When we do that, we start to win ballgames more consistently.
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"When you're getting good pitching, you're going to win ballgames," McCann assessed.
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"We've been having trouble with the latter innings of ballgames," Molitor said.
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The end goal is to win ballgames and be in the playoffs.
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Regardless of what the standings say, we still want to win ballgames.
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But at the end of the day, you want to win ballgames.
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I think it's going to allow me to go deeper in ballgames.
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Odor started going to ballgames in Maracaibo when he was just a toddler.
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We kept putting the pressure on them, and that's how you win ballgames.
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Our pitchers have been doing a phenomenal job of keeping us in ballgames.
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We still went out there and won ballgames on the road as well.
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" Smith fulsomely praised Day, but added with a laugh, "He's got to win ballgames.
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Some of them cover iconically American subjects, like ballgames, fried food, guns and cars.
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Ultimately, those are the things that are the difference between winning and losing ballgames.
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Often with people, as with ballgames, what you see depends on where you sit.
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If they can maintain that consistency, that's what gives you a chance for winning ballgames.
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"We're baseball players, not U.F.C. fighters, and we come here to play ballgames," Bautista said.
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Maury's father, Glen says, never told Maury he loved him, never went to his ballgames.
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At the end of the day, the biggest thing is we're trying to win ballgames.
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In more than 40 years of attending ballgames, I had never seen anything quite like it.
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"We just have to make it tough for them and try to win ballgames," Blevins said.
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" He continued: "The other three games, we lost on silly things, but we were in ballgames.
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"They hold teams to 103 points, we're going to win a lot of ballgames," McAdoo said.
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"When you win a couple ballgames, people start feeling better about themselves," Mariners manager Scott Servais said.
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"This is the story of how seven ballgames shaped the rest of their days," Mr. Cook writes.
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So it's like hey you realize they kill the DH and you want to get deep into ballgames.
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Instead, he justified his attempts to do so because they were done in the service of winning ballgames.
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He definitely was a little out of rhythm, but he always gives us enough to get back in ballgames.
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The summer provides a host of opportunities for extended periods of drinking, from backyard barbecues to ballgames to boating.
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And inside, where your average saloon might feature a pool table or televised ballgames, this one has other diversions.
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That's a great way to win ballgames, as it turns out, but it's a bad way to get press.
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"At the end of the day, this is about putting us in the best position to win ballgames going forward."
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" Pirates manager Clint Hurdle was just as pleased with his relief corps: "It was really the tale of two ballgames.
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"What happens off the field or the court," Lattinville said, "is more likely to spell your doom than losing ballgames."
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You know, I was thinking about the Pledge of Allegiance and the national anthem when we go to the ballgames.
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As a business, the Mets organization's job is not necessarily to win pennants or even individual ballgames, but to be entertaining.
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"We're winning ballgames, so for me that is what's important right now," said Beltran, who had three hits and three RBI.
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The old OP5 used its two cameras to offer a 1.6x zoom, which was nice for shooting concert or ballgames and stuff.
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To stake his claim as a long-term coordinator and potential head coach, he'll have to put up points and win ballgames.
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"As he's done when he's had some trouble in some ballgames, he bends but he doesn't break," Boston manager John Farrell said.
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"It's a lot of fun for us to be able to come up there and help the team win ballgames," Smith said.
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"To be able to get out of the funk we're in, we've got to be able to win ballgames like that," Cobb said.
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What riles serious fans is that their experience at ballgames is being compromised, in large part, by the behavior of more casual attendees.
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Though it didn't win, the title track became quite well-known and is still played sometimes before local ballgames and other patriotic events.
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I feel like we're taking every day like that: we're coming out to compete and win ballgames, whether it's Boston or whoever it is.
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"That's definitely exciting to see no matter what level you're at, you always want to be winning ballgames," Lively said of the late-inning rally.
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We've had four pretty good starts and the bullpen, even though we've made some changes, they're doing a nice job of keeping us in ballgames.
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"We've been playing great the first three quarters and haven't finished ballgames," said Marshall, who had eight receptions for 114 yards to lead all Jets receivers.
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Bob Murphy spoke for both of us, though, when he said to Gary Thorne over WHN, 'There are some ballgames you just aren't meant to win.
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The depth is unique, we have a lot of good players in the clubhouse that can do a lot of great things for us to win ballgames.
