Sentences with phrase «stories in baseball»

An older, Tolkien - quoting phenomenon, but still one of the biggest stories in baseball.

It might be one of the most under - the - radar stories in baseball, and I can't figure out why it's not getting more attention.

That's not to slam Rich Hill, who's become one of the better stories in baseball, but it gives you the idea of the trade market.

The Indians are the biggest story in baseball right now, and as someone who has averaged 100 page views for every Indians story of his career, I AM HERE FOR IT.

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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.

In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Patrick Bet - David remembers a story of going to a baseball game several years ago between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Houston Astros.

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.

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.

Instead, he's a Traded Dodger Walking, and he might be a story we tell young baseball players around a campfire in a decade.

There will be no bigger (baseball) story in the nation's capital over the next six months, unless the Washington Nationals can bring World Series baseball back to D.C. for the first time since 1933.

This has got to be one of the greatest stories I have ever seen in Baseball.

He was a chapter in the story of baseball that I'd want to pass on, and highlight in a museum dedicated to highlighting great players.

This is the story of a baseball, a baseball ordinary in size and weight and composition and nothing else.

His story strains credulity: After graduating from high school, he turned down a scholarship to Texas A&M and swore off the game; underwent treatment for drug abuse and depression; embarked on a four - year odyssey around the country in search of spiritual understanding before he was led back to baseball; was drafted in the 23rd round in 2010; then made the Braves» Opening Day roster a year after starting the»12 season in high A ball.

When the history of 2015 is written, when the confetti is swept up and the championship T - shirts are all sold, we'll get a chance to reflect on all the special baseball stories and sort them in order of importance.

This is the story of how a grown man — a grown man with a mortgage, two kids and no time to screw around with baseball cards — fell in love with baseball cards for the first time.

But as with everybody in baseball, there is a book on the Boston Red Sox righthander, and it is at once a short story and a tall tale.

It will always be one of my favorite baseball stories, and it's told in just a few numbers on a page somewhere in the Internet.

Back in 2012, Moore was a dandy baseball story.

While it's possible, if not likely, that the Gallo story has at least one more detour in the minors, this is the perfect time for Rangers fans to ask one of the very best baseball questions: What if?

Adding Vargas so he can play in Puerto Rico is a nice story, but I don't want an organization manufacturing narratives over making sound baseball decisions.

Alexander had one of the more tragic baseball stories, coming back from World War I with shrapnel in his ear, worsened epilepsy, and crippling alcoholism.

A second - half surge would be a great story for someone who's been with the Nationals since they were the worst team in baseball, but that doesn't mean it's especially likely.

We're going to skip the editorial and get right to the stories this morning, as baseball lost two players to car accidents in the Dominican Republic on Sunday morning: Royals» pitcher Yordano Ventura and former top prospect and infielder for a number of big - league teams, Andy Marte.

An exciting part of September baseball is watching teams clinch their berths in the postseason and seeing the stories of the playoffs begin to form throughout the month.

Ring Lardner's baseball stories are held in new esteem, while Bernard Malamud's The Natural is over-praised simply because it deals with baseball.

Listen in, and you'll hear the sounds of baseball: chatter, needling, kibitzing, stories that reach across the years and often involve their old coach.

It's a bittersweet story, but not really a sad one -LRB-» t is better to have loved and lost, etc.), and in it we meet at least a dozen good people to whom baseball is important for reasons wholly divorced from the profit system.

From the SI Vault: William Nack's story of the stretch in May 1947 when Jackie Robinson showed he could play major league baseball, paving the way for other African - Americans to follow.

While the story questioned the wisdom of hosting the racially challenged ex-cop during the season that celebrated the 50th anniversary of baseball's integration, it skirted the issue of whether the glove in Wells's locker had been planted.

Yes, in the storybook tale of Danny Ainge, the kind of balanced - mind - and - body story that would have made even stern old Brigham Young smile, there remains only that age - old baseball concern: «Can da bum hit da coive?»

Indeed, the whole town habitually mobilizes as if it were going to war when a sports project is under way, and there are countless stories about the Jaycees building baseball bleachers and the Jaycees, the Lions and the American Legion playing benefit games to buy a new P. A. system and whole platoons of town fathers pitching in to carve a sleek new baseball diamond out of a rocky pasture.

While there have been no formal studies to determine how many child molesters have coached youth teams, a computer - database search of recent newspaper stories reveals more than 30 cases just in the last 18 months of coaches in the U.S. who have been arrested or convicted of sexually abusing children engaged in nine sports from baseball to wrestling — and this despite the fact that child sex - abuse victims, for reasons ranging from shame and embarrassment to love or fear of their molesters, rarely report the crime.

One of my favorite baseball stories goes like this... In 1977 or»78 or»81 — one of the years the Dodgers were in the World Series — Sandy Koufax was throwing batting practice to the Dodger hitters before a gamIn 1977 or»78 or»81 — one of the years the Dodgers were in the World Series — Sandy Koufax was throwing batting practice to the Dodger hitters before a gamin the World Series — Sandy Koufax was throwing batting practice to the Dodger hitters before a game.

It's the story of baseball wrapped in a 7» 1» shell, at least, and it's worth watching — even if you think you've watched tall pitchers before.

He used to share stories with me at Michigan about how as a youth he kept individual statistics on his batting average in baseball, scoring average in basketball and touchdowns in football.

In fact, the stories that came out about his holdout with Drysdale and, later on, his retirement from baseball — well, most of them were 90 % fiction.

One of the sources, free - lance writer Allen Barra, a regular contributor to the New York City weekly The Village Voice who is writing a book with Marvin Miller, the former head of the Major League Baseball Players Association, told SI that early in 1985 he spent a few days with Winfield in Minneapolis while preparing a story for Sports Fitness magazine.

Baseball freaks know his story well by now: He was state player of the year for Federal Way High School in 2002 and earned a scholarship to Oregon State, but signed with the San Francisco Giants after they selected him in the 21st round of the 2002 MLB draft.

you can share in the joy together of collecting, whether it's coins, dolls, baseball cards, or even rubber bands, as Jason shares a story from when he was a child.

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.

As part of an agreement with the Flyers baseball team, the Park District and the village agreed to share in the cost of building the $ 1.5 - million, two - story restaurant.

In our interview with the New York Congressman for this week's cover story, Espaillat went deep on no fewer than five separate baseball tangents, even promising he would try to bring David Ortiz, aka «Big Papi,» to Capitol Hill this year.

The chronicle of baseball's color line usually focuses on the triumphant story of its breaking by Jackie Robinson in the 1940s.

De Blasio and Oddo talk about four times a month, play baseball together and talk politics over Italian dinners, Politco New York reported in a story about their friendship.

Both papers lead with the story of drug use in baseball.

There is actually a bit more to the story, however, since sometimes players will strike balls so as to give them very little spin — the equivalent of a knuckleball in baseball.

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It tells the story of the Garfield character, growing up in a working - class family in the Bronx and breaking the social code by falling in love with the violin instead of the baseball bat.

The baseball plays no further role in the story, but Hamm travels to see his sister (Catherine Keener), who is trying to liquidate their parents» home and salvage any letters and photographs that may be of value.