Welcome back to another This Particular Week In Baseball, the baseball column that baseballs your baseballs until you baseball all over your baseball.
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Giancarlo, a hydroelectric dam made from human concrete and spitting baseballs into the world like a goddamn river full of baseballs, has won the Home Run Derby!
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Drink trays: Good for carrying beer, bad for catching baseballs.
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Exactly why baseballs have become more aerodynamic is still unclear.
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Everything is different in Japan, down to the baseballs themselves.
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Instead, Bloomberg signed baseballs, posed for selfies and shook hands.
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"Here, it is the real me," the baseballs might say.
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Baseballs can go pretty high—we call it a 'fly ball.
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Volcanic rocks the size of baseballs and larger litter the ground.
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Unlike Cranston, Mark is bathing in the blood of slaughtered baseballs.
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Not that it matters, really—when Bird hits baseballs, they stay hit.
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He has baseballs for hands and he uses them to spin records.
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He did not respond, and sadly, since then, he's used fewer baseballs.
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Go deeper: MLB accused of juicing baseballs following historic home run surge
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The Commissioner's Office said when the first report came out that it would take several steps, including monitoring temperatures and humidity levels at ballparks; reviewing manufacturing specifications for baseballs, and formulating standards for how baseballs receive their mud rubdowns.
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"Alex just keeps squaring up baseballs," Padres manager Andy Green said of Dickerson.
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The sun is not bright enough to stop Bryce Harper from catching baseballs.
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But again they are classified as starfish, baseballs, electric guitars, and so on.
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There are few players who fans can anticipate crushing baseballs with such impunity.
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Two baseballs, each inside a clear plastic box, in his locker showed it.
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The Yankees need no reminders about the effect baseballs can have on bones.
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For me, it started with a lot of throwing — throwing footballs and baseballs.
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He was just signing baseballs, but I was like, 'That is so cool.
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He said as the storm passed it dropped hail almost as big as baseballs.
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Maybe that bolstered his belief that this batch of baseballs is slick and juiced.
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His neck, groin, chest, and abdomen were riddled with tumors the size of baseballs.
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During batting practice recently, he belted two baseballs off the scoreboard in right center.
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Budgets are tight, so broken bats and worn baseballs are patched up with tape.
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Baseballs are made to be knocked around: hit, thrown, covered in dirt and grass.
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And even after he retired, pitching insurance instead of baseballs, his question — Why me?
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Pitcher timers and restrictions on mound visits are being considered as ways to eliminate dead time during games, and M.L.B. will review its testing procedures on baseballs after complaints by pitchers during the World Series that the baseballs were slicker than normal.
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Self-assembly is what happens when the baseballs spontaneously organize themselves into a recognizable pattern.
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And ever since, he has been, wait for it, hitting the shit out of baseballs.
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The authors wrote that baseballs enter the stands at speeds of 100 to 110 mph.
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The curlers took off the jackets and carefully adjusted their medals before grabbing the baseballs.
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Think of corked barrels and doctored baseballs and the pine tar on George Brett's bat.
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Ray signed it "yr pal" in imitation of how a specific baseball player signed baseballs.
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She collects interesting baseballs, the hollow seedpods dropped by California scrub oaks, cheesy porcelain figurines.
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Perry is one of several Hall of Fame pitchers with a reputation for doctoring baseballs.
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We lose a ton of baseballs every day with those guys, no doubt about it.
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Hail, some as large as baseballs, pounded Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas overnight causing damage to cars.
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They have done what can be done about the baseballs (humidor) and now the fences (higher).
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Well, Davis hits the shit out of baseballs, and that's not going to stop in 2017.
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I drank my tea and watched the players stretch, toss baseballs around, take some practice swings.
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The dirt is heavily watered, taking the life out of baseballs that are beaten into it.
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Claiming 750 autographed baseballs, the self-described "shrine to sports memorabilia" is beloved in the sports scene.
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Hail the size of baseballs lie on the ground near The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colo.
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According to Thorn, the National League went through 54,030 baseballs in 1924, compared to 22,095 in 20.
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I come for the Snowballs, baseballs of sausage stuffed with black truffles and coated in Parmesan cheese.
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On Thursday, that included a sea of baseballs and a collection of wooden bats that bore messages.
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Mariano Rivera carefully signing baseballs — always legibly — and blowing on the ink so it would not smudge.
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"Weapon" is broadly defined: Guns, bats and torches are included, as are laser pointers, scissors and baseballs.
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But the dessert table also included Rebecca's Cake Pops shaped like baseballs, tennis balls, footballs and basketballs.
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Just for shits and giggles, let's look at other things Pete Rose has written on baseballs for money.
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They got a big kick out of the -- you know, the secretary being there with them, hitting baseballs.
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It's springtime and they're knocking baseballs around fields… and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.
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No tennis balls, baseballs, umbrellas with metal tips, ladders, sticks, poles, strollers, flashlights, balloons, or bike locks allowed.
