He snapped an 0-for-12 stretch when he laid down a perfect bunt single toward third.
Two years later he snapped up a larger take-and-bake pizza outfit, Papa Aldo's out of Portland, Ore.
He snapped up companies like Goldman Sachs, railroad Kansas City Southern and medical-devices manufacturer Stryker.
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Soon afterwards, he snapped up a disused factory and began turning out furniture.
Nevertheless, he has been feeling more heat since last year, when he snapped up a small stake in the New York Mets.
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Now aged 46, he was largely unknown outside Russia until 2003 when he snapped up English Premier League football league club Chelsea.
He delights in marketing the team, a powerhouse brand that he snapped up during a dormant period, to his fellow New Englanders.
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He snapped a shot over Vokoun's right shoulder to make it 3-1.
He snapped a shot from the slot past Miller for his first goal of the season, and the second of his NHL career.
When he went in for a dunk on his hoop at home, he snapped off the pole, leaving a jagged stump in the driveway.
"If that's the standard by which we are measuring success or core principles, then, let's face it, we will never get anything done, " he snapped.
He said that the defendant could not remember what occurred but accepted he lost his temper, he snapped and had thought that he had killed them.
Sunderland were simply first to every loose ball, Lee Cattermole had no grievance against Spurs but he snapped at the heels of former Wigan team-mate Wilson Palacios throughout.
But as adjacent properties became available he snapped them up.
Eto'o set the tone for the evening as he netted the opener against his former club when he snapped up the ball on the edge of the penalty area, turned inside three defenders and fired the ball under Casillas.
But when Krieger noticed that a photo he snapped of the bar menu has yet to receive any likes (with 177, 000 followers, the response is usually instantaneous), a MacBook Air, a Verizon Hotspot and a pile of iPhones materialize among the glasses of cask-finished bourbon.
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While there have been a number of attempts to unmask the artist -- a Jamaican photographer said he snapped images of Banksy when he visited the island and a reporter at U.K.'s "Guardian" newspaper said he met Banksy (or at least someone claiming to be him) -- they've been exercises in futility.
After leaving railways he was snapped up by Japan's National Space Development Agency and was its president until he retired in 1977.
At home, he often snapped at his kids, grunted at his wife or sat there, scowling.
This time, however, the South African had to settle for just 19 before he was snapped up behind by Davies off Mitchell.
The following year he was snapped up by the Australians after failing to reach agreement with the England and Wales Cricket Board on a new contract.
Owais Shah pulled Sharma for six and four to join in the fun but he was snapped up at wide mid-on off RP Singh, who clean bowled Collingwood.
His managerial stock rose after relative success at cash-strapped Clydebank and Airdrieonians, and a spell in charge of Falkirk before he was snapped up by Dundee United in February 2003.
Sachin Tendulkar waited 17 deliveries before he picked up his first boundary, a pull off Anderson in the 10th over, but two balls later he was snapped up by Collingwood at backward point.
He had earned his CBE by 1989, long before he was snapped up by a flagging BT keen to tap his "international experience, his dedication to quality management, and his in-depth knowledge of the computing services industry".
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