These fights are still going to happen, because baseball players are baseball players, and people do dumb things.
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Cuban baseball players would be able to come to the U.S. as Japanese, South Korean and Chinese baseball players do.
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Baseball players would not successfully unionize again for another 76 years, when they created the Major League Baseball Players Association in 1966.
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One reason for so few black major league baseball players is that aspiring black baseball players may not be able to afford to pursue their dreams.
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Baseball players learned from 'Friends' She points to a New York Times story about professional baseball players from Latin America who learned English by watching "Friends" with Spanish subtitles.
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"The court's decision is monumental, with far-reaching implications for baseball players and the game we love," Tony Clark, the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, said in a statement.
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Baseball players at the height of the Spanish flu, 1918.
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In baseball, players have negotiating power after they are drafted.
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By almost any measure, baseball players just aren't well known.
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The top baseball players are Alex Rodriguez and David Ortiz.
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Russian ballet dancers, Cuban baseball players and Chinese political dissidents.
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By contrast, black baseball players are largely on their own.
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You still see a lot of baseball players doing good.
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Baseball players wear masks during the Spanish flu epidemic, 1918.
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Mahomes warms up with the long toss, like baseball players.
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Such prosecutions involved professional baseball players performing before paying spectators.
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The Santa Fe Indians' football and baseball players are hometown heroes.
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Most baseball players look at the media as a necessary evil.
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They exist, and they're loved by many basketball and baseball players.
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Even AAA baseball players tend to have a better batting average.
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Baseball players mash bombs while basketball players drain three-point bombs.
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Those are the only things we can control as baseball players.
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We've all played the "would you rather" game with baseball players.
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Baseball players generally don't have renown of football or basketball players.
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He trains a lot of professional football players and baseball players.
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With most of the best baseball players, you would never know.
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The legend There are two baseball players involved in this legend.
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He would later help other baseball players with their substance abuse problems.
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Reilly said the technology is likely the most effective for baseball players.
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"The population of baseball players is quite small in Africa," he said.
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Baseball players value loyalty, Leavy said, just not always to one's spouse.
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Baseball players are like extreme versions of this, only with more confidence.
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But is the cost of exposure for amateur baseball players really justifiable?
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Following high school, baseball players can enter the Major League Baseball draft.
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The Brotherhood of Professional Baseball Players—baseball's first labor union—was born.
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Also, let minor league baseball continue to pay aspiring young baseball players.
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The baseball players will [unprintable word] laugh us out of the dugout.
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But none of Cuba's best baseball players will be on the diamond.
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"I think on some level, baseball players never forget things," Boone said.
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Diagnosticians, artificial or human, would be the baseball players—proficient but opaque.
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It's to put the best baseball players in a museum of baseball.
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These possible changes seemed to have a direct effect on Cuba's baseball players.
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The promise/perception: the caucus and dead baseball players emerging from a cornfield.
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"In a lot of ways, baseball players are like other men," she thinks.
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The IOC said it hoped the world's best baseball players would take part.
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Over the decades, many baseball players have used smokeless tobacco on the field.
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Those feats of perseverance are a job requirement for major league baseball players.
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Still, 17 baseball players have won unanimous selection, including Bryce Harper last season.
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Seemingly overnight, the number of professional baseball players with attention-deficit diagnoses soared.
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He name-drops 29 unique baseball players, the most between all his lyrics.
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You know how superstitious baseball players can be ... so do it again tonight????
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Very few all-time great baseball players can't field, hit, run, or pitch.
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Baseball players have also been suspended in recent years for using homophobic language.
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It's good to be one of the greatest baseball players of all time.
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Read This Next: Jet Lag Makes You Soft, Study of Baseball Players Suggests
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The Port St. Lucie location has perhaps fed the most professional baseball players.
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He didn't suggest that in the future, all baseball players should be armed.
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On Baseball I started interviewing baseball players when I was 220 years old.
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Then, as now, baseball players were rash and had trouble dealing with embarrassment.
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Because we want to treat minor league baseball players differently from artists, from dancers?
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Now, football, lacrosse and baseball players can benefit from this advanced trauma protection too.
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Today, the procedure is no longer the near-exclusive province of professional baseball players.
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He was widely criticized last summer for remarks about Dominican baseball players, for example.
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Baseball players are among the most specialised athletes in the world's leading team sports.
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The "Moneyball" revolution in evaluating baseball players had little to offer on improving performance.
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We're not like baseball players who can only go till he's 35 years old.
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But some current and former professional baseball players haven't taken kindly to the apologies.
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He deserves to be honored with his rightful place alongside America's greatest baseball players.
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Why would baseball players need a football helmet, a banana peel or shaving cream?
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" He added, "There's lots of pictures of baseball players dressed up as Disney princesses.
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Stars like Harper aside, baseball players are struggling to get the contracts they want.
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I internalized the idea that male baseball players could play professionally — but female softball players?
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Any health fears were swept away by smoking movie stars and tobacco-chewing baseball players.
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The new study confirmed that eastward travel was more likely to alter baseball players' performance.
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There is no trace of these rough edges when he is around young baseball players.
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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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But that doesn't necessarily mean all baseball players are fans of the Republican presidential nominee.
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The other baseball players have not publicly disclosed why they did not attend the event.
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"You know how superstitious baseball players are," said T. J. McFarland, a Diamondbacks left-hander.
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Colin Kaepernick supporters aren't just pro-football players, but baseball players have been noticeably absent.
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The MLB made the announcement Thursday in conjunction with the Major League Baseball Players Association.
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Mr. Orza was the associate general counsel for the baseball players' association, not its leader.
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Baseball players do not become free agents until they accrue six years of service time.
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There is only a building with tributes to some great baseball players, selected at random.
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Many people think what Cuba has to offer the US is rum, cigars, and baseball players.
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That's just a natural element of baseball players and insecurity in a game inherent with failure.
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Today, of course, baseball players are paid much more as their bargaining power has changed dramatically.
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Santa Fe High School baseball players warm up for a game the day after the shooting.
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WASHINGTON — His job was to make life easier for the best baseball players in the world.
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It might surprise you but Uribe, like many other baseball players, doesn't wear a protective cup.
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The disease has been diagnosed in soccer and baseball players, and possibly even in military veterans.
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Baseball players: I wonder if there will be a scene from a certain baseball player's funeral.
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This is a story about baseball players being called, for one reason or another, the Natural.
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Professional baseball players should be prohibited from using chewing tobacco at the ballpark, one lawmaker says.
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The deal was good to go, but the Major League Baseball Players' Association (MLBPA) blocked it.
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Ex-convicts and suspended baseball players alike have served their time; they deserve no further punishment.
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Because of the marathon season, baseball players are often highly regimented in addition to being superstitious.
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Baseball players have knowledge on how to police the area when it needs to be policed.
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He suggested that perhaps baseball players should follow the lead of N.B.A. players and speak out.
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LANE: They should retire this position just like they sometimes require great hall of fame baseball players.
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The Major League Baseball Players Association has considered any rules to be a matter for collective bargaining.
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Kara has been hanging out with the baseball players' wives and is also experiencing crazy hot flashes.
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I don't think we're telling children to copy their behavior if we say they're great baseball players.
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This is mostly because Kyle Higashioka belongs to the very narrow class of baseball players who shred.
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Wall Street traders and baseball players may have different uniforms, but they share the same competitive juices.
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Babe Ruth, one of the best baseball players of all-time, was also a man of excess.
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But for whatever reason (beyond just the fact that baseball players don't get famous), Ramirez isn't famous.
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Baseball players who have been hit describe pain so intense that it caused them to black out.
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Prefer your designers to be former baseball players who never made it known they had fashion taste?
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The Brazilians are rich in baseball players, some native-born and others born in the United States.
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A number of baseball players have died in car crashes in the Dominican Republic in recent years.
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Your challenge is to pick the names that belong to actual baseball players from those that don't.
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Fewer baseball players have crossed over into wider popular culture than did a couple of decades ago.
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I feel like we really excel at just the depth on our roster of quality baseball players.
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He has become a close friend and confidant, particularly to the many baseball players from the Caribbean.
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Two generations earlier, another group of affluent workers successfully faced down their employer: Major League Baseball players.
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After completing the sets from his childhood, he turned to collecting the cards of Jewish baseball players.
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Nearly 60% of professional baseball players have "superior" depth perception, compared with 18% of the general population.
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" And never vulgar, even when many naked baseball players are showering in 2002's "Take Me Out.
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He told The Inquirer that the seemingly elevated risk to baseball players could have resulted from chance.
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I was 12, and my knowledge of baseball players, Hebrew months and French pronouns was fairly limited.
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A comparison of all the Major League Baseball players who signed contracts of at least $100 million.
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A comparison of all the Major League Baseball players who signed contracts of at least $219.4 million.
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A comparison of all the Major League Baseball players who signed contracts of at least $303 million.
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Lisle, who shared Auriemma's comments, works with professional and college baseball players and is the founder of TheHittingVault.com.
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He also wants to help former baseball players in financial need by creating a fund for retired players.
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His dominance stretched for more than a decade, inspiring countless young baseball players to follow in his footsteps.
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Powell says some cricket players earn more money than baseball players, depending on the player and the league.
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This latest effort follows a few freshman baseball players through a long weekend before college begins in 1980.
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Following a game in Venezuela on Thursday, former Major League Baseball players Luis Valbuena and José Castillo died.
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Baseball players, the really good ones, produce or respond to these activations in ways different from other people.
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Among those arrested were two former Major League Baseball players who official say were involved in laundering assets.
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Baseball players are notoriously superstitious, and this trait seems to have infected the culture of scouting a little.