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On Tuesday night, they beat the Indians using what has become their preferred method: turning baseballs into meteors.
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"I don't really pay attention to it," Kershaw said when asked about a possible change in the baseballs.
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Across the front of one of my dad's baseballs is neat cursive looping into the name Satchel Paige.
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Mr. Stropp recalled Mr. Jones attending party conventions and bringing baseballs with him for prominent figures to sign.
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Against one of the toughest pitchers in all of baseball, he just finds a way to barrel baseballs.
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Luckily, the Astros have Orbit, a fat and furry green prankster with little baseballs affixed to his antennas.
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She has a Southern accent, blond children and a husband who throws baseballs in the street at dusk.
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That's as much as about 100 baseballs, half a bale of hay or your average 3-year-old child.
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He's just a basher of baseballs, and as such he's both a throwback and something of a circus act.
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If one of those baseballs were to hit any part of your body, the pain would be absolutely terrible.
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The tales large and small, and often unvarnished, pop out of Mitchell like baseballs being swatted to the outfield.
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A home video shows Robinson hitting baseballs to his son, Jackie Jr., and some other neighborhood children in Connecticut.
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If you were expecting to sign a $300 MILLION contract, would you let someone hit flaming baseballs at you????
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So trust his judgment in joining a chorus of people befuddled about how the baseballs themselves are behaving this postseason.
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Last month, many of the same areas endured severe hail storms, with some places seeing hail the size of baseballs.
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According to Escalante, Castro was targeted with sniper rifles, explosive-laden baseballs, poisoned cigars and pistols disguised as news cameras.
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I'm not talking about hits, runs scored, or even slugging percentage; I mean they are going to hit baseballs hard.
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He disappeared baseballs into stadium roofs, and he pitched more aggressively and with greater skill than anyone could have anticipated.
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Long levers Ballplayers are seen as objects and their limbs are but functional levers for hitting, throwing, and catching baseballs.
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The intrigue: After a regular season dominated by juiced baseballs and home runs, this series features historically great starting pitching.
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Baseballs at major league ballparks have injured more than 800 people since 2012, according to an analysis by NBC News.
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As for catching baseballs in the outfield with a padded glove instead of bare hands, Powell is in favor of that.
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Trying to pawn off 34 big-ticket baseballs locally—the same week as a high profile theft—would truly take balls.
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These were large men, square-ish and wide and possessed of serious physical density; they hit baseballs hard and moved slowly.
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The pregame festivities included Rays players throwing baseballs into the stands to the accompaniment of American pop songs from the 1980s.
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This is the dilemma faced daily by Chris Davis, 30, Baltimore Oriole and Man Put on God's Earth To Smash Baseballs.
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Pete Rose isn't just your canasta-loving Bubbe, he's also a guy who used to be very good at hitting baseballs.
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O.K., there is the powerful Yankee lineup to look forward to, with its promise to rocket countless baseballs into the stratosphere.
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Some gloves, scarves and ski boots will still get hit earlier on, as well as baseballs, footballs, ice skates and books.
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The bleacher inhabitants, stripped to their waists, picked up baseballs and hurled them back in futile loops at the upper deck.
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But Judge, his uncommon size notwithstanding, is not just a musclebound galoot who clubs baseballs over the wall with brute strength.
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Stairs was meant to launch baseballs into orbit with maximum force — and now, at 215, to teach others to do so.
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So particles like tetrahedra and baseballs evolve to states that allow them to wiggle in more ways and therefore have higher entropy.
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He's already acquired 350 signatures from current and former heads of state such as Nelson Mandela and Pope Francis — all on baseballs.
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"He would always bring the kids baseballs or pictures or something (else) from the New York Yankees or the Giants," Sullivan recalled.
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The air was warm at Yankee Stadium on Thursday night, giving the baseballs extra life, a little foreshadowing of the impending summer.
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He seems confused, because, realistically, everyone's strategy is to try and hit those slow-moving baseballs hard enough that they become dingers.
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The caption reads: Mahalo ALASKA for this catch#MONSTAH #KINGSALMON #GOPRO#HERO4 If you're not catching baseballs, may as well catch fish.
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Kershaw also has been working on another impressive ratio, that of balls to fingers: Clayton Kershaw holding 6 baseballs in one hand.
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If it's a little warmer out or humid, I think you're going to have a little bit more moisture to the baseballs.
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On HBO's "Real Sports" this week, Bryant Gumbel compiled dramatic footage of people who have been struck by baseballs at M.L.B. games.
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The professors, Venkadesan and Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan of Harvard, did not line up dozens of undergraduates with baseballs and javelins for the study.
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The rise in home runs during recent seasons has been tied to changes in the baseballs that have made them fly farther.
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It lost its 26-year lease on the Cubs last week when that beleaguered team finally smashed enough baseballs over enough walls.
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Mr. Hankey said the biggest meteorites were probably the size of baseballs, sunk in the sediments at the bottom of Lake Michigan.
