Sentences with phrase «of baseball in»

Within minutes of getting on the boat, he stuffed a wad of chewing tobacco the size of a baseball in his cheek, then chugged several beers.

Procuring ordinary, unprinted pizza boxes, he displayed his qualifications and accomplishments in a circular pattern surrounding a replica of a baseball in the lower portion of the box.

Hoboken is known for the first recorded game of baseball in history, and the city is a part of the vibrant New York City metropolitan area, so you'll always have access to anything you could possibly need.

Call a personal injury attorney if you have been injured during a game of baseball in McAllen and think that you were not to blame.

Innovative design features evoke the timeless traditions of baseball in an intimate setting, with state - of - the - art fan amenities to suit every taste and budget.

Hoboken is known for the first recorded game of baseball in history, and the city is a part of the vibrant New York City metropolitan area, so you'll always have access to anything you could possibly need.

An in - depth look at the role of baseball in the social issues of today and yesterday and features an interview with Baseball Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan.

Even those who'd never sat through a full game of baseball in their life couldn't help but get caught up in this exceptional sports drama.

Sarandon's previous work includes living it, not dreaming it in THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, charming Burt Lancaster in ATLANTIC CITY, blazing a trail in THELMA AND LOUISE, worshipping at the altar of Baseball in BULL DURHAM, put Richard Gere in his place in ARBITRAGE, and winning an Oscar ™ as Sister Helen Prejean in DEAD MAN WALKING.

Brad Pitt makes it look effortless in Moneyball (Sony), a drama about the business of baseball in the era of multi-million dollar payrolls based on the non-fiction bestseller by Michael Lewis.

And it's got an awful lot of baseball in it.

I played quite a bit of baseball in my youth.

Welcome to the wild, wild American League West, where the weirdest thing seen last week wasn't Zito's getup, it was this: While the A's were putting together the best stretch of baseball in 67 years, the Anaheim Angels were the rugrats hanging on to the leg of their low - riders.

Maury Wills and Leo Durocher were the two most volatile personalities ever to ruffle the placid surface of baseball in Los Angeles.

It's also due in larger part to the circumstance of having to play a lot of baseball in a cramped period of time against like - minded opponents who also have to play a lot of baseball in the same span of time.

For the religion of baseball in Latin America — and make no mistake, the game is sacred in the region — the event was not quite as transcendent as, say, Gabriel calling to Muhammad on Mount Hira or God speaking to Abraham in Canaan, but its impact was seminal.

Without having distinguished himself as a high school pitcher, he dropped out at 16 and contacted Don Nomura, a former player in Japan who was part owner of an independent Class A team in Salinas, Calif. «I just wanted to play the highest level of baseball in the world,» Suzuki said last week through an interpreter.

Placer Valley Tourism is delighted to welcome the Potters back and can't wait for an incredible summer of baseball in Placer Valley.

This season, the 25 - year old Stanton is the favorite (+600) to lead all of baseball in home runs and most projection models agree.

Correa, Lindor, and Baez don't have to be Roberto Clemente to spur the interest of baseball in Puerto Rico, but if they can just be themselves for 10 years or so, they'll do as much as any targeted program or initiative could have.

We're just two years removed from back - to - back 40 - homer seasons, and while it's probably as likely that he'll get attacked in an alley by his advancing age and be out of baseball in two years, there's still a chance of a late - career renaissance.

«I was nearly run out of baseball in 1986 for having a 4.50 ERA,» Eckersley says.

But there was a lot of baseball in 2016, and about 95 percent of it was forgettable.

Puig was supposed to get the headlines while Clayton Kershaw quietly mastered the game of baseball in the background.

This was a travesty, a caricature of baseball in which an exciting pennant contender got to play only half a game under adverse conditions and lost by only one run.

If you can't do a baseball thing, your team should calculate if it's an acceptable consequence of you baseballing in the first place.

Aaron Judge is a tremendous enemy of baseballs in the wild, a dinger volcano who demands tribute, and you're never going to believe this, but in the first round of the 2017 Home Run Derby, he hit a bunch of home runs.

Not exact matches

I write these words on April 15, 2018 - exactly 71 years to the day when Jackie Robinson made his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers, ending a long period of segregation in Major League Baseball.

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.

As part of the expanded deal, MLB will continue to promote YouTube TV during the upcoming 2018 and 2019 World Series, while the streaming television service will use professional baseball players in its own advertising, among other promotional endeavors.

And compared to more sedate sports like baseball or golf, there's a high amount of tumult in an average game — the clock literally does not stop, and players are constantly in motion, dithering back and forth from offense to defense.

«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.

Lewis wasn't the first to write about advanced statistics in baseball; he was the first to give it a Hollywood script and make the rest of the world care.

I remember [legendary baseball manager] Joe Torre telling me that there are only a couple of things you can control in this game: your effort and your preparation.

I had one of those except there weren't baseball cards in it, they were credit cards.

With the proliferation of competing entertainment options available in smaller towns and a decline in baseball interest, owners had been looking instinctively to the still - thriving major leagues to figure out how to compete.

I sometimes compare customer service to a farm team in baseball — our new employees who start there have plenty of fresh talent and energy, but may need a little guidance to figure out how they can shine the brightest.

Facebook has struck a deal with Major League Baseball to show 20 of the league's games live this season in an agreement that expands the social media network further into the world of live programming.

He's chose not to freeze in the face of the rapid changes tearing minor - league baseball apart.

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So when offered a chance to buy into the Tampa Bay Rays, then the worst franchise in baseball, the Wall Street veteran held his nose, thought of the upside and wrote a cheque.

Phoenix may be known in the baseball world for spring training, but there's plenty of other outdoor activities to do there.

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.

Investments in technology have also been made at the league and franchise level - virtual reality, in - game wearable tech (the Motus Baseball Sleeve measuring stress on elbows and the Zephyr Bioharness monitoring heart and breathing rates) and the recent announcement of Blast Motion as the official «bat sensor technology» analyzing swings.

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

The company's AI product, Quill, can essentially turn numbers into stories: The box score from a baseball game becomes a written report of that game, for example, detailing player performance as if you were reading a sportswriter's coverage in the newspaper.

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.

In perhaps his boldest stroke, Loria hired Ozzie Guillen — the longtime shortstop and then manager of the Chicago White Sox, a Venezuelan baseball legend.

Much like professional baseball players are acutely aware of their offensive and defensive strengths, in sales it's important to recognize as early as possible what you're good at and what you need to improve.

Berger spoke yesterday at the first in a series of interactive and educational events happening this year at Major League Baseball's New York City event space the MLB Fan Cave.