Consider the 7-foot center — his straight-from-the-box baseball cap teetering on his head like a thimble atop a pine tree — being greeted onstage by N.B.A. Commissioner David Stern.
He remained there for nine years, writing 28 cover articles, many about boxing, baseball and football.
Why do people who have no trouble writing about other spectator sports -- boxing, baseball, synchronized swimming -- come a cropper when called on to describe what a man and a woman (or any other combination) do in bed?
Long an unfortunate fixture in other professional sports like boxing, baseball, basketball, soccer and even golf, the eSports world isn't immune from the phenomenon.
The stadium also hosted international matches – both for England and in the 1948 Summer Olympics – and FA Cup semi-finals, as well as boxing, baseball and cricket matches.
Find something you have a lot (stuffed animals, blocks, boxes baseball cards).
Writers like Hemingway (bullfighting), A. J. Leibling (boxing), John Updike (golf), Norman Mailer (boxing), George Will (baseball), David Remnick (boxing) and David Halberstam (everything) as well as Mr. Angell have been able to turn sports nonfiction into, if not exactly literature, lofty stuff that often comes close to art.
Suzuki is simply the quickest player out of the batter's box in baseball, said Lou Piniella, the Mariners' manager, and he does it in a way other hitters cannot.
On the desk there were piles of inscrutable papers; pencil shavings (calling up the smell of school in Prnjavor: pencils, the wet eraser sponge, and girls' freshly washed hair); a computer monitor in which Bogdan could see a bent reflection of himself; a tin cookie box containing baseball cards, fluorescent condoms, a pouch of pot.
If you are looking for a particular item (e.g. a table, lamp, box of baseball cards), ensure that the flea market you plan to attend is likely to have such merchandise.
