Sentence examples for slugger which from inspiring English sources

Louisville Slugger, which controls about half the market for wooden bats and is synonymous with the product, has little trouble finding buyers, including stars like Derek Jeter.

They also heard John Fogerty sing his 25-year-old baseball ode, "Centerfield," and saw him give the Hall his guitar Slugger, which he made from a baseball bat, as a temporary loan.

But back to the presents: Obama gave the older Brown boy a Louisville slugger, which would be great except it's embossed with the Presidential seal and signed by him.

In its early days, Akadema hired Amish woodworkers; Louisville Slugger, which for years had boasted about its precision machinery, is following suit, touting its hands-on emphasis as "Amish-style craftsmanship" although Hillerich said he prefers thinking of it as "making the bats like my great-grandfather did".

The news was better regarding the Silver Sluggers, which were announced Wednesday.

Then the Yankees signed the slugger Alex Rodriguez, which some figured gave the team another edge over Boston.

He's also a power hitter and one who happened to be playing during a "historic" era in which sluggers did things that had never been done before.

In 2005, the panel held a widely publicized hearing in which the slugger Mark McGwire declined to answer most questions about steroid use.

Harmon Killebrew's modest farewell on Friday — in which the slugger of 573 home runs said his battle against esophageal cancer had come to an end — evoked the goodbyes made by former President Ronald Reagan as he faced Alzheimer's disease and Charlton Heston as he described symptoms consistent with Alzheimer's.

It was the AL-leading 20th homer of the season and the 12th homer in the last 21 games for Pujols, a stretch in which the slugger has hit.354 (28 for 79) with 25 runs batted in to raise his average from.235 on May 27 to.273.

The Tigers appear to have been undeterred by recent big money, long-term contracts for ageing sluggers, such as Albert Pujols, Josh Hamilton and Alex Rodriguez, which already look like very bad investments.