Sentence examples for one ballplayer from inspiring English sources

The realm of women is terra incognita for the athletes, who seem content to breeze through with as much sex as they can get but with no romantic entanglements or substantial relationships with women at all (and the one ballplayer who has a girlfriend appears to bear the relationship as a wearying burden and a quaint duty).

I'm thinking there might be more than one ballplayer who fits that description, but that's just a wild guess.

This may sound awfully cerebral — especially for advice supposedly dispensed by one ballplayer to others — but Mr. Harbach manages in these pages to make the philosophical aspects of baseball thoroughly palpable and real.

Moran, the Senator's sore-handed catcher, is one experienced ballplayer who abandoned softball to play organized hardball again.

It's one all ballplayers have agreed to follow".

I could also make the point that McGwire was a somewhat one-dimensional ballplayer who swatted a lot of home runs in an age when everybody else did.

The home-run derby of 1961 thrilled me, but 1998′s, by Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, merely bored me; perhaps this is because McGwire is a one-dimensional ballplayer and Sosa may merely have enjoyed a freakish power surge, but for whatever reason, I tuned out.

A playground, even one with a ballplayer's name on it, could only raise values higher if its courtyard were turned into a parking lot or its pool into a cafe.

On one level, he recounts the personal stories of ballplayers, coaches, managers: how they got to the Yankees, their skills and foibles and hang-ups and tragedies.

It might be a bad thing to say, but I was going to make him be a ballplayer one way or the other".

Baseball may be 90percentt half-mental, and Yogi Berra might have cut his pizzas into six slices because he could not eat eight, but at least one major league ballplayer understands and digs the physics of his sport — equal and opposite reactions notwithstanding.