Originally drafted by Epstein in Boston, the tall, stoic left-hander was a mainstay of two championship Red Sox teams.
Two decades ago, Augmon was a mainstay of one of the most explosive teams in college basketball, U.N.L.V.'s 1990 national champion team; Rice was a little-used reserve.
These profiles, accompanied by photographs or drawings, were the mainstay of one of the earliest black pictorial magazines, The Crisis, edited by the civil rights leader W. E. B. Du Bois.
A marketing mainstay of bygone days, prizes inside boxes of cereal, is alive and well, with brands like the Big G line of cereals from General Mills offering various free trinkets and tchotchkes from time to time.
Over the last four months, Oher (pronounced OAR), who is listed at 6 feet 4 inches and 309 pounds, has evolved from a gifted rookie into a gifted mainstay on one of the N.F.L.'s more formidable — and youngest — offensive lines.
Boudin blanc is a mainstay of the two French réveillons, the Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, meals.
Like The Sun, The News of the World was hugely profitable and served with The Sun as the financial mainstay of the two upmarket titles in the Murdoch newspaper stable in Britain, The Times and The Sunday Times, both of which run at heavy losses.
A mainstay of more than two decades in Silicon Valley, Tony Fadell is best known as the man who led the team that developed the iPod, through 16 generations of the device in the nine years that he was with Apple.
After several years of contentious contract negotiations and holdouts, Osi Umenyiora, a mainstay of the Giants' two Super Bowl-winning teams in the last six years, reached an agreement to play for the Atlanta Falcons late Wednesday.
But Wolfgang Koch's Wotan, mainstay of the first two parts of the Ring, sang with growing authority and an attractively burnished tone, while Catherine Foster's richly articulate Brünnhilde – disgracefully booed for presumably chauvinistic reasons after Act 2 of Die Walküre – now prepares to come into her own.