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At least the baseball players will be playing baseball again—even if they aren't playing with their teams.
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I appreciate that baseball players and officials have taken big strides to clean up doping in their sport.
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Many baseball players perform clean and deserve not to get a raised eyebrow from the likes of me.
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And our fans have an opportunity to enjoy the most talented baseball Players in the world every season.
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On the Runway Unlike basketball and football players, few baseball players are known for their sense of style.
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THREE JAILED IN CUBA A Cuban court jailed three men for trafficking baseball players to the United States.
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In the minor leagues in baseball, players can make as little as fifty-five hundred dollars a season.
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Minor League baseball players affected by the cornoavirus pandemic work stoppage are about to get some financial assistance.
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If baseball players think too much about their hitting stance, for example, they can go into a slump.
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DeAngelo was pictured in the Auburn Journal as a member of the Auburn Police Department with young baseball players.
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So you have baseball players taking a yoga class for the first time, or basketball players trying out boxing.
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The Major League Baseball Players Association, the union representing players, also did not respond to a request for comment.
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Illustration: Sam WoolleyFor the hundreds of Major League Baseball players, jet lag is an inescapable part of the sport.
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Under Raul Castro, Cuban baseball players have been allowed to play in leagues in countries like Mexico and Japan.
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Hughes cited "Baseball Players" as one of the suggestions that made him chuckle but did not make the cut.
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The resort hosted baseball players like Joe DiMaggio and Hollywood actors like Charlie Chaplin, Mae West, and Clark Gable.
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He was working on another book about baseball players raised in the Washington area, according to The Baltimore Sun.
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Even great baseball players go 0 for 4 in a game — or have rough stretches for weeks on end.
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Bornstein explained that the rumors date back to creatine's association with professional baseball players, and their associated steroid controversies.
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"I don't care who's not here, there are no excuses here - these are Major League Baseball players," Collins said.
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Jones' treatment set off a reaction from current Major League Baseball players who supported the five-time All Star.
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Baseball players could be granted special licenses to follow a similar model, with the government taxing their American salaries.
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"I would change the basketball rule to make it more similar to what baseball players can do," Esherick said.
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One poll questioned Roman Catholic priests on marriage; another asked baseball players to name the umpires they most admired.
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Given Curaçao's reputation for developing major league baseball players, was that the sport you played when you were young?
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One of Japan's greatest baseball players, Kaneda won three Eiji Sawamura awards, Japan's version of the Cy Young Award.
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More than a decade ago, Michael Lewis was following a group of young baseball players through the minor leagues.
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In comparison, baseball players on the Houston Astros who claimed a world series win in 2017 earned around $373,901.57.
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An earlier version of the article described incorrectly a statistic about the racial demographics of Major League Baseball players.
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It helps, obviously, that this attitude has helped make the Cubs more appealing to some very good baseball players.
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During World War I, baseball players were being accused of being draft dodgers for not going into the service.
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Bryce injects as much bravado as is mathematically possible given the situation, a calculus that baseball players know very well.
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A Forbes article noted that the U.S. has an equal amount of professional baseball players as it does venture capitalists.
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" Rodríguez said 18 other people were linked to the network, "including athletes and baseball players Octavio Dotel and Luis Castillo.
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Deep in the heart of coal country, professional baseball players like Vladimir Guerrero Jr. get their start in rookie ball.
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This would allow Cuban baseball players to sign directly with U.S. teams, eliminating the need to defect from the country.
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Chapita is a similar game from Venezuela, and major league baseball players from there said they grew up playing it.
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As far as I can tell, there haven't been any studies directly comparing the flexibility of baseball players to cheerleaders.
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The baseball players are suing for more than $200k in damages -- and they want the bar shut down for good.
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At a time when major league baseball players started at $7,000 a year, a professional wrestling was a good living.
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President Trump killed a deal that would have allowed Cuban baseball players to enter the United States legally and safely.
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Today, the vast majority of color commentators are either former Major League Baseball players or had direct major-league experience.
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TOKYO — These days, many of Cuba's best baseball players can be found in the major leagues in the United States.
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"Card holding?" refers to the St. Louis Cardinals, also known as the Cards, and as baseball players, they hold BATs.
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A company called Big League Advance has raised more than $150 million to buy equity stakes in minor league baseball players.
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Major League Baseball players report to spring training camp every year for five weeks of practice to prepare for baseball season.
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Sunflower seeds are popular with baseball players, including many major leaguers, who chew them as a healthier alternative to chewing tobacco.
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A popular theory among some baseball players and observers about the jump in home runs is that the ball is juiced.
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In fact, by those measure, which are really the only measures that count in this system, baseball players are vastly underpaid.
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So he could simply let the two baseball players proceed with their cases and see how it plays out before filing.
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Blue Jays 210, Yankees 21 TORONTO — As baseball players age, the skills that got them to the big leagues gradually erode.
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Paths wind among carvings of giraffes, bears, snakes, birds and fanged monsters, as well as those of a few baseball players.
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For baseball players, who skip straight from an immature adolescence into a premature senescence, that realization often comes early, and brutally.
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In 1945, he was medically discharged and went on to become one of the greatest baseball players in the sport's history.
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Across the Grapefruit League, baseball players reported to their camps unsure whether it would be the last time for a while.
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Bush spent a chunk of time after Katrina hit at his ranch in Crawford, Texas — but not with any baseball players.
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Once upon a time, Craig Kimbrel and Justin Turner were simply ginger-haired baseball players with little to no facial hair.
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Family, friends, and fellow baseball players are mourning the deaths of three members of minor league baseball pitcher Blake Bivens' family.
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Based on the compensation structure in baseball, players earn the minimum salary for the first three seasons in the major leagues.
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He knew the names of old baseball players, classic movies, military history — the categories that are the bedrock of Times crosswords.
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The bill would exempt minor league baseball players from the same minimum wage and overtime protections enjoyed by most American workers.
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Baseball players in Cuba are relatively cloistered from view, at least compared with players in the United States and other countries.
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Major League Baseball players are once again shaking off the winter and hitting the field in warmer climates for spring training.
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Unlike basketball, where a trio of superstars can win you a title, 3 baseball players aren't able to carry a team.
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"I think there are all different words you can use to describe our guys besides being good baseball players," Maddon said.
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They started a successful physical therapy practice that served everyone from farm workers to minor league baseball players to people with disabilities.
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Everyone knows baseball players are among the most superstitious people in the world ... so see ya back at the stadium next year???
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But through the eruption of flames, you may have missed an incredible celebrity cameo from one of New York's hottest baseball players.
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The vast majority of Major League Baseball players spend years—decades, even—attempting to draw the attention of the Hall of Fame.
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Seems MLB legend Dave Winfield wants to see MORE baseball players following Bruce Maxwell's lead when it comes to national anthem protests.
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" Among the dog's favorite things, says Marchal, are "shagging foul balls, chasing Frisbees and getting tons of attention from professional baseball players.
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" And then the lamest excuse imaginable, that Latino baseball players "were not familiar with the norms and laws of the United States.
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The league is also bringing special guests: Derek Jeter and two legendary Cuban-born former baseball players, Luis Tiant and José Cardenal.
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Akin to college coaches, scouts are under constant pressure to stay on top of the who's-who of high school baseball players.
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Martin's Tavern actually has a 'Ty Cobb' salad on the menu: Martin's Tavern has plaques commemorating famous baseball players including Ty Cobb.
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It also includes one of the best comedy sequels in recent memory and a ribald, surprisingly poignant comedy about college baseball players.
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As baseball players we are a little superstitious, so we kept going there every start day and I kept ordering that burger.
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Two former major league baseball players, Luis Valbuena and José Castillo, were killed in a car crash in Venezuela on Thursday night.
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They are two of the newest Chicago White Sox, and fairness demands that they be recognized as solid major league baseball players.
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On Baseball WASHINGTON — The world's greatest baseball players gathered at Nationals Park Tuesday for the All-Star Game, the annual midsummer celebration.
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Our Baseball Life, an organization that supports families of professional baseball players, has organized a GoFundMe to raise money for the funerals.
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Most impressively, Staub reached first base more than 4,000 times, an accomplishment currently held by only 46 other baseball players in history.
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That the Orioles' season ended without Britton's ever entering the game struck baseball players, commentators and fans as inexplicable, bordering on absurd.
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Japanese baseball players tend to stay on one team throughout their careers, though occasionally someone makes it to the U.S. Major Leagues.
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He gave a possible reason for the poor start this weekend: not playing enough golf, a hobby beloved by many baseball players.
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In Corvallis, where baseball players are treated with the reverence many universities save for football players, Heimlich remains deeply respected among fans.
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Searching for a seasoned photojournalist at an undergraduate institution is like scouting for Major League Baseball players at a Little League game.
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For decades, baseball players have been represented by what is widely considered to be the strongest union in all of professional sports.
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In February, when baseball players tend to emerge from their winter routines, pictures of a heavy Sandoval were shared all over the internet.
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As VICE Sports reported last week, the two baseball players promised to take Al Jazeera to court unless the broadcaster retracted the story.
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Recently, three high-profile incidents of apparent racism at Fenway -- two targeting black baseball players -- also have revived concerns about the organization's reputation.
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Baseball players also may have more responsibilities and obligations when they are at home and less time to adjust their clocks, he said.
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An image of Stonehenge might interrupt a beach scene like a sunset-tinged mirage; baseball players could be transported into an African safari.
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The baseball players recently caught using Turinabol may not have been aware of its East German provenance, Catlin said, or they didn't care.
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It makes perfect sense to rank baseball players and teams by their wins and losses, but it doesn't transfer to children or schools.
