He was gifted in the field.
The player in question was a young Venezuelan shortstop named Miguel Cabrera, and he was gifted.
Walker was always several inches shorter than his classmates, but he was gifted with great quickness.
He was gifted with a "Mozart-like" facility for getting complex thoughts on to paper.
Born the son of academic parents in 1931 in Philadelphia, he was gifted in music and languages.
He was gifted with a lucid writing style with which he was able to propagate the field of anthropology.
He was gifted with athletic talent, brains and build, and it seemed he was destined for great things.
Both as a writer and a talker he was gifted with no inconsiderable share of dramatic power.
Honest, humble, loyal, complicated, as grateful for his success as he was unaffected by it, as respectful as he was respected, as generous as he was gifted.
He was gifted with a propensity for extraordinarily clear thinking and an outstanding ability to out-guess, out-think and out-manoeuvre his business opponent".
When Hayes, now 58, reached Eula D. Britton High School and everyone realized he was gifted at basketball, all he could think about was parlaying that skill into an opportunity to play baseball.
