Sentences with phrase «leaguer at»

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With baseball season opening, it's time to take a look at the homes owned or recently sold by 10 current or ex-major leaguers.

Among those roughly 75 men are lawyers, a medical doctor, a congressional staffer, professional musicians, a radio host, several PhDs and professors, a particle physicist from Stanford, a former Google employee, a dean of admissions at a medical school, Ivy Leaguers, Golden Domers, and more who were successful in the world, but sought a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ and his Church, and desired to serve his people.

It was also a value win for the Pirates, in that they received three major league players who each retain very high upside and have already established themselves as «good major leaguers» at worst, plus an interesting and toolsy prospect.

The workshop included a trip to a Rockies — Red Sox game at Fenway Park and a three - part assignment: tape a stand - up introduction, interview a player in the seats and jostle for position during batting practice to grab a big leaguer for questions.

Alderson had peddled reserve outfielder Felix (the Other) Jose, who had been filling in for the injured Henderson, and two more minor leaguers to St. Louis for centerfielder McGee, whose.335 average with the Cardinals may well be good enough to win the National League batting race — at just about the time McGee swings into the American League Championship Series.

I think it's better to play the Spurs, Rockets and Warriors on B2bs with no rest and on the road... At least then we would have an excuse for looking like G - Leaguers..

Last month 10 current and former big leaguers — including outfielders Johnny Damon of the Yankees and Jacoby Ellsbury of the Red Sox and pitchers Mike Pelfrey of the Mets and Scott Eyre of the Phillies — discovered that at least some of their money is tied up in the $ 8 billion fraud allegedly perpetrated by Texas financier Robert Allen Stanford.

Mine is that if you don't want to get hit or thrown at until you do, don't be a jackass and slide into second with your cleats in the air when even Little Leaguer's know how to properly slide.

He had starred at three schools in the Dallas area — he bounced around so he could play for specific coaches — and played on a junior national team with future big leaguers Justin Upton, Austin Jackson, Billy Butler and Homer Bailey.

Speaking of deals, Phil Jackson traded every member of the Knicks for future draft picks, leaving him with the following starting lineup for a late - February game at the Garden: three D - Leaguers, 57 - year - old Spike Lee and a Carmelo Anthony Fathead adhered to a Roomba.

A seven - year - old Little Leaguer in Freetown, Mass., was benched for two games because his mother missed her shift at the league's concession stand.

Some of them may try to hide when they see him coming, but there are probably only a handful of major leaguers in uniform who haven't seen the Clown Prince of Baseball at one time or another.

I could understand the reasons for the others (outside of Alex Wood for a 30 year old minor leaguer) but those two made very little sense at the time.

John Wilson of the Los Angeles Kings, who coached hockey at Princeton some years ago before moving into the professional game, remarked that Harkness would have to take a rather different approach with his professional athletes than he did with his Ivy Leaguers.

In anaffidavit he explained to investigators that another major leaguer, lateridentified as former first baseman David Segui, «told [me] of a doctor inFlorida that he was using at a «wellness center» to obtain human growthhormone.»

Before his arrival in Oaklandhe never had more than 25 straight at bats as a big leaguer.

He just might get at - bats against real major leaguers.

The night before (June 3) Sacramento Republic FC will recognize the Little League Players and Team Buddies at their Home game, while the Little Leaguers enjoy the experience of a professional soccer game.

At least get a solid defensive player if you have to pull in a minor leaguer.

We're not talking about giving minor leaguers a cushy life, we're talking about paying them at the federal minimum wage, which is $ 7.25 per hour, and paying them for the time they actually work.

At the age of 29, the minor leaguer has been spit out on the other side.

If the argument is that paying minor leaguers more would devastate baseball, you would have to at least listen.

Eventually, spectators who had come to see the novelty of a high school youth pitching against major - leaguers began to appear at the ball park on nights Clyde wasn't working.

But Koch, acquired from the Blue Jays for third baseman Eric Hinske and a minor leaguer, was a bad fit in one respect: He has historically been at his worst late in the season.

Kim is joined at the top of the Dougherty Valley depth chart by fellow junior all - league selection Tiffany Cha and sophomore all - leaguer Reini Lin.

Though more often than not these days I would rather be watching Sunday leaguers slogging it out down at the local park for little more than the joy of the game and competition, I found myself fixated, along with millions of other world citizens, at the unfolding spectacle that is, and has become, El Clasico.

Learning the cycle of a service project: Little Leaguers hosted a bake sale at the annual JLDOC Bargain Sale.

Spreading knowledge about healthy foods: Little Leaguers sponsored a booth at the Chapel Hill Farmer's Market in the fall and one at the Durham Farmer's Market in the Spring where they encouraged community children to take part in a scavenger hunt.

Former NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly will finally get a chance to speak to Ivy Leaguers after being booted from a talk at Brown University by protestors.

Boden and Fleck are best known for a few well - loved indie movies: Half Nelson, which gave us Serious Ryan Gosling; Sugar, a muted and brilliant look at a Dominican minor leaguer in Iowa; and Mississippi Grind, a lovely little gambling movie starring Ryan Reynolds and Ben Mendelsohn that is catnip for movie bros everywhere.

At Revere Middle School, we strive for our students to be Ivy Leaguers, sports stars, scientists, business leaders, inventors, engineers — you name it!

As far as it's known, Garcetti, an Ivy Leaguer and Rhodes Scholar, has not asked the poor and working - class Latino and African American parents at 24th Street Elementary what they think is needed for education reform.

As the modest - at - best results of programs like Teach for America suggest, simply unleashing young Ivy Leaguers on our school system is probably not going to have a dramatic effect on student achievement.

The ads remind us (accurately) that half the electricity in America comes from coal, then shows images of little girls getting tucked into bed at night or Little Leaguers playing ball under the lights.

Preschoolers at The Leaguers Head Start program in Newark, one of the schools included in the Abbott Preschool Program.