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More than a thousand baseball players are drafted every year, and less than ten per cent of them ever play in the majors.
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Like how smart gym owners would let the Yankees train for free back when he was one of the greatest baseball players ever.
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SPORTS An article on Wednesday about a funeral home where several minor league baseball players have lived misspelled the surname of a pitcher.
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In the summer of 1995, he headed to Massachusetts with a friend named John Beaton Hill to interview baseball players for a screenplay.
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Some current and former players aren't impressed Some current and former professional baseball players didn't take kindly to the Astros' news conference Thursday.
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A spokesman for the Major League Baseball Players Association said it would not comment until it had a chance to review the bill.
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He added that any disciplinary measures handed out to the players would likely have prompted grievances from the Major League Baseball Players Association.
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The latter has a history of being overprescribed to pro football and baseball players to help them push through the pain of injuries.
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In 2014, a group of minor league baseball players filed a lawsuit against major league teams for not paying them a living wage.
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Meanwhile, how do you determine whether, as Trump claimed, he had once been one of the best young baseball players in New York?
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Trout is destined to be one of the greatest baseball players of all time, yet he seems hardly known outside of the sport.
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Those were the most significant changes to the drug prevention and treatment program announced by MLB and the Major League Baseball Players Association.
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Kuhn—it's possible that a league-wide insurance program could provide fodder for another challenge from the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA).
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So the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), the group that represents all players in the league, is launching an app called Infield Chatter.
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Recently she hitched diagrams of viruses to a trading card motif because, like baseball players or Pokémon species, each virus has a unique profile.
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The first stars: Ryan Zimmerman and Max Scherzer – They're baseball players for the Washington Nationals, but they've gone all-in on the Capitals' run.
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It's a situation akin to minor league baseball players making more than their major-league counterparts, said Josh Kopelman, partner at First Round Capital.
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More than two million youth baseball players will take the field this spring in cities across America, from Ojai, California, to Buffalo, New York.
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The bottom line: A geopolitical war is being waged — and sadly, young baseball players with dreams of a better life are the collateral damage.
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And, though the Trump administration has cancelled a deal for Cuban baseball players, that won't stop them making their way to the big leagues.
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The episode was put together over six months, with professional baseball players being brought into record whenever their teams were playing in Los Angeles.
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At San Francisco's AT&T Park, groups of fans gathered around statues of famous baseball players staring at their phones, battery packs heating up.
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In 2010, many baseball players made headlines for wearing twisted aqua-titanium ropes around their necks to reduce fatigue and recover faster from workouts.
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Zepp Labs helps golfers and tennis and baseball players to improve their games by collecting data on their swings using 3-D motion sensors.
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Rather, he pointed to the subjectivity of cheating, and also brought up the fact that baseball players were stealing signs back in the 1800s.
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Two of the baseball players named in the report, Ryan Zimmerman and Ryan Howard, file lawsuits against Al Jazeera America days after the report.
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It was a new injury for these Indians — perhaps a new injury for baseball players everywhere — but this team is used to medical misery.
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Kurz is president of the Israel Association of Baseball and is charged with assembling the best possible collection of baseball players for Team Israel.
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Are we to assume that baseball players, faced with the possibility of absurd riches, now refuse to delve into this modern world of drugs?
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Altuve and the Astros denied the accusations, but it has done little to quell rumors and questions: Could baseball players effectively use haptic devices?
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The $1.3 trillion spending bill expected to be considered by Congress this week could have significant implications for thousands of minor league baseball players.
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And without a significant contingent, black baseball players very likely face more acute scrutiny for protesting than their counterparts, which they can't necessarily afford.
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Last month, a new study by researchers at Harvard sought to control for this bias by comparing N.F.L. players with Major League Baseball players.
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Charlie and Joan Frazier had raised two professional baseball players by the time they took the measure of Van Wagenen as Todd's potential agent.
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"You're pretty much saying that the fans are more at risk of getting hit by a ball than actual baseball players are," Espinal said.
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Then he remembered an article a friend sent him about the growing number of Major League Baseball players whose fathers also played professional ball.
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The Major League Baseball Players Association projects at least 230 of baseball's 230 teams will start 232 with a "substantially lower payroll" than 2018.
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And Amelia's ex-boyfriend, a thick-headed sports writer obsessed with the sex lives of baseball players, is almost a caricature of macho white masculinity.
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Unlike some baseball players who leave the sport and try — but fail — to make a comeback, Gattis quickly proved he still had what it took.
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In modern times, Congress can compel sworn testimony and records from just about anyone: gangsters, professional baseball players; you name them, Congress can investigate them.
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WACO, Texas — Baylor University will suspend 14 baseball players during the upcoming season because of a hazing incident from last year, school officials announced Friday.
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A pair of retired Major League Baseball players have been accused of being part of a massive drug-trafficking ring in their native Dominican Republic.
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In the context of this trial, and the broader economy in Cuban baseball players, Abreu eating his passport is a colorful but comparatively tame detail.
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Baseball players and cheerleaders in colorful outfits feature prominently in Fordjour's paintings, as do trophies, confetti-filled celebrations, and teammates spending time off the field.
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In the final analysis, the way we remember baseball players is through their statistics, and Irvin's, like those of all Negro Leaguers, are maddeningly incomplete.
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While Cuban baseball players are world famous for their talent, Obama's visit comes as Cuba's favorite pastime struggles to survive a crippling spree of defections.
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It's more a breach of basketball etiquette, the sort of unspoken rule that makes red-ass baseball players scream until their necks get all weird.
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The effort would honor the Negro National League, formed for black baseball players in 1920 when they were shut out from the segregated big leagues.
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"Cuba wants to use baseball players as economic pawns – selling their rights to Major League Baseball," White House national security adviser John Bolton tweeted Sunday.
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This weekend's "Field of Second Chances" baseball game will include a special ceremony to name two new canine companion puppies in honor of baseball players.
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At 10 years old, she ranked among the United States' best female baseball players, and she toured Japan in the 1920s with the Philadelphia Bobbies.
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My opinion: more than platoon splits, power hitters, sinker ballers, or any other subset, the Rockies really need to focus on acquiring good baseball players.
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His clientele included a dozen pro football players and coaches; pro baseball players and a major league batting coach; and top track and field athletes.
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But baseball players' ability to move merchandise pales in comparison to that of a basketball player or a soccer player, and endorsement contracts reflect that.
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" In a statement, M.L.B. said: "We stand by the goal of the agreement, which is to end the human trafficking of baseball players from Cuba.
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I feel like a lot of baseball players want to throw the pinstripes on, for who knows how long, just to say you did it.
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The appetite for mixing sports and gambling waned nearly a century ago, after eight baseball players were accused of trying to fix the World Series.
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" The Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation commissioned its own study for baseball players and found that cancer risks were "at or below one in a million.
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Zepp has partnered with other teams and baseball players, including David Ortiz of the Boston Red Sox, to bring the Smart Bat to spring training.
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" The MLB on Monday said they "stand by the goal of the agreement, which is to end the human trafficking of baseball players from Cuba.
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Additionally, his plan would improve pay and working conditions for minor league baseball players, and also advocate for the labor rights of cheerleaders and dancers.
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They might note that their lamentations coexist with a large number of retired black baseball players who never got a chance to manage baseball teams.
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Baseball players will now head to the "injured list," a name MLB felt was more appropriate considering that disabilities and injuries are not exactly the same.
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The days of rookie baseball players taking a flight as a Disney princess or going out to dinner dressed in a tutu appear to be over.
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Many baseball players already do it -- with a month and half or so at spring training before heading to their home city for the regular season.
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Major League Baseball has hired a lobbying firm with ties to President Donald Trump to help solve what it calls the "trafficking" of Cuban baseball players.
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The Trump administration cancelled a four-month-old agreement under which Cuban baseball players could join Major League teams in America without defecting from their country.
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A few professional baseball players showed up, too, including New York Mets left fielder Michael Conforto and Braden's close friend, Arizona Diamondbacks third baseman Jake Lamb.
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Instead, we have another installment of weak-ass feuds between the Dodgers and Giants because some baseball players are physically incapable of acting like professional adults.
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Wright, 22016, said in a statement issued through the Major League Baseball Players Association that he had learned of the positive test during the off-season.
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Both men are minor league baseball players -- Kacy is a 1st baseman in the Blue Jays organization and Conner is an outfielder with the Cardinals organization.
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Collusion cases involving individual players are rare in the N.F.L., but baseball players filed a series of successful cases against Major League Baseball in the 1980s.
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Fehr had previously spent more than 30 years with the baseball players' union, and was executive director during the strike that canceled the 1994 World Series.
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In a Tuesday news release, Rodriguez said authorities were looking for Peralta and were arresting or seeking to arrest 18 others, including the former baseball players.
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Football players have a chip in each shoulder pad and baseball players are tracked by radar, producing flashy graphics for television and arcane stats for coaches.
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The players themselves saw virtue in plying their trade without much time off, similar to how baseball players of that era were oblivious to pitch counts.
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Other networks have similar situations: The retired baseball players Frank Thomas and David Ortiz, who both work for Fox, also have roles with their old teams.
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Ruth, who died in 1948 at age 53, became one of the most important baseball players of all time as an outfielder for the New York Yankees.
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In 1956, estimates economist Stefan Szymanski, Major League Baseball players were paid about 17 percent of league revenue, right in the middle of the current cheerleader ballpark.
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Pete Rose belongs in the Hall of Fame 'cause he's one of the greatest baseball players ever, and Cooperstown ain't the morality police ... so says Rudy Giuliani.