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Maybe, just maybe, the baseballs are a code for the real A-Rod, a kind of signature in a sea of comments.
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He tossed baseballs into the wind tunnel, and let them freefall against the horizontal wind streams, which naturally caused the ball to curve.
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Massive chunks of hail the size of golfballs and baseballs struck a Minneapolis suburb this week, breaking glass, damaging cars, and alarming residents.
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During the interview, they showed him one of the baseballs they bought through his company, not telling him where they got it from.
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There are many types, some the size of an egg and others as big as baseballs, in colors from pale green to violet.
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Terms like yid, mick, dago, greaser, bohunk, polack, and uke were tossed around as casually as baseballs well into the late 20th century.
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After the game, Verlander reiterated comments that have been made by several pitchers in this series, saying that the baseballs were particularly slick.
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He said that when Yogi Berra testified, he put a box of 213 baseballs in front of him and requested he sign them.
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Yankees 11, Cubs 6 CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs pounded baseballs over the wall and had the best starting rotation in baseball last season.
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The spike in home runs has led to pitchers, fans, and media alike suggesting the baseballs have been designed to encourage more hits.
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Watch the clip ... the same violent swing that allows the 20-year-old to launch baseballs 500 feet only yielded some 175-yarders.
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On and on they went, mixing and matching against the Mets for so long the teams actually began to run out of baseballs.
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The violent swing that did such unspeakable things to baseballs when it connected also limited Baez's ability to make contact in the first place.
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Texas also got hit with dangerous winds and hail as big as baseballs reported in the city of Hawley, according to the Weather Channel.
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After a season when sluggers outpaced even their steroid-era predecessors for home runs, some are convinced that something is amiss with the baseballs.
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" He went a step further when asked if he believed MLB intentionally juiced baseballs to increase home runs and offense across the league. "Yes.
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It's worth noting that Bonds was putting up MVP numbers long before the bulky Barry Bonds routinely sent baseballs into San Francisco's McCovey Cove.
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It was a bag containing four baseballs that apparently had been autographed by Fernandez, a law enforcement official told the local television station WSVN.
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Yeah, the swing is long, but there isn't much effort in it, and he still just obliterates baseballs to every part of the field.
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Other extracurricular uses became more common: replacing or augmenting TV antennae, breaking into cars, rescuing misplaced keys and rings and baseballs from sewer grates.
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Trump mocked Sanders, who recently suffered a heart attack, for sharing a video earlier Friday of him hitting baseballs outside his home in Vermont.
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Tim Fortugno, a minor league pitcher, was sent from the Reno Silver Sox to the Stockton Brewers in 1989 for $2,500 and some baseballs.
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Announcers tell us how hard baseballs are hit and how far they travel, or how many miles a particularly active soccer player has run.
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President Donald Trump on Monday posed with baseballs bats, donned a cowboy hat, and climbed into a firetruck for photo opportunities promoting American manufacturing.
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Brittany and Jason then tossed baseballs to the girls as they hit them and pink powder came out, causing a big cheer from the kids.
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A veterinarian later shaved nine pounds of matted hair and feces from a single dog, with some of the clumps nearly the size of baseballs.
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The Yanks later paid out the bonus anyway ... and to commemorate the whole incident -- Sabathia signed baseballs with the curse-word inscription for Steiner Sports.
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The light stayed on, and the cameras captured the men pilfering baseball bats, a pair of shoes, Dodgers jackets, hats and a box of baseballs.
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CBS reported that hailstones the size of golf balls to baseballs dropped along a 5-10 mile width, causing significant damage to thousands of homes.
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Two different supercell thunderstorms hit the metropolitan area of St. Louis on the same day, dropping hailstones from the size of golf balls to baseballs.
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He drafted well — Aaron Judge, the Giant Slayer of Baseballs, and Luis Severino, a onetime whippet who has become a baby bull of a pitcher.
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On July 14, 1978, he ejected Don Sutton, the Dodgers' star pitcher, after accusing him of throwing defaced baseballs in a game at St. Louis.
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And, the price of Trump signed baseballs continue to skyrocket ... remember, they used to be worth only $200 tops before he was sworn into office.
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Their respect, if not fondness, for each other is evident when Thomson and Branca are signing baseballs at a memorabilia show or a corporate function.
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This year, instead of slapping singles around from short right-center to short left, Altuve just decided to hit the ever-loving shit out of baseballs.
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Multiple baseballs are lost after they're thrown into the backyard of The Beast, an English Mastiff so big that it became a legend in the neighborhood.
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Joe DiMaggio is at Holy Cross, where his dark marble headstone this week propped up a couple of bats and two baseballs left there by fans.
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Last night, an errant foul tip found its way to the space behind home plate at Miami's Marlins Park, which is where baseballs tend to go.
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As of this week, that ball collection's a little lighter: up to $600,000 lighter, the Associated Press reported, after a thief stole 34 baseballs on Wednesday.
