| Thus far this season, the number of homers in RFK is 36 percent lower than in other major-league parks. |
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| He is one of many major-league names he has put his shirt on only to be let down by their naked underachievement. |
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| At this pace, we are certain that Carew could have easily gone on to break the major-league record. |
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| The major-league teams shuttle their players through the tank towns with such abandon that nobody has time to become a local hero. |
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| Bonds broke the major-league record for Bases on Balls in a season, with his 171st free pass. |
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| Henson made his major-league debut on Thursday, pinch-running for Bernie Williams in the 8th inning. |
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| Did you realize the Oakland A's have three players in their starting lineup who are the sons of former major-league baseball players? |
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| Two batters later he faced Andy Phillips, who was making his major-league debut. |
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| Oliva spent his entire major-league career as a player and coach with the Minnesota Twins organization. |
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| Travis Fryman has arguably the worst minor-league track record of any successful major-league player. |
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| Like most of us, my dreams of setting foot on a major-league baseball field died a painful, inglorious death in youth. |
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| I had the opportunity to see Baxter pitch in high school he had a major-league future. |
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| Puerto Rico, Mexico and Venezuela now had ballplayers playing for major-league teams. |
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| He was later injured and sidelined for over a month, preventing him from breaking past Reiser for the major-league record. |
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| Turns out the dirty little secret in question is amphetamine use among major-league baseball players. |
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| Most embarrassingly, Mussina tied a major-league record by allowing six doubles in one inning. |
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| But, by the time Al caught his last major-league game, he had set a record by catching in more than 1,900 games. |
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| The desserts seem steadier, although they, too, succumb to major-league busyness, being garnished and furbelowed to a fare-thee-well. |
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| The outfielder made his major-league debut this season and played 37 games for the Reds. |
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| He says he began representing amateurs to help the minor leaguers who get cut before they ever receive a lucrative major-league contract. |
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| Romney, as a career management consultant, has to show that he can manage a major-league campaign. |
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| Bamberger made his major-league debut with the New York Giants on April 19, 1951, during a double-header against Boston. |
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| And in both countries, U.S. major-league teams have set up an elaborate and formalized recruiting network. |
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| The kid DePaula was looking mighty impressive in his first major-league start. |
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| Honel threw a major-league fastball and curveball in the strike zone and Snyder looked foolish. |
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| He appears to be the lone active, prominent major-league baseball player who has flatly admitted using them. |
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| He wore a major-league baseball uniform, an Astros uniform, and did so proudly. |
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| By now, you all likely know about the alleged relationship between an editor of Out magazine and a major-league player. |
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| The team is affiliated with the Seattle Mariners, and exists at the mercy of its major-league benefactor. |
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| Two years later, he made his major-league debut with the Chicago White Sox, and the next season, he was in the bigs to stay. |
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| Then on to NASCAR, where at 23, the boy wonder becomes the youngest team owner in major-league sports. |
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| The overwhelming majority of major-league fish are taken on big topwater plugs because the casting tackle reaches out with rapid fire to cover the shoreline tangles. |
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| History has shown, however, that this well-known type of system is deeply flawed, as one of the major-league powers inevitably attempts at some point to reverse the status quo to its advantage. |
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| They pass the test of leadership for a major-league aesthetic: faring ahead without deigning to check whether you, or anyone else, is following. |
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| In his first major-league season, at the age of 28, Robinson played first base and compiled a.297 batting average. |
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| Bill accidentally faxed sensitive documents to our competitors, and such a major-league mess-up could only be dealt with by firing Bill. |
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| Are there any current major-league third basemen you model yourself after? |
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| Offering half the asking price is insulting and a poor way to handle the negotiations for the most talented and major-league ready player in the draft. |
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| It is dressed with a lively, mustardy vinaigrette and gigged with major-league lardons, cubes of crisped lean bacon that also work as a garnish to the good baked potatoes. |
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| Non-roster infielder Luis Maza, who made his major-league debut for the Dodgers last season and wound up hitting. |
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| The Braves hit four more homers in the second game to set a major-league record for a doubleheader. |
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| Supermetal has been assigned several expansion projects for the famous Fenway Park, the oldest major-league baseball stadium in the United States and home to the Boston Red Sox, to add seating in the Green Monster. |
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| Rusty Staub holds the major-league record for consecutive pinch-hits with eight. |
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| Tatis set a a major-league record April 23 at Dodger Stadium when he hit two grand slams in one inning against Park. |
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| After tying a major-league record with three grand slams in any month, Piazza was homerless in his past 46 at-bats. |
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| Who better to know about horses than a guy who dug horsehide out of the dirt for the past 10-plus major-league seasons? |
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| Of course, I studied what all the major-league shortstops did. |
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