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It was a full minute long clip of a reporter trying to get these baseball players in Santa Fe high school to say something about gun control.
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In Major League Baseball, players frequently traverse long distances along the east/west axis, having to re-adjust their internal clocks by as much as three hours.
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Now Rodriguez is looking to share his business and investment savvy with professional baseball players in the hopes they can learn to hold on to their money.
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One of the biggest thrills for baseball players is getting their own cards and lawmakers participating in tonight's congressional baseball game are getting in on the fun.
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The Yankees' lead was departing Shea along with Piazza's home run, but that didn't matter; as baseball players, they all understood the majesty of Piazza's home run.
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As recently as February, she fretted in an Eagle Forum radio commentary that immigration should be stopped because foreign-born players were taking American baseball players' jobs.
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"Nobody can deny that our stock of Cuban baseball players, for the most part, involve smuggling, kidnapping, extortion and extreme danger," said Martin's lawyer, Paul H. Minoff.
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" Kansas City Royals general manager Dayton Moore told the Kansas City Star, "The one thing I know about professional athletes and baseball players, they adapt really well.
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But I ended up finding a cultural story about a supermarket that brought a slice of home — and more — to baseball players who are far from it.
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Soccer locker rooms are generally more spartan than baseball clubhouses, so, swanky, temporary accommodations were built to accommodate the tastes and standards of major league baseball players.
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In fact, that was precisely the topic of discussion within that group on Monday: How to turn a collection of individual baseball players into one winning squad?
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It is a lesson that baseball players have joked about for years, and one the N.B.A.'s Utah Jazz learned the hard way in the past week.
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So baseball players sail toward a possible confrontation with the owners without leaders who possess the transcendent cultural cachet and business power of, say, a LeBron James.
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Houston is now down 0-2 in the series and if you know how superstitious baseball players are ... Biles might never get asked back to throw another pitch!!!
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But Obama's announcement perhaps meant that Cuban baseball players no longer had to risk their lives or make shady financial deals in order to play major league baseball.
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"One of my favorite baseball players growing up, Ernie Banks, used to get so excited about going to play that he would say, 'Lets play two,'" Clinton said.
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A 4-year-old fighting brain cancer hit a home run on Saturday, thanks to baseball players with the Air Force Academy and the University of New Mexico.
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"This is probably bad to say, but I'm going to say it anyway: I always thought that baseball players were kind of fat and not athletic," Upton says.
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It's about the struggles of two difficult men—a hard-nosed NA meeting set in a Goodfellas diner—who happened to be all-star baseball players and teammates.
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In 1974, the Major League Baseball Players Association ranked Harvey as the National League's best umpire and the only one in the league worthy of its "excellent" rating.
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"Ours is more the fun side of players, reminding fans that we're human beings, we're not just baseball players and all we think about is baseball," Williams said.
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It was once relatively common among baseball players, accounting for 73 positive tests in 2003, when baseball first conducted anonymous survey testing (without penalties) for performance-enhancing drugs.
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Bolsinger, 22, would like the money to go charities in Los Angeles for children as well as creating a fund for retired baseball players who need financial assistance.
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Pirates baseball players wore orange shirts with Altobelli's number 14 on their backs and the words #FOREVERAPIRATE on the front of their shirts at Wendell Pickens Baseball Field.
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It's a noble undertaking, to be sure, but having the digital power brokers referee the process could be like having baseball players call their own balls and strikes.
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Owners and the Major League Baseball Players Association reached an agreement nearly at the eleventh hour Wednesday night to extend the collective bargaining agreement through the 2021 season.
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Rather, people can accept inequality — they go to the ballpark and see the salaries the baseball players are making — but they want to feel that the system is fair.
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To recover from the slump, Cuba has reversed course and begun negotiating with Major League Baseball to allow Cuban peloteros, or baseball players, to suit up in both countries.
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"Growing up in the Bronx, all the kids on my block wanted to be baseball players, basketball players, rappers — and I wanted to do ballet," Amar Ramasar tells PEOPLE.
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Or at least, that would be the upshot if the Treasury Department approves M.L.B.'s new proposal to allow baseball players from Cuba to sign directly with U.S. teams.
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ESPN's annual ranking of the most famous athletes in the world includes 2190 basketball players, seven football players, several cricket players, two table tennis stars and zero baseball players.
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Professional baseball players rarely have to wrestle with their mortality — even with the occasional injury, they are at the top level of their sport because of peak physical performance.
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SPORTS An article on Thursday about top amateur baseball players who sign with foreign professional leagues instead of with Major League Baseball misidentified the school attended by Carter Stewart.
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Yan said he once had the opportunity at a clinic to hit with Justin Gimelstob and guesses that he might be the biggest tennis fan among professional baseball players.
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The measure is a response to a class-action lawsuit filed by more than 500 current and former baseball players who say they are receiving less than minimum wage.
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The top baseball players still on the island began the decisive playoff period, while the Yoruba priests, in their annual predictions, announced that 2017 would be a magnificent year.
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Here's a shocker ... Al Harrington is STOKED that weed is now legal in MLB, telling TMZ Sports it's about time baseball players can LEGALLY use pot to treat pain.
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Baseball PHOENIX — Commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday decried a "lack of cooperation" from the Major League Baseball Players Association over rule changes he wanted to propose for this season.
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During Barack Obama's second term, he attended an MLB exhibition game in Havana and efforts were made to open the door for Cuban baseball players to legally earn salaries.
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This graph compares the relative value of highly-paid baseball players using salary and a player's WAR, a baseball statistic that summarizes a player's total contributions to their team.
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She represents baseball players, an MMA fighter, and three Olympic athletes, including Johnny Quinn, a NFL player who went on to compete as a bobsledder in the Sochi Games.
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Yes, baseball is real, and baseball players are real, and they interact with society in complex ways that have real impacts, and all of that is important and worth discussing.
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I'm not a big sports gal myself, but I'm pretty sure that baseball players run and throw things and hit things, which checks a couple of "athletic" boxes for me.
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It would seem to have almost nothing to do with their biceps muscles or fast-twitch fibers or even their vision, which, for most baseball players is largely the same.
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Twice a week, the doctor, Naotaka Mamizuka, invites youth baseball players from across Japan to have their arms examined at the hospital where he works, about two hours from Tokyo.
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In the 1860s, the English-born sportswriter Henry Chadwick, who grew up watching cricket, started using metrics like hits, at-bats and putouts to measure how baseball players were performing.
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Former Major League baseball players Jim Bouton and Rob Nelson are credited with coming up with the name and marketing angle for shredded bubble gum in a pouch in 1977.
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It reminded me of baseball players who point a finger up to the sky after a home run to say that it was God, not them, who made it happen.
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As he chipped away at the coalface, a sense of frustration grew as he saw other Australian baseball players who he grew up with making it in the United States.
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Among the other names in the documentary were baseball players Ryan Howard and Ryan Zimmerman, as well as NFL legend Peyton Manning, the biggest, most shocking name in the report.
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They have no hope of making the playoffs, they're out two actual living baseball players to the Padres, and they're stuck with the desiccated remains of James Shields until 2019.
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He has large Japanese language tattoos on his arms and for years had the type of un-Goldman-like beard favored by some Major League Baseball players in the postseason.
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Baseball players typically aren't as well-known nationally or internationally as their counterparts in other major sports, and Trout's lack of marketability has been lamented by M.L.B. Commissioner Rob Manfred.
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Unions representing professional athletes like the baseball players' association have demanded a seat at the table, while casinos and gambling trade groups have opposed any calls for an integrity fee.
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The conversations about hand signals and sign stealing have resurfaced an old baseball legend: That hand signs, as we know them, were popularized by deaf baseball players in the 1880s.
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Indeed, for the past few decades, ambitious doctors have strived to be at once baseball players and physicists: they've tried to use diagnostic acumen to understand the pathophysiology of disease.
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A lawsuit by minor leaguer baseball players alleging they are being paid less than the minimum wage has been recertified as a class action in federal court in San Francisco.
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Elsewhere, we discuss Golf Story, Forza Motorsport 7, Danielle's love of a visual novel about gay baseball players, and answer a Question Bucket email about games based on our favorite albums.
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The dog's trainer, Jeff "Dawg Man" Marchal, previously told PEOPLE that among the dog's favorite things are "shagging foul balls, chasing Frisbees and getting tons of attention from professional baseball players."
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Ortiz, who lives at least part of the year in the Dominican, is often seen getting his cars washed and hanging out with friends including other baseball players, artists and entertainers.
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Many baseball players who'd faced the obstacles placed in front of Lucas Duda wouldn't have succeeded the way Duda has, let alone view it all as some kind of ancillary benefit.
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It's led to all kinds of baseball players and pundits wondering if the game should ditch the guys behind the plate in favor of some sort of laser-like strike zone.
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The most striking example is in baseball, a sport beset by doping scandals: the proportion of Major League Baseball players taking medication for ADHD is reportedly three times the national average.
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Not only would a ban protect professional baseball players from the dangers of chewing tobacco, it would also prevent millions of impressionable young athletes from picking up the habit, Pallone says.
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Major League Baseball, a collective of leeches, has released a statement in response to the growing controversy over legislation that would bar minor league baseball players from federal fair labor protection.
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Razor sharp Baseball players do have some time to kill between at-bats, so Houston Astros star Alex Bregman used it to shave his mustache in the middle of a game.
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The company Luker on Trends, which conducts the ESPN Sports Poll, asked 22000,000 American sports fans to name their favorite athletes in 2017, and only three baseball players made the list.