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Hamilton cares not if the playoffs are on the line, he was put here on Earth to track down baseballs with a shrug and a smile.
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Harbingers of warm, sunny days — baseballs, returning songbirds, carousel animals — will all fly at the park this weekend in a celebration of the start of spring.
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The blueprints showed that these rooftop decorations, known as antefixes, were in fact baseballs, ornaments that echoed the baseball-adorned terra-cotta spandrels above the pilasters.
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Speaking to the YES Network shortly after the trade, Stanton expressed sympathy for the poor baseballs that would be disfigured from the blows of Yankees lumber.
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Ravizza had gathered the Cubs on the field, where he had lined up 162 baseballs, plus about a dozen more, and separated them with seven bats.
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Boddy retweeted a fan's comment wondering if the Astros were doctoring baseballs since Verlander, Morton and Cole had increased their spin rates since joining the team.
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As far as the German fans were concerned, the baseballs and the game itself might as well have vanished into the night and never come back.
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Thankfully, we have Aaron Judge, who has recovered from a post-All-Star Game slump to declare, "I am become death, destroyer of [baseballs]" once more.
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Before this baby-faced batter was smashing things inside the WWE ring, he was just another grinning guy smacking baseballs out of the park in Aberdeen, Washington.
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But at night people appeared on their porches, bought supplies at Doña Gilma's minimart, turned up 1990s merengue in their homes or tossed baseballs in the street.
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It's hard to imagine a better place for a dog besides a wide open field jam-packed with baseballs and people to throw them at ridiculous lengths.
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So, across all of these projects, which are varied in terms of formats— books, posters, baseballs cards—there seems to be a theme of collections or archives.
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If you can believe it, he makes even more money throwing baseballs than Justin Verlander does, and was, in fact, the highest-paid MLB player this year.
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And the bottom line is that an offense meant to carry them by pounding baseballs off the walls and over them is not doing much of either.
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Herrera supplied Barrett with about 30 dozen baseballs, Barrett said, hundreds more than he needs for a typical nine-inning game, which requires 10 to 12 dozen.
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These storms, which could produce hail the size of baseballs or larger along with damaging 70-plus mph winds, threaten about 5 million people, CNN meteorologists said.
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"Bernie was hitting a baseball today to show how strong he was," Trump said, referring to a video Sanders shared on social media showing him hitting baseballs.
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But some places were hit by hailstones as large as baseballs, wind gusts topping 70 miles per hour and an inch of rain in just 30 minutes.
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Last month, hailstones as big as baseballs pounded the Denver area, knocking down power lines, damaging homes, and smashing through windshields "like tissue paper," The Washington Post reported.
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Why it's a big deal: Because MLB is three years into a home run surge that many believe is enabled by juiced baseballs, which are made by Rawlings.
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When we went to my aunts' and uncles' houses in the suburbs, we threw baseballs against the garage door until they left marks and we got in trouble.
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According to the study commissioned by Major League Baseball and released on Thursday, baseballs were flying greater distances through the air because of a decrease in wind resistance.
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When he improved his hand-eye coordination, he hit plastic balls in the field behind a nearby church and then graduated to real baseballs on a real field.
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Yesterday's Home Run Derby news cycle began with All-Star Justin Verlander emphatically saying that the league is juicing the baseballs, adding more fuel to an already raging fire.
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We also talked to Wright about the odds of Pete Alonso becoming the next Mets captain ... and we had to get his opinion on the MLB possibly juicing baseballs.
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In 1866, Chase's brother Daniel had the idea to print messages directly onto the candy, which were large confections in the shape of baseballs, horseshoes, watches, and yes, hearts.
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While your normal interaction with hail may be seeing unbelievable photos of it next to baseballs for comparison, hail storms can cost billions of dollars in damages every year.
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Which is why, on a recent morning, I typed out an email to a sports memorabilia auctioneer, asking about the value of a collection of signed baseballs from 1948.
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Baden Sports, a sporting-goods manufacturer in the Seattle suburb of Renton, provides basketballs and baseballs for youth leagues and college tournaments, many of which are now being canceled.
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The Seattle Seahawks QB is being sued along with a food company called Eat the Ball -- which makes bread in the shapes of footballs, baseballs, basketballs and soccer balls.
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A couple miles away, their colleagues gathered in a trailer to lob the tiny baseballs: infrared photons, beamed from a laser that tracked the plane along its mile-high trajectory.
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Just as Maris benefited from an advantage that Ruth lacked—eight additional games—Mr Stanton is being aided by baseballs that seems to be livelier than the ones Maris hit.
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MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred said in July that he did not know why there was an uptick in home runs, but he said the league has been regularly testing baseballs.
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Multiple baseballs are lost after they're thrown into The Beast's backyard, never to be seen from again as the boys live in fear of the monster on the other side.
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Blasting these innocent people with concussion grenades, rubber bullets the size of baseballs and a water cannon in freezing weather was a deliberate act of terror sanctioned by the sheriff.
