Sentences with phrase «only professional baseball»

The exhibit features photographs of the early career of one of Southold's only professional baseball player.

Not exact matches

That might force the NFL to follow the lead of the NBA, by taking some players earlier, and of organized baseball, by establishing farm systems for those athletes who now attend college only to major in becoming a professional.

Vincent Edward (Bo) Jackson of the Kansas City Royals hasn't even played 100 games as a professional, and already he's on his way to joining Reggie and Fernando as the only baseball players everyone knows by their first name.

In professional sports, I've always pulled for the Oakland A's in the American League (my first Little League team circa 1990 when the «Bash Brothers» reigned) and the Atlanta Braves in the National League (on every night via Turner Broadcasting, and for much of my childhood the only true «Southern» baseball squad to pull for).

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.

In»54 Bauman became the only one of the hundreds of thousands of men who have played professional baseball in the U.S to hit as many as 70 homers in one season.

So, yikes, the «sour patch» seems only to worsen for Danny McBride «s iconic steroid - taking professional baseball pitcher turned existential curse of an oaf.

He now finds himself playing in the minor league baseball circuit which is about the only place black athletes could play the sport on a professional level.