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Among those who have tested positive for it are baseball players Raul Mondesi and Guillermo Mota, the champion cyclist Alberto Contador, and a number of participants in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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And this spring, Kobe Narcisse, who is African-American, recruited five other students, most of them baseball players, to form a golf team at his public high school outside New Orleans.
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A company called Big League Advance has started lending to algorithmically approved minor-league baseball players; something similar might appeal to college athletes whose scholarships fail to cover all their costs.
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Over the past year, we have hosted weekly live conversations about race and ethnicity on Facebook, tackling topics that ranged from black royalty to Latino baseball players to Asian-American slurs.
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The potential victims here aren't just ultrawealthy professional athletes and networks; more vulnerable people like part-time arena and stadium workers and minor league baseball players are also going to suffer.
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A court ruling in California could affect a lawsuit filed by minor-league baseball players seeking a new wage structure and millions of dollars in back pay from Major League Baseball.
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"I never told him my opinion about the way he was using me because the way I feel is that, as baseball players, we're warriors," Chapman said, referring to the postseason.
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From angry baseball players talking strike to quarterback Colin Kaepernick to running back Le'Veon Bell to the N.B.A. players LeBron James, Stephen Curry and Chris Paul, professional athletes are splendidly outspoken.
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While America remains fixated on people kneeling during the national anthem before sports events, a pair of Major League Baseball players did the exact opposite — they stood for as long as possible.
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George Herman Ruth Jr—aka Babe Ruth, Bambino, The Sultan of Swat, The King of Crash, The Colossus of Clout, is one of the most famous American baseball players of all time.
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But she didn't initially think that she would be spending too much time breaking a sweat with her boo because Upton says that baseball players aren't the picture of athleticism to her.
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Meanwhile, the latter, newly playing in major cities and playing everywhere beginning Friday, April 8, is a ribald college comedy about a group of baseball players at a Texas university in 1980.
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As a former big leaguer, I roll my eyes in isolated cases and think baseball players' ideas on unwritten rules are silly and uptight, or even culturally insensitive to baseball's evolving diversity.
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Wagner -- an 8x NL batting champion who's considered one of the greatest baseball players of all-time -- reportedly hated the card because it was made by a cigarette company ... American Tobacco Company.
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" The O.G., Johnny Damon, in 2005; Getty Only two baseball players made SI's first-ever list, and Lisanti admits that "baseball is a little bit behind in fashion compared to other leagues.
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You might guess (as I did) that the impulse to anoint baseball players as the Natural began in 1984, upon the release of the movie starring Robert Redford in the titular role.
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Orioles 4, Yankees 1 Baseball players engage in all sorts of rituals to maintain their gloves, pounding the hardened spots with customized tools or using a variety of oils to soften them.
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Major League Baseball has submitted a proposal to the Treasury Department that outlines a new pathway for baseball players from Cuba to sign directly with big league teams in the United States.
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It found that the football players had higher levels of mortality from all causes, including cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, than the baseball players did, which could indicate that football itself was detrimental.
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The "baseball players aren't real athletes" crowd is gonna be seriously quiet for a while ... 'cause here's Pirates pitcher Tyler Glasnow crapping all over that idea with a CRAZY NBA level dunk.
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Three former minor league baseball players represented by an attorney who also played in the minors have filed a class action lawsuit against MLB on behalf of all minor league players, Senne v.
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Along the same lines, cheerleaders and dancers freely choose to work for teams, and many of them are relatively happy to do so—just as many baseball players were happy prior to unionization.
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The trial and the case will unwind the messy, ugly ways in which Cuban baseball players are brought over from their homeland to the United States for the sake of big, fat contracts.
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Because of his extensive fighting sports background, everyone at McGovern's gym, from professional golfers and baseball players to wealthy lawyers and millionaires' wives to a famous opera soprano, trained both boxing and wrestling.
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"I was informed by the Players Association (March 13) that a banned substance was found in my urine," Colabello said in a statement released through the Major League Baseball Players Association on Friday.
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She cited fresh sanctions against Havana, and the Trump administration's decision to block a deal that would have made it easier for Cuban baseball players to come to the U.S. to play professionally.
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The Sports of The Times column on Friday, about the history of performance-enhancing drug use among professional baseball players, misidentified the city where a record-setting home run was hit this season.
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Baylor to Suspend 14 Baseball Players Because of a Hazing Incident The suspensions — based on an incident from last year — will be staggered over three weeks, starting with the season opener next Friday.
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The Major League Baseball Players Association disputed commissioner Rob Manfred on Tuesday evening, saying it did not resist the league's efforts during the MLB's investigation of the Houston Astros' 2017 electronic sign-stealing.
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"I think it's important to remember that the Major League Baseball Players Association has always wanted a market-based system, and markets change, particularly when the institution around those markets change," Manfred said.
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Sports Briefing | Doping A federal judge has reduced the prison sentence being served by Anthony Bosch, the former owner of a South Florida clinic that supplied banned substances to baseball players, including Alex Rodriguez.
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Unlike in other sports, many baseball players turn pro when they're in their mid-teens, which means they need more coaching and playing time before they're ready to compete at the game's highest level.
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"The employment contracts of minor league players relate to the business of providing public baseball games for profit between clubs of professional baseball players," Chief Judge Sidney Thomas wrote for the appeals court panel.
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Baseball players having fun with their walk-up music is nothing new, but the Washington Nationals exposed much of the world to one of the strangest ballpark traditions we've ever seen on Friday night.
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"Yesterday I criticized hard the baseball players that, using the excuse of Zika, decided not to come and play, to contribute a little bit to the economy in San Juan de Puerto Rico," Gov.
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During the election year of 23, he publicly released a personal list of "best" baseball players he had watched play, including Ted Williams, Sandy Koufax, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Jackie Robinson and Maury Wills.
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The most immediate cause is that the Major League Baseball Players' Association (MLBPA), long regarded as America's most successful union in any industry, seems to have been fleeced in the league's most recent CBA.
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The following list of open roles to fill are giving us major clues towards any new characters of plot lines: students, baseball players, track & field athletes, cheerleaders, boxers, parents, teachers and coffee shop patrons.
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Capitol Police officers on Scalise's detail fired 25 rounds back at Hodgkinson, pinning him down and keeping "his attention from returning to the unarmed baseball players" while backup from the Alexandria Police Department arrived.
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Venezuela. The deal: American Major League Baseball would pay huge fees — in the millions of dollars — to the Cuban government for the right to sign Cuban baseball players to play in the United States.
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Owners, players and officials from baseball and the union, the Major League Baseball Players Association, negotiated overnight on Tuesday in Dallas, where the union is holding its executive board meeting, and concluded on Wednesday.
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The amendment is in response to a lawsuit in California filed on behalf of thousands of current and former minor leaguers that claims federal overtime protection should be available to minor league baseball players.
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I can't speak Chinese and had no way of communicating with most of the baseball players, so Eric graciously agreed to translate my interviews this way from Hualien, a small town in Northeast Taiwan.
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A graceful Spanish-moss draped city of 190,000 people, Mobile produced five Hall of Fame baseball players and all were black: Hank Aaron, Willie McCovey, sweet-swinging Billy Williams, Ozzie Smith and Satchel Paige.
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On the way, we talked about women's issues: her skin-care routine (standard), her torn labrum (an injury common to writers and baseball players) and her resistance to meditation (she just doesn't want to!).
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The Trump administration canceled a deal in April that made it easier for Cuban baseball players to compete professionally in the United States -- a decision that swiftly drew criticism from the Cuban Baseball Federation.
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SPORTS The Sports of The Times column on Friday, about the history of performance-enhancing drug use among professional baseball players, misidentified the city where a record-setting home run was hit this season.
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The memorial for Orange Coast College baseball coach John Altobelli, his wife, Keri, and their daughter Alyssa drew a crowd of not only close loved ones, but baseball players and coaches affected by Altobelli.
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Mr. Nicolau was named baseball's independent arbitrator in 21948, replacing Thomas T. Roberts, whom owners had fired as he was hearing the first collusion case between them and the Major League Baseball Players Association.
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His rejection of the reserve clause was the advent of free agency, which gave professional baseball players more control over their careers and allowed them to reap the massive contracts many players receive today.
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A Miami jury convicted a Florida sports agent and a baseball trainer on charges that they smuggled Cuban baseball players into the United States in search of big profits from professional free-agent contracts.
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Some even say that the immense popularity of Joe DiMaggio, one of the best-known baseball players of all time, was inflated by the pleasure broadcasters took in pronouncing his surname on the radio.
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Trump's comments started a firestorm between the White House and professional sports players, with football, basketball and even baseball players defending their right to protest or firing back critically at Trump following the rally.
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Major League Baseball players could be randomly tested for the first time for opioids like oxycodone and fentanyl as the sport grapples with how to address the opioid epidemic, the Wall Street Journal reports.
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But when it comes to point guards, running backs, wide receivers, tight ends, quarterbacks, and maybe a handful of baseball players who actually run, I'd say, meh, maybe they could have developed the skills.
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SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - The Dominican Republic's top prosecutor said on Tuesday that the Caribbean nation's largest drug trafficking gang has been dismantled, a group that allegedly used two former professional baseball players to launder assets.
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"Many people think what Cuba has to offer the US is rum, cigars, and baseball players" They have two other anti-cancer vaccines [in addition to Cimavax] that are equally exciting but earlier in development.
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The lawsuit filed by current and former minor league baseball players against Major League Baseball for higher and fairer wages received a significant setback in a San Francisco court on Thursday, VICE Sports has learned.
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Snapchat says for that day, users will have "unprecedented access" to professional baseball players as they contribute to an MLB Live Story, and they'll be able to experience spring training games from unique camera angles.