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North Korea makes a couple of short-range missiles that use solid fuel, but small solid rocket motors and massive solid rocket motors are two very different ballgames.
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Her success was undermined in small ways that reflected gender bias, like the boss going to ballgames with Martin and his clients and allowing Martin to claim a private office.
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Now they're a great defensive team, they can steal some bases and they can manufacture runs much easier, so in close ballgames, that swings their way a lot of times.
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"We want to go out and win ballgames every week," said Elliott, who has the third-highest rookie rushing total behind Dickerson and George Rogers (1,674 with New Orleans in 1981).
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Its two most famous residents have been towering exceptions — George and Barbara Bush, White House retirees who spent their days promoting literacy and volunteerism and their evenings at ballgames and gala dinners.
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"Whether it was a breaking ball off the plate or down low in the zone, we did chase a little more tonight than we have in other ballgames," Boston manager John Farrell said.
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Kyle, who said she used to watch Pirates ballgames on television with her husband, Jack, has five children, 11 grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren, one great-great-grandson and another grandchild on the way.
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This (Houston) is the best team in the AL right now and there's a reason for it, and when we come in and play good ballgames I think we're going to beat a lot of people.
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"Smooth" was played at weddings, at ballgames, in restaurants, in waiting rooms, all over the radio, and probably by that one dude in your college dorm who would show up to parties with an acoustic guitar.
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Perhaps, despite his questionable personal health, Trump thinks he is immune to the coronavirus; but to those under no such illusion, being encouraged to go back to work, shopping, and ballgames doesn't mean they will do so.
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A bevy of beautiful blondes going to parties, jumping off yachts, vowing everlasting friendships, and taking selfies at ballgames — these aren't problems, unless the idea of a group of women having pretty cool lives together is a problem.
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They've done a great job keeping us in ballgames and keeping it close and really battling out there and giving us a chance as an offense to put some runs on the board and help win the ballgame.
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In 2010, Mayer joined a support group called Footsteps, a social service agency and nonprofit intended to help teach OTD people about secular life by taking them to movies and ballgames and giving them a space to network.
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You see actual route running — great routes — strong hands, physical, so you need a safety who can cover and take those guys away out of the game because they're a big portion when it comes to winning ballgames.
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Of course, an effort is underway to find and preserve the recordings of ballgames, too, with a number of them missing from the early 21962s and 21990s, when preservation was not paramount and it was not clear Scully would become revered.
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Screenshot: AppleFurthermore, unlike the iPhone XR, the iPhone X sports a second rear camera with a 2x zoom, which gives you much more flexibility when snapping pics at ballgames, concerts, or anywhere else where a little extra reach goes a long way.
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The second half is largely devoted to ballgames; most of the first half takes place two months earlier, when the Americans fly to Israel aboard a private jet owned by the casino magnate Sheldon Adelson to see the country and to ponder, in some cases for the first time, their Jewish identities.
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Yankees 3, Rays 2 With 17 games left in the season, a wild-card berth appearing likely and the American League East title still very much in play, Yankees Manager Joe Girardi has made his position clear: Given the choice between making friends or winning ballgames, he will opt for the latter every time.
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Without Miller and Chapman, "the ballgames have a different feel to them," said Bautista, who hit a solo homer off Michael Pineda in the fourth to give the Blue Jays a 1-0 lead and put them ahead in the eighth when he laced a 3-2 slider from Betances into center field, scoring Josh Donaldson.
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He retired several years ago after calling Ball State University ballgames for many years.
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He finished his career with a lifetime batting average of .227, 13 HR, 50 RBI, and 75 runs scored in 254 ballgames.
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Jenkins established a reputation for achieving his pitching feats and his statistics while spending most of his career pitching in a "hitter's ballpark"—Wrigley Field in Chicago. Furthermore, in 1968, Jenkins lost five of his starts in 1–0 ballgames.
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Allbright died of pneumonia on July 18, 2011, in Arlington, Virginia at the Virginia Hospital Center.Schudel, Matt. "Nat Allbright, announcer who relied on imagination to re-create ballgames, dies at 87", The Washington Post, August 6, 2011. Accessed August 17, 2011.
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Despite the low rating, the Bears coaches repeatedly insisted that they were pleased with Orton's performance. The coaching staff asked Orton to minimize mistakes and to let the rushing attack and the defense win ballgames rather than employing an aggressive passing attack.
