You can be clever in this sense, by using baseball as an analogy (bear with me) -- and why not as many a boardroom phrase has been borrowed from this erudite of U.S. sports: "ballpark figure", "touch base", "play hardball", "three strikes and you're out", "cover all bases", "curveball", etc. -- we can not only look at sabermetrics (which, ahem, tallies well with web analytics) but at logic also.
Is he concerned that he could be staring into the end of his baseball career, that he no longer will have the chance to use baseball as a way to provide for his son, 7-year-old Karter?
The academy will implement a nationally recognized program model that uses baseball as a hook to empower youth to raise their educational aspirations and achievements, improve physical health and develop leadership skills.
Using baseball as communication tool, these interactions have the power to change the trajectory of child's life.
As early as the 1850s, baseball images began to appear in periodicals, and, in the 20th century, popular illustrator Norman Rockwell often used baseball as the subject for his The Saturday Evening Post covers.
When Cook offered him his first job with the Pirates as a minor league coach in 1979, not long after that winter in San Diego, Peterson made it his mission to use baseball as his platform, merging East with West, modern science with old-school hardball.
Mr. Souder and others have called for using baseball statistics as a deviance divining rod, but experts in baseball statistics are far more hesitant.
The hypotheses are tested using baseball managers as proxies for public managers, as they perform similar duties, have similar goals, and operate under similar constraints.
Hackleman had never heard of Ventura, but he had long used baseball imagery as a teaching tool.
