From the outset, it faced a basic problem: The country doesn't really play baseball.
Foster Wang is a sports enthusiast who loves to lift weights and play baseball, basketball and soccer.
We're not defending an idea that every human being should eat corn flakes, play baseball or watch MTV.
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"I like to play baseball, and, in my mind, a jacket doesn't belong on the baseball field, " Harvey said.
On Sundays, the husbands would go down to the beach to play baseball.
"Our position is that kids should play baseball, soccer, a musical instrument, do scouting, and specialize later on, " Van Auken said.
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Ted Williams was one of the greatest hitters ever to play baseball.
You wonder what the kids who used to play baseball are doing?
Pluschkell, who used to play baseball in high school and college, now spends about 500 hours a year on the diamond coaching kids.
Ando said he hopes that one day he will be able to play baseball with his son, who is an avid sports fan.
Carl Paladino, running to be governor of New York, threatens to bring a baseball bat to work (and he's not planning to play baseball).
"If we get that kind of effort and play baseball the way we played here these three games, we're going to win a lot of ballgames, " Porter said.
The only growth in youth baseball participation since the 1990s, according to the NSGA, has come from kids who play more than 50 times a year which suggests more children who play baseball have chosen to specialize.
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More important, Valdespin said he learned to play that way as a child in the Dominican Republic, where people play baseball with a different sort of panache than they do in the U.S. Valdespin is still adjusting.
After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, Robinson, who had been a stand-out athlete at UCLA, signed up in the spring of 1945 to play baseball for the Kansas City Monarchs in the Negro Leagues.
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Since Greg Halman, over 50 Europeans have signed to play professional baseball in the U.S. Two, Rick VandenHurk of the Netherlands and Alex Liddi of Italy, have played in the Major Leagues.
The older Mr. Halman led a recent wave of Europeans signed to play professional baseball in the U.S. At 16, he was already built like a man and hitting deep homeruns in the Netherlands's semi-professional league.
The additional revenue the Red Sox owners rake in from NESN will never increase enough to equal that of the New York Yankees, who play in baseball's biggest market and have started their own cable sports network.
Remember when you were a kid and you picked teams to play football or baseball?
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"42" tells the story of Jackie Robinson, the very first African American to play major league baseball.
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"To sit at 1-0 right now feels pretty darn good, and we've just got to go back out there on Tuesday and play some more baseball, " Norris said.
The film follows Robinson, the first African-American to play Major League Baseball, as he plays for the Brooklyn Dodgers, and highlights the bond that formed between Robinson and Dodgers general manager and president, Branch Rickey.
Third, a baseball team has to play the ball wherever it is hit so baseball teams are composed of players who are each suited for a different position on the field.
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