Sentences with phrase «of baseball into»

SCE San Diego's attempt to turn nearly every last bit of baseball into a video game is most definitely a success.

That hug never came, thus shaping the driven personality of an inimitable figure who, more than any other — through his embrace of free agency, through his creation of the fabulously profitable YES network, through his maniacal quest for victory — shaped the business of baseball into what it now is, for better or worse.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

The Civil War, Baseball and Jazz are just a few of the incredible deep dives he has done into the eras and moments that define who we are as Americans.

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.

This includes management systems that have been transformed into apps like Baseball Cards, a summary of every employee's strengths and weaknesses that are available to anyone at the company, according to Bloomberg.

(Side note: This advice must've been woven into an article about baseball because he sure didn't encounter it thumbing through my best of business library.)

What started in 2008 with a fake athlete, soon morphed into efforts with real athletes like now - retired NFL star Ray Lewis, then extended into Major League Baseball with a Head & Shoulders collabo starring Anaheim Angels» C.J. Wilson and Josh Hamilton, and now brings us to current NFL stars Wes Welker of the Denver Broncos and New England Patriots» Jerod Mayo.

In his book The Science of Hitting, Ted explains that he carved the strike zone into 77 cells, each the size of a baseball.

Our children were born enjoying certain real potentialities; i.e., they would grow up speaking English in the home, knowing about baseball and sailing, eating hot dogs and hamburgers, etc., because of the past of the world into which they were born.

«They go filing into the mosque for prayers wearing traditional Muslim garb, and then later I see them around town wearing baseball caps turned backwards and all kinds of hip Western gear.

And surely some account has to be given of the drama of baseball: the way it reaches down into the soul's abysses with its fluid alternations of prolonged suspense and shocking urgency, its mounting rallies, its thwarted ventures, its intolerable tensions, its suddenly exhilarating or devastating peripeties.

If you find that they're too runny, you can do two things: 1) squeeze the zucchini shreds with some paper towels to remove any excess water or 2) what it says in the post: «Test the consistency by trying to form into a ball, about 1/2 the size of a baseball.

Using baseball - size lumps of dough, roll on floured work surface into long cylinders about the thickness of a thumb.

They were devoured by the Boulder High School freshman baseball team, a group of teenagers who seems to have turned my living room into their clubhouse.

Every baseball player is a unique snowflake, a thumbprint, a story that takes them from their first tee - ball game through their teen years, into their first professional experience, hundreds or thousands of miles from home, surrounded by peers who would all garrote each other to make the big leagues.

And none of these changes will bring back the person who sorta grew up with baseball, but never totally got into it, and generally finds it boring.

Another Upper Deck man, the assistant director of creative services, follows Reggie into his office to show him a set of the new Heroes of Baseball cards.

Reggie Jackson sits at his desk, signing a stack of invitations to his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Aug. 1, the cards slanted to accommodate his lefthanded penmanship.

It's basically the One True Ring of baseball ideas, and we need to throw it into the Marlins» home run sculpture just to be safe.

Their two decades included Javy Lopez, Brian McCann, and Evan Gattis, who was unrealistically written into the script of baseball by producers who wanted to goose the ratings.

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.

Travel with us to beautiful Kokernot Field, a gem of a place where time has stopped and small - town baseball has been elevated into a work of fine art

Also if you're still here this far into this depressing piece, now is as good a time as any to remind you that the Marlins» ownership — regardless of who that is — and Major League Baseball do not care one bit about you.

The WCAL just happens to include several schools not just that have been strong for the past 30 or 40 years, but a few that have great baseball traditions that stretch more than 100 years into the past, especially with Sacred Heart Cathedral (formerly just Sacred Heart) of San Francisco.

The clear path for the Cubs either worries you as a superstitious type, thrills you as a positive type or makes you excited about the huge pile of baseball that somebody is about to step into.

The International Academy of Professional Baseball, or La Academia, as it's known by its Spanish shorthand, is an attempt to bring Latin American player development into the 21st century (and, yes, to profit from the modernization).

Alex has long since disappeared into baseball, making two or three trips a week to the store to buy cards, the backs of which he memorizes.

For generations, turning amateur baseball players — usually out of shacks and hardscrabble fields — into major league prospects has been the province of mostly uneducated Dominicans with limited job opportunities.

With any luck, this is all over and no one else will get punched in the face or hit by a pitch or slid into hard, but it's baseball, so at least one of these things could happen again.

These qualifiers will be played through the weekend — you can find the full schedule here — and the winners of each will be entered into the 2017 World Baseball Classic.

We're into round two of the World Baseball Classic, with Pool E already underway and Pool F kicking off on Tuesday night with a significant matchup.

On Sunday, the world watched as Colon was perfect into the eighth inning against Justin Verlander, and even though he lost the lead and didn't make it out of the inning, we're reminded that baseball is good, actually.

It was a smart, cagey move to get him, as he's been healthy and productive for 13 out of his 14 full seasons, and he was one of the most valuable shortstops in baseball just last year, once defense and baserunning are taken into account.

«I have run into fans on the street who said they hated the game of baseball because of what we did to it [during the strike in 1994],» McGwire said last week.

They've now played 19 innings of baseball, managed all of one run, and are in danger of not even qualifying for the 2021 World Baseball Classic — the team that finishes last in each pool is entered into the qualifying tournament that will take place baseball, managed all of one run, and are in danger of not even qualifying for the 2021 World Baseball Classic — the team that finishes last in each pool is entered into the qualifying tournament that will take place Baseball Classic — the team that finishes last in each pool is entered into the qualifying tournament that will take place in 2020.

That's when I realized my boxes of baseball cards were an eternal burden, something I'll have to trick Hercules into holding as I scurry off.

Over the years, even as black youths turned away from baseball and toward football and basketball, JRW blossomed into one of the most successful and heralded youth baseball leagues in Illinois.

And as of right now, it would appear the Reds are still unclear about how to keep baseballs from flying into the ionosphere.

Beneath its towering palms many leading trainers prepare their young trotters and pacers for the Grand Circuit, the touring series of prestige races primarily for 2 - and 3 - year - olds that gets into full swing in mid-June in places like Detroit, Lexington, Ky. and Saratoga, N.Y. Pompano is analogous to baseball's spring training camps: you get the athletes into shape in the South, then send them North for the regular season.

John Hart, general manager of the Cleveland Indians, for whom Belle played the last eight seasons, said last week that Kevin Hallinan, baseball's security chief, had given him a «heads up» in March 1996 that baseball was looking into Belle's involvement in gambling.

My wife wasn't giddy that another baseball card came into the house, but I'm not going to embellish and invoke the cliche of sleeping on the couch.

He recedes into the Mets dugout for the top of the inning but then reemerges to do his Rock Around the Clock bit, in which he goes through all sorts of silly baseball gyrations to the tune of Bill Haley's 1955 hit.

Landis was adamant: «There is absolutely no chance for any of them to creep back into organized baseball.

But it's a rising generation of good young pitchers that may be driving baseball into an era in which the little things matter again

And along with that spectacular catch came spectacular photos that included some hilarious crowd reactions to the big baseball boy leaping into the sky to rob the Indians of a run.

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Mike Trout shot invisible arrows back at Rodney because Rodney went into his quiver in the eighth instead of after a save, and Casey Blake mocked Wilson after a blown save because they didn't have a baseball to throw.

Sure you can do like Oakland and have a football field there as well but then you run into the problem that Oakland has and thats a shitty baseball field ruined by a shitty football field running through the middle of it and vice versa