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Drake would clean cleats; he would help out in drills, pick up baseballs when we needed; he didn't say boo to anybody and was never a trouble in the clubhouse.
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In the years since his attempt to play, he has maintained close contacts with Cuban baseball officials, and he is leading an effort to donate a million baseballs to Cuba.
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Commissioner Rob Manfred says there is no scientific evidence to support complaints about "juiced" baseballs and insists Major League Baseball did nothing to intentionally boost the number of home runs.
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Dr. Klika also suggests bringing baseballs and gloves to baseball games, soccer balls to soccer games — small kids love doing what their big sibs are doing, even on the sidelines.
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He insisted again after Game 6 that the World Series baseballs were slippery, making it hard for a pitcher to pull down on the slider for a reliable late slash.
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What started with trading cards has turned into bats, baseballs, photographs and even historical documents dating back as far as the advent of the game in the early 19th century.
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In other words, the extraordinary feat of hitting a pitched baseball is harder than ever — and with less drag on the baseballs, hitters really try to make their contact count.
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An October investigation by NBC News found "at least 808 reports of injuries to fans from baseballs from 2012 to 2019," with injuries ranging from concussions to permanent vision loss.
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Over the next few weeks, NBC News purchased three pieces of sports memorabilia advertised online by Ingber and Perullo: separate baseballs purportedly signed by Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio.
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The officer, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak, said that a number of seniors that year posed for a photo holding armloads of basketballs, footballs and baseballs.
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The lawsuit (PDF), filed last week, references a 2014 Bloomberg report stating more than 1,700 fans are injured each year by baseballs entering the stands at a high rate of speed.
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It's normal for parents to dream about painting with their little ones, if they enjoy art, or hitting baseballs in the park until it gets dark, if athletics are their thing.
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By chance, John Teixeira was in attendance Sunday, and Mark Teixeira was able to deliver to him the two home-run baseballs when they embraced in a hallway outside the clubhouse.
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It is in the hands of the Cubs pitchers, who for many years were not as proficient as they are now at a singular task: keeping baseballs out of the bleachers.
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It was one of a handful of hard-hit balls this series that have seemingly died more quickly in the air, stoking speculation that the baseballs themselves have changed once again.
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The first three of those pitchers have already undergone the elbow surgery and Syndergaard could be at risk, if only because he is a pitcher who throws baseballs for a living.
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A silent film projector is set up on one table, while signed baseballs, a jumble of stopped clocks, lines of doorknobs, and an array of glassware ordered by color rest nearby.
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Among the childhood artifacts are baseballs that McGraw hit to score homeruns at ages 11 and 17 and a tiny Playskool desk, shaped like an airplane, that Hill used as a child.
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If it&aposs a little bit warmer out or humid, I think you&aposre going to find that you&aposre going to have a little bit more of moisture to the baseballs.
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The thief knew exactly which items to go for: The stolen baseballs were autographed by Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra—plus, Willie Mays and Babe Ruth, as Fox News later reported.
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Observers detected that the man soft-tossing baseballs to Harper that night — who, by the way, was Harper's dad — had violated the rules by feeding his kid an improper number of pitches.
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Working from his laboratory in the basement of Little League's offices in Williamsport, he used the cannon to fire baseballs at various speeds at a plastic helmet mounted on a wood model.
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The bad news for the knuckleball is that it's designed to induce fly balls, which is something teams are avoiding like the plague in today's era of launch angles and juiced baseballs.
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But it is Sanchez's inability to harness his own talents, much less pitched baseballs, that is wearing on the team's fan base, many of whom have voiced their displeasure on social media.
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The 29-year-old was swarmed by fans on the way into the Mandarin Hotel in New York where he signed baseballs, posed for selfies and was super nice to the media.
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The Chicago Cubs superstar took the field in Tempe, AZ for a "hot corner"-themed Red Bull shoot ... where he fielded scorching baseballs that were lit up with gasoline and a blowtorch.
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Javy Baez has spent his whole life hitting baseballs farther than most humans ever will, and he's only in the past two years found that the world has a way of hitting back.
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For example, it's a place where you can find coveted designer duds items on the cheap, as well as literal buckets full of used baseballs with just a few strokes of the keyboard.
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They have enough going on that it's easy to forget they also have Kris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo, who hit baseballs hard enough that, on good days, all that other stuff is redundant.
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There, in Lake View Cemetery, coins and baseballs and other mementos are left on the tombstone of Ray Chapman, a beloved Indians shortstop who was killed by a dusky pitched ball in 1920.
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For context, there were only 5,585 home runs hit last season, leading some fans and baseball pundits to question if the league has adjusted baseballs this season to create more offense and excitement.
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Those were the days before baseballs were placed in humidors and when the thin mountain air, the canyon-like outfield gaps and bulked-up hitters made the place a horror house for pitchers.
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The first attempt by the Astros to throw the ball to second and start the appeal was waved off by the umpires because they realized there were two baseballs on the field. Why?
