Sentences with phrase «not baseball history»

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It wound up being a momentous day not just in baseball history, but in the history of a country that has plenty of issues with equal treatment in the workplace.

There is a long history of famous major league baseball players who missed important games since they chose to observe the Sabbath and not play.

A baseball wasn't an artifact before 9/11, yet we recognize a baseball taken from the wreckage as a part of the history.

They ended it with Kershaw, the best orb - chucker in baseball, if not, I don't know, baseball history.

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

That didn't just add to his mystique — it made him a fascinating, rare specimen in baseball history that we got to study.

Sirs: Either the Orioles are the greatest team in the history of baseball or the National League simply is not as good as some people would have us believe.

Manny Machado is essentially the perfect baseball player, so he doesn't count, but the rest of the lineup has warts, even as they're on pace to be one of the greatest collections of sluggers in league history.

Pete Rose is the all - time leader for hits in Major League Baseball history, and that's indisputable, but what Ichiro did, spanning two decades and two countries, in an era of LOOGYs and power closers, while performing at a high level and not writing himself into the lineup, just might be more impressive.

While reaching the 1,000 hits threshold isn't all that impressive for a baseball player (more than 1,200 players have done it in the history of the game), it's still a great feat for a human being.

That's a pitcher hitting a baseball, which shouldn't have anything to do with the best Opening Day starts in baseball history.

You're writing the high school history textbook account of Baseball instead, and that's not useful to anyone except the people writing it.

Which means that in baseball history, there hasn't been a collapse like this that wasn't directly attributable to injuries.

Even though Hamilton didn't have the worst contract on his team, he still had one of the worst contracts in baseball history.

While Roger Clemens takes a stand not far from the Alamo, we give you 10 of baseball history's best holdouts:

The history of baseball isn't just decades of Tony Batista - like cautionary tales.

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.

The lowest ERA in baseball history that isn't a flat 0.00?

Thus is the Hall not just the keeper of baseball's history, but a framer of how people will see the game they loved and how it will be perceived in the future.

With California perhaps having the richest baseball history of any state, it's a travesty that there isn't a stage for our high school talent to be showcased.

............ I know my baseball history and I don't know of any team, including the Yankees, that have gotten away with what the Giants have.

Sosa, statistically, is a bit borderline, but you also can't tell the history of baseball without him — you're going to have to, though, because there's just no room to vote for him without omitting someone else.

It is commonplace in baseball (or any sport for that matter) that bettors pound the over, but that has not been a profitable play in recent All - Star game history.

For sale: baseball team with tricolored uniforms and history of unfulfilled expectations; a few stars left; outstanding farm system; unappealing stadium not included; $ 90 million U.S.

Of course a player who had never hit a walk - off home run in his life — «not even Little League,» he says — would in Game 6 of the World Series hit one of the greatest game - ending blasts in baseball history.

Although the Park District and baseball league are technically not affiliated, they have a long history of working together, said Park District Director Roy Cripe.

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.

But he can't afford to forgo on what may be the next big fan base to open up in the history of baseball.

«Anyone who says girls can't play baseball is just ignorant about the history of the game,» one former player tells her.

We don't quite know the history behind the name, but the AirHogs are a minor league baseball team just outside the city in Grand Prairie.

I made an old timey baseball player for fun and to not draw any comparisons with Major League Baseball's recent history or specific baseball player for fun and to not draw any comparisons with Major League Baseball's recent history or specific Baseball's recent history or specific players.

We don't quite know the history behind the name, but the AirHogs are a minor league baseball team just outside the city in Grand Prairie.

Sign stealing isn't explicitly against the MLB's rules, but it's definitely frowned upon, and it has a long history in baseball.

«All I need is just one chance / I could hit a homerun / There isn't anyone else like me / Maybe I'll go down in history...» This lesser - known second verse of the unofficial North American baseball anthem «Take Me Out to the Ball Game,» reflects the strong passion baseball recruits have for making the team.

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