Sentences with phrase «national game of baseball»

Appointed baseball's first commissioner in the wake of the 1919 Black Sox scandal, Landis was granted extraordinary power to «safeguard the interests of the national game of baseball.»

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This week, millions of people worldwide will have watched the 87th Major League Baseball (MLB) All - Star Game, showcasing 70 top players from the American and National Leagues.

Major League Baseball and the National Football League have lucrative contracts with the television networks and closely guard the airing of their games.

Dan Gilgoff reported the indecent that Bruce Harper of the Washing Nationals was asked by a Torranto news reporter if he would be drinking any beer with his fellow baseball players in celebration of winning a game against the the Blue Jays and he replied that it was a «clown question».

Vanderbilt University captured their first ever baseball NCAA National Title on Wednesday night after beating Virginia in Game 3 of the College World Series 3 - 2.

Vanderbilt University captured their first ever baseball NCAA National Title on Wednesday night after beating Virginia in Game 3 of the...

Today, the day of his last game with the Mariners, would be something like a national baseball holiday.

BASEBALL — The Toronto Blue Jays held a three - games - to - two lead over the Kansas City Royals in their best - of - seven American League Championship Series, and the St. Louis Cardinals led the Los Angeles Dodgers by the same three - games - to - two margin in the National League playoffs (page 36).

IN AUGUST of 1969the Chicago Cubs were nine games up in the National League East andseven - year - old Jim Hickey was convinced that he wanted to spend the rest of hislife in baseball.

The Nationals have a 10.5 - game lead in their division and boast one of the best records in baseball, but sharp action has been taking their opponent this evening.

• Warren LeTarte, representative of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, on the minors: «We sat for too many years calling ourselves the great American game, playing the national anthem and thinking baseball was part of the ConstNational Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, on the minors: «We sat for too many years calling ourselves the great American game, playing the national anthem and thinking baseball was part of the ConstBaseball Leagues, on the minors: «We sat for too many years calling ourselves the great American game, playing the national anthem and thinking baseball was part of the Constnational anthem and thinking baseball was part of the Constbaseball was part of the Constitution.

Baseball has been at the forefront of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba in the past, and now, when those relations have softened considerably over the past year, we're going to see a game played between the Cuban National Team and the Tampa Bay Rays.

For 37 years, the «Game of the Week» has been Saturday's national Main Street, a televised grandstand linking baseball to provinces hundreds of miles from the nearest big league city.

He has written and lectured extensively on issues pertaining to innovative classroom instruction, and is the author of Understanding Waldorf Education: Teaching from the Inside Out, Covering Home: Lessons on the Art of Fathering from the Game of Baseball, which received the National Parenting Publication's gold award, and Navigating the Terrain of Childhood: A Guidebook for Meaningful Parenting and Heartfelt Discipline.

As the software improves and the library of fonts expands, the Vocaloid approach will no doubt become irresistible to those who harbor musical ambitions but who nonetheless get alarmed looks while belting out the national anthem at baseball games.

Today is actually a national holiday in Japan (Marine Day), so instead of working, we went to watch our first Japanese baseball game!

As always, the trip felt too short, but we still managed to pack in a lot of sightseeing: the National Building Museum, the National Museum of Natural History, the National Gallery of Art, shopping in Georgetown, a Nationals baseball game, the Supreme Court, the National Zoo, Embassy Row (our hotel was in the thick of it), and the Library of Congress.

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Despite the cameo James Earl Jones makes late in the game (no pun intended), if you're in the market for a movie about fathers, sons, and the national pastime, best just to stick with that other sepia - tinged baseball reverie in which Jones appears — Field of Dreams, of course.

Elaine Karlson is planning a vacation to Cooperstown, N.Y., to visit the National Baseball Hall of Fame and to watch her grandson compete in a basebaBaseball Hall of Fame and to watch her grandson compete in a baseballbaseball game.

Tourists streamed out of Yosemite National Park, baseball fans were denied a game and authorities kept a close eye on swelling rivers and rising water in a damaged dam as a «Pineapple Express» storm drenched Northern California.

Tourists streamed out of Yosemite National Park, baseball fans were denied a game and authorities kept a close eye on swelling rivers and rising water in a damaged dam as a «Pineapple Express» storm drenched...

Osceola County Stadium host dozens of baseball games then every year as well the annual NCCAA men's college soccer National Championship Tournament.