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The fires are not the only extreme weather the country has experienced in the past few months, as giant storms pelted Sydney, Melbourne and the capital, Canberra, with hail the size of baseballs.
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The list included the mundane—bats, helmets, free weights, a pitching machine—and the offbeat, such as 1,200-plus obsolete baseballs, 54 bobbleheads and one hockey net for a certain left-handed relief pitcher.
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"Dad was naïve and humble, and he was taken advantage of by agents and people in his life, signing baseballs for $15 each when guys like Mantle and Mays got $100," Dale Berra said.
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The league commissioned a study last year that said baseballs were flying greater distances through the air because of a decrease in wind resistance, though it could find no reason that would be happening.
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MIAMI — In a sea of squiggles on the autographed baseballs in the World Team clubhouse here Sunday, one name — and just one name — stood out: Amed, with the A shaped almost like a star.
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Imagine if you had baseballs in a pool of water, and imagine that they had exactly the same density as the pool, so they didn't sink, they didn't float, they were just suspended, jostling about.
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Coors Field figures to be a suitable fit for Story, the Colorado Rockies' rookie shortstop, even if the team did raise the fences this spring to keep more baseballs from flying out of the yard.
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She worked primarily with everyday found materials — objects (snapshots, baseballs), words (interviews, men's-room graffiti), sounds (film clips, rock songs) — from which she drew resonance by editing them, combining them or uncovering half-hidden details.
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Brewers 6, Dodgers 211 I Milwaukee leads series, 22014-2292 MILWAUKEE — Brandon Woodruff's usual job is to put baseballs over the plate at more than 27 miles per hour, not smash them over a fence.
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On Monday in Miami, as a prelude to the All-Star Game the next night, a parade of major leaguers will step to the plate, swing hard and try to lift baseballs into the seats.
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There is a better option and it's Five Two Wool Dryer Balls The biggest difference between this set and my previous set of wool dryer balls is their size and heft (think softballs to baseballs).
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The bigger picture: Between this, the juiced baseballs, past sign-stealing scandals (remember when the Red Sox used an Apple Watch?) and claims of teams colluding to suppress player salaries, MLB's brand feels very… opaque.
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In April 2006, a massive storm damaged hundreds of homes in Indiana, with hailstones the size of baseballs smashing roof shingles, cracking windows, denting cars, and leaving a mountain of costly insurance claims in its wake.
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The reserve outfielder has since adopted two small stuffed baby sharks, one yellow and one blue, which have both been authenticated by Major League Baseball in the same way they authenticate game-used baseballs and jerseys.
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Rod Bianco Sports fans will appreciate Grear Patterson's "Del bomber babe" (2016), which consists of a child-size Radio Flyer wheelbarrow and a pile of 714 baseballs, one for each of Babe Ruth's career home runs.
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Instead of luring players to sign baseballs by the dugout before the first pitch, as was their father-son tradition, my son watched his dad crumple in the aisles and searched the bleachers for an usher.
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On Baseball As Fenway Park was beginning to fill up on Saturday night, the Yankees took the last of their batting practice hacks, gathered up the baseballs left on the field and retreated toward their clubhouse.
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At Tuesday's spring training game against the Toronto Blue Jays, his teammates Brett Gardner and Kyle Higashioka signed baseballs for fans, but many players have followed advice to limit their autograph signing and interactions with fans.
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A clubhouse attendant had to prepare 12 dozen baseballs for the game, and the Rangers and Astros graphics and player statistics were up-to-date on the scoreboard — as were the players' usual walk-up songs.
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He brought four autographed baseballs — including one signed by Joe DiMaggio and another signed by Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb — to a sports show in upstate New York where a leading authentication company, JSA, was reviewing merchandise.
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Only available at the Majestic Twins Clubhouse Store at Target Field, Prince clothing, pins, patches, baseballs and other bits and pieces will be sold at the Twins home opener against the Seattle Mariners on Thursday, April 5.
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I come back to see Aaron Judge launch baseballs into space and Kyle Freeland somehow come within an out of a no-hitter, to see Nate Pearson in low-A Vancouver hit 102 on the stadium gun.
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And there was a gallery installation consisting of hundreds of old baseballs strewn across the floor and a video, imageless but with a dialogue clip from the 1988 film "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" as a soundtrack.
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Something in the aerodynamic properties of baseballs is making them fly through the air and over walls with greater ease, but a team of scientists hired by Major League Baseball could not determine exactly what it is.
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First made in 1964, when Trump was a senior at New York Military Academy, the Sharpie quickly became a favorite of celebrities and athletes who were asked to scrawl autographs on everything from baseballs to movie posters.
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Hey, there's a lot of terrible shit going on in the world, so it would be nice if a giant youth designed to obliterate baseballs and delight crowds could go ahead mash a couple taters or two.
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The Hall of Fame first baseman -- known as "The Big Hurt" for crushing baseballs throughout his career -- has the term 'Big Hurt' trademarked for t-shirts, sport shirts and baseball caps ... according to legal docs obtained by TMZ.