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The Yankees are hardly the only team that has departed in some way from the glossy, hard-plastic finish that baseball players wear — at least until they are covered in pine tar, dirt and scratches.
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"Baseball players have long been seen both on the field and in the dugout chewing tobacco," Pallone wrote Monday in letters to MLB Commissioner Robert Manfred and Tony Clark, executive director of the players association.
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DER: Made-up words are the most obvious to avoid, but so are obscurities that might be unreasonable for a typical person to know, like the names of foreign villages or minor league baseball players.
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But there are low-paid minor league baseball players who need money for rent and food, and college field hockey teams that depend on money from the N.C.A.A. basketball tournament to fund their own seasons.
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MANNY FERNANDEZ Did you know that the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo transported a group of Negro League baseball players to his country in 1937 to field a team that would win the country's league championship?
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At Black Colleges, the Baseball Teams Increasingly Aren't As the number of African-American baseball players continues to decline, black players are often surprised to find themselves in the minority even at historically black colleges.
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Among the many traits that combined to make Derek Jeter one of the most admired and adored baseball players of his generation, there was talent, drive and focus — and a good dose of stubbornness, too.
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We will never know the full story of anyone who played in the steroid era, what they did or did not do, and that makes it unfair to indict an entire generation of baseball players.
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For more than a century, baseball players have been trying to decode the unspoken cues exchanged by pitchers and catchers over what pitch to throw next and the location: a practice known as sign stealing.
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Sotomayor sided with Major League Baseball players during their 1994-95 strike while serving as a federal district court judge, preventing management from replacing the striking players and implementing an unapproved new collective bargaining agreement.
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TMZ SPORTS DISCLAIMER: Curt Schilling is in no way dissing any of the baseball players mentioned in this post, this is simply his opinion on who will, and WILL NOT make the MLB Hall of Fame.
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A study in 2011 found that baseball players who were young for their draft classes—even by a few months—tended to go on to outperform the average production from the slots where they were chosen.
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Most professional baseball players follow a traditional route of playing competitively in high school and college, then getting picked up by a professional team to play in the minor leagues, and later advancing to the MLB.
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MLB hopes to create a "a safe and legal path for Cuban baseball players who desire to play in major league baseball to reach the major leagues," Dan Halem, the league's chief legal officer, told reporters.
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"Beisbol Experience" — an upcoming project that will look at Latin American baseball players' impact in the MLB — will have a presence in the magazine and on "SportsCenter" and the Spanish-language ESPN Deportes, among other places.
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Whereas soccer reigns supreme across most of South America, baseball is both the American national pastime and a veritable religion in the Dominican Republic, whose small population supplies a startling number of Major League baseball players.
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UNION IN TOUCH WITH LAROCHE The head of the Major League Baseball players' union said there had been no decision on whether to file a grievance on behalf of Chicago White Sox first baseman Adam LaRoche.
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The joyful, '80s-set movie (which opens in limited release March 30) is the "spiritual sequel" to Dazed and Confused, dropping in on baseball players at a Texas college during the three days before classes start.
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A sports agent who represents many Major League Baseball players called on Congress to pass legislation that would give teams the power to penalize fans for directing racist remarks toward players, according to a Wednesday FoxSports.
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He was active in the rise of the baseball players' union in the 1960s, joining with Robin Roberts and Harvey Kuenn in recruiting Marvin Miller, then an economist for the steelworkers, as the union's executive director.
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Washington (CNN)The Trump administration on Monday canceled a deal that made it easier for Cuban baseball players to compete professionally in the United States -- a decision that swiftly drew criticism from the Cuban Baseball Federation.
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But its runaway popularity stretched far beyond the United States, and for some Latino baseball players it is something more: a language guide, a Rosetta Stone disguised as six 20-somethings commingling in a Manhattan apartment.
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MLB, the Cuban federation and the Major League Baseball Players Association said they signed the deal on Wednesday after three years of negotiations, providing a ray of light during a period of fraught U.S.-Cuban relations.
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She photographed Mr Kiger along with 21 other baseball players who were part of the 2002 Oakland A's draft class over the course of 15 years, charting the realities of trying to make it as an athlete.
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The baseball players will be following their counterparts in America's National Football League (NFL), which has been playing regular-season games in London since 593, and the National Basketball Association, which started playing there four years later.
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Credit Suisse's Michael Mauboussin refers to this as the Ted Williams problem — imagine if the absolute skill level of today's baseball players were present while guys like Mantle, Ruth, Williams and DiMaggio were racking up their records?
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Kerrian likens the sound of impact from the SUMO 2 to the tin-can ping of an aluminum baseball bat—a pet peeve of avid baseball players, who generally prefer the satisfying crack of a wooden bat.
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"We are still in discussions with the MLBPA regarding any additions to the banned list in the Major Leagues for the 2016 season," MLB spokesman Patrick Courtney said of the players' union, Major League Baseball Players Association.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Washington Nationals' Ryan Zimmerman and Philadelphia Phillies' Ryan Howard sued the Al Jazeera America television network for defamation on Tuesday over a report that the Major League Baseball players used a performance-enhancing drug.
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Annunziata would eat well at dinner with her husband and two sons — both collegiate baseball players — but she would snack all day in her office and down pints of ice cream when no one else was home.
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Carol Sharrow, 51, sent shocked baseball players and bystanders scattering when she entered the main gate at Sanford's Goodall Park before driving onto the field, the Sanford Police Department said in a statement on its Facebook page.
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Nationalism stoked by World War I meant that people were more affected by the song, and the fact that major league baseball players were being actively drafted meant those who weren't drafted benefited from showing their patriotism.
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One thing to know: Known as "Hammerin' Hank," Hank Aaron is one of the greatest baseball players that ever lived, holding the career home run record for 33 years before Barry Bonds broke his mark of 755.
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Now let's pretend this magical cloning machine only worked on really good baseball players, and the mad scientist running it decided to make 24 copies of the best position player in the world, Angels outfielder Mike Trout.
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" Look, I don't have to love everything AOC does or says, but my advice to her would be the same advice the great ballplayer Ted Williams had for baseball players: "Don't let anyone monkey with your swing.
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The 32-year-old is seeking unspecified damages for himself and wants the Astros to hand over roughly $31 million in playoff bonuses to children's charities and for elderly retired baseball players in need of financial assistance.
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While some members of the media like to sensationalize and grumble about how PED users undermine the fabric of the national game, baseball players are the only class of people who are actually cheated out of anything.
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While other efforts, including allowing Cuban baseball players to enter the Major League Baseball draft directly, remain mired in on-again, off-again talks, the revival of tennis accelerated over the course of a year of negotiations.
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From the aroma of hot dogs and beer to the crack of the bat, the entire scene looked and smelled like a scaled-down version of a major league game, staffed by professional baseball players doing their jobs.
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At least two fellow Cuban-born baseball players, Yasiel Puig of the Los Angeles Dodgers and Yoenis Cespedes of the New York Mets, paid tribute to Fernandez by hanging his team jersey in their dugouts before Sunday games.
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"I am deeply saddened to confirm that MLB recently notified me I have tested positive for Ostarine, a prohibited substance under MLB's Joint Drug Agreement," Montas said in a statement released through the Major League Baseball Players Association.
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"Expanding the playoffs in a sensible way is something worth discussing when part of a much more comprehensive conversation about the current state of our game," Tony Clark, the president of the Major League Baseball Players Association, said.
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Frank displayed that same commitment to each of his students and the baseball players he coached, said Tom Tonelli, one of Frank's former pupils and a Columbine High School graduate who went on to teach at the school.
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The idea of fraud here is more a cultural one: that baseball players who cheat are selling someone a false bill of goods, and that those who have been thus wronged are entitled to restitution as a result.
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"When I began, it was just meant to be the world's greatest undershirt, just for football players, and quickly I found out it worked for baseball players, and lacrosse players, and the girlfriends of lacrosse players," he said.
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What happened in those early months and all the years between has been a sporting rollercoaster of blown elbows, playoff pitching, minor league ping-ponging, self-doubt and steely resolve few pro baseball players would ever want endure.
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She is the daughter of Laurie A. Ridell and David S. Ridell of Dix Hills, N.Y. Mr. Charles, 34, is the founder and president of the Big League Management Company in New York, which represents professional baseball players.
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Creighton Hale, who in the late 21994s invented a batting helmet that gave Little League Baseball players better protection, and who later rose to the top ranks of the organization as it grudgingly accepted girls, died on Oct.
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He also wrote articles for The New York Times about baseball players like Willie Mays, Jackie Robinson and Cal Ripken Jr., the Baltimore Orioles shortstop who finally broke Gehrig's consecutive game record, ending his own streak at 2,632.
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Major League Baseball had hoped to have a similar rule for spring training and starting in the 235th inning of the All-Star Game but was stymied by the Major League Baseball Players Association, which refused to agree.
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The Major League Baseball Players Association will open its own spring training camp for the first time since the end of the 1994-95 strike, inviting free agents to work out at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla.
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The fact that most baseball players are from like six or seven towns in Texas, Georgia, Florida, or California kind of narrows the parameters a bit, but even within that space there is plenty of room for creativity.
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During Tuesday's broadcast, Darling said it was "a joke" to see new injuries daily and that teams were doing a "disservice to the million-dollar athletes they're paying" with training that built weight lifters and not baseball players.
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"Knowing that the next generation of Cuban baseball players will not endure the unimaginable fate of past Cuban players is the realization of an impossible dream for all of us," Abreu said in a statement released by MLB.
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When Mookie Betts takes the field for the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday night in the first game of the 2018 World Series, the 26-year-old outfielder will do so as one of the world's best baseball players.