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Summer 2007 Esko played again in World League with Finland. They played good competition and place seven place final. After that team started five weeks longer preparing to European Championships. In European Championships Finland made country ballgames history when team get fourth place.
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Valga County has only one result to be shown in ballgames. It was in handball, won by the team of Valga Maret Sport in 1992. Currently Valga has a champions league team in basketball and in handball. Many well-known coaches are from Valga.
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He became the captain of the Finland men's national volleyball team in 1997. He has played over 210 national team games. In European Championships 2007 Finland came to fourth place and made Finland ballgames history. Overall Finnish volleyball legend played 296 games in the national team.
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Havlicek and White joined Cowens as 20-point Celtic scorers. But somehow the Celtics lost three of the first four ballgames anyway. The inside defense of the Bullets, combined with plenty of free throws, allowed Washington to send the vaunted world champions home. For some, this was a title in itself.
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Chichen Itza had one of the largest, most elaborate skull racks during the Late Classical period. It was four levels high, and featured representational skulls carved into stone. These skull racks were strongly associated with ballgames, and sacrificial decapitations. In El Tajin, there is a rise in ball-court associated rituals.
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Cincinnati started off the season on the right foot, winning their first four games, and had an impressive 11–5 record in their first sixteen ballgames. However, they were 3.5 games behind the Athletics. The Red Stockings would continue to play good baseball, and had a 31–23 record. However, they sat in fourth place.
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The village of Rio owns a baseball diamond and the land plot to its west and have turned it into a park with a public pavilion and concession stand for ballgames as well as a large playground structure that was paid for by the village and constructed during a community build day in July 2012.
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Also planned was the option to connect to special services, such as ballgames and speeches. Subscription costs were estimated to be around $2 a month, with service provided to private homes, businesses, hotels, and hospitals. Despite hopes to eventually expand nationally, the Tellevent never advanced beyond the exploratory stage, and the Michigan Tellevent Company was dissolved in 1909.
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Finland too survive to European Championships, where Tapio and team made Finland ballgames history became fourth place. Kangasniemi was one of the best liberos in the competition. Kangasniemi announced before national team season 2009 that he is coming to retire from national team games. Finland team coach Mauro Berruto understood this very well and write a letter to Kangasniemi.
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See Quirarte, pp. 205–208. It is thought that neither the Great Ballcourt nor Tikal's Ceremonial Court was used for ballgames (Scarborough, p. 137). Cross sections of some of the more typical ballcourts Across Mesoamerica, ballcourts were built and used for many generations. Although ballcourts are found within most sizable Mesoamerican ruins, they are not equally distributed across time or geography.
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Staub went on to work as a television announcer for Mets' ballgames from 1986 to 1995."Baseball Reference", Baseball Reference Staub owned and ran two restaurants in Manhattan. Rusty's (at 73rd and Third) opened in 1977, and another Rusty's on Fifth opened in 1989. The 73rd Street Rusty's used to have an annual rib-eating contest, won by Brooke Shields in 1981.
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His version began: "I'm forever blowing ballgames." The song also became a hit with the public in British music halls and theatres during the early 1920s. Dorothy Ward was especially renowned for making the song famous with her appearances at these venues. The song was also used by English comedian "Professor" Jimmy Edwards as his signature tune—played on the trombone.
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Morton was born in Flemington, New Jersey to Jeanne and Chip Morton, an accountant and former Penn State basketball player. His grandfather played in the Philadelphia Athletics farm system. He was raised in Trumbull, Connecticut playing little league baseball with future major leaguers pitcher Craig Breslow and infielder Jamie D'Antona. Morton grew up attending ballgames at Yankee Stadium and idolizing Derek Jeter and Roger Clemens.
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The other came against Steve Carlton on May 1, 1974. One of the other two was a pinch-hit grand slam with two out in the bottom of the 9th inning during a comeback victory against the Pittsburgh Pirates on May 1, 1973. Arnold finished his MLB career with a lifetime batting average of .237, 4 home runs, 51 RBI, and 47 runs scored in 273 ballgames.
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Peterson retires with an all-time career record of 791-637-3. Peterson did a lot more for the program than just win ballgames. He helped carry on annual events such as the yearly Fish Fry that is held every October and was started by Coach John Stanford. Also, he carried on the tradition of the Groundhog Day Luncheon that takes place every February.
