Sentences with phrase «of baseball diamonds»

Now, a group of West Side activists is demanding that the Chicago Park District take better care of the baseball diamonds at Columbus Park, located off of Central Avenue and the Eisenhower Expressway, as well as nearby Garfield Park.

About 200 people filled the infield of the baseball diamond at the park.

While the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals face off on the field, both teams are waging another battle off of the baseball diamond.

To do so will require a purpose - built space telescope and a parasol the size of a baseball diamond

And at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, researchers are demonstrating how to fabricate a larger - scale starshade's delicate petals, fold the entire structure up inside a rocket, and deploy and unfurl it to the size of a baseball diamond.

His attention turned elsewhere: to the shapes of shadows, or the design of a baseball diamond.

Not exact matches

«Baseball games are uniquely engaging community experiences, as the chatter and rituals in the stands are often as meaningful to fans as the action on the diamond,» Dan Reed, Facebook's head of global sports partnerships, said in a statement.

I think I read some stats recently that churches which have the baseball diamond (four bases of fellowship, discipleship, ministry, evangelism) find a lot of drop off in between discipleship and ministry, and even more drop off between between ministry and evangelism.

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Right there on the local diamond would be a semipro team capable of beating everyone in sight, even capable, perhaps, of holding its own at the annual National Baseball Congress tournament in Wichita.

«The club had tennis courts, a polo field, a racetrack, baseball diamond, trapsfor live pigeon shooting, boats, bathhouses and a pack of hounds.

On the scale of fear aroused, he is up there with Rob Dibble or Nolan Ryan or Roger Clemens on a baseball diamond.

Baseball has no shortage of diamond - crashers; liquored - up yahoos at Chicago's U.S. Cellular Field come to mind.

When a young Kenny Stabler harbored dreams of signing with a pro baseball team and was drifting toward the diamond, Slim Stabler bought a «54 Ford for his son on the condition that he continue playing football.

The perfect day for Rancho Bernardo - San Diego baseball coach Sam Blalock is to grab his surfboard, catch some waves in the morning and then head to the diamond in the afternoon — the same diamond he's used since 1991 to teach the nuances of the game he loves.

Indeed, the whole town habitually mobilizes as if it were going to war when a sports project is under way, and there are countless stories about the Jaycees building baseball bleachers and the Jaycees, the Lions and the American Legion playing benefit games to buy a new P. A. system and whole platoons of town fathers pitching in to carve a sleek new baseball diamond out of a rocky pasture.

Central played its home games at Gill Stadium, a now -100-year-old structure that back then had a baseball diamond running through the middle of its natural grass field.

At the rear of the school, adjacent to the football field, is the baseball diamond, which since 1973 has been named Nolan Ryan Field.

As kids often choose a preferred group of players to cheer for on the football field, baseball diamond, or basketball court, young golfers have only individuals to follow and root for on the professional tours.

After a month of splashing and mud fights both at games and at practice we moved the field away from the sewer so that it included the entire baseball diamond at the other end.

I have watched 9 - 10 year - old baseball and softball, Little League Majors (11 - 12 year - olds) All - Stars and Honors teams, 13 - 14 year - old baseball on 80 foot and 90 foot diamonds, a college exposure fastpitch softball tournament, and joined my dad for an evening of USA Softball vs. Portland All - Stars on their pre-Olympic «Bound for Beijing» tour.

My son is two years past the traditional Little League age... he will start his freshman year of high school in two months and he seems light years away from being a 12 year - old playing baseball on the 60 foot diamond.

Mary Kalou, assistant superintendent for business, said Park District officials and members of the Arlington Heights Youth Athletic Association met with school officials last month to propose a baseball diamond and soccer fields at South.

When a group of neighborhood kids head to the baseball diamond to play an unorganized game of ball, sports are play.

The soccer field under construction north of LaSalle is «crowded, adjacent to zero parking, and there's already two baseball diamonds,» said Protect Our Parks» spokeswoman Greta Lear.