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Yeah, Justin Verlander, that Houston Astros pitcher who makes an entire household income by throwing a dozen or so measly baseballs, is also engaged to Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover model and ride-or-die baseball champion Kate Upton.
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According to Prem Natarajan, vice president of Alexa's AI division, Amazon employees had to destroy different types of glass, such as window glass, wine glasses and drinking glasses, with tools like baseballs or hammers to train the technology.
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During games at Yankee Stadium, when baseballs are about to be thrown pretty hard and hit even harder, the protective netting in the box-seat area stretches from behind home plate to the inner edge of both dugouts.
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Aside from catching, they fill a multitude of roles: pitching batting practice, prepping baseballs, catching simulated games, playing long toss with the outfield, providing a baserunner for fielding drills—they're essentially the utility infielder of the coaching staff.
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The prognosticators might not know what kind of record the Yankees will put up this season, but you can be damn well sure of one thing: they are going to hit the ever-loving shit out of some baseballs.
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It was also the only meal we shared with her so she insisted we didn't skimp on the coleslaw, salad, sausages, and pyzy, which are potatoes molded into the shape of baseballs and stuffed full of yet more pork.
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When, in 1991, MLB awarded Denver a franchise, set to begin play in '93, it was certainly not a surprise to baseball's braintrust to learn that the city's elevation would have an ameliorative effect on the flight of baseballs.
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Even though the netting minimizes the chance of grabbing a foul, fans have more incentive than ever to come equipped to catch a souvenir because players worry about the hazards of throwing baseballs high over nets to barehanded fans.
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At home and on the road, fans flocked to see him launch baseballs into the stratosphere, or twist himself up like a giant pretzel while striking out, and he usually obliged on at least one count, if not both.
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Astros right fielder Josh Reddick said he had baseballs, water bottles and other objects thrown at him during Tuesday's Game 3 when Houston posted a 383-1 win over the Yankees to take a 2-1 lead in the series.
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But on a night in which the baseballs flew as if they had wings, the supposedly toothless Tigers beat the Yankees at their own game, hitting five home runs — two by 39-year-old Victor Martinez — in an 8-7 victory.
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Jake and the other newbies must, of course, expect a dose of hazing, and they are duly fastened with duct tape to a border fence, one of them upside down, and peppered with baseballs struck by their bat-wielding teammates.
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Composed of single protons or heavier atomic nuclei, they pack within quantum proportions as much energy as baseballs or bowling balls, and hurtle through space many millions of times more energetically than particles at the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful accelerator.
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It all went down when the Patriots were honored at Fenway Park before a Red Sox game earlier this month ... when players like Gronk and Julian Edelman were having some fun and *pretending* to hit baseballs while using the trophy as a bat.
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One of the "walking" experiences at the forum, Wake Up and Dream takes users through an interactive adventure, where they duck through doorways, pick up fire-lit torches, hit baseballs, and ride a flying boat while feeling the wind in their hair.
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A couple of days ago, he mentioned that while he dug that his big-bopping young men grooved on hitting baseballs into distant bleachers, there was no crime in choking up on the bat and driving the ball for a base hit.
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Garcia, who watched his family crying on the outfield scoreboard after circling the bases on his homer, said he traded "a couple of bats, some batting gloves and some signed baseballs" to the fan who caught the ball in the left-field stands.
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Waldstein: Tom Verducci of Sports Illustrated reported that some of the pitchers have complained that the leather on the baseballs in this World Series is slicker than it was during the regular season, making it hard to throw certain pitches, especially sliders.
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Holliday's home run was just the final blast on a night in which Yankee Stadium 28 played a lot like Yankee Stadium 211, when baseballs regularly flew through air that somehow seemed too thin and soared over walls that appeared way too close.
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"The team gave me a couple baseballs — the first strike, the strikeout of (Andrew) McCutchen, one of the balls I put in play, one of the balls I fouled off on the bunt, and I also got the lineup card," he said.
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LONDON — Charles Hill looked out over the unusual scene Tuesday at Hyde Park, where former Major League Baseball players and current cricket stars stood on a stage where Justin Bieber had sung 48 hours earlier, and hit baseballs into a crowd below them.
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This is not the Jose Bautista that is presently flipping bats and powderizing baseballs in Toronto, of course—that guy is not a ghost, and is in fact alive and well and owns an OPS over 1.000 for the Blue Jays, thank you very much.
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While pitchers on both teams have complained about baseballs that are "slicker" to the touch, making it hard to get a good grip on the ball, Darvish said he did not know the reason why he could not get his slider working in Game Three.
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But those anomalies were relegated to footnotes on Wednesday night by Gary Sanchez, who continued to smash story lines the way he has been smashing baseballs, hitting two more home runs to carry the Yankees to an 11-5 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays.
