Sentences with phrase «league catcher»

Here, he works with Paul Rudd, Jeff Daniels, Guy Pearce, and Paul Giamatti, with a script by Robert Rodat («Saving Private Ryan») about a major league catcher who became an employee of the Office of Security Services in World War II.

In the historical drama, Rudd portrays Moe Berg, a major league catcher who teams up with the Office of Security Services (the precursor to the CIA) during World War II.

«I believe in the soul, the cock, the pussy, the small of a woman's back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self - indulgent, overrated crap,» declares Kevin Costner's fading minor - league catcher Crash Davis in a famous scene in Bull Durham, the movie that kicked off...

Bull Durham (Amazon, July 1st) A veteran minor - league catcher (Dennis Quaid) gets sent down to a single - A team to step in as mentor for their talented but undisciplined rookie pitcher (Tim Robbins).

DAVIES: Mike Matheny is the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals and a former big - league catcher.

Matheny's a former big - league catcher who spent 13 years in the majors, winning four Gold Glove Awards.

Steve Yeager (technical adviser, former big league catcher): I didn't have to do much for Charlie.

# 21 Charlie Berry PHILLIPSBURG NFL All - Pro in 1925 and» 26; 11 seasons as major league catcher; 24 years as NFL official; 21 years as AL ump.

Lollar was a good - sized, at his present 6» 3» and 195 pounds, and successful pitcher by the end of his sophomore year at Mineral Area College, a juco near his home in Farmington, Mo. (He's no relation to Sherm Lollar, the former major league catcher who also lived in Missouri.)

A tip for young players: If you want to be a major league catcher, it helps to be a good hitter.

In today's expansion - diluted market it is often possible to regard the major league catcher as a sort of convenience, somebody to stop the ball from hitting the umpire when the batter misses it and to get the ball back to the mound.

I think Knapp can hit well enough to be a major league catcher, the problem is his defense is rough and doesn't seem likely to get much better.

On Dec. 9 Boston and Texas agreed to swap Lowell, 35, and minor league catcher Max Ramirez, 25, with the Red Sox paying $ 9 million of the $ 12 million Lowell is due to make in 2010.

Canseco's resume boasts everything that team owner Rick Cerone, a Newark native who was a major league catcher for 18 years, tends to find in his recruits: Up - and - down experience, once - upon - a-time potential and lotsa letdown.

A New Jersey woman is suing a 12 - year - old Little League catcher whose baseball accidentally hit her while she was eating a picnic five feet from the bullpen, breaking her orbital...

Major league catchers — Bill Freehan of Detroit, for example — usually throw with less steam but with more accuracy, and they get the ball away quicker.

White, who has caught 100 or more games for past eight seasons and averaged.284 at bat last year to lead American League catchers with Yogi Berra, chose to quit the game rather than leave Boston, where he shares a partnership in a bowling enterprise.

Not exact matches

Of the 1,700 - plus players to wear a catcher's mask in a major league game, of the thousands to do it professionally, of the tens of thousands to do it in high school and college, no catcher could hit baseballs better than he could.

Tight end Rob Gronkowski is perhaps the most gifted pass catcher in the league, and certainly the most difficult to cover.

During his 17 seasons (1967through» 83), Bench batted.267 with 389 home runs (a big league - record 327 ofthem as a catcher) and 1,376 RBIs and won 10 Gold Gloves.

«I got Doug Mirabelli for my interview, so I asked him how he became the league's premier knuckleball catcher,» says Todd Simpson (above, interviewing, and in action), who spent 10 years as an NHL enforcer.

The first batter McMahon had to face was Bill Freehan, the American League's All - Star Game catcher.

The race, a 50 - yard dash for «The Lead - Foot Trophy,» was between the rival catchers, Del Rice of the Cardinals and Rube Walker of the Dodgers, who enjoy a joint reputation as the slowest men in the National League.

He bought theMLB Extra Innings package so he can check in on former college teammates KurtSuzuki, a catcher for the A's, and Ricky Romero, a pitcher for the Blue Jays.Wilhite's big league friends, specifically Suzuki, have raised more than $ 61,000 to help cover his medical bills and rehabilitation costs.

