Sentence examples for a baseball equivalent from inspiring English sources

He even began 1996 with the St .Paul Saints of the independent Northern League, a baseball equivalent of dinner theater in Trenton, and by season's end was swatting October home runs and leading the Yankees into a World Series.

George Steinbrenner, Al Rosen, Billy Martin and Bob Lemon: "This, then, was the foursome chained together at various times within the Yankee command post, a baseball equivalent of Fort Apache, the Bronx," Kahn writes.

It is not hard to dream about Harper possibly catching for Strasburg in Washington in a few years, the baseball equivalent of a Beethoven-Mozart duet.

But just before spring training starts, they get nervous and suddenly a pitcher like Ted Lilly — the baseball equivalent of an assistant gag writer on "Two and a Half Men" — gets something like $10 million.

Because, despite receiving the baseball equivalent of a death sentence (a 211-game suspension), he simply refuses to disappear?

It is the baseball equivalent of a guitar string snapping or a pianist striking the wrong key.

There was just Drew and Schilling combining for the baseball equivalent of a brutal knockout, leaving the Indians looking like a bloody mess.

It is one of those baseball records that no team wants to confront, especially a team that represents one of the bedrock franchises of the sport, with an elegant old English "D" logo and classic uniforms that are the baseball equivalent of a tuxedo.

"He's the baseball equivalent of a gym rat".

Behind the plate, he is slowly becoming the baseball equivalent of a shot fighter.

He was talking about how Ortiz had hit two home runs in the series, and batted.666 — the baseball equivalent of a few more than seven million enrollees.