Sentence examples for major leaguer compared from inspiring English sources

Luis Sojo, a former major leaguer, compared Santana to a young Pedro Martínez.

No noise in the major leagues compares to the impact of Mike Piazza's bat with a thrown baseball.

There have been 23 perfect games in major league history, compared with 11 bids for perfection have been broken up with two outs in the ninth.

To determine our list of empty-seat stadiums, we looked at all the ballparks in the Major Leagues and compared last year's average attendance with this year's.

Richard Shea, President of Major League Eating, compared Stonie's triumph to Roger Federer trumping Rafael Nadal on a clay court.

Perhaps less scientifically, the former major leaguer Toby Harrah compared statistics to bikinis: "They both show a lot," Mr. Harrah said, "but not everything".

On a typical midsummer night, 500,000 people are at major-league parks, compared to the 350,000 watching minor-league games.

After humbling the Pittsburgh Pirates Tuesday, finishing one shy of the record for strikeouts in a major league debut, Strasburg compared it to his time with the Aztecs.

Well, for somebody in their first major league season to be compared to a Ty Cobb is pretty amazing.

But as Mr Cameron notes Britain remains a major league defence player, certainly when compared to its European partners.

If minor league aesthetic qualities lack sophistication and profundity compared to major league aesthetic qualities, a case can be made that they make up for this lack by their pervasiveness in daily life with serious consequences.