Sentences with phrase «talent for baseball»

I was briefly in the guys - who - play - baseball tribe as well, but it turned out that you had to have a talent for baseball to stick in that tribe.

Keith is a willing young athlete eager to please his father, Gordon (James Farentino), but Bryan does n`t win approval because he lacks the interest and talent for baseball.

Not exact matches

Hall of Famer Branch Rickey is known as the general manager who had a nose for talent, discovering and hiring Jackie Robinson during a time when baseball was a segregated sport.

The White Sox are asking for the best young talent — the easiest, cheapest young players to project in baseball — and they should.

But just eyeballing it, it looks like the Giants gave up about as much talent as any team in baseball, with Matt Duffy and his five years of team control going for the enigmatic Matt Moore, along with a high - profile international free agent from last year and a projectable, hard - throwing right - hander.

The premier tournament showcasing young talent, The Cepeda Baseball Caribbean Classic is ramping up for it's 5th season.

Last spring, I wrote a piece for the Washington Post on the dramatic proliferation of travel club baseball and the accompanying siphoning of talent from community baseball leagues.

Since I have really started following baseball, what I have seen is MLB making it harder for low ranking teams to acquire young talent.

There's the window of contending with these superlative talents... but there's also the window of cashing those superlative talents in for some of the greatest prospects in baseball.

Baseball just isn't built for solo talents, for the most part, outside of starting pitchers.

Well, they'll be all squished because baseball is a sociopath and the Phillies were asking for franchise - altering talent from organizations that didn't want to give it up, and now look at what they've done.

Like all baseball writers, I have a splendid talent for being wrong.

With California perhaps having the richest baseball history of any state, it's a travesty that there isn't a stage for our high school talent to be showcased.

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.

I want to thank God for giving me the talents I have had and the good health so that the 22 years of baseball have been possible.»

While gearing up for our annual Baseball / Softball Preview (coming Feb. 25), we checked in with one of the top returning talents for a Sheldon softball team which is pre - paring to defend its Sac Joaquin Section title.

It was the baseball equivalent of 1975 in boys basketball or 1948 in football, which are perhaps the best two years for talent in those sports in state history.

COMPTON, Calif. — On a weekend that celebrated baseball's most revered trailblazer, Jackie Robinson, 100 girls gathered at the MLB Youth Academy in Compton for a two - day baseball tournament that featured camaraderie, talent and fierce competition.

Phil Spector was sentenced to 19 years to life in prison for the murder of Lana Clarkson... With Susan Boyle feeling the pressure, sportsbooks no longer have her as the runaway favorite in Britain «s Got Talent... The NCAA baseball regionals are going on.

You are an incredible baseball player with tons of talent and can totally give me a run for my money in Just Dance!

It's definitely got elements of social and political subtext, especially as it captures the strange world of the Dominican «baseball academies,» where that nation's raw talent is nurtured for North American harvest in a sort of plantation system controlled by Major League Basebalbaseball academies,» where that nation's raw talent is nurtured for North American harvest in a sort of plantation system controlled by Major League BaseballBaseball teams.

Jerry works for SMI (Sports Management International), the sports equivalent of a Hollywood talent agency like CAA; his clients include the top stars of baseball, football, and basketball.

While flipping TV channels between an Indian cricket match and the star - making clip of Susan Boyle on Britain's Got Talent, he gets the idea to scour Indian cricket for the next great American baseball pitcher.

Selling audiences on a baseball movie is hard enough - selling them on a movie about baseball statistics would've been impossible, if not for the presence of Brad Pitt, the comedic talent of Jonah Hill, and a crackling script from Aaron Sorkin, who already won an Oscar for making a Facebook movie into a cultural event.

He returned with the screenplay for the 1991 Edward James Olmos baseball scout drama Talent for the Game.

And that was part of the experience too: the countless sex workers, who surrounded all the major hotels near the Santo Domingo boardwalk, so much so, that I would eventually choose to stay away from the waterfront to avoid being harassed; the baseball talent scouts / agents, whose business practices in representing young teenage boys sometimes bordered on exploitation; and of course the hundreds of kids I met who had been taught they weren't supposed to amount to anything, but had strived for so much more.

Special thanks to the Mario Wiki (certain documentations for the Mario sports games), GameFAQs (certain documentation on the Mario sports games), the Cespedes Family Barbecue (their conversion scale of 1 - 10 to 20 - 80 talent using the Backyard Baseball scale, which I used as part of my mix to determine OOTP rankings for), OOTP Developments (creating OOTP), Youtube (for making a certain easter egg on here possible) and Nintendo (creating Mario).

With an abundance of local legal talent and a generous history of participation, the Tacoma - Pierce County Bar Association offers an array of CLE opportunities throughout the year, including the annual Sports Law CLE at the Tacoma Rainier's stadium where attendees earn CLE credits and then stay for the baseball game, enjoying a barbecue and the fireworks show.

Davidson College, Davidson • NC 1996 — 1999 Assistant Baseball Coach / Pitching Coach / Recruiting Coordinator Provided complete operations support for Division I program developing superior pitching talent that competed in the Southern Conference.