Many baseball fans from all around New England and all over the United States agree with Mike Barnacle on this statement. ... A man named John I. ... He is the man who not only gave the team the name Red Sox, but he also gave them their home, Fenway Park. ... It is said that the home run hit a man right on the head, and he was a Yankee fan. ... The team exceeded all of the even most optimistic of projections and fought the hardest fight in a tough pennant race that went down to the final day of that Cinderella season. ...

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You've seen the well-kept ivy, you've heard the heckles from Sal, the beer-man, whenever an opposing team visitor shouts for a cold one and you know the aroma of a true Chicago dog. ... To believe this statement you have to flip all the way back to the 1870s. ... All of his efforts also benefited the White Stockings and the city of Chicago itself. ... Anson was a player-manager for the Cubs from 1979 all the way through to 1897. ... He unfortunately led the leagues with 72 errors in the 1902 season. ...

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Michael was very disappointed and almost quit basketball all together because he did not believe in playing a sport he was not able to excel in. (Adams 11) Jordan pushed himself all season long working hard on his skills scoring an amazing 28 points per game for the junior varsity team. ... Leroy, however was the player that was chosen, mainly because he stood six-foot five inches tall, towering a good six inches over Michael, and the team needed a big man. ... His coaches were all very impressed at how hard he worked. ... (Hubbard 14) All of Michael's friends warned him that he wou...

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His contract with Seattle will end following the 2000 season (which starts in April and ends in October 2000). ... Teams trade players for all kinds of reasons: to get rid of an expensive player with declining skills; to attract talent at some other position; bad "fit" in team chemistry, etc. ... SEATTLE (AP) -- Ken Griffey Jr., wanting to play closer to his home in Florida, rejected Seattle's eight-year contract offer and the Mariners said they will try to trade the 10-time All-Star. ... Griffey hit 48 homers this year after hitting 56 in consecutive seasons. ... The Mariners have a...

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His contract with Seattle will end following the 2000 season (which starts in April and ends in October 2000). ... Teams trade players for all kinds of reasons: to get rid of an expensive player with declining skills; to attract talent at some other position; bad "fit" in team chemistry, etc. ... SEATTLE (AP) -- Ken Griffey Jr., wanting to play closer to his home in Florida, rejected Seattle's eight-year contract offer and the Mariners said they will try to trade the 10-time All-Star. ... Griffey hit 48 homers this year after hitting 56 in consecutive seasons. ... The Mariners have a...

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His contract with Seattle will end following the 2000 season (which starts in April and ends in October 2000). ... Teams trade players for all kinds of reasons: to get rid of an expensive player with declining skills; to attract talent at some other position; bad "fit" in team chemistry, etc. ... SEATTLE (AP) -- Ken Griffey Jr., wanting to play closer to his home in Florida, rejected Seattle's eight-year contract offer and the Mariners said they will try to trade the 10-time All-Star. ... Griffey hit 48 homers this year after hitting 56 in consecutive seasons. ... The Mariners have a...

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His contract with Seattle will end following the 2000 season (which starts in April and ends in October 2000). ... Teams trade players for all kinds of reasons: to get rid of an expensive player with declining skills; to attract talent at some other position; bad "fit" in team chemistry, etc. ... SEATTLE (AP) -- Ken Griffey Jr., wanting to play closer to his home in Florida, rejected Seattle's eight-year contract offer and the Mariners said they will try to trade the 10-time All-Star. ... Griffey hit 48 homers this year after hitting 56 in consecutive seasons. ... The Mariners have a...

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His contract with Seattle will end following the 2000 season (which starts in April and ends in October 2000). ... Teams trade players for all kinds of reasons: to get rid of an expensive player with declining skills; to attract talent at some other position; bad "fit" in team chemistry, etc. ... SEATTLE (AP) -- Ken Griffey Jr., wanting to play closer to his home in Florida, rejected Seattle's eight-year contract offer and the Mariners said they will try to trade the 10-time All-Star. ... Griffey hit 48 homers this year after hitting 56 in consecutive seasons. ... The Mariners have a...

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His contract with Seattle will end following the 2000 season (which starts in April and ends in October 2000). ... Teams trade players for all kinds of reasons: to get rid of an expensive player with declining skills; to attract talent at some other position; bad "fit" in team chemistry, etc. ... SEATTLE (AP) -- Ken Griffey Jr., wanting to play closer to his home in Florida, rejected Seattle's eight-year contract offer and the Mariners said they will try to trade the 10-time All-Star. ... Griffey hit 48 homers this year after hitting 56 in consecutive seasons. ... The Mariners have a...

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Horace Wilson is the man who gets the credit for starting baseball in Japan. ... The Americans won all 17 games. ... First of all its smaller than the U.S.'... (http://www2.gol.com/users/jallen/jimball.html#History ) In American baseball there are only two types of rosters, a 25 man and a 40 man. ... The third roster is the 28-man roster that are on first team bench. ...

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It all sounds fairly reasonable. ... BASEBALL, with all its woes, is still America's greatest obsession. ... This season, NHL teams are paying on average $4 million more in payroll than last season. ... I believe in a healthy league, and all (teams) should be healthy. All franchises at least break even and hopefully make some money. ...

