Sentences with phrase «league baseball teams as»

Greenberg, a Reed Smith sports attorney who has interests in such minor league baseball teams as the Myrtle Beach Pelicans, was looking to buy the Texas Rangers, along with Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan.

Not exact matches

Whether the teams, players, or Major League Baseball as a whole will publicly support the NLBM over the next few days is anyone's guess.

However, despite public fear and criticism of Steinbrenner's controversial decisions, eventually he led the team to an amazing comeback, with six World Series entries between 1996 and 2003, and a record as one of the most profitable teams in Major League Baseball.

There's not much Major League Baseball can do to compete with the weather, but if they continue to reschedule games at such a high rate, teams might have to begin to find some creative solutions as schedules tighten later in the season.

So much confusion has been caused by our football team wearing the same name as the Boston National League baseball club... that a change appeared to be absolutely necessary.

The Los Angeles Angels joined Major League Baseball as an expansion team in 1961 and have since gone on to win 10 American League Western Division Championships, host three All - Star games and capture the 2002 World Series Championship.

Sirs: Either the Orioles are the greatest team in the history of baseball or the National League simply is not as good as some people would have us believe.

According to Major League Baseball, the standings at the start of Tuesday featured as much parity as we've had since 1995, with 18 teams within at least five games of a postseason berth.

Most teams will be forced to expose a lot of high - priced players in the expansion draft — as baseball teams did in the major league expansion draft last year — and the Bottles and the Cakes, with decent coaching, should win some games early.

vs. the newest expansion team, the Napa Silverados, offer a high level of professional, minor league baseball as well as a fun and unique fan experience including great food, family - based entertainment and «outside the box» promotions and special events.

So the teams make nearly zero investment up front, as opposed to hockey and baseball where they have to spend a draft pick prior to putting the kid into their minor leagues.

It's why two detectives are assigned by Major League Baseball to protect him around the clock when the Cardinals are on the road, even when he merely crosses the street in front of the team's hotel, as he did in Fort Lauderdale on Sept. 1 to eat lunch at Chuck's Steakhouse.

We're going to skip the editorial and get right to the stories this morning, as baseball lost two players to car accidents in the Dominican Republic on Sunday morning: Royals» pitcher Yordano Ventura and former top prospect and infielder for a number of big - league teams, Andy Marte.

18 The Beast Team in Baseball The well - stocked menagerie known as the San Diego Zoo has been devouring its opponents in the National League by Steve Wulf

As soon as his eldest son was old enough for Little League, Ron Sr., now a supervisor in the machine shop, started coaching his baseball teams — and did so all the way through American Legion balAs soon as his eldest son was old enough for Little League, Ron Sr., now a supervisor in the machine shop, started coaching his baseball teams — and did so all the way through American Legion balas his eldest son was old enough for Little League, Ron Sr., now a supervisor in the machine shop, started coaching his baseball teams — and did so all the way through American Legion ball.

BIG LEAGUE SECRETS: CAUSE AND EFFECT Sirs: As an avid baseball fan, to whom the pitcher has always been the most interesting player on the team (I married one who gave it up to study medicine), I want you to know how much Sal Maglie's fine article (SI, March 17) will increase my enjoyment of the game.

And although major league teams view Cuba as a talent pipeline, Cuba itself is not hung up on the American conception of baseball.

The problem is that Jansen sees the Dodgers as just one of six National League teams that are even bothering to try to win, and while that's good for Los Angeles» odds, it's not so good for baseball as a whole.

The rules of baseball have, since 1973, required that every team in the American League fill a position known as «the designated hitter»

Today, in London alone there are 380 soccer fields, and the attendance last season at games played by teams of Great Britain's four major leagues was more than 34 million — more than twice as many as attended major league baseball games in the U.S. this year.

Jersey City has had minor league baseball teams intermittently since 1878 and has fielded some noteworthy players, such as George Stovey, a black pitcher who won 35 games in 1886, and George (Twinkletoes) Selkirk, the Yankee who was nicknamed after a Jersey show girl.

BASEBALL — JAPAN, with Masahiro Miyahara, a 104 - pound right - hander, pitching a three - hitter, won the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. for the first time in the 21 - year history of the tournament, as the West Tokyo team defeated Roseland North of Chicago 4 - 1 in the final game.

Since the appointment of a new manager seems to act as an automatic hypo to asthmatic baseball squads and since the average big league manager makes $ 40,000 a year, why not let each team have a platoon of, say, four managers - each getting $ 10,000 a year?

Olympic athletes, NFL teams and Major League Baseball have all strongly embraced sport psychology professionals as core members of their athlete development staffs.