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"We want Jay as a player, not as a drawing card. He might attract some fans but we want him so we can win ballgames." He made his home debut in December 1989, scoring 15 points in a 132-123 loss to Pensacola in front of 3,272 fans. In 34 games with the Horizon in the 1989-90 season, Burson averaged 13.6 points a game.
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The entertainment district stretches along North St. Clair Street from Washington to Monroe streets, adjacent to the ballpark. The area includes the expanded Swamp Shop, new retail shop Holy Toledo, several rooftop bars, Nine restaurant, Fleetwood's Tap Room, and Hensville Park. In addition to increased traffic for ballgames, the district will also hold events such as outdoor concerts, Monday movie nights, fireworks and other unique weekly events.
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Frisian handball in Franeker Frisian handball (; ) is a traditional Frisian sport, related to American handball and fives, that is most commonly practiced by people from the northern Dutch province of Friesland (Fryslân). It is believed to be one of the oldest ballgames and was an unofficial demonstration sport at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. The score is similar to tennis. The first team scoring six games wins the match.
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Games were played, songs were sung, candy and toys were handed out to the children, and movies were shown. At one point Colonel Ba joined the children for ballgames. The Vietnamese Agricultural Service provided information to the elders about farming and government initiatives designed to assist farmers. The American military personnel present reported that the villagers appeared to be very pleased with the information session and the free social services.
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She also umpired ballgames and helped with any social event she could, until become an active member of the AAGPBL Players Association. The association was largely responsible for the opening of Women in Baseball, a permanent display based at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York, which was unveiled in 1988 to honor the entire All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Kemmerer died on November 2, 2013 in South Bend, Indiana.
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Originally WTBB (Townsend Broadcasting), it began as a local station in 1983, using mostly a pre- recorded format, and was housed in the old Bank of Bonifay building. Manager Larry Donaldson also carried local ballgames and political events, and even had the occasional local remote. Most people thought he owned the station until it sold in 1992 and he moved on. From 1992 to 1997, the station was known as "Pirate Radio 97.7".
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"We want Jay as a player, not as a drawing card. He might attract some fans but we want him so we can win ballgames." In 34 games with the Horizon in the 1989-90 season, Burson averaged 13.6 points a game. Also among the team's first signings was another local college product Eric Newsome, a 5-foot-8 guard from Toledo, who was, at that time, second on Miami University's career scoring list.
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Looking at his entire professional career, Pizarro won more than 400 ballgames. His regular-season count is 392: 197 in the US (131 in the majors and 66 in the minors), plus 38 more in Mexico in his late 30s and 157 while playing winter ball in his homeland. His final record in Puerto Rico was 157–110, with a superb 2.51 ERA. Only Rubén Gómez had more wins (174, and he needed 29 seasons to do it).
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St. Louis Cardinals general manager Branch Rickey was present for the game and praised the stadium as "one of the finest minor league parks in America". The Cardinals won the league pennant that year and again in 1939, but the league disbanded a second time in 1941. During World War II, the stadium was used for Army ballgames. In 1946, the Albuquerque Dukes were established and began play in the Class C West Texas–New Mexico League.
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Taladoire (2001) p. 99. Ancient cities with particularly fine ballcourts in good condition include Tikal, Yaxha, Copán, Coba, Iximche, Monte Albán, Uxmal, Chichen Itza, Yagul, Xochicalco, Mixco Viejo, and Zaculeu. Ballcourts were public spaces used for a variety of elite cultural events and ritual activities like musical performances and festivals, and, of course, the ballgame. Pictorial depictions often show musicians playing at ballgames, while votive deposits buried at the Main Ballcourt at Tenochtitlan contained miniature whistles, ocarinas, and drums.
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During the week, the middle bore of the Caldecott was reversed between 2:00 am and 5:00 am to favor westbound traffic, and then switched again sometime between 11:30 am and noon to favor eastbound traffic. Ballgames, concerts and other events made balancing weekend traffic through the tunnel very difficult. It was not uncommon to reverse the middle bore six times on a Saturday or Sunday. The pop-up system still required substantial manpower to implement.
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WCMT FM originally began broadcasting in 1968 on 101.7, when manager Dwight "Duke" Drumm persuaded owner Jones T. Sudbury to seek an FM frequency so local sports, including UT Martin athletic games, could be broadcast at night. Prior to this, the ballgames were being taped and aired the next day. The station offered "beautiful music" until about 1978, when a "rock format" debuted. The station then moved to an Oldies format and then to the present Adult Contemporary station.