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He stretches with the active players, shags fly balls and hits in the last group of batting practice, launching baseballs far into the stands as fans scamper after the souvenirs, many amazed at the power this wiry 44-year-old from Toyoyama, Japan, still generates.
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The Gehrig mementos include one of his game caps and baseballs autographed by the likes of Hall of Famers Ruth and Ty Cobb, as well as many personal documents and dozens of original photos, including the earliest known shots of Gehrig as a child.
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Games six and seven were good, but the real show came earlier in the series, as the league's secret new baseballs resulted in every third batter hitting a home run off the face of the moon and everyone went crazy over how much fun it was.
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In the stands, there were some strange sights, including Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh, watching from the bleachers with his dad, wearing a baseball glove because, in his own words, you "have to" bring the leather: Harbaugh's abilities insofar as catching baseballs have been well documented.
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In addition, the company that licenses his memorabilia recently began selling Tebow-autographed baseballs and bats for $125 and $175, with the net proceeds going to the Tim Tebow Foundation, which is more fodder for those who believe his dalliance with baseball is a brand-building exercise.
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The scientists studied 37 dozen new and game-used baseballs that were manufactured between 2012 and last year, and found that the gradual increase in the aerodynamic capabilities of the ball (less wind drag) was consistent with the steady increase in home runs per batted ball.
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It may be that baseball's stars are more easily persuaded to participate in the home run derby because the contest requires little practice and, unlike the dunk contest's reliance on judging, is decided by a simple, objective standard — how many baseballs are knocked over the wall.
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Ultimately, the IPO here is a fascinating story, not just for, again, the inside baseballs of how IPOs work, but there's this broader power struggle that's been going on for a long time between the Wall Street types who are in Silicon Valley and the more entrepreneur founder types.
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This is a very different offensive environment from then, for a number of reasons up to and including PEDs, greenies, juiced baseballs, and whatever other insanity lurked beyond, so should the Red Sox come close to 976, they would be one of the best offenses in baseball history.
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A few innings before Aaron Judge took charge of a baseball game the way he often does — by hitting baseballs over and off outfield walls — he was involved in a madcap baserunning incident on Tuesday that was confounding, amusing and then overshadowed by the Yankees' late-inning rally.
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In fact, it was dropped just two years ago, in the before-time of 2016, when we all could still believe in America as a place of idealism and democracy instead of a corrupt capitalist wasteland riddled with extreme, racist ideologies and adults who steal baseballs from children.
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Odditorium in Manhattan's Times Square was recently visited by some sticky-fingered tourists who made off with a baseball bat used by Joe DiMaggio in 1941 — which they replaced with a fake one — baseballs signed by DiMaggio and Ted Williams, and two shrunken heads from an Amazon tribe.
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He does everything, to the point that it is hard to tell which baseball archetype he's a twist on: whether he's a first-rate slugger who happens to be blazing fast and play a mean center field, or an ace leadoff man who also turns baseballs into very impressive projectiles.
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Imagine what the baseballs looked like in the early 220th century: "We'd play a whole game with one ball, if it stayed in the park," Wahoo Sam Crawford, a Hall of Famer who played from 25 to 2000, says in "The Glory of Their Times," a book by Lawrence S. Ritter.
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Speaking of people putting a clearly-hammered Ovi in dangerous situations, somebody thought it would be a good idea to bring the man out in public the day after their victory to throw baseballs around: And then talk on live TV: Then maybe he started to slow things down a bit yesterday?
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Before the Rockies installed a humidor in 20133 — the humidor keeps the baseballs relatively moist, counteracting the dry air in Denver that would otherwise lead to a higher-than-normal coefficient of restitution, or more "bounciness" — Coors Field featured immense numbers of home runs, including a major-league-record 22013 in 2013.
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"We've designed some special cleats for me to wear on Friday night to auction off to raise money to fund childhood cancer research," says Gardner, 33, who, along with his wife, Jessica, visited kids and their families at Memorial Sloan Kettering's Pediatric Research Center on Tuesday, where he signed baseballs and gave out gift bags.
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"A clean white ball being put into play whenever a ball was scuffed was more important to the rise of batting averages and power production, slugging, even home runs than Babe Ruth's 54 home runs in 1920 and 59 in 1921," he said, noting that the fresh baseballs were easier for batters to spot, and danced less once they left pitchers' hands.
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A 1924 help wanted ad, reprinted by the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at Ferris State University, lays out the duties of the dodger matter-of-factly: "He just puts his head through a hole in a big piece of canvass and permits the aforesaid head to be used as a target by young men who toss baseballs," the ad read.
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There is a baseball for sale where Pete Rose claims he was the first man on the moon: There is a baseball for sale where Pete Rose apologizes for betting on baseball: There is a baseball for sale where Pete Rose apologizes for breaking up The Beatles: There is a baseball for sale where Pete Rose apologizes for assassinating President John F. Kennedy: There are even baseballs floating around out there where Pete apologizes for "screw[ing] up the economy" and implying his birth and the death of Abraham Lincoln are cosmically linked.
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