Garcia will be competing all summer long as a member of the Auburn Wildcats, a college wooden - bat league baseball team that plays its home games at James Field in Auburn.

Although eating sunflower seeds may seem like a bad habit of kids on little league baseball teams, they are actually a healthful food that all kids can enjoy — as long as they don't throw the shells on the floor and are old enough so that the seeds aren't a choking hazard.

SCHAUMBURG — Fans of Schaumburg's minor league baseball team will soon get to treat their palates as they watch ballplayers step up to the plate.

Robert Troutwine, Ph.D. is the founder of Troutwine & Associates, Inc., a firm best known for its consulting work with numerous sports teams and programs, including teams in the National Football League and Major League Baseball as well as major college programs.

Being on the right t - ball team could set them up to get a college scholarship for baseball, or better yet, a career as a major league player.

He's now the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, but he's almost as well - known for a code of behavior he wrote after he retired from the big leagues and agreed to coach his son's youth baseball team.

For 9 weeks, the Southern Tier Athletic Conference (STAC) high school baseball league featured defending champion Vestal start off the season hot as ever, but find themselves backed down by teams like Seton Catholic, Union - Endicott, and Corning - Painted Post.

For 9 weeks, the Southern Tier Athletic Conference (STAC) high school baseball league featured defending champion Vestal start off the season hot as ever, but find themselves backed down by teams like Seton Catholic, Union - Endicott (U-E), and Corning - Painted Post (C - PP).

It's as if you're asking me, «Is the National League your favorite baseball team?»

All these teams contributed funding to this project, as did Major League Baseball, the Mayor's Office and Comptroller (former Manhattan Borough President) Scott Stringer.

Fifteen Major League Baseball teams bringplayers to Arizona for spring training every year where the athletes are exposed to a lung disease that's on the rise as the region's climatewarms and dries

It's definitely got elements of social and political subtext, especially as it captures the strange world of the Dominican «baseball academies,» where that nation's raw talent is nurtured for North American harvest in a sort of plantation system controlled by Major League Basebalbaseball academies,» where that nation's raw talent is nurtured for North American harvest in a sort of plantation system controlled by Major League BaseballBaseball teams.

Participants were offered a cash prize plus an opportunity to train in America and then try out as a pitcher for a Major League Baseball team.

Laura Davis took her students to a Nashville Sounds game (a minor league baseball team) as a field trip.

As tonight's game pays tribute to Hispanics in Major League Baseball, the team's jerseys replace the Brewers script with «Cerverceros.»

A diehard baseball fan (and all - star shortstop as a youth), Marty was thrilled to finally live in a city with a Major League Baseball team — we were at a Braves game before the moving truck had even arrived with our belbaseball fan (and all - star shortstop as a youth), Marty was thrilled to finally live in a city with a Major League Baseball team — we were at a Braves game before the moving truck had even arrived with our belBaseball team — we were at a Braves game before the moving truck had even arrived with our belongings.

Penn State has a baseball team, as well, which shares a stadium with a minor league team, the State College Spikes.

He is a regular contributor to Slow Travel, sells on ebay, and has written an unpublished book about a minor league baseball team, as well as several shorter articles of personal interest.

The Major League Baseball season has started, so now it's time to see how your team will do when you're controlling all of the action as MLB 14 The Show launches today on PS3 and PS Vita.

As the media reported, it was rather an exceptional thing for a Japanese company to become the principal owner of a Major League Baseball team.

-- Baseball Stars — not really «start - to - finish» as I kept the same team over hundreds of leagues.

You'll serve as the GM and / or manager, working through your favorite teams 2018 roster or putting together a dream team of players throughout nearly 150 years of baseball history, including athletes from MLB, the minors, and international leagues such as Japan, Taiwan, and Cuba.

But she acknowledges that Tulsa's 400,000 residents have always been loyal to the oil and gas industry, as the name of its minor league baseball team, the Drillers, suggests.

An Indigenous activist's case against a Major League Baseball team and its league will be before the Ontario Divisional Court next week as the league argues that Ontario's Human Rights Tribunal does not have jurisdiction to hear theLeague Baseball team and its league will be before the Ontario Divisional Court next week as the league argues that Ontario's Human Rights Tribunal does not have jurisdiction to hear theleague will be before the Ontario Divisional Court next week as the league argues that Ontario's Human Rights Tribunal does not have jurisdiction to hear theleague argues that Ontario's Human Rights Tribunal does not have jurisdiction to hear the case.

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Penn State has a baseball team, as well, which shares a stadium with a minor league team, the State College Spikes.