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Radcliffe subsequently suggested that McNary should write his biography and the result was self-published by McNary in 1994. Radcliffe would travel widely to ballgames and became known for his lively good humor and gentle clowning. Despite two strokes and other age- related health problems, Radcliffe continued to be active in his community. He received the state of Illinois Historical Committee's Lifetime Achievement Award and was honored by Mayor Richard Daley as an outstanding citizen of Chicago.
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Jousting at the Maryland Renaissance Festival For at least one hundred years, entire villages have competed with each other in rough, and sometimes violent, ballgames in England (Shrovetide football) and Ireland (caid). In comparison, the game of calcio Fiorentino, in Florence, Italy, was originally reserved for combat sports such as fencing and jousting being popular. Horse racing, in particular, was a favourite of the upper class in Great Britain, with Queen Anne founding the Ascot Racecourse.
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During the prime of his career, Schilling was capable of reaching and sustaining speeds of 94–98 mph on his four-seam fastball. Throughout his career, he was characterized by a determination to go deep into ballgames, routinely pitching past the sixth and seventh innings. He combined his endurance with pinpoint control, especially on his fastball. Schilling's "out" pitch was a split-finger fastball, which he generally located beneath the strike zone (resulting in many swinging strikeouts).
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WLRE Radio was in test mode from September 2000 and went on the air in March 2001 playing a mix of traditional to modern country music they call "real country". WLRE Radio broadcasts live ballgames, church services, town and area events, and local news. WLRE Radio changed frequencies from 105.5 to 92.9 FM on July 12, 2011, and to 96.5 FM on April 10, 2017. WLRE Radio had two FM translator on 96.5/96.3 from March 7, 2003 till March 10, 2017.
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Prisoners formed musical clubs and theatrical groups and attended band concerts at the camp. Books and periodicals were available in the camp, and a photographer was allowed to make daguerrotypes of the prisoners' likenesses to send to their friends and families in the South. Other pastimes included ballgames and whittling. No visitors or communication between the prisoners and the camp guards or local citizens were allowed, but mail correspondence and small packages were delivered to prisoners after they had been inspected.
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The rebuilding Reds got off to a good start, as the team was 12-11 in their first 23 games, and in a tie for third place, just three games behind the first place New York Giants. Cincinnati then lost 10 consecutive games, dropping them into seventh place with a 12-21 record. Cincinnati did win six of their next eight ballgames to get within five games of the .500 level, however, the losses continued to pile up as the season went on.
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Then owner, Horace Stoneham, began developing the property in 1959. The first exhibition game was played in Casa Grande in 1961, with Willie Mays hitting a home run. The San Francisco Giants no longer play at Francisco Grande, but the pool in a baseball bat and ball shape remains in memory of the past ballgames."The Birth of a Mecca, the Realization of a Dream" , retrieved September 10, 2013 During the Cold War, Casa Grande was the location of the Corona Satellite Calibration Targets.
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162 and that, although he did not get > to play in too many ballgames, he gained valuable information about American > League hurlers that would help him in the future. I suspect that the > information he gathered was that every pitcher in the American League could > get him out, and that perhaps he should try another line of work. > Now, it is not necessary for me to declare that Hector Lopez was the worst > fielding third baseman in the history of baseball. Everyone knows that.
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In the most common theory of the game, the players struck the ball with their hips, although some versions allowed the use of forearms, rackets, bats, or handstones. The ball was made of solid rubber and weighed as much as 4 kg (9 lbs), and sizes differed greatly over time or according to the version played. The game had important ritual aspects, and major formal ballgames were held as ritual events. Late in the history of the game, some cultures occasionally seem to have combined competitions with religious human sacrifice.
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It is one of the few municipalities of Puerto Rico to have an ancient area for Mesoamerican ballgames, called Batéy games, in the Caribbean. The Caguana Ceremonial Ball Courts Site in Utuado preserves the site where the Taíno people lived. Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became a territory of the United States. In 1899, the United States conducted its first census of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Caguana barrio was 2,555.
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""The Good Son" When his snobbish sons embarrass him at "The Timber Mill", a steakhouse chosen by Martin, Martin points out that his wife "may have had fancy tastes, but she had too much class to ever make me or anybody else feel second-rate", and was willing to eat hot dogs and watch ballgames with him."Dinner at Eight While her sons mostly took after her, certain aspects come from neither Hester or Martin. According to Martin, both he and Hester always hated sherry, which Frasier and Niles love.