Last fall, the park district bought the property at the southeast corner of Devon Avenue and Arlington Heights Road with hopes of developing the grounds for four baseball diamonds, two overlapping football / soccer fields, three down - sized sports fields and a parking lot with accommodations for 265 vehicles.

The proposal also calls for the Park District to have clear ownership of other land on Norfolk Avenue, which includes a baseball diamond, a lighted baseball field, a soccer field and open space.

• A majority of the city's community areas do not meet 1990 national guidelines for providing enough playgrounds, baseball diamonds and swimming pools, new city statistics show.

He pointed out, however, that none of the Park District «s other neighborhood playgrounds, baseball diamonds or soccer fields offer such amenities.

The proposed skatepark would replace the smallest of Audubon's three baseball diamonds.

-- that it is easy to forget that its job is to run 563 parks covering 6,766 acres and containing, among other things, 817 baseball and softball diamonds, 706 tennis courts, 251 field houses, 57 swimming pools, 6 golf courses and a court where you can play roque, a form of croquet.

A few highlights of this include — seats for baby to sit in, inside the washrooms at baseball diamonds, stores, airports and more.

Currently, three baseball diamonds and four soccer fields are divided among three plateaus bulging from a 99 - acre parcel just west of the Hamilton Reservoir.

It will be located in Oak Brook's Central Park and will feature many innovative pieces of equipment including a dual track ride zip line, pour and play baseball diamond and two levels of play fully accessible through ramping.

Or if you want to take a shorter route around the west side (AH portion) which includes the baseball diamond, playground and Canine Commons the distance is.79 of a mile.

Parks Supt. Tim Mitchell said that for now, he will count on smokers to govern themselves in other parts of the parks, such as baseball diamonds and picnic areas.

The approved ordinance directed preparation of another ordinance permitting lighted baseball diamonds and a miniature golf facility on the site.

To anyone who has followed the exploits of the head coach of the Arlington Heights American Legion baseball team for more than 40 years and its constantly changing coterie of teenaged diamond dreamers, those words are easily recognized as the hallmark of an esteemed local institution.

Even when the Bears toiled in the confines of Wrigley Field, players slipped and replaced divots regularly over the freshly sodded baseball diamond.

Although a $ 1.2 million rehabilitation of all of Wheaton North High School's athletic fields has largely gone smoothly, completion of one of the project's crown jewels — the varsity baseball diamond — has been delayed by a surprising discovery: The centerfield fence is 40 feet closer to home plate than school officials had desired.

The day the Tribune began making calls about the condition of Columbus Park baseball diamonds, park district workers went out to try and prepare the fields.

Many of the more than 50 residents who crowded into the Inverness Village Hall expressed fears that organized activities on the baseball diamond and soccer field would increase traffic in the area.

Construction of four baseball diamonds and other upgrades will proceed as planned at Oswego's Wormley Heritage Park but without a controversial proposal for four lighted fields.

Arlington Heights also recently received state grants for upgrades of the Recreation Park baseball diamond lights ($ 105,000), new playgrounds at Hasbrook Park and Greenbrier Park ($ 90,000 each) and playground improvements at Sunset Ridge ($ 25,000).

There is also a tennis court and baseball diamond available to play on, if you get tired of playing on the playground.

Parking fees at city meters will also rise, as will fees on permits for public tennis courts and baseball diamonds, and staff at twenty of the city's fire companies will be redeployed at night — companies that the City Council saved from closure during negotiations back in June.

It lost its baseball diamond, a point of pride for the town that fielded Puerto Rico's team in the 2017 Junior League...

«From 423 miles in space, we'll be able to see an object the size of home plate on a baseball diamond,» says Brender.

How to Style It: The baseball cap has transformed past its diamond boundaries of simplicity.

Baseball: Baseball, game played with a bat, a ball, and gloves between two teams of nine players each on a field with four bases laid out in a diamond.