Sentences with phrase «of real baseball»

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This weekend pays tribute to a specific era, 1985 - 89, and features a host of initiatives like cars with old - school car paint schemes, commemorative ticket and program designs, specially - designed apparel, retro food offerings at the track... unlike, say, baseball or football throw - back games where the only real change is the team's uniforms, Darlington and its partners goes all in.

Walker became one of the youngest members to serve on the Stanford Board of Trustees; found a career in his chosen field of real estate, where he has a successful real estate investment fund; holds equity in Hollywood nightclubs; and has a small ownership stake in the Oakland Athletics Major League Baseball team.

The family's Hickory Street Capital real estate development firm oversaw the project, which moved the Cubs» business and baseball operations from cramped offices inside Wrigley Field and nearby trailers to four floors of private space shared with the Ricketts family and Hickory Street.

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.

Monumental's investors include some of the most prominent business people in the Washington area: Fernandez heads his private investment company Fernandez Group, philanthropist and BET co-founder Sheila Johnson, investor Fredrick Schaufeld, real estate scion Mark Lerner, whose family also owns baseball's Washington Nationals, investor and philanthropist Earl Stafford, Capital One founder Richard Fairbank and real estate investor Michelle DiFebo Freeman.

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.

And then there is that extended British family of children's games from which baseball drew its basic morphology (stoolball, tut - ball, and, of course, rounders); but these are only charming finger - paint renderings of the ideal, vague, and glittering dreams that the infant soul brings with it in its descent from the world above before the oblivion of adulthood purges them from memory; they are as inchoately remote from the real thing as a child's first steps are from ballet.

I was part of the second wave, so most of the real good stuff was gone, but I got a soccer jersey for $ 25, a baseball helmet for $ 5 and 3 pairs of football socks for $ 3 each.

He owns a baseball team, he runs a multi-billion dollar pizza conglomerate, and runs a development company that owns millions of square feet of Detroit real estate in one of the most volatile real - estate markets in the country.

The English champions shocked the mighty Real Madrid with a 4 - 1 win at the Baseball Ground in the first leg of their second - round tie, with Charlie George bagging a hat - trick.

Everyone knows about the MLB All - Star Game and the Home Run Derby, but the real gem of that whole event comes on Sunday of All - Star week, while regular season baseball is still being played.

Baseball is boring, college football is increasingly regarded as a tax dodge and festive violation of every labor law ever written, and NASCAR and the NHL have entered the «maybe I'll just apply for a real estate license and see what happens» stage of late adult wage - earning.

That's an encouraging step in the way leagues treat domestic abuse — by having its own investigations, unencumbered by the problems that real - world courts often face, Baseball can at least try to institute some measure of justice while attempting to discourage future violence.

Ha ha, looks like we have the real definition of «fantasy baseball,» but, no, seriously, folks...

As they talked about the 2008 Rays, a youngteam with plenty of talent but no real tradition, a club that was causing fitsin its division for two of the most storied franchises in baseball history, they realized that they just as easily could have been talking about the» 69Mets.

If you think they are giving up on analytics, please take a deep breath and explain why you think this, other than that it's the end of February and you aren't quite sure what else to yell about while there's no real baseball to distract you.

The real jolt of electricity came with our first Big Baseball Brawl of the season.

The bombshell was still whistling eight days later, when the baseball season was scheduled to begin, bringing with it relief from the roil of real life.

Ostensibly, it is the story of a team of nine - year old hockey players in a Boston suburb, their coach, a former high school baseball coach and local sports hero, the all - male board of directors of the town's hockey club, a hockey mom concerned about her kids emotional well - being, and, at center ice, a set of adorable, identical, competitive, but sensitive twin boys who became, as is all too often the case in the adult - centered world of youth sports, the unintended but innocent victims of a real life power play.

«It will make a real difference in terms of skills development and hopefully engagement with the game for both boys and girls,» Oak Park Youth Baseball & Softball President Bill Sullivan said.

The state Democratic Party has taken the time to slam the Buffalo businessman, dubbing him Carl «Two - Face» Paladino and accusing him of being hypocritical for talking about wanting to take a «baseball bat» to big government while also benefitting from that selfsame government in the form of real estate contracts.

«Public distrust of our state government is no game, but the Senate Majority has too often used inside baseball gamesmanship to block real reform,» said State Senator Daniel Squadron.

UPDATE: Jose Sucuzhañay, who had been on life support and in a coma since he and his brother were attacked with a bottle and an aluminum baseball bat in the early hours of Monday morning, has died: «The victim, Jose Osvaldo Sucuzhanay, the co-owner of Open Realty International, a real estate agency in Bushwick, was described by family members as a gentle, generous man, a father of two children who live with his parents in Azogues, Ecuador, his native town.

