Some articles on baseball, players, american, baseball player, player:
... His father thought that baseball was a better usage for his arm therefore, he encouraged Nolan to play the game ... Ryan joined Alvin Little League Baseball when he was nine, made the all-star team when he was 11 and 12, and pitched the first no-hitter of his life a few years later ... Ryan played baseball for Coach Jim Watson at Alvin High School for all of his high school career ...
... Like many great players, Williams became impatient with ordinary athletes' abilities and attitudes, particularly those of pitchers, whom he admitted he never respected ... go into a partnership with friend Al Cassidy to form the Ted Williams Baseball Camp in Lakeville, Massachusetts ... death, conservative pundit Steve Sailer wrote The baseball slugger was possibly the most technically proficient American of the 20th Century, as his mastery of three highly different callings demonstrates.. ...
... family was quite diverse, having Spanish (Basque), Russian, and American Indian roots ... At the age of eight, he was taught how to throw a baseball by his uncle, Saul Venzor ... Saul was one of his mother's four brothers, as well as a former semi-pro baseball player who had pitched against Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Joe Gordon in an exhibition game ...
... the team led the league in hitting in 1997 and players won two batting titles ... Rice was the hitting coach for the American League in the 1997 and 1999 Major League Baseball All-Star Games, both under the same manager, ironically the New York Yankees' Joe Torre ... The former slugger has been known to pass his wisdom on to the current Sox players and stars from time to time ...
... He was the third Red Sox player to hit 100 home runs with the team, following his teammates Jimmie Foxx and Joe Cronin ... an aviator at the end of 1942, Williams also played on the baseball team in Chapel Hill, North Carolina along with his Red Sox teammate Johnny Pesky in pre-flight training, after eight weeks in Amherst ... While on the baseball team, Williams was sent back to Fenway Park on July 13, 1943 to play on an All-Star team managed by Babe Ruth ...
Famous quotes containing the words player, american and/or baseball:
“There has been in our time a lack of reliance on language and a lack of experimentation which are frightening to anyone who sees them as symptoms. We know the phenomenon of stage-fright: it holds the player shivering, incapable of speech or action. Perhaps there is an audience-fright which the play can feel, which leaves him with these incapacities.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)
“Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)
“Baseball is the religion that worships the obvious and gives thanks that things are exactly as they seem. Instead of celebrating mysteries, baseball rejoices in the absence of mysteries and trusts that, if we watch what is laid before our eyes, down to the last detail, we will cultivate the gift of seeing things as they really are.”
—Thomas Boswell, U.S. sports journalist. “The Church of Baseball,” Baseball: An Illustrated History, ed. Geoffrey C. Ward, Knopf (1994)