Sentence examples for street baseball from inspiring English sources

Now it is true that Gehrig had played stickball as a kid, but when he reached the Commerce annex on West 46th Street, baseball was an alien sport.

[Daily News via Daily Intel ] AND FINALLY… A hundred years ago today, Charlie Rocks, age 8, jumped to catch a fly ball in a street baseball game on West 97th Street, fell over the bulkhead into the Hudson River, and emerged with the ball in his mitt.

I had just slammed a hit in a street baseball game that unusually warm December early afternoon in my Chicago neighborhood: I was rounding the bases on asphalt when my mother, her house-dress flapping, came running down the stone steps to shout something about a pearl found at some harbor.

So those adult males not away at war conscripted became surrogate dads for the entire neighborhood, umpiring street baseball games, talking to misbehaving boys, helping mothers with household repairs and, come fall, often hand-making the identical wooden toys that showed up for the holidays in numerous homes, as if distant dads had sent the same toy.

She dons a magnificently designed golden yellow gown, boldly struts through the street with baseball bat in hand, randomly smashing cars.

It was my brother and I walking down the middle of a vacant street with baseball bats, looking for the one who beat up our little brother because he won a basketball game, and that was important TODAY.

When asked if it bothered him that the Red Sox, the Yankees' bitter rival, took a player who got attention because of a project started by a Steinbrenner, Negron said, "We got kids off the street playing baseball; that's what this was about".

Like his clothes -- which are made largely from donated fabrics and things he can buy cheaply on the street, like baseball caps and sweat shirts, and which he stays up nights rubbing with sandpaper until they look old -- the apartment shows just how far a person can go on nothing.

Comfortable suburban homes, neatly paved streets, a baseball diamond.

One younger man looked prepped for the Hypebeast blog in a polka-dot shirt, cuffed trousers and a street-wear baseball cap satirizing the Comme des Garçons logo.

Report of Audit Denied The Yankees and Major League Baseball denied a report in yesterday's edition of The Wall Street Journal that baseball had begun an audit into whether the Yankees are sharing the requisite amount of revenues from YES. Baseball officials said that the revenues of all teams are audited annually.