Sentences with phrase «minor league teams»

He created the modern baseball farm system, which enables major league teams to nurture and develop future stars through their minor league teams.

Instead, these are small - market, semi-pro mascots for community colleges or minor league teams, whose dreams of glory are all tied to the World Mascot Association's Gold Fluffy Awards, the presentation of which serves as the film's centerpiece.

The franchise mode is particularly standout with added depth of player control over things like concession pricing, arena maintenance, budget guidelines, and of course management of both Pro and minor league teams - with the ability to take control a play a game at any time for either of them.

Houston also has minor league teams for other sports like Ultimate Frisbee (the Mud Turtles), in - line hockey (the Venom), and rugby (the Hornets).

The NBA's minor league teams will receive a major boost in visibility while also delving into more key audiences.

Baskets with gear to play certain sports and even tickets to our local minor league teams to go to games as a family throughout the year are always a family favorite.

The study examined pitchers sustaining UCL injuries between 2006 and 2015 from one professional baseball organization, including both major and minor league teams.

The Jays have released their rosters for the full season minor league teams.

Four minor league teams in Texas are playing when nobody else is, and although history is being made, the same can't be said about money

We all know the win loss record of our minor league teams means nothing but in his point of view (which I agree with) at least one of our affiliates will be non-competitive for a while due to lack of warm bodies.

Players aren't paid by minor league teams, they're paid by the affiliated MLB clubs who are always searching for more ways to pay players less money.

Minor league teams have played less than 10 games.

The Braves own, I believe, an unusually high number of their minor league teams compared to other organizations.

Since with the pirates you have to spend time at all minor league teams and post all star numbers there before they deem you worthy lol

The company's food also is sold at the parks when minor league teams play there.

Every season in German soccer's Bundesliga (literally: federal league) the best minor league teams are promoted to the Bundesliga while the worst Bundesliga teams are demoted.

Tim Tebow played 19 games with the Mets» minor league team with mixed reviews on his season from officials throughout the major league.

There were black players on the Oakland Oaks, a minor league team in the Pacific Coast League.

Bring back the Boils and start the previews and recaps with the upcoming series against the minor league team from South Oklahoma, please.

«The Twins aren't moving — I'd say there's a 99.9 percent chance they'll stay,» says Mike Veeck, president of the St. Paul Saints, an independent minor league team that sells out all its games in a 6,329 - seat stadium 15 minutes from the Metrodome.

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The Knoxville IceBears, a minor league team of the SPHL, unveiled these special «Puck Dynasty» uniforms in honor of the TV...

Lundgren pointed out that the Potters will operate similar to a minor league team with ticket sales, promotions, a kids club, group outings and more which means the athletes, fans and community members will all enjoy the benefits of this type of organization.

Charlotte, again, has very high attendance for their minor league team, but they'd also be competing against the 2 biggest Big Four sports in the same media market.

I believe that's the one minor league team the Braves don't actually own.

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.

He hurriedly tried to appoint his own man, Mickey Keating, as coach of the New Haven Nighthawks on the mistaken assumption that the Rangers owned the minor league team.

The audience applauded 15 seconds to honor the playoff - bound Buffalo Bills (applause also came for the Islanders for returning to Nassau County and the minor league team in Syracuse owned by the New York Mets).

The team would not play at the Coliseum if it's already occupied by an AHL minor league team.

Over the weekend, Aaron, Layla and I went to church and then spent the afternoon at the ballpark, watching our local minor league team play.

Initially assigned to the Dodgers» minor league team in Montreal, Jackie (Chadwick Boseman) must overcome immense racism from both the fans and his teammates, much to the concern of his wife Rachel (Nicole Beharie) and black sports journalist Wendell Smith (Andre Holland), who's aware that there's much more at stake than Jackie realizes.

Then check out the antics of the Portland Mavericks, the freewheeling, rule - bending, thoroughly unconventional minor league team run by Kurt Russell's father Bing in the early 1970s.

Hank Azaria is a baseball announcer trying to get his life back on track after a high - profile meltdown by taking a job in a small town, working for a minor league team owned by the strong - willed and hard - drinking Amanda Peet.

May 21, 2018 • In Greensboro, N.C., the city's minor league team, the Greensboro Grasshoppers, is mourning their former bat dog, Miss Babe Ruth.

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

It was the first game of the season for the minor league team Reno 1868 FC, who played against the Swope Park Rangers.

The Durham Bulls are one of the most popular and successful minor league baseball teams in the country, with more players being sent to the Majors than any other minor league team.

maybe timbers tickets for a soccer fan and for the baseball lover, check out the new minor league team coming to hillsboro — they are even going to have shuttles from the max station!

Phillies fans love Phillie Phanatic, the fat and furry green creature that stands as the official mascot for the Philadelphia Phillies and the Reading Phillies minor league team.

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

I applied for an entry - level job with a minor league team (they claimed on the posting it was entry - level), and the hiring manager emailed me back and said I wasn't what they were looking for for the job.

Not exact matches

And then there are people like Jason Klein the young branding executive who, when hired to rename the Hartford minor league baseball team, chose the bizarre, seemingly ridiculous, and ultimately ingenious name, Yard Goats.

CentureLink Field provides one of the most noticeable home advantage of any team in the league; it's incredibly loud (fans generated so much noise during Saturday's defeat of the New Orleans Saints that it caused a minor earthquake), making communication among players on the opposing teams virtually impossible.

The bank that Kelly ran, SpiritBank, loaned Pruitt money, including to purchase a home and partial ownership of a minor - league baseball team, The New York Times reported.

For the St. Paul Saints, the answer wasn't clear in 1993, though the minor - league team broke all sales goals and captured the Northern League title in its first sleague team broke all sales goals and captured the Northern League title in its first sLeague title in its first season.

Quirky customs and homespun promotional strategies help this minor - league baseball team build a winning brand in its community.

The team's average attendance in 2000 ranked it in the top 10 % of all 229 minor - league teams in the country.

The team shamelessly exploits its legend by making reference to the great St. Paul Saints of a bygone era — a minor - league team of the same name that rose to fame in the 1920s — at the lucrative concession stands and at its Web site.

Advertising dollars, in turn, allow the Saints to spend far more than the average minor - league team on creative promotions and game - day entertainment.

The Wichita Wranglers, a minor league baseball team also play in a highly regarded Lawrence - Dumont Stadium.