Sentence examples for slugger's from inspiring English sources

Never one to shy from a grand gesture, general manager Kenny Williams claimed Ramirez on waivers from the Dodgers and dismissed concerns about the oddball slugger's being a disruptive force in the clubhouse, insisting that anybody can get along with anybody for a month, especially when there's a shared commitment to winning ballgames.

"They've got some idea, but I don't think that's what it's about," Sosa's agent, Adam Katz, said about the slugger's position on a contract.

* * * Slugger's Son Comes Home Just in Time By Steve Eder There's an image etched into the collective memory of Detroit Tigers fans.

But then baseball is a slugger's game.

(Its director, Christopher Nolan, showed up on Saturday, joining the slugger's row of studio filmmakers).

In other words, the Slugger's also quickly becoming symbol of Benji's night so far.

The player who in 2002 blew the lid off the secret of steroids in baseball, Ken Caminiti, died of a heart-attack two years later, at 41. Now in this season of 2009, New York baseball fans have been stricken by concussive reports of Yankee star Alex Rodriguez's detected steroid use and his and Met slugger Carlos Delgado's disabling by hip injuries requiring surgery.

The slugger Hank Aaron's newest undertaking involves another kind of batter -- doughnut batter.

With the hit, Granderson had his 35th home run, one short of the Toronto Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista's major league lead.

For a more ignominious mark, the Phillies slugger Ryan Howard's 117 strikeouts have him on pace to break his own single-season record of 199, set last year.

To illustrate that learned perceptual skills can trump innate reaction speed, for example, he revisits the slugger Albert Pujols's humiliating strikeout against Jennie Finch, an Olympic softball pitcher who throws underhand.