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Roger Angell (September 19, 1920 – May 20, 2022) was an American essayist known for his writing on sports, especially baseball.He was a regular contributor to The New Yorker and was its chief fiction editor for many years.
"Relationships suffer because of sports," says Jeff Francoeur, who spent 12 years as a MLB outfielder. Now he's a sports dad who offers you advice. 4 quotes sports parents should live by from MLB ...
The phrase the old one-two is cited in 1960, but quotes it from "a more vulgarly robust age". [56] out for the count See down for the count, above.:: out in left field: Baseball: Someone who is not where they should be or does not understand something. In baseball, left field (or right field) is as far as one can get from home as possible.
Ronald Michael Luciano (June 28, 1937 – January 18, 1995) was an American professional baseball umpire who worked in Major League Baseball's American League from 1969 to 1979. He was known for his flamboyant style, clever aphorisms, and a series of published collections of anecdotes from his colorful career.
When [Scott] Boras talks to Tom Hicks, does he first have to enter a PIN number? — Los Angeles Times sportswriter Mike DiGiovanna, on free agency negotiations subsequent to the 2006 Major League Baseball season betwixt the two, respectively a sports agent and the owner of the Texas Rangers, theretofore collective brokers of US$383 million in contracts
In the 1996 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America, Quisenberry received 18 votes, just under the 24 vote (5%) cut-off to remain on the ballot. In the same election, Bruce Sutter , a pitcher with remarkably similar overall statistics, [ 13 ] received 137 votes; Sutter went on to be elected to the ...
Ketel Marte, 2B, Diamondbacks: He'll be a good player, but probably not the exquisite power source he was last year (when he slugged almost 100 points higher than his career norm). Marte is a ...
Sports critic Bill Mayo disagrees, saying that sports clichés are used "just the right amount," and "it is what it is." Former New York Giants quarterback -turned CBS broadcaster Phil Simms devotes a large portion of his 2004 book Sunday Morning Quarterback to examining football clichés such as "winning the turnover battle", "halftime ...