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Eventually, Clay uncovers the Clubhouse, as it's called in the third Polaroid, and finds a literal trove of photos of girls being plied with drinks and drugs before being tossed into vulnerable situations with Liberty High School's baseball players.
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U.S. airlines sign up for commercial flights to Cuba The announcement also allows Cubans to receive salaries in the United States, paving the way for Cuban baseball players to potentially join the Major Leagues without having to defect first.
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The myriad horrors of the gray-market trade in baseball players are everywhere in Ordóñez's story, and the stink of them floats through the early coverage of it even as those stories strain for the old sentimental baseball picaresque.
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Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez, who died in a boating accident in September, was voted the National League comeback player of the year by his peers in the annual Players Choice Awards of the Major League Baseball Players Association.
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A lot of what made Major League popular in its time—and, honestly, in its long afterlife—would be considered problematic in 2016, from the Indians mascot itself to its portrayal of Cuban baseball players as future insurance pitchmen.
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And despite the fact that he is inarguably one of the best baseball players to have ever played the game, he was always difficult for people to really root for, something that's usually a requirement for a sports superstar.
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He was a track adviser and spokesman for Mobil, which sponsored the United States outdoor and indoor championships, and once served as a spring training coach for the Yankees and the Cleveland Indians, teaching baseball players how to run.
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Editors' passions can drive the site deep into inconsequential territory—exhaustive detailing of dozens of different kinds of embroidery software, lists dedicated to bespectacled baseball players, a brief but moving biographical sketch of Khanzir, the only pig in Afghanistan.
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That's the reason former major league pitcher Rick Ankiel recently admitted to drinking vodka before games—to get himself out of a case of the yips (sudden bouts of nervousness that tend to plague elite golfers and baseball players).
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Hailey has since met many pro baseball players, and continues to share her uniquely-designed prosthetic hands while raising awareness for Poland Syndrome, a rare congenital disease that caused her to be born without three fingers on her right hand.
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Reigning Parent of the Year and former Major League player Adam LaRoche has organized a team comprised of 24 ex-Major League Baseball players to compete in the National Baseball Congress World Series that begins at the end of the month.
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Union members include dental hygienists in Wisconsin, graduate students in Massachusetts, firefighters in Illinois, television writers and scientists in California, security guards in Washington, D.C., digital journalists in New York, and major league baseball players in Georgia and other states.
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The Obama administration announced Tuesday that it would allow Cuban citizens to work in the United States and receive salaries from American companies, a decision that could have a profound effect on the way major league teams sign Cuban baseball players.
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Not so with the recent defection of star baseball players and brothers Yulieski Gourriel and Lourdes Gourriel Jr. — an episode that illustrates how citizens in the most repressive country in the hemisphere are increasingly pushing the boundaries of free speech.
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"I wanted to apologize genuinely to the city of Seattle and to all the fans, and the young baseball players in the (United) States and the DR (Dominican Republic) and most importantly to my teammates," Cano said in a statement.
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In an attempt to alleviate some of that pressure, the Power Five conferences nearly unanimously voted to permit high school baseball players to hire agents for any contract negotiations with MLB before they enroll in college—without forfeiting their NCAA eligibility.
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It is true that the baseball names we see every year around the MLB Draft mostly reflect the naming habits of the places where baseball players come from—a whiter-than-not geographic area we might call Sun Belt Extended.
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Currently, it's an archive — community elders have contributed ephemera, such as magazines and framed "Whites Only" signs from an earlier Florida, when Negro League Baseball players practiced nearby — where Mr. E continues to host art workshops, yoga classes, and documentary screenings.
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The administration also canceled a deal to allow Cuban baseball players to play in the United States, sharply constrained remittances and promised to end most forms of nonfamily travel, actions that will directly harm Cuba's people and nascent private sector.
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Zeamer, 10, and millions of other youth baseball players were forced to dig deep into their (or their parents') pockets for new bats this season, models stamped with the U.S.A. Baseball logo and mandated by new standards issued by the organization.
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The bonuses are about $31 million and Bolsinger wants the money to go to "charitable causes focused on bettering the lives of children" in Los Angeles and a fund for elderly, retired professional baseball players in need of financial assistance.
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"Danny and Amos's work has something to say about why baseball players get misvalued, or why people can't see the value of Michael Oher in 'The Blind Side,' or why people can't see what mortgage-backed securities really are," he said.
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Puerto Rican drivers were quizzed, lawsuit says In his lawsuit, Caban Gonzalez said employees used a document titled "Puerto Rican Interview Guide" to quiz Puerto Rican drivers about fritters, frogs, hillbilly hats, baseball players and customs on their native island.
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One of the best baseball players to come out of the soccer-crazed nation of the Netherlands, van der Meer played shortstop at Lamar University in Division I and was drafted last year by the Houston Astros in the 34th round.
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In March, the City Council passed a bill, introduced by Corey Johnson, a Manhattan Democrat who is chairman of its health committee, to ban the use of tobacco products, including the smokeless tobacco popular with baseball players, at ticketed sporting events.
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Keeping Score As Bryce Harper and Manny Machado, both 2500, reached free agency this off-season, there was a drumbeat of declarations about how rare it was for baseball players so good and so young to hit the open market.
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Obesity is contagious, you can have business success by standing in an expansive "power pose," baseball players with a K in their name are more likely to strike out, and hurricanes with girl names are more dangerous than hurricanes with boy names.
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The full list of channels include Oddly Satisfying, Cheerleaders, Dancers, Calligraphy, Special Effects Makeup, Comedians, Barbers, Cake Decorating, Ceramics, Comic Book Artists, Pitbulls, Gymnasts, Nail Artists, Hair Tutorials, Singers, Bakers, Makeup Tutorials, Ballet Dancers, Trickshots, Artists, Makers & Artisans Baseball Players and Skateboarders.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City on Wednesday banned the use of chewing tobacco at sports venues such as Yankee Stadium and Citi Field, joining other cities in discouraging Major League Baseball players from a habit with deep roots in the game.
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Lead with passion"A colleague once told me she'd read there's roughly the same number of professional baseball players in the [US], right around 8,000 including the minor leagues, as there are VCs spread out over 1,000 or so firms," Cheong shared.
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The two had just left a party arranged by fellow baseball players when they allegedly beat the duck with a bat, before placing it in a bag and taking it to an apartment to "put it out of its misery," according to AL.com.
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Sports Briefing | Baseball Federal prosecutors want a Miami judge to reduce by more than a year the prison sentence being served by Anthony Bosch, the former owner of a clinic that supplied banned substances to baseball players, including the Yankees star Alex Rodriguez.
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But perhaps the weight of female fans' expectations wouldn't be as oppressive for her—or for the show's viewers—if Ginny knew she wasn't actually the first, that she was merely extending the legacies of the women baseball players who preceded her.
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Sports Briefing | Baseball Baseball players paid a South Florida-based smuggling ring more than $15 million to leave Cuba in secretive ventures that included phony documents, false identities and surreptitious boat voyages to Mexico, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, federal prosecutors say.
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In this particular instance of pure brilliance, Twitter user and Emory Rollins School of Public Health student Shanna Shi decided to match up Major League Baseball players with a corresponding Pokémon based on similar hairstyles, and good goddamn did she nail it.
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Recurring cases of the yips like Lester's have occasionally afflicted baseball players, such as second basemen Steve Sax and Chuck Knoblauch, who suddenly could not throw to first, and catcher Mackey Sasser, who had trouble throwing the ball back to the pitcher.
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We've been over this, many times, but if you watch baseball you know that baseball players are now being named in a more avant-garde way than at any time in history, and that naming technology is advancing at a remarkable rate.
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Mr. Trump's hard-line immigration policies and his harsh comments about countries in Latin America have rankled a number of baseball players in a sport where an increasing number of players are Latino, with the most from the Dominican Republic or Venezuela.
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This condition, which the Mayo Clinic says involves a compression of the brachial plexus, "a network of nerves that come from your spinal cord and control muscle movements and sensation in your shoulder, arm and hand," is typically more associated with baseball players.
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LONDON — Charles Hill looked out over the unusual scene Tuesday at Hyde Park, where former Major League Baseball players and current cricket stars stood on a stage where Justin Bieber had sung 48 hours earlier, and hit baseballs into a crowd below them.
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Miller, who died at age 95 in 2012, led the Major League Baseball Players Association from 1966 to 1982, a time when players gained the right to free agency after six seasons of big-league service, to salary arbitration and to grievance arbitration.
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He relayed the concerns to other people in the commissioner's office and in the players' union, the Major League Baseball Players Association, and so began a conversation that has now led to a rule change stitched into the new collective bargaining agreement.
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It was from Gene Orza, then the associate general counsel of the baseball players' association who would help lead the players on the seven-and-a-half month strike that would cause the first cancellation of the World Series in 90 years.
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But we also know that young baseball players face many years of some combination of playing in the minor leagues and making lowish salaries under team control before hitting an ostensibly open market into which franchises are seemingly pouring less money every year.
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But something about Roaracle—the indoor fireworks, the flamethrowers on the baskets, the signature taunting chant lifted from a cult movie about street gangs who dressed like clowns and baseball players—along with the Warriors' persistence put butts in seats, game after heartbreaking game.
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His subjects included horses and jockeys; the boxers Joe Frazier and Rocky Marciano, the racecar driver A. J. Foyt, the baseball players Jackie Robinson and Keith Hernandez, and a football player, Bob Kalsu, the only major professional sports athlete to die in the Vietnam War.
