Sentence examples for homegrown core from inspiring English sources
Even Pettitte said he never believed he would break away from the homegrown core of the Yankees' recent dynasty.
Bernie Williams was the first homegrown core Yankee from the recent championship seasons to appear on the Hall of Fame ballot.
You might call 2014 the final tribute to that homegrown core as Derek Jeter plays what he said Wednesday would be his final season.
The Yankees used their own homegrown core of Derek Jeter, Bernie Williams, Mariano Rivera and Andy Pettitte and supplemented them with smart additions and pricey free agents to rule baseball.
Released by Boston in 2007, Romero is a fitting symbol for the contributions of Pat Gillick, the 71-year-old general manager, who carefully added to the Phillies' homegrown core.
They had a core of homegrown players who had never made the playoffs, and they believed Vaughn would be the presence they needed.
With a core of homegrown fans, the women's team sold out the university's arena, turning heads in this football-crazy town for the first time.
White, who has worked in professional baseball primarily as a scout since 1993, oversees the Dodgers' scouting department, which has been credited with building a solid core of homegrown talent.
The Yankees had built a dynasty around a core of homegrown talent, and the sudden emergence of Wang and Canó was a revelation for a team that had won division titles but somehow lost its way.
While Toulon reached the top of their league and Europe with (largely) an old side, Saracens have a much younger average age with a core of homegrown players rather than overseas recruits.
Dortmund's 1-1 drawithth Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium is consistently referred to within German football for exposing the cultural gap between City – bankrolled by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan of Abu Dhabi – and Dortmund, rebuilt into a European power with several homegrown players at the core, and still supporter-controlled, in the tradition of German clubs.
