Sentences with phrase «which national league»

In his twelfth time - traveling baseball - card adventure, young Stosh Stoshack meets Willie Mays and attempts to fiddle with the game that decided which National League team would play in the 1951 World Series.

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Twitter's foray into live streaming of National Football League games and its presence in news gathering could interest media companies such as Disney, which owns sports channel ESPN.

When the National Hockey League rumbles to life on Jan. 19, it will be a relief to the country's entertainment and recreation sector, which saw revenues drop 1.2 % in October partly due to the lockout, according to Statistics Canada.

Companies in Silicon Valley and beyond are taking note, including Pinterest, which took inspiration from the National Football League for its latest diversity initiatives.

While it might seem easy for their big name clients like the National Football League and Proctor and Gamble, Gabriel showed an example of Blue Fountain Media's work which exemplifies the firm's capabilities.

Uber, on the other hand, has teamed up with a number of companies, which include United Airlines, Starbucks, Morgan Stanley and the National Football League in order to promote its ride - hailing service to as many mainstream consumers as possible.

The Policy we propose resembles the Rooney Rule in the National Football League (NFL), which requires teams to interview minority candidates for head coaching and senior football operations openings.

«I just suspected that there were higher barriers for something to treat women, a lot higher than were set up for the male drugs,» said Sally Greenberg, executive director of the National Consumers League, which campaigned for the drug.

«In Freethinkers Hall, which before the Nazi resurgence was the national headquarters of the German Freethinkers League, the Berlin Protestant church authorities have opened a bureau for advice to the public in church matters.

The German Freethinkers League, which was swept away by the national revolution, was the largest of such organizations in Germany.

A leading critic of the Articles of Confederation, the feckless league under which Americans were governed for much of the 1780s, Madison was among the first to contemplate a more far - reaching union, one that would attend more energetically to national needs while offering a measure of security to those who had suffered at the hands of local majorities.

The Brooklyn Burger is also available at New York and New Jersey sports venues which include Yankee Stadium and Citi Field, the home of Major League Baseball's New York Mets; and the Nassau Coliseum, home of the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League.

But comparing Olympic teams is hardly like matching up the National League East, in which everybody has 25 players and 81 games, home and away.

All of the above applies to Castro, who is hitting.114 /.250 /.205, which is worse than 29 different starting pitchers in the National League.

The Phillies would get the first chance to claim Bellinger because they have the worst record in the National League, which is the league of the team placing him on waLeague, which is the league of the team placing him on waleague of the team placing him on waivers.

Depending on which stat you use, it's either the worst in the National League or the worst in baseball.

Wrestling with National League statistics covering three full seasons, Mullen reduced them to a series of logarithmic graphs and then to a cardboard dial and pointer which sells for a dollar.

We will have to wait and see exactly which of the current Arsenal playing staff are going to be called up by their respective national managers for the international break after this weekend's Premier League matches, but there are usually a fair few Gunners involved.

The proper analog would be 1968, when the entire National League had a collective 2.99 ERA, which was boring as heck and followed by Major League Baseball lowering the height of the pitcher's mound.

Four of their players also star for the Cambridge city club which competes in the Super 8 League, the premier national competition for handball clubs in the UK.

During a season in which he leads the National League with 159 hits and is second in batting average, Giants outfielder...

Seager came up and demolished National League pitching at the end of last season, which is understandably making folks optimistic about him.

At week's end San Francisco, which finished last in the National League West in 1995 and»96 and whose Opening Day starting lineup included four newcomers, was in first place with a 27 - 20 record.

Joe Torre was back in contention for the National League batting lead after a nine - game stretch in which he went 15 for 32 and raised his average from.313 to.343.

I said, «Hey, we're fine,»» Calipari said of his chat with Cashman and Boone, which led to a question about whether the trio discussed the Yankees» reported trade for reigning National League MVP Giancarlo Stanton.

Prior to moving to Madrid he had enjoyed four successful years with Club America, during which team he won two league titles and established himself as a regular squad member for the Mexican national side.

«They are top of the National League and they have that recent history which is very positive.

At baseball's annual winter meetings, you see, the National Association, which is the governing body of the minor leagues, honors someone as the King of Baseball at its big banquet.