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In the most well-known version of the game, the players struck the ball with their hips, though some versions used forearms or employed rackets, bats, or handstones. The ball was made of solid rubber, and weighed up to 4 kg or more, with sizes that differed greatly over time or according to the version played. While the game was played casually for simple recreation, including by children and perhaps even women, the game also had important ritual aspects, and major formal ballgames were held as ritual events, often featuring human sacrifice.
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Mosede Fort is now being preserved by Greve Kommune; it is very popular as a recreational area for ballgames, picnics and other past time activities. It also has a restaurant. In 2010 Greve Kommune along with Greve Museum, began to restore and insulate the old fort so it could be dehumidified sufficiently, in order to store historical objects safely. It was planned to open Denmark's first "Denmark during World War 1" museum with the inauguration on 1 August 2014 - 100 anniversary of Germany's declaration of war on Russia.
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Andy Freed (born 1971 in Ellicott City, Maryland) is a radio announcer for the Tampa Bay Rays baseball team. He and fellow broadcaster Dave Wills have shared play-by-play and color commentating duties for the Rays since 2005, often alternating roles for several innings at a time during ballgames. In 2016, Freed signed a contract extension with the Tampa Bay Rays Radio Network which will keep him with the team until at least the 2019 season. During baseball's offseason, Freed has done college basketball broadcasts for ESPN Regional.
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In 2004, he posted a 4.59 ERA in 137⅓ innings of work. His strikeout numbers were 7.93 K/9, and he had 71 walks allowed. Bédard was criticized for having a high pitch count (19.5 pitches/inning), forcing him to frequently make early exits from ballgames, and he was criticized for lacking a third type of pitch. Baltimore Orioles in 2006 Under the tutelage of pitching coach Ray Miller, who rejoined the Orioles in the middle of the 2004 season, Bédard refined his control of the changeup (his third pitch) to go along with his 91–93 mph fastball and slurve.
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Dottie obliges when a ball is popped up behind home plate, catching it while doing a split. The resulting photograph makes the magazine cover. A publicity campaign draws more people to the ballgames, but the owners remain unconvinced. The Peaches experience success on the field while forming a tight sisterhood off the field; Marla marries a man she meets on a raucous roadhouse outing, Mae teaches Shirley to read, and Evelyn writes a team song. As Dottie becomes one of the league’s brightest stars, Kit becomes resentful and their sibling rivalry intensifies, culminating in Kit’s trade to the Peaches' rival, the Racine Belles.
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7,000 fans attended the Blue Rocks’ first game at the ballpark in 1940 and the club established a Class B attendance record in 1940 with 145,643 attending ballgames at Wilmington Park. The club topped that mark with 172,531 fans in 1944. The single game attendance record for the Blue Rocks was set in 1947 when 7,062 fans saw Curt Simmons’ Wilmington debut. But attendance in 1950 dropped to 38,678, and despite a slight improvement to 43,135 in 1951, attendance continued to sink in 1952 which proved to be the last for the Blue Rocks at the ballpark.
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His first MLB hit came September 12, 1991, as a pinch hitter for Jody Reed, singling off New York Yankees pitcher Rich Monteleone in the eighth inning at Yankee Stadium. He picked up the first of his 33 career home runs on September 4, 1992, hitting a solo shot off A's star Dave Stewart in Oakland. With future Hall of Fame third baseman Wade Boggs playing for the Red Sox, Cooper struggled to find time on the active roster and in ballgames. In 1992, Cooper played 62 games at first base; in 123 total games that season, he hit .
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The Lords had intentionally chosen a reward they thought impossible, for the flowers were well guarded, but the guards did not take notice of the ants and were killed for their inability to guard the flowers. The twins played a rematch with the Xibalbans and lost by intent again and were sent to Cold House, the next test. This test they defeated, as well. In turn, Hunahpu and Xbalanque by purpose lost their ballgames so that they might be sent to the remaining tests, Jaguar House, Fire House, Bat House, and in turn defeat the tests of the Xibalbans.
