Sentences with phrase «much baseball fans»

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We talked, as baseball people do, of the past: He told me how much he'd enjoyed competing against Frank and Brooks Robinson of my Orioles, and he loved the story of how Baltimore fans bombarded showboating Reggie Jackson with hot dogs dispensed from the upper deck when Reggie played his first game in Memorial Stadium after abandoning Baltimore for the fleshpots of New York and the overbearing Yankees.

Some fans enjoy their sleep schedule and can only handle this much free baseball every once in a while.

Here we have one of the worst hitters in baseball history, a symbol of the post-Mays era, a player who was booed so much by San Francisco fans that he once took the field with «BOO» stitched on the back of his jersey, and one of my favorite players as an adolescent.

Thank you so much, you are the best fans in baseball, I'm blessed even didn't happened this year.

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.

I am a baseball fan, and I shall get much more from the game because of your articles, and Mr. Riger's drawings (SI, March 31) are — well, let's just say they are perfection.

With baseball as the only game in town right now (we can only handle so much of NBA free agency and NFL training camps that seem like it's never coming), you need to rep your team with Fan Bands.

For years fans of the CFL Argonauts and the NHL Maple Leafs have neatly sidestepped the prohibition by brown - bagging it, but baseball fans are obviously much more aboveboard.

Four years into their existence, they had shown their fans just how much fun baseball can be.

Baseball outings are so much fun — the sound of bat meeting ball, the Cracker Jacks, the seventh - inning stretch, the sense of history — that even people who aren't sports fans can have a blast.

I loved hot dogs so much that after completing residency in 2011, I went to all 30 Major League ballparks (I'm a big baseball fan, too), and I ranked the hot dogs at each stadium... I probably had about 40 - 50 hot dogs in a 90 day period, and these weren't your standard grocery - store size dogs... they were huge.

If you've checked out the homepage of pretty much any Major League Baseball team recently, you probably saw a few ads advertising other single sports fans.

«As an avid baseball fan, I was immediately drawn to this story but it is about much more than just the sport,» RLJ chief acquisitions officer Mark Ward said in a statement.

When: September 23rd Why: Though its subject matter may suggest otherwise, director Bennett Miller is adamant that «Moneyball» is about much more than the game of baseball, which is good news for people like me, who aren't very big fans of the sport.

That means some online «reviewers» bear the same resemblance to traditional book reviewers that homicidal baseball fans do to sports commentators: not much.

Dog lovers in Tulsa know that the best Drillers games to attend are the much - loved Bark in the Park nights when baseball fans can bring their canine buddies along to enjoy America's favorite pastime.

Before spending millions of dollars on a major - league baseball stadium, Orange County commissioners want to know whether the fans will support a team and whether businesses are willing to pay some of the costs.Today, commissioners will consider spending $ 40,000 to research those questions and to find out how much of the county's resort tax money would be needed to build a stadium if Orlando wins a major - league franchise.The 17 - week study would be conducted by Public Financial Management Inc., a Philadelphia financial consulting firm.

With sports stadiums using as much energy as thousands of American homes, the helix turbine on Progressive Field, a project three years in the making, isn't so much a solution to the Indians» electricity needs as a high - profile way to show baseball fans what could be done elsewhere.