Sentence examples for ballpark used from inspiring English sources
A colleague recently sent me a message telling me that a research presentation I gave on public apologies over the use of the (roughly synonymous) terms "maricón" and "fag(got)" a few years ago allowed him to recognize the Spanish word when a fan sitting behind him at a minor league ballpark used it to describe the pitcher of one of the teams.
These will usually focus around the ballpark used, the way women look in the stands, or the way the Cubs are cursed by farm animals.
In interleague games the players follow the custom of the home ballpark, using a DH in American League parks and no DH in National League stadiums.
He is a reminder of how ballparks used to sound, and feel, and how they increasingly do not.
Hawkins says he has seen at least one regular-season game in all 59 ballparks used for major league games since 1950, including such irregular sites as Jersey City, Honolulu, Las Vegas and Monterrey, Mexico.
They are quirky and irregular, as ballparks used to be, built in obedience to existing street patterns, often enshrining those streets in local mythology.
Ballparks used to be huge — in 1911, the average dimensions in the major leagues were 362 feet down the left-field line, 467 to center and 337 to right.
He later regurgitated the rolled-up canvas, took it to Rangers Ballpark, and used it to hit a baseball with the word "Obamacare" written on it into foul territory.
Mike Piazza walloped a grand slam tonight that jumped off his bat with a concussive crack and rolled into an exit ramp at Veterans Stadium -- the same massive concrete ballpark Piazza used to go to often as a boy.
Instead, he and other forecasters try to establish a ballpark figure using history and statistics before they get into the details.
The Bears are scheduled to play the first seven games of the 2009 season on the road before their opening game at home May 1. Wankmiller said that he could picture a day when the ballpark would be used for other events, like outdoor concerts, and that the austere community room at the ballpark would become a year-round restaurant.
