Sentence examples for institution of baseball from inspiring English sources
"Steinbrenner was good for the institution of baseball," he said.
However, Buster Olney, ESPN's leading baseball voice, took a different view in an e-mail: "I was already going to vote for Clemens, for the same reason that I have always voted for Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro: The institution of baseball condoned the use of performance-enhancing drugs for almost two decades with inaction.
When William Hulbert, president of the league (1877 82), expelled four players for dishonesty, the reputation of baseball as an institution was significantly enhanced.
"Nothing in the law of sport matches the frequency of baseball's interaction with the institutions of the law or the tendency of lawmakers who speak of sports to talk in baseball terms," Ross E. Davies, a law professor at George Mason University, wrote in an essay in The Baseball Research Journal last year.
For all of his business savvy, Mr. Selig's love of the game has given him a fundamental understanding of baseball's role as a social institution.
The Murdoch-O'Malley deal underlines the confusion at the heart of baseball about whether it is indeed a special public institution or merely a business like any other.
"Being black, he is more sensitive than most white players about the institution of slavery as it exists in professional baseball".
Both are out of baseball.
Bernard pushed out of baseball.
PERSONAL HISTORY about boyhood memories of baseball.