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Special prices should be allowed for season as well as individual ticket sales. ... They will also promote future ticket sales for individual as well as regular season ticket holders. ... It seems not that long ago after all. ... All athletic activities take precedent over any schedules or plans for the day. ... He looks at life in the long run as in an entire season instead of just moments like plays within the games. ...

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The minimum salary will increase from $150,000 to $225,000 next season and will increase by ten percent each season thereafter. ... The owners, again frustrated over the percentage of BRI that the players received shut down all personnel transactions, workout facilities, and summer camps. ... The rookie contract request stems from the amount of rookies who enter the league and have excellent initial seasons. ... The answer is found in the start of the 1979-1980 season. ... Magic and Bird defined the new ideal basketball player as the "versatile big man". ...

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Man's craving for honey began in Hunter-Gatherer society. ... All kinds of fruit were on its trees. Barley was there and emmer, and no end of cattle of all kinds.... Thus telling of Zeus' devotion to man. ... Man and mead even shar...

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All of these points make valid claims. ... During the 1918 season, he led the American League with 11 home runs. ... This set a new season record (21). ... Ruth was a married man. ... Ruth would constantly stay up all night before game days eating, drinking and smoking. ...

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Man has unleashed many new idealistic atmospheres on earth that people now choose to spend more time exploring. ... Kamview Thunder Bay Nordic Trails is a non-profit organization with a mandate to groom and maintain ski tails in the Thunder Bay area and to promote all-season use of the trails. ... The deal meant that the facility would forever remain open all season long for skiing. ... Currently, TBNT is trying to university and Olympic ski teams to train at the Kamview facilities early on in the season. ... There are many different ways to explore all the Fort has to offer. ...

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He does this throughout their season by using his leadership model and his key elements to a great leader. ... That's all. ... You've face them all. ... Not only is this speech an episode in itself it is part of a greater episode which is the season that the Green Bay Packers were currently playing. ... In this particular speech, Lombardi doesn't tell his players things that have been pounded into their heads all season in practice. ...

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PHYSICAL FITNESS Ask any player to name the worst thing about being a professional soccer player and the answer, virtually to a man, is pre-season. Pre-season training involves fitness, as well as eating the right food to have energy to play, and to keep the body in condition. Thus the components of soccer fitness for players require all of them to develop all of the qualities outlined in Table 1. ... All this information is vital in preparing a soccer player's diet. ... Putting all this information together, the athlete's daily energy requirements is 19588.5kJ. ...

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First of all, every culture varies in traditions over time. ... Wild, maniac, unsophisticated, uneducated, vulgar these are all words that come to mind when I think of prehistoric or primitive. ... Culture, after all, is associated with the changes a society goes through over time. ... Kung will disperse in the wet season, and aggregate in camps in the dry season around the few permanent water holes. ... As it is with all cultures around the world, the !...

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"# Woods continues to dominate in NCAA play and earns First-Team All-America honors. ... # Woods had now left the amateur ranks, and faced his biggest test to date, he had two options, he could choke under the pressure of the pro circuit and become just another junior who had a few good years, or he could play with all his heart and soul and let his true talent show that he belongs in the PGA. ... Tiger Woods still young a man at the age of twenty-one was showing the class that of which a much older man would likely possess. ...

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Okonkwo is described as a "strong- man whose life is dominated by fear and anger. ... Although Okonkwo was "not a man of thought but of action" (Achebe 69), he did consider that it was his destiny to be a brave man, and become a traditional hero of the Igbo Village. ... Unoka was quite an unsuccessful man, yet flexible and understanding. ... The Week of Peace comes at the end of the carefree season and before the harvest and planting season. ... Although he was a great and strong man, he lacked wisdom. ...

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The hemp plant grows wild through most of the world and can be cultivated in any area with a hot season. ... Steroids are man-made derivatives of testosterone, the male hormone. ... Most of all, steroids are used by athletes to build muscle mass. ...

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The hemp plant grows wild through most of the world and can be cultivated in any area with a hot season. ... Steroids are man-made derivatives of testosterone, the male hormone. ... Most of all, steroids are used by athletes to build muscle mass. ...

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They also recognize five seasons ranging from the very dry to the very wet, as well as times of warmer and colder weather, and times of death and re-growth of many plant species (Lee, pg. 29-31). ... When vegetation is collected, it is all pooled at the end of each day to ensure that no one in the camp will go hungry (Lee, pg. 50). ... The village ranges in sizes, on average from 10 to 30 people depending on the area and season (Lee, pg. 62). ... This stratification by the Ju ranks plants according to their availability (by season and amount available), the level of difficulty in obtaining ...

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Pete Rose played in the Major League for 24 seasons. ... All of these statistics are definitely Hall of Fame worthy. ... A year later Janszen would replace Gioiosa as being Pete Rose's "number one man". ... Paul Janszen and his girlfriend Danita Marcum went with Rose and his family to Florida for the 1987 Spring Training season. During the 1987 baseball season, Janszen was a frequent visitor to Rose's manager's office at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati. ...

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