The discord between the league and the International Olympic Committee forced national teams to turn elsewhere to fill their rosters for Pyeongchang, which gave this event a decidedly different feel from the past two decades.

Dodgers Last week general manager Kevin Malone downplayed the likelihood of his making a big deal, but if Los Angeles, which had crept to within four games of the Diamondbacks in the National League West and 2 1/2 of the wild - card - leading Giants at week's end, is to remain a contender, it must bolster its rotation.

The main thing for Arsenal to get done today was to reach the quarter - finals of the FA cup, which we did, against the National League club Sutton United who were really keeping the magic of the cup alive after beating Leeds United in the last round.

Akpom is a very good youngster Bob but I'm from Borehamwood, my Dad still lives there and their team, Boreham Wood are in the National League which is 5 tiers down from the Prem League, hardly a team to test you.

Back in early March, the prominent offshore sportsbook BetOnline posted odds for the 2016 MLB Most Valuable Player Award, which is given annually to one outstanding player in the American League (AL) and one in the National League (NL).

It was a performance that was in keeping with his regular season, for which he should be awarded National League Rookie of the Year honors next month.

It's an obvious smart move for Los Angeles, which gets the backup for Clayton Kershaw the team has arguably needed in each of the last four seasons where they won the National League West.

The American League long ago picked up the reputation of being more of a breaking - ball league than the National, in which pitchers were said to be more likely to challenge hitters with fastLeague long ago picked up the reputation of being more of a breaking - ball league than the National, in which pitchers were said to be more likely to challenge hitters with fastleague than the National, in which pitchers were said to be more likely to challenge hitters with fastballs.

In the National League, Stephen Strasburg moved from +400 to +125 which is utterly shocking considering that the Nats ace is currently on the disabled list.

One National League source speculates that Selig backed the radical plan knowing it would help him pass a more moderate proposal under which eight to 12 teams might switch leagues.

In his absence, the Nationals have gone 25 - 16, which, as Jon Morosi reminds everybody, is the best record in the National League in that span.

The National Football League placed defensive end Greg Hardy on its exempt / commissioner's permission list for most of the 2014 season, which amounted to a voluntary paid leave of absence before suspending him for four games.

The 20 year old has netted eight goals in 14 domestic league appearances, of which half were coming from the bench, and his record for the Under 21 national team has been equally prolific and Rodgers is keen to bring in the youngster as he seeks to strengthen his attacking options whilst also planning for the future.

Football appears exactly twice in their manifesto, and one of those is a reference to the «U.S. National Football League,» which will be encouraged to continue their cross-Atlantic adventures.

He was hitting.156 /.208 /.289 with 24 strikeouts in 49 plate appearances to start this season, which isn't much better than the average pitcher in the National League so far.

Today's announcement gives the D - League, which is normally an afterthought in national sports coverage, significant attention from major media companies for at least one news cycle.

LOS ANGELES — All - Star shortstop Corey Seager missed the National League Championship Series with a back sprain, but he is expected to return to the Los Angeles Dodgers in some capacity for the World Series, which begins Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.

This lopsided betting has shifted the line 12 points at Pinnacle, which may have created some value on the National League.

Lempa coached Dartmouth's defensive backs for six seasons (1991 - 96) and served as the defensive coordinator for the final four seasons (1993 - 96), his first opportunity as a coordinator, after which he coached in the National Football League as an assistant with the San Diego Chargers from 1997 - 99.

The rules and regulations for UEFA's new national team competition, the UEFA Nations League — which starts in September 2018 — have been confirmed.

One league down in National League One, Bradford Park Avenue were beaten 3 - 1 at AFC Telford in which, despite conceding three goals, Conor Mitchell had an outstanding game inleague down in National League One, Bradford Park Avenue were beaten 3 - 1 at AFC Telford in which, despite conceding three goals, Conor Mitchell had an outstanding game inLeague One, Bradford Park Avenue were beaten 3 - 1 at AFC Telford in which, despite conceding three goals, Conor Mitchell had an outstanding game in goal.

His first team football has come out on loan for teams ranging from League One to the National League in which he's played over 100 games.