Sentence examples for a baseball competition from inspiring English sources

However, there was some dissent from the floor of the IOC session as some members wondered whether a baseball competition without professional American MLB players would lead to a similar controversy to that which has afflicted the return of golf.

Not a bad use of time: Jurney won NBC Sports' national fantasy baseball competition–a seasonlong contest of 26 leagues and 390 teams and took home a grand prize of $100,000.

But Clemens's presence would certainly add a big name to the Olympic baseball competition.

Roger Kirkby has sent us an email (and you can as well) Is MLB having a "who's got the rattiest beard in baseball" competition, or are Gillette on strike?

Just to remind his players that a consolation prize in what might be the final Olympic baseball competition was better than no prize at all.

At a ballpark with a statue of Juan Marichal out front, the Dominican Republic reached the pinnacle of international baseball competition.

BEIJING — The United States' game against Korea on Wednesday night, its first in perhaps the final Olympic baseball competition, satisfied supporters and detractors alike.

"They have no baseball competition to the north, and nothing to the east for 500 miles," Rick Burton, the director of the Warsaw Sports Management Center at the University of Oregon, said.

There is probably no way to go backward, but the Summer Games could do without the hybrid soccer tournament, the closest parallel to the makeshift baseball competition.

The 2010 Claxton Shield was the 57th Claxton Shield tournament, the premier baseball competition in Australia, and was held from 6 November 2009 to 7 February 2010.

During his first three decades in power, the only time foreigners got to see Cuban players was at international baseball competitions, which they dominated.