Sentences with phrase «team at a baseball»

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«Not making the baseball team at West Point,» Eisenhower later said, «was one of the greatest disappointments of my life, maybe my greatest.»

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.

It is something else to blindly hope that four good teams all start playing losing baseball at the same time.

There's not much Major League Baseball can do to compete with the weather, but if they continue to reschedule games at such a high rate, teams might have to begin to find some creative solutions as schedules tighten later in the season.

That's easy for teams on a baseball field or at a burning house, but corporate teams can be just as clear.

A team including Roderick Swaab, a professor at European business school INSEAD, and Adam D. Galinsky of Columbia recently took the action on the pitch as inspiration and decided to examine how adding more superstars to the mix affected football (aka soccer), basketball, and baseball teams.

- Palm Beach County showdown of top baseball teams on Wednesday night at Heritage.

The school's baseball team, which has long provided great pride for the school and Parkland community, practiced at North Broward Prep in the first...

South Florida high school baseball standouts that play for USA national teams, which all won international titles this year, will be honored before first pitch to the Miami Marlins game on Saturday at Marlins Park.

Officials at the Port of Oakland say they have entered exclusive talks with a Major League Baseball team considering the...

Moneyball is a look at Major League Baseball's Oakland A's, a team that over the past few years has tallied the second highest number of wins with one of the lowest payrolls.

Two of my three sons play on select baseball club teams, so we spend lots of weekends at the baseball fields!

When women routinely win Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry or medicine, when a woman becomes a world chess champion, when a woman conceives and develops a brand new computer chip that represents a significant advancement over quad cores, when a woman invents warp drive or phasers, when a woman solves an «insolvable» math problem, when a woman, while working with the Large Hadron Collider, discovers the now - hypothetical Higgs Boson to be an actual scalar subatomic particle, when a woman figures out how to pinpoint the exact location of an electron at any point in time, when a woman working for Merck or Pfizer develops a remedy for Alzheimer's disease, when a woman's baseball team can defeat the New York Yankees, when a woman can bench press six hundred pounds, run the 100 meter dash in under nine seconds or set a world record in the high jump, then the fairer sex will have made an advance or contribution unlike any it has made before.

Last weekend when the Charleston RiverDogs Minor League Baseball team hosted the Columbia Fireflies, they took a few jabs at the Fireflies» Tim Tebow.

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.

Whether it's a package that has your favorite baseball team or a local high school, customization is huge, and it's making the supply base figure out a way to offer lower quantity items [at a] cost - effective point.»

At the same time, the Cubs, being the best team in baseball, just won the pennant, something they haven't done in 71 seasons.

I am a huge sports fan.I love nfl and college football i never get enough of it.I am a big soccer [the other football] fanatic.I like basketball, hockey, some baseball and rugby.I am a big jersey buyer i have a lot of jerseys mostly of american football and soccer.I love the strategy of football i think it is fascinating.I have been a falcons fan since 1990 when the went to all black helmets and jerseys i was a fan because of that and because of primetime deion sanders.I have been a falcons fan through thick and thin win or lose they are my team regardless of how they do.I hope to one day visit Atlanta and see them play at home in Georgia.I hope to one day see them bring back black jerseys as the home colors.I am still a fan of the run n shoot offense i truly believe it can work in the nfl if ran and merged with some two back formations and a one back three wide one tight end formation.

There is no team in baseball that knows this kind of disappointment, and if the Indians actually win it all, there won't be a team that knows it for another decade, at least.

According to Major League Baseball, the standings at the start of Tuesday featured as much parity as we've had since 1995, with 18 teams within at least five games of a postseason berth.

While fans anticipate that a loud crowd will impact the road team, baseball is the only sport where home teams have a tangible advantage (teams constructed to utilize unique ballpark dimensions and last at - bats).

The team at SportsInsights.com is analyzing the sports database and updating its regular series of articles on betting against the public in major league baseball.

Right there on the local diamond would be a semipro team capable of beating everyone in sight, even capable, perhaps, of holding its own at the annual National Baseball Congress tournament in Wichita.

Baseball owners have plenty of issues we can (and do) side - eye them for, but at least Crane and Co. were thinking of the city their team calls home on this issue.

I also stated that it's been difficult recruiting against a Coach like Sully at UF, whose team won last year's College Baseball title.

Some baseball teams have younger superstars who aren't making much money at all.

The Knicks take a 3 - 0 lead, and the teams will play again Sunday at 1 p.m.. Although it has been done in hockey and baseball, no NBA team has ever come back from a 3 - 0 deficit to win a series in the playoffs.

