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In baseball, a captain is an honorary title sometimes given to a member of the team to acknowledge his leadership. In the early days of baseball, a captain was a player who was responsible for many of the functions now assumed by managers and coaches, such as preparing lineups, making decisions about strategy, and encouraging teamwork. [1]
In many team sports, the captains represent their respective teams when the match official does the coin toss at the beginning of the game. The team captain, in some sports, is selected by the team coach , who may consider factors ranging from playing ability to leadership to serving as a good moral example to the team. [ 2 ]
Manager Dave Roberts, who played baseball at UCLA, roamed the Rose Bowl sideline for the Bruins’ Nov. 23 game against rival USC and, two days later, served as an honorary captain during the ...
Jeter is the longest-tenured captain in franchise history, the 2014 season being his 12th as team captain. Howard W. Rosenberg, a baseball historian, found that the official count of Yankees captains failed to include Clark Griffith, the captain from 1903–1905, and Kid Elberfeld, the captain from 1906–1907, while manager Frank Chance may ...
In baseball, a brushback pitch is any pitch intended to establish a pitcher's command of the inside portion of the strike zone, usually involving throwing a pitch at or near a hitter who may be covering that portion of the strike zone. Its baseball usage is cited in many dictionaries, [15] but its transition to the vernacular has yet to be dated.
From dead fish toss to Triple-A, Sacramento baseball has come long way with Athletics’ move. Sam Stanton, Mathew Miranda, Hector Amezcua, Ishani Desai. April 5, 2024 at 12:54 PM.
The captains toss a coin and the winner decides whether his team will bat or bowl first. The toss can be very important depending on things like the state of the field and the weather.
Rangers Captain is the mascot of the Texas Rangers. Rangers Captain is the mascot for the Texas Rangers. Introduced in 2002, he is a palomino horse, dressed in the team's uniform and cap. He wears the uniform number "72" in honor of 1972, the year the Rangers relocated to the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, on the back.