"You couldn't hold my jock as a ballplayer," the father said.
At age 13 he was an extraordinary ballplayer, the youngest ever to play on a mill team.
Identified as "Monument with Decapitated Ballplayer," the piece shows a severed neck from which sprouts a fanlike arrangement of snakes.
But without Santi Cazorla, their smallest, slowest, most gifted ballplayer, the passing carousel has for now stalled.
The F.E.C. would have us believe giving a ballplayer the power to shape the playing field has absolutely no effect on the outcome of the game.
Imagine, for instance, what that might mean for a ballplayer: the magic of winning a World Series in your final season and heading home to a ticker-tape parade.
The ballplayer, the family in the car and the peddler are among the Long Islanders whose images are on display in "Long Island at Work and at Play: Early 20th-Century Photographs From SPLIA's Collections," presented by the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, or Splia.
His focus was a take-down of what a lousy ballplayer the scion was.
Roberts was always a heads-up, hustling ballplayer, the type the Dodgers have been missing the last couple of seasons.
Although he made her into an all-star college ballplayer, the Cannon, also apparently a single parent, was less than perfect.
There's the brilliant screenwriter, the (credulity-stretching) French artist, the bad-boy ballplayer, the world-famous hip-hop artist -- all hot, all well-endowed, all unlikely to spend good money on a month with an escort.