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Campanella about 1953. Jackie Robinson's first season in the major leagues came in 1947, and Campanella began his MLB career with the Brooklyn Dodgers the following season, playing his first game on April 20, 1948. In later years, Robinson and his wife sometimes stayed with the Campanella family during some ballgames because adequate hotels for blacks could not be found in the city. Campanella played for the Dodgers from through as their regular catcher. In 1948, he had three different uniform numbers (33, 39, and 56) before settling on 39 for the rest of his career.
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It was said that as crown prince, Wang Zongyan spent time with wine, women, and games. Whenever Wang Jian went past Wang Zongyan's palace and heard the sounds of Wang Zongyan staging cockfights or ballgames with the other princes, he would lament, "I fought 100 battles to establish this foundation; can people like this hold firm on it?" He therefore came to despise Zhang Ge greatly, but as Zhang was protected by Consort Xu, Wang Jian never actually removed Zhang. However, he considered replacing Wang Zongyan with Wang Zongjie, until Wang Zongjie's death in 918, which Wang Jian found suspicious but apparently did not investigate.
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Filloy Nadal discusses the Aztecs' use of "ancient rolling technique" (page 30) while Ortiz discusses the use of this technique by the Olmecs (page 244). Archaeological evidence indicates that rubber was already in use in Mesoamerica by the Early Formative Period – a dozen balls were found in the Olmec El Manati sacrificial bog and dated to roughly 1600 BCE.Ortíz C. By the time of the Spanish Conquest, 3000 years later, rubber was being exported from the tropical zones to sites all over Mesoamerica. Iconography suggests that although there were many uses for rubber, rubber balls both for offerings and for ritual ballgames were the primary products.
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On June 7, 1962, after the Mets just lost their 16th and 17th straight ballgames, Stengel broke the news to Landrith that he had been sold to the Baltimore Orioles. The news came as a complete surprise to Landrith. With Orioles starting catcher Gus Triandos injured with a fractured knuckle, Landrith took over the starting role for almost all games in the month of June. In his first two weeks, Landrith was batting just above .100, although he made the most of his first five hits, slamming three home runs in three separate Baltimore victories, including a walk-off two-run home run on June 22 against the Boston Red Sox.
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Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers have released 8 studio albums, 2 live albums and a live DVD of their annual music festival, Circus Mexicus, in Puerto Peñasco, MX. They also went on to form a close relationship with the Major League Baseball team the Arizona Diamondbacks, writing/performing the team's theme song, "The D-Back's Swing". The band has also performed concerts for the team after ballgames at Chase Field and other various team events. Art Edwards is now a writer, and self-published his novels, Stuck Outside of Phoenix and Ghost Notes with another, Badge, released in early 2014. Stuck Outside of Phoenix was made into a full-length feature film which premiered May 2, 2013.
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In an exhibit honoring the Negro leagues at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, there is a banner given to the team by the Newark Student Camp Fund in recognition of their efforts to help the community. Another example of the relationship Effa helped forge with the community was copying a practice of another team which allowed the city's youth to attend games for free. Some children could afford the ten-cent fare for the bus ride while others jump on the back of a moving bus to take advantage of the free ballgames. Because of Effa Manley, the Newark Eagles were as important to black Newark as the Dodgers were to Brooklyn.
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Boston had suffered through eight straight seasons of losing baseball, and attendance had fallen to such an extent that owner Tom Yawkey was threatening to move the team. The Red Sox had talented young players, but the team was known as a lazy "country club." As Carl Yastrzemski commented, "if you don't keep your nose to the grindstone you won't (win)...we kept our noses so far away from the grindstone we couldn't even see it."Sport magazine, November 1967 Williams decided to risk everything and impose discipline on his players. He vowed that "we will win more ballgames than we lose" — a bold statement for a club that had finished only a half-game from last place in 1966.
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Wise was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. Wise dropped out of high school at the age of fifteen upon the death of his father and begin work at a local radio station in Monroe, Louisiana. Although Wise earned a diploma by passing the high school equivalency test, he never graduated from college. In the 1940s and 1950s, Wise was a play-by-play sports announcer for Gordon McLendon's Liberty Broadcasting System radio network, which mainly broadcast live recreations of Major League Baseball games by means of broadcasters like Wise following the action via Western Union ticker tape reports, and then relaying the plays to the listening audience in a more lively style that included studio sound effects meant to simulate the ballgames.
