Sentences with phrase «most of the baseball»

Giants third base coach Tim Flannery learned most of his baseball history from song lyrics, and he doesn't hesitate to use those lyrics to teach.

For most of baseball history, managers were helpless in crucial situations against lefthanded sluggers.

Mickey Mantle is beloved by most of the baseball writers of Terence Moore's generation.

No headline about the World Series makes the point that the league finalists — the Detroit Tigers and the Los Angeles Dodgers — could beat most of the baseball teams in the AA leagues even if not at the top of the majors.

The AI is ok, but most of the baseball players play alike, so you might become bored pretty fast.

Not exact matches

The move would make Powell Jobs one of the most influential female investors in America's «Big four» sports leagues — baseball, basketball, football, and hockey — which remain dominated by male ownership.

In the true nine - inning spirit of the game, here are the nine most important sales lessons I learned from baseball:

Perhaps the most notable thing to come out of the episode was a «Make Donald Drumpf Again» hat modeled after Trump's ubiquitous baseball caps with his slogan, «Make America Great Again.»

As in the business world, being a manager in baseball is about supervising people, trying to get the most out of a group of individuals over a long season.

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.

The fast - growing company boasts clients like Major League Baseball, Adobe and 21st Century Fox, which was in the news Monday for reportedly having talks with Disney to sell the entertainment giant most of its assets.

The first and most obvious thing we can learn from baseball is the undeniable amount of passion that fuels each game.

«[Chad Bradford] is one of the most undervalued players in baseball.

A superb manager knows how to get the most out of every player on the team — in baseball and in business.

Baseball legend and successful businessman Alex Rodriguez tries to help Joe Smith, a former NBA # 1 pick who's lost most of the $ 60 million he made in his long career.

But entrepreneurs could also learn a few lessons by examining the hiring practices of Major League Baseball teams, most of whom — the ones in small and medium markets — adhere to strict budgets for their payrolls.

Most likely because the hockey and basketball lockouts radically changed the economic systems of the sports, whereas baseball's 1995 labour deal offered little change to the status quo.

Of all the coaches he encountered in researching the book, the most fascinating to Feldman was Tom House, who first came to fame not as a quarterback guru but as an adviser to baseball pitchers.

While most lawmakers of both political parties typically equate helping community banks with apple pie and baseball in terms of their support, Warren signaled she has a different view.

The future of one of the most feared relief pitchers in Major League Baseball, Mariano Rivera, is suddenly in doubt after he tripped during a recent New York Yankees team practice in Kansas City, Mo..

Monumental's investors include some of the most prominent business people in the Washington area: Fernandez heads his private investment company Fernandez Group, philanthropist and BET co-founder Sheila Johnson, investor Fredrick Schaufeld, real estate scion Mark Lerner, whose family also owns baseball's Washington Nationals, investor and philanthropist Earl Stafford, Capital One founder Richard Fairbank and real estate investor Michelle DiFebo Freeman.

Baseball is, of all sports other than soccer and curling, the most boring — George Will's hymns to its subtle rhythms and arcane strategies notwithstanding - and the Yankees, of all teams, the most to be despised.

Jews have been elected to Congress and appointed to high positions in government in numbers far exceeding their percentage of the population; Jews are arguably America's most affluent ethnic group; Jews have served as commissioners of Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League, as well as presidents of Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and Columbia; and, as the wedding notices in the Sunday New York Times indicate, Jews have not been reluctant to marry Gentiles, or vice versa.

Ken Burns's acclaimed documentaries include The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz and, most recently, an account of World War II titled The War.

But most of the energy is sexual — one young man carries on an affair with his cousin, who is married to a minor league baseball player.

At its lowest, most cultic level, baseball is hospitable to such a variety of little superstitions and local pieties that it almost qualifies as a kind of primitive animism or paganism.

I know there are those who will accuse me of exaggeration when I say this, but, until baseball appeared, humans were a sad and benighted lot, lost in the labyrinth of matter, dimly and achingly aware of something incandescently beautiful and unattainable, something infinitely desirable shining up above in the empyrean of the ideas; but, throughout most of the history of the race, no culture was able to produce more than a shadowy sketch of whatever glorious mystery prompted those nameless longings.

Between a school fall festival and baseball games, we spent most of Saturday out in the frigid, cold wind.

After starring on A's teams that won three consecutive world championships, after seeing the burlesque melodrama of his relationship with Finley played out in the papers, Reggie, perhaps the most compelling, certainly the most visible, personality in baseball, had arrived.

Orlando Arcia gets lost in a world with Corey Seagers and Carlos Correas, but he's still one of the most coveted young players in baseball.

His defense is stellar, and he was voted «Most Likely To Mistake a Dove for a Baseball and Randy Johnson the Hell Out of It» by his teammates.

This isn't a knock on Lee, who is still one of the most effective pitchers in baseball history.

Let's quickly recap all of the reasons Harper will be the most expensive free agent in baseball history:

It might be one of the most under - the - radar stories in baseball, and I can't figure out why it's not getting more attention.

In 2004, Lee was 25 and one of the most erratic young pitchers in baseball, a class that's already filled with erratic pitchers by definition.

He was a top - five prospect in baseball before last season, and he's still just 22, the kind of burgeoning talent that most teams would depend on.

It's that stray what if in the back of every GM's mind, as he knows that extensions usually aren't handed out for having the most efficient WAR / $ ranking in baseball, but that pink slips might be coming if the stupid bullpen blows another stupid lead that ends up with another stupid loss.

I'm not a complete Bianco sympathizer, but I definitely lean more that way than most of the OM baseball fan base.

But my most vivid memory is from a baseball game in thelate 1960s at the University of Miami, when head coach Ron Fraser was knockedunconscious by a line - drive foul ball while in the third base coaching box (Hitin the Head, April 20).

We've played a month of baseball, and most of the bad teams have proven that they're unequivocally bad.

But the idea is that you start with a legitimately devastating front three (Greinke, Miller, Patrick Corbin) and add two of the most complete players in baseball (Goldschmidt, Pollock) and let the other 20 players figure it out.

Now note that the 95 - win team just replaced Ben Revere's miserable 560 OPS with Eaton, who's been one of baseball's most productive players for the last three seasons.

The Phillies would definitely claim Bellinger, considering he's one of the most valuable players in baseball.

And because of teams leaving Canseco and Sierra alone, it led to one of the most compelling trades in baseball history, even if it flopped for both sides.

His contract and production made him one of the most valuable players in baseball, and that's before you got to the star power and PR value.

Even Mike Trout, owner of one of the most ridiculous starts to a career in baseball history, had just a 47 percent chance at 500 homers before this season.

The Cincinnati Bearcats baseball team might have finished with a 24 - 32 record but they might have had the most fun of...

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.

But we already know that Trout is one of baseball's most special creations, and there's every reason to think that Ohtani will be, too.

So many of those YouTube hits are highlight videos, though, and most of those Google results worry about Halladay the baseball player.