If you want to look at players who steal from their teams check our Major league baseball.

Hendricks says that if there's an open free - agent market — and he, like a lot of other baseball folks, didn't know last week if there would be — Smith should at least hear from Boston, California and Oakland, teams that need closers.

For aguy who had been a walk - on at Cal State — Fullerton, laced a pinch - hit singleduring the 2007 College World Series, caught Giants ace Tim Lincecum in theCape Cod League and was coaching a youth team in Pasadena at the time of thecrash, throwing a baseball was the ultimate sign of progress.

It's a shame we'll have to wait until September to find out who the last of the 16 teams participating in the World Baseball Classic will be, but at least we have more qualifying baseball to look forBaseball Classic will be, but at least we have more qualifying baseball to look forbaseball to look forward to.

It's why two detectives are assigned by Major League Baseball to protect him around the clock when the Cardinals are on the road, even when he merely crosses the street in front of the team's hotel, as he did in Fort Lauderdale on Sept. 1 to eat lunch at Chuck's Steakhouse.

In the course of three days last week at baseball's winter meetings in Miami Beach, such players as Bret Saberhagen, Kevin Mitchell, Wally Joyner, Gregg Jefferies, Randy Myers, Kevin McReynolds and Bip Roberts changed teams.

The Cardinals opened the season at 12/1 to win the title, but with a 19 - 6 start through the first 25 games of the season and the lowest team ERA in baseball at 2.44 the Cards have moved their way up the betting board.

The coach at UTPB, Brian Reinke, remembered that Gattis, now 22, had been a talented high school player; Reinke often jokingly told Kendrick that Gattis had a spot on the team if he ever wanted to return to baseball.

• Mayock, a college safety at Boston College, on his draft day — April 29, 1981, when he was chosen in the 10th round, by the Steelers, 265th overall, just 257 picks after a slightly more famous defensive back in the draft, Ronnie Lott: «I was the captain of the Boston College baseball team, and we had games on both days.

That's not to be condescending to the team or country at all: it's just that baseball in the country is still in the early stages of development, and the roster was filled out by American minor - league and role players.

Now Cleveland I don't want to tell you how to play baseball, give you're arguably the best team in the game, but maybe stop swinging at splitters that are hitting the ground.

The upside is that the Padres will have Hosmer play baseball for them until that hypothetical contending team gets here, and he's pretty good at baseball.

The current system called for teams to forfeit a first - round draft pick when signing a free agent that declined a qualifying offer — a one - year tender at the average of the top 125 salaries in baseball — with the old team receiving a sandwich pick in between the first and second rounds.

Sunny Golloway coached the Oklahoma Sooners baseball team for nine years before taking the head position at Auburn just a few...

If you want to stop tanking in baseball — we're talking in the NBA sense, where teams intentionally set themselves up to lose, allowing them better odds at a top draft pick — the solution is simple: Make it so that the MLB Draft is an enigmatic mess, where thousands and thousands of working hours from scouts and executives lead to incorrect decisions to draft players who provide absolutely no value to their new franchise.

That written, it's time to look at the holes every team still has around baseball, along with the ability of the team to fix the problem this late in the offseason.

So, with Carter out of the picture and Bird not coming back to save the day, there's a void for Alonso to fill whether he's the version of himself that crushes baseballs or just the one that doesn't embarrass himself or his team at the plate or in the field.

Here is the nightmare of every baseball player who goes where he's told because he just wants to get at - bats and help the team:

He's also great at making baseball teams great, so I guess that bodes well for the rest of us with gross face situations.

The Dodgers lineup is loaded with youth, and that youth is what's driving this team to the best record in baseball despite injuries (Adrian Gonzalez, Urias, almost everyone else in the rotation at some point).

Without having distinguished himself as a high school pitcher, he dropped out at 16 and contacted Don Nomura, a former player in Japan who was part owner of an independent Class A team in Salinas, Calif. «I just wanted to play the highest level of baseball in the world,» Suzuki said last week through an interpreter.

He'd played on a baseball team in Australia, where parents applauded and cooed, «Awwww, bad luck, mate,» whenever a boy or girl on his team swung and missed by a foot — and he'd played on a traveling AAU baseball team in the U.S., where parents stormed the dugout and seethed at coaches for pulling their sons out of games so benchwarmers could have a chance.

From school teams to select teams to all - star teams, many players end up playing baseball or softball year - round without getting any rest, sometimes on two or more teams at the same time.