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The September 11 attacks interrupted the season, and the resumption of baseball in New York became a symbol of how the city recovered from the destruction of the Twin Towers. After falling behind 2–0 in the ALDS against the Athletics, the Yankees won three straight contests to advance to the ALCS. They prevailed in five games against the Seattle Mariners, who had tied a single-season MLB record with 116 regular season wins, for the team's fourth straight AL pennant. The Arizona Diamondbacks gained a two-game lead in the 2001 World Series before the Yankees won three consecutive ballgames; New York home runs with two outs in the ninth inning of Games 4 and 5 led to extra inning wins in both games, with Game 4 ended by a Jeter home run.
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Being active in various sports and arts, he was also an excellent student and managed to go to one of the best senior high schools in ShaanXi Province: Xi'an Middle School, his scores always ranked top of his grade. Of course Allen Su is not a typical bookish person as you might think of, among his wide range of interests, painting, ballgames and singing are the most significant brilliance, he used to dream of becoming a painter or a football player. At the age of 17, Allen decided to study abroad, he went to Sydney all by his own to pursue his future. As most young boys, he didn't figure out what he really wished to do at first, so he followed his family's will to study business.
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Carlos Frías pitched 5 scoreless innings in his first start of the season, and rookie Joc Pederson hit a grand slam home run as the Dodgers opened the month of May with an 8–0 rout of the Arizona Diamondbacks at Dodger Stadium. The Dodgers came from behind to take game two of the series, 6–4. Pederson homered again, becoming the first Dodgers rookie since Bill Sudakis in the 1969 season to homer in four straight ballgames. A walk-off homer by Yasmani Grandal in the 13th inning gave the Dodgers a 1–0 win on May 3 and the sweep of the Diamondbacks. The game was the longest scoreless duel between the two teams since the game on June 2, 2010, ended in the 14th inning.
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The Astros, as they came to be with the new all- weathered Harris County Domed Stadium, really did not have a strong rivalry with any team in the NL, except for the St. Louis Cardinals and later on the Cincinnati Reds and Atlanta Braves. During the planning of the second wave of expansion in the big leagues in 1968, the National League considered putting a new team in the Dallas-Fort Worth area by an overwhelming majority of its owners. However, Judge Roy Hofheinz did not want it to happen or allow it because he owned all the television and radio rights in Texas for Astros ballgames. The other owners were in favor, except Hofheinz, of having a rivalry approaching the intensity of the Dodgers–Giants rivalry in the Senior Circuit.
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It was a thrilling year as America watched two major events unfold: Ted Williams of the Red Sox hitting for the elusive .400 batting average and Joe DiMaggio getting hits in consecutive ballgames. By the end of his hitting streak, DiMaggio hit in 56 consecutive games, the current major league record and one often deemed unbreakable. Two months after the Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1941 World Series—the first of seven October meetings between the two crosstown rivals before the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles—the United States naval fleet was attacked at Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan, and many of their best players, including DiMaggio, entered the military during World War II. The Yankees still managed to pull out a win against the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1943 World Series.
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Plant Field, Tampa Plant Field was the original home of the minor league Tampa Smokers, the area's first professional baseball team, and was one of the first spring training sites in Florida, hosting several different teams over the decades. During one of the earliest ballgames in April 1919, Babe Ruth reportedly hit his longest home run – a 587-foot blast that is memorialized with a historical marker at the approximate spot where it landed at the current site of the University of Tampa's school of business."Babe's Longest Homer" Marker, Tampa, Florida The University of Tampa took over Plant Field in the early 1970s and renamed it Peppin-Rood Stadium after university benefactors. Since then, the school has built new facilities on its huge footprint, including a soccer field (Peppin Stadium), softball and baseball fields, dormitories, and other academic and athletic facilities.
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Parks worked as an American League umpire until 1982, when Parks resigned (becoming the third replacement umpire to leave the game; Fred Spenn was fired in 1980 and National League umpire Steve Fields was fired in 1981) rather than continue to be subject to the harsh treatment accorded him and the other replacements (referred to as "scabs" by the regular umpires because of crossing the picket lines) and a scathing rebuke of his abilities by New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner after a series in August 1982 against the Toronto Blue Jays when Parks ejected Oscar Gamble and Roy Smalley on consecutive days. Steinbrenner said of Parks: "Judging from his last two days performance, my people tell me he is not a capable umpire. For umpire Parks to throw two of our players out of ballgames in two days on plays he misjudges is ludicrous". Steinbrenner went on to refer to Parks as a "scab" and that he "had it in" for the Yankees since he used that term towards the umpire.
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