Since Sept. 4 the Texas catcher is hitting.526 (20 for 38), slugging.974 with an OBP of.609 — all league highs.

There was the shot the burly Braves catcher hit in his major league debut, on April 3, a towering fly off Phillies righthander and two - time Cy Young winner Roy Halladay.

Some say Howard is the league's second - best catcher.

«That's a knee buckler,» says Yankees catcher Joe Girardi, who hit against the Astros righthander in the National League.

At the end of the year he was voted the Golden Glove as the best defensive catcher in the league (the first rookie to win it) and made the player - selected Sporting News national all - star team.

Even Josh Donaldson and Pablo Sandoval, who were primarily catchers, had more than 50 games at third in the minor leagues before they were called up.

On May 23 in the second game of a doubleheader he played leftfield against the Phillies, his first major league start at a position other than catcher, as part of manager Lloyd McClendon's plan to ease the physical burden on three - time All - Star Kendall and to gain more offensive production from him.

Last season was his best offensive season and he was behind Freddie, Markakis, both catchers, and Albies in OBP and he's yet to exceed an even 100 wRC + in his major league career.

Catchers accounted for just 2.75 percent of all major league steals entering play Thursday.

The bottom line is that they don't care that the 1987 season is opening without the American League's best pitcher and catcher and the National League's best player.

(Remember also that a few years before Bottalico was inducted into the fraternity of closers he was in the semipro Greater Hartford Twilight League, playing primarily as a catcher.)

DIED: Former Yankee (1955 - 67) and Red Sox (1967 - 68) Catcher ELSTON HOWARD, 51, who was the American League's MVP in 1963 and was its first black coach (1969 - 79) with the Yanks; after being hospitalized for a heart condition in New York.

BASEBALL — The interleague trading period came to a close with the National League Champion San Francisco Giants sending two pitchers, Stu Miller and Mike McCormick, and Catcher John Orsino to Baltimore for Pitchers Jack Fisher and Billy Hoeft, plus Catcher Jim Coker.

Each team added another run before Baltimore catcher Chris Hoiles — who was one strike from whiffing for a major - league - record - tying sixth time in the game — drove in two with a double in the 12th.

Rodriguez could join Johnny Bench (1974) as the only catchers ever to lead their league in total bases.

Myers, catcher Ryan Hanigan, and minor - league pitchers Jose Castillo and Gerardo Reyes would go to the Padres from the Rays.

The four - time All - Star has averaged 134 starts behind the plate in the last four years, and counting the postseason set a major league record with 2,725 innings caught in 2014 - 2015 with the Royals, the most ever by a catcher in a two - year span in major league history.

Aside from the hot bats of catcher Joe Mauer (a league - leading.378 average at week's end) and his roommate, first baseman Justin Morneau (73RBIs), the Twins» surge is largely due to the organization's much belatedcommitment to youth.

Then, new rules that were favorable to offenses, some of which were designed to protect the health of passers and catchers, made it an aerial league.

The Marlins could hardly believe that a first - place team was willing to send them one of the best offensive catchers in the National League.

Red Sox catcher David Ross hilariously recreated the movie Major League by himself, impersonating manager Lou Brown and fan favorites Rick...

They do have an issue of having a starting catcher that will be above league average but half the teams also have that issue and it could turn out to be that Murphy is the starting catcher in the post Iannetta Rockies.

Moya looks like a pitcher who can contribute in a major league bullpen right away; Murphy was hitting poorly for a Triple - A catcher, much less someone who belongs on a major league roster.

Says Royals catcher Jamie Quirk, «By the time we broke camp, everyone knew Bo belonged in the big leagues.»

But it's going to take 100 victories to win the NL West, and the Astros, 81 - 81 last year, aren't that good yet — not with a shortstop (Andujar Cedeno) who spent half of last season in the minors, a leftfielder (Luis Gonzalez) who hit only.243 and a catcher (Eddie Taubensee) who has played in just 130 major league games.

• Jim Essian, Chicago White Sox catcher, on hitting his first major league home run in his 101st game: «I wanted to go into my home run trot, but I realized I didn't have one.»