Premier League ball for next season both doing the rounds on social media.

Images purporting to be next season's official Premier League ball for next season have been leaked online and it's fair to say that it's an acquired taste...

And when I began to play Little League ball, my father would sit through the flubs and whiffs of my butterfingered youth.

Mel Allen is the only sportscaster known to the modern world who has had his day in a major league ball park, in this case Mel Allen Day in Yankee Stadium in 1950, when he received clothes, a Cadillac and $ 10,000 — which he in turn gave to Columbia and the University of Alabama for scholarships.

I have an impeccable standard, utmost courtesy and willingness to serve your clients, be it in the running errands or escorting them to a national league ball or simply be a personal assistant.

Even in an age when every smartphone is both a printing press and a TV studio, our elected officials should be able to run the gantlet of a minor league ball game.

As a nice added touch, they will come packaged inside a Rocket League ball, and will also include an in - game code that can be redeemed for an exclusive Rocket Trail and Wheel.

Hal Chase was the best first baseman of his age, but maybe the worst person ever to play big league ball

Brown, who played a year of minor league ball in 1946 for the Pirates, was named team MVP.

There have been no shortages of hot takes and instantaneous reactions to these trades, with baseball analysts debating the ability of prospects that won't impact the major league ball club until years down the road.

They shook hands and returned to their jobs — Dykes as manager of his sixth major league ball club, Lane as general manager of his fourth.

Compared with the constitutional issues over which the Civil War was fought, today's disputes over federal - versus - state power are minor - league ball played out on a field framed by Lincoln's prevailing constitutional vision of the United States as one nation, indivisible.

Six rookies and «Granny,» who was almost lost to major league ball, helped make the Phils the most improved team in baseball this spring

Playing for superpatriot Bill Daniels in a red, white and blue arena, with the ABA's multicolored ball and flags decorating their uniforms, the Utah pros have become the best team in the league

Infielder Billy Harrell may stick this year, but Outfielder Carroll Hardy looks as though he'd be better off with one more year of minor league ball.

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After seven years of minor league ball, he landed a permanent job as the Mariners» third baseman in 1990.

Even the players who have essentially no shot at ever making it to The Show — the career minor league guys, the ones who will retire to focus on their families after only a few years — deserve to be paid a fair wage during their time in small cities paying their way through season after season of minor league ball.

During Minnesota's first week of camp in Fort Myers, Fla., Kelly gathered his players around him and told them to keep one thing in mind when they took the field this season: The Twins are still a major league ball club.

While that may prove that fans in the Twin Cities can appreciate minor league ball, they'd probably prefer not to see it being played by a major league team.

He had a son who also played major - league ball; Derrick May played 10 seasons with the Cubs, Brewers, Phillies, Astros, Expos and Orioles and is now the minor - league hitting coordinator for the St. Louis Cardinals.

Sugar — Perhaps the least seen of the group, this is also one of the most realistic looks at the game, specifically minor league ball.

In 2014, Gillespie helmed Disney's «Million Dollar Arm,» which features Jon Hamm as a sports agent that recruits talented Indian cricket players to play Major League Ball.

The 25 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time, by Len Berman, includes Negro League player Josh Gibson, a Hall of Famer who never played major - league ball.