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Manning was the headliner for the report, "The Dark Side," which linked Manning's wife, Ashley, to alleged shipments of human growth hormone from the Guyer Institute in Indianapolis, but both baseball players were implicated, accused of procuring the banned substance Delta 2, a steroid precursor.
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His famous 1974 portraits of great American photographers in the guise of baseball players, which he then released as a series of trading cards, is maybe his most famous work and sought to both champion and highlight photographers' growing influence in the 1970s art world.
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The only problematic thing about this particular cat, who loves baseball and you, is that she or he might make the crowd fall TOO DEEPLY IN LOVE, and demand that ownership replace all the human baseball players with similarly beloved, friendly cats in little uniforms.
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The "wave" at the Havana baseball stadium by President Obama did not release any Cuban political prisoners, didn't protect the "Women in White" from being attacked by Castro apparatchiks, didn't allow any Cuban man, woman or child, including baseball players, to leave Cuba without permission.
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However, it wasn't until 1990 when Big League Chew started printing the now-iconic exaggerated caricatures of baseball players onto the gum packs and really played up the baseball angle that Big League Chew became a major gum brand for athletes and non-athletes alike.
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And his comic strips, once populated with baseball players and gangsters, now tell stories of middle-aged, blue-collar men like himself who do the grunt work at Fukushima, some of whom find a sense of purpose and belonging they lacked in the outside world.
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Back when Muhammad Ali was embracing the Nation of Islam, and Tommie Smith and John Carlos were raising their fists in black solidarity at the Olympics, the most meaningful activism among baseball players was economic—the fight to unionize and to earn free agency.
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At the same time, it raised legitimate concerns about the rights of athletes in an era before a baseball players' union had come to fruition, and foreshadowed the modern era of strikes, lockouts, lawsuits, collective bargaining, and disciplinary disputes between sports labor and management.
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Major League Baseball, in conjunction with the players' union, on Wednesday announced an agreement with the Cuban baseball federation to legalize and streamline the transfer of professional baseball players to the United States and Canada — but the move immediately met resistance from the Trump administration.
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"If you look at the guys that are having to sign these nonroster deals, or guys that still don't have jobs, far and away most of them comprise that middle class of baseball players," said Sean Doolittle, the All-Star closer for the Washington Nationals.
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The Major League Baseball Players Association sent an email to agents on Monday saying that for players who went home or to their team's regular-season city it would pay $1,100 allowances through April 9 to players on 40-man rosters as of March 1233.
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Baseball players with the Boston Red Sox are coming to no good in Pamela Wechsler's new Abby Endicott mystery, THE FENS (Minotaur, $27.99), and while a missing ballplayer isn't as serious a matter as losing the pennant to the Yankees, it still means war.
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Dr. Kocher said in an interview that children who grow up in the northern United States are more likely to become major league baseball players than kids from the South because they can't play their sport year-round and are less likely to be injured.
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"For all of us as players, we want to see our best players sign the biggest contracts, and frankly I think the whole last week has been really positive for baseball players, if you look at Aaron Hicks, Miles Mikolas and Nolan Arenado," Braun continued.
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Before the game started, the Yankees held a brief ceremony for one of the greatest baseball players of all time—his mother and children were escorted onto the field by Yankee luminaries like Reggie Jackson and Didi Gregorius—and ominous black clouds started rolling in almost immediately.
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A spokesman for the Major League Baseball Players Association said the league's health plan allowed retired players with at least four years of major league service to choose from three options of coverage that have been significantly subsidized through the collective bargaining agreement with the owners.
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The percentage of black Major League Baseball players from the United States and Canada on opening-day active rosters (750 players) rose to 8.4%, the highest level since at least 2012, per AP. But that's still less than half of the peak of 19% in 1986.
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Baseball Players Referenced: 34 (29 unique) Player Referenced Most: Derek Jeter (3) Best Bar: "Barry Bronson shootin' juice before the Mitchell Report / Never snitchin' in court / We blitzing the fort" Now that you've completed the math, think on this: Football is a sport quite unlike any other.
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He was among a number of professional baseball players like Ted Williams and Warren Spahn who vowed to serve their country during World War II.DiMaggio served as a physical education inspector and spent much of his time in the service playing baseball in a reduced capacity.
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In the end, what Mr. Rubio and the administration largely achieved was to deny Cuban baseball players their right to play at the highest level without having to sneak circuitously and dangerously into the United States and to forgo the right to ever return to their homeland.
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For example, during the 50 years since Marvin Miller negotiated the first collective bargaining agreement for the Major League Baseball Players Association — precisely the period over which Mr. Harford predicts that slightly-less-good athletes should have been financially devastated — the minimum salary has grown 20,000 percent.
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In high-pressure environments like pro sports, athletes are always searching for something to give them an edge, which might be one reason that so many baseball players were drawn to the hype, says Craig Foster, a professor of behavioral science at the United States Air Force Academy.
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Tabitha Soren, an artist and former reporter, became curious about the men who dreamed of becoming professional baseball players and what happened to those dreams (Michael Lewis, Ms Soren's husband, had introduced her to the draft picks while he was writing "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game").
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On Tuesday, a week before Obama is set to attend the baseball game in Havana, U.S. Treasury officials announced new measures that would allow Cubans to receive salaries in the U.S., paving the way for Cuban baseball players to potentially join the major leagues without having to defect first.
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The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan ruled in 2015 that the company's plan ran afoul of ERISA's requirement that employers set vesting ages that have reasonable relationships to a normal retirement age for the industry, from 65 for office workers to 35 for baseball players.
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"Some of the other guys that were kind of raw before, they've learned the game and just become better baseball players," said Chris Stewart, the veteran backup catcher, who is likely to see more playing time now that Cervelli is on the disabled list with a broken left hand.
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"For years, Major League Baseball has been seeking to end the trafficking of baseball players from Cuba by criminal organizations by creating a safe and legal alternative for those players to sign with Major League clubs," Rob Manfred, the commissioner of Major League Baseball, said in a statement.
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There are, of course, sports where athletes age pretty predictably; a Yale economist who analyzed over 80 years of baseball players found that hitters are declining by age 29, which happens to be when visual acuity starts deteriorating, and worsen faster than runners and swimmers, but not by much.
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The verdict came after jurors heard about six weeks of testimony in the trial of Bartolo Hernandez and Julio Estrada, who were indicted on conspiracy and alien smuggling charges related to an operation that began in 2009 and involved a number of high-profile Major League Baseball players.
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Bonds and Clemens are the two most accomplished baseball players not in the Hall of Fame by any number of measures — including the most Most Valuable Player Awards (Bonds), the most Cy Young Awards (Clemens) and wins above replacement — but neither came anywhere near the 75 percent required for induction.
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It's stories like Christina's that present DREAM—as well as Major League Baseball's nationwide Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) program, with which it is affiliated—as a free, more-than-viable alternative to the city's private school system for young softball and baseball players who hope to play in college.
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They know their opinion is unpopular, so rather than stick by it, to have the courage of their convictions, they'll just skulk around the shadows of the conversation, making it all but a lock that two baseball players who very clearly should be in the baseball museum will be left out.
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Female pitchers might even have a slight physical advantage because their physiology may insulate them against some of the worst physical effects of high-speed pitching, says Dr. Steve Jordan, an orthopedic surgeon at the Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, who treats many professional and amateur baseball players.
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The Sox finally agreed and a date for the tryout was set, but one by one the four Hall of Fame baseball players appointed to supervise either dropped out or "couldn't make a decision" on any of the players, one of whom was none other than the now-legendary Jackie Robinson.
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Because it is the sort of thing that baseball players say, it is the sort of thing that someone writing about baseball would try not to write; it's redundant, for one thing, but also there are some things best left described by the people that have been blessed to experience them.
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For one, baseball players are still mostly white — and there's been a trend of fewer and fewer African Americans in the sport, largely being replaced by Latino players: While these demographics aren't too out of line with nationwide demographics, it doesn't tell the full picture of just how white baseball is.
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With little homegrown talent — only about 800 people in Israel are registered baseball players — the roster is filled almost entirely with American Jews, many of them free agents and minor leaguers hoping to land jobs by impressing the scouts from the United States and Asia who are following the games closely.
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When Baltimore Orioles outfielder Adam Jones, who is black, was asked why baseball players didn't kneel for the national anthem like NFL player Colin Kaepernick, he said this to USA Today last year: We already have two strikes against us already, so you might as well not kick yourself out of the game.
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From Jackie Robinson withstanding taunts, threats and worse to break Major League Baseball's color line; to baseball players striking in the 1970s and '80s to gain and keep full-fledged free agency; to the track standout Edwin Moses devising benefits for Olympic athletes, athletes have often been the ones bringing about change.
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They provided letters written by Mr. Menendez during his Congressional career, both as a representative and a senator, promoting issues of national relevance to Hispanics, including one to the Major League Baseball Players Association opposing Arizona's controversial immigration law and a letter to President Obama about discrimination in federal farm loan programs.
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While teams have improved their tracking "at least once a year we find inaccuracies in some of the duty days and we're able to save players substantial amounts of money," said Joe Geier, founder and president of Winpoint Financial, in Marriottsville, Maryland, which manages baseball players such as former New York Yankee Mark Teixeira.
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The President made remarks at a fundraiser at his Mar-a-Lago Club on Friday night to an audience of roughly 400 people, golfed with old friends and several Major League Baseball players the next day and hosted the Brazilian President for a large dinner featuring several members of Congress and his attorney, Rudy Giuliani.
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Players were "interested in finding unique ways to connect with their fans by allowing them to see more of their personalities and interests," Tony Clark, the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, said in announcing the creation of the event, which was a joint effort between Major League Baseball and the union.
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