So, if you use math for a lot of things that relate to the real world, math you can picture, and baseball is just one example of that, and I'm no expert in baseball, but I've shown and I feel I've shown over the years that just using mathematical knowledge you can glean a lot of insight into how the game works and really understand a lot of what goes on in the game.

These are the kinds of guys who are totally into fitness and CrossFit and love to teach you all they know, but also like beer, baseball, Broadway shows and have real lives that require eating carbs.

Personal favorites — apart from Lily Rose Depp and Usher sitting just two rows away from me, and the impressive show space — were the reoccurring super feminine ruffles, in combination boyish baseball caps, and — of course — the «digital» box - clutch... I haven't seen it up close yet, but there's real little lights in it.

The extraordinary real - life story of Jim Morris (Quaid), who, twelve years after dropping out of minor league baseball because of an injury to his pitching arm, is inspired by the young men on the championship - winning high school team he coaches to fulfill his own dream and try out for a professional team.

Even baseball fans will be sorely disappointed in how the game is depicted, with almost no adherence to any known rules (the Benchwarmers only field three players), while the games themselves have no real rooting interest, concocted merely to show more pratfalls, players getting injured, and bats flying out of the park into vehicles or people.

Moreover, it's joining fellow inspirational real - figure biopic 42 — chronicling the experience of baseball legend Jackie Robinson — as an alternative to that month's big releases (Oblivion, Evil Dead, Pain & Gain, etc.).

Visually Major League Baseball 2K10 actually goes the wrong direction in terms of trying to bring the real life feel of baseball to the vidBaseball 2K10 actually goes the wrong direction in terms of trying to bring the real life feel of baseball to the vidbaseball to the video game.

They've become narratives of real human challenges and triumphs, and this true story featuring Brad Pitt, baseball's Oakland Athletics and Hill in his first Oscar - nominated spot is no exception.

Director Bennett Miller gives the film ballast and guts with his unsparing depiction of the decrepit male gerontocracy running Major League baseball (pictured above), its authenticity enhanced by the casting of several real - life professional scouts.

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He seems to prefer to work with the stories that arise from real life and made baseball statistics intriguing in Moneyball, and cold - blooded killers and one off - kilter writer a fascinating look at two sides of humanity in Capote.

Mad Men star Jon Hamm is returning to his baseball roots to star in a news sports movie chronicling the real - life story of two Indian cricketers who...

«You don't learn to play baseball by a year of batting practice,» he says, but in learning math, for instance, students are all too often presented with prescribed problems with only one right solution and no clear indication how they connect with the real world.

Baseball shifter is a hit Being front - wheel drive, the 2007 Mitsubishi Eclipse Spyder GT will doubtless elicit charges of not being a real sports car.

On the other hand, Ken Shouler's The Real 100 Best Baseball Players of All Time... and Why!

You should think of stocks not as pieces of paper to trade like baseball cards, but rather they're equity in real businesses that have real employees working to ensure real profit.

Just as he did with the Civil War and baseball, Burns was making an often overlooked feature of American heritage come alive by focusing not just on incredible visual images, but by breathing real life into the people who made it all happen.

Free hotel rooms and flights are all nice perks, but for some, the real allure of credit card points is the chance to cash in on once - in - a-lifetime experiences — like standing with your father on the same baseball field where legends are made and asking a sports star to sign your daughter's baseball.

For example, that bonafide badass soldier you rescued is a crackshot with rifles, played baseball all his life so he can swing a bat real good, and knows his way around a set of tools so he's handy when it comes to building something out of nothing.

Combining a vast selection of kooky Nicktoons characters like SpongeBob with real - life baseball players like Big Papi, it's a total blast to play.

Like Rusty's Real Deal Baseball, this is Nintendo going far out on a super-experimental limb, and creating what amounts to a tiny dollhouse village of people who live in your 3DS.

Another of Nintendo's top releases this year is Rusty's Real Deal Baseball, a charming collection of little baseball - themed minigames — batting, pitching, calling strikes — for the NinteBaseball, a charming collection of little baseball - themed minigames — batting, pitching, calling strikes — for the Nintebaseball - themed minigames — batting, pitching, calling strikes — for the Nintendo 3DS.

Games of this style are based on the real - life sport of baseball.

This cartoonish vibe, when combined with very solid gameplay, makes you still feel the competitive nature of the sport even though you don't get access to the real players or teams of Major League Baseball.

The general vibe of Tap Sports Baseball is much more realistic and life like thanks to graphics that resemble real life players.

Super Mega Baseball 2 lacks official MLB licensing, so the developers have invented dozens of teams and players and wisely, they are not — as far as I can tell — simply pun - based caricatures of real teams and stars.

The visuals are improving, all the stadiums represent their real - world equivalents, and the game generally just feels like it's gotten a sheen of polish that takes it from being a fun diversion to something worth coming back to as an entertaining baseball game.