By the time he was 18, he was playing in the equivalent of the minor leagues in Sao Paulo, when his father fell ill and he had to move back home.
A probable cause: Because of injuries to other outfielders, Ibanez played 832 innings, the equivalent of 92 games, in the field, far more than he is expected to play for the Angels.
Tom Staley, who will retire next year after more than two decades as director of the University of Texas at Austin's Harry Ransom Center, one of the country's premier archival collections, said the role that such libraries played in the humanities was the equivalent of state-of-the-art science laboratories.
Manaus is known for being home to the peladão, a huge soccer tournament and beauty pageant, but this weekend was more typical with two teams, wearing mostly matching jerseys, playing in the rough equivalent of a neighborhood championship.
Lee, a 24-year-old South Korean qualifier who just one week ago was playing in the tennis equivalent of Class AAA baseball, will continue his dizzying New York journey, which began when he bought his own bus ticket in Binghamton, N.Y. Lee knows it can all end tomorrow at the United States Open against the world's most renowned player.
But among Chinese Liu takes a certain pride in playing the equivalent of the Beverly Hillbillies — an Everyman who has suddenly got wise to the cultural cachet of art.
The Nats and Giants played the equivalent of two games in one extremely long night – six hours and 23 minutes, to be exact.
But data from the heart rate monitors indicated that the players were exhausted, not out of shape, having played the equivalent of seven games in four days during training.
The defense, who played the equivalent of two seasons in one due to the inability of the offense to mount sustained drives, was hit particularly hard by injuries.
Having played the equivalent of more than two games in a seven-hour period the day before, it was already time to play again.
