Sentences with phrase «play in baseball»

I am active and a huge sports fan, and I play in baseball and bowling leagues.

Sounds like a surreal double - play in baseball («Tinker to Evers to Chance «-RRB- but it's simply the path of influence as charted by Mike Love using an application called Touchgraph.

Like «Tinker to Evers to Chance,» the double play in baseball that inspired poetry and delighted Cubs fans, some things that look easy are actually the result of hard work and thoughtful orchestration.

Scaling the fence would highlight athleticism like no other play in baseball.

That's sort of like an unassisted triple play in baseball, it just doesn't happen that often.

I'm also on record as being opposed to playing in baseball stadiums in general.

Maybe the attendance would be better if they weren't playing in a baseball stadium and could offer better seating.

The record may be misleading since most contrarian plays in baseball are on the underdog, and taking moneyline «dogs means that you can achieve profits despite a losing record.

In The Rookie, Dennis Quaid plays a has - been athlete who wants one last shot at playing in baseball's big league.

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That's how Tony Fisher got his start — he joined the company as an analyst in 1999, after he was drafted by the Texas Rangers baseball organization and played for two years in the minor leagues.

If a high school baseball player gets to play in college, there's still only a 0.6 percent chance of being drafted by the majors.

Baseball, played without a clock and unfolding over the longest season in sports, requires the same patience and dynamism as running a business.

The average 26 - year - old player in this year's All - Star game likely has been playing baseball since age 5 and has been on a pro scout's radar since his late teens.

Though still not a complete meritocracy, getting to play (and stay) in pro baseball is pretty much a numbers game.

When I was in seventh grade I played on a traveling baseball team with all my best friends.

Baseball season started a bit earlier in the calendar year than usual this year, leaving games in cities like Detroit, Chicago, and all across the Northeast to be played in cold, wet, and sometimes even wintry conditions.

While other kids played baseball, Len Ferragine and his six siblings spent every day after school in their backyard greenhouse in Bradford, Ont.

Gehrig was an American baseball first baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, from 1923 throubaseball first baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, from 1923 throuBaseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, from 1923 through 1939.

Bane, 62, who has a background in accounting, graduated in 1969 from the University of Southern California, where he played baseball — or, as he's said, «spent a lot of the time on the bench.»

In addition to his fraternity membership, McNerney also played hockey and baseball at Yale.

I think he had a job on SNL starting in the fall, and he said he wanted to spend the summer playing baseball.

Even if you don't follow mainstream sports like football or baseball, you've probably seen highlight clips from the big games in your Twitter or Facebook feeds, in the form of short animated GIFs of a crucial play.

The Wichita Wranglers, a minor league baseball team also play in a highly regarded Lawrence - Dumont Stadium.

For example, rather than sitting in front of the TV, a father might decide to play a little game of baseball with his son.

When not involved with Cryptocurrencies he enjoys travel, hockey, baseball and playing slow - pitch softball and is highly involved in the craft beer world.

The Stoneman Douglas baseball team will get an opportunity to play in South Florida's Major League Baseball stadium nebaseball team will get an opportunity to play in South Florida's Major League Baseball stadium neBaseball stadium next week.

The Pope is basically just like an Umpire in a Baseball game — he keeps the game going and indicates what's in play or not, by the written rule book — but does not change the rules of the game — that's set.

The story of faith belongs to the baseball executive who signed Robinson, the equally legendary Branch Rickey, and to a New York minister who played a quiet role in a major decision.

In the 2002 film, «The Rookie,» actor Dennis Quaid plays a middle - aged high school baseball coach who tries out for a major league baseball team.

Also, lets legally purchase land in Iraq and then lets the international uproar if we build a baseball diamond in Baghdad and have the Yankees and the Mets play their subway series there.

We talked, as baseball people do, of the past: He told me how much he'd enjoyed competing against Frank and Brooks Robinson of my Orioles, and he loved the story of how Baltimore fans bombarded showboating Reggie Jackson with hot dogs dispensed from the upper deck when Reggie played his first game in Memorial Stadium after abandoning Baltimore for the fleshpots of New York and the overbearing Yankees.

We had fights over my inability to catch a baseball; over my desire to learn colors and flowers; over my wanting to play a violin; over my need for stuffed toy animals in my bed with me until 8th grade or so.

To use a quote that is unattributable, having shown up in too many forms to know its actual origin, atheism is a religion like not playing baseball is a sport.

It must have been cramped in reality, but it was big enough to play basketball, baseball, football, soccer, kickball and golf if you bent the rules enough.

I looked up TT because i just saw him play in a minor league baseball game and recognized the name.

Furthermore, I would in NO WAY be ashamed to play baseball with my kids, any time, any place.

That is why I often suggest that the most determinative moral formation most people have in our society is when they learn to play baseball, basketball, quilt, cook or learn to lay bricks.

Baseball, that pleasant anachronism we play in the dog days when we have time to catch our breath and dream of the dusty past, was once our game.

This is the scary God who comes in the night, the God who delighted my Grandmother Norris and worded her son, my uncle, because he wanted to play baseball in the morning and not have to deal with the end of time.

And, in due time, angel - like baseball players appear to play on the field.

He takes a seemingly outlandish illustration from a game of baseball, in which human beings err as they play the game within the rules:

My baseball fever began to rise in 1957, when I was six and the O's managed to play.500 ball over the course of the then - 154 game season.

If I should tell you that Gene Neely made the all - American team in football, played a crack centerfield in baseball, that he could handle a golf course in the eighties, and was a master at tennis, you would say, would you not, that he must have had a magnificent physique.

What the hapless Al Campanis did was to say out loud that though baseball tolerates the presence of blacks on the playing field, not enough of its leadership believe sufficiently in the principle of equality to make that second effort to put blacks in administrative positions.

Even more, it signals baseball season and if I have to wrap myself in an anti-histamine bubble, nothing stops me from treasuring the moments of watching my son play the sport he loves so dearly!!!

Our son plays baseball in both spring and fall leagues, and loves playing football with his friends in the neighborhood.

This holiday season, Cooperstown Distillery will proudly debut their Abner Doubleday «Double Play» Vodka, a decanter bottle named in honor of the inventor of baseball, Abner Doubleday.

After starring on A's teams that won three consecutive world championships, after seeing the burlesque melodrama of his relationship with Finley played out in the papers, Reggie, perhaps the most compelling, certainly the most visible, personality in baseball, had arrived.

The AL West might be the best race in baseball, with the Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers, and Astros all at the top, playing well.

A firm believer in early training («Kids are the best learners there are, and the older they get, the longer it takes to teach them»), Colleen had all the children swimming by the age of 3, swinging golf clubs, tennis rackets and baseball bats by 4, skiing, bike and horseback riding, playing basketball and football ever since they were 5.