In the book The Neyer / James Guide to Pitchers, sports journalist Rob Neyer wrote that the speed with which pitchers like Cy Young, Amos Rusie, and Jouett Meekin threw was the impetus that caused the move.

* The Neyer / James Guide to Pitchers ( 2004, with co-author Rob Neyer )

Senators broadcaster Shelby Whitfield later told Rob Neyer that when Williams yanked McLain early from a July 5 game against the Cleveland Indians, McLain threatened to call Senators owner Bob Short and have him get rid of Williams.

Members include not only " sabermetricians " Bill James, perhaps the best known SABR member to the general public, and Rob Neyer, but also other people active in the baseball world such as Keith Olbermann, Craig R. Wright, Roland Hemond, and Bob Costas.

Rob Neyer, in evaluating Reynolds ' candidacy, believes Reynolds was " probably as good " as Jesse Haines, Lefty Gomez and Waite Hoyt, who have all been inducted into the Hall of Fame.

* Rob Neyer, " The World According to VORP ," ESPN. com ( February 2, 2007 ).

Left-handed catchers have only caught eleven big-league games since 1902, However, some observers, including the famed statistician Bill James and ESPN writer Rob Neyer, have suggested that the real reason that there are no left-handed catchers is because left-handed players with strong throwing arms are almost always encouraged, at an early age, to become pitchers.

* James, Bill and Rob Neyer.

Baseball writer Rob Neyer, in his Big Book of Baseball Blunders criticized Wills for " the variety and frequency of mistakes " as manager, calling them " unparalleled.

* ESPN: Five for the Hall of Fame-December 2001 column by Rob Neyer

Rob Neyer ( born June 22, 1966 ) is a baseball author and writer for SB Nation.

Rob Neyer spent the early years of his childhood in the upper Midwest and later moved to the middle Midwest, close to the Kansas City area.

Many baseball experts, including ESPN analysts Rob Neyer and Peter Gammons, predicted a breakout season for Cabrera in.

Regular guests on the show include Rob Neyer of SB Nation, Ric Bucher of ESPN. com, Len Pasquarelli also of ESPN. com and " The Professor ", John Clayton.

* Rob Neyer interview 2003

* Total Baseball, 8th edition, John Thorn, Phil Birnbaum, Bill Deane, and Rob Neyer, SportClassic Press, 2004.

* Rob Neyer: ( baseball, 1996 – present )

* Transactions Primer by Rob Neyer

* Rob Neyer, " The World According to VORP ," ESPN. com, February 2, 2007.

* Rob Painter – former Director for Technology Assessment ; left to become Senior Federal Sales Manager at Google.

The program's regular reporters include: Bob Moon, Senior Business Correspondent ; Stephen Beard, London Bureau Chief ; Heidi Moore, New York Bureau Chief, John Dimsdale, Washington Bureau Chief ; Nancy Marshall-Genzer, Senior Washington Reporter ; David Gura, Washington Reporter ; Amy Scott, Education Correspondent in Baltimore ; Rob Schmitz, Shanghai Correspondent ; Scott Tong, Sustainability Reporter ; Jeff Tyler, Adriene Hill and Eve Troeh, in Los Angeles ; Stacey Vanek-Smith in New York ; Queena Kim in Silicon Valley ; Health Correspondent, Gregory Warner in Philadelphia ; and Mitchell Hartman, Entrepreneurship Reporter, in Portland, OR.

He has received criticism from J. Brent Walker of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, Rob Boston of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, Gordon College History professor Stephen Phillips, Senator Arlen Specter, the Anti-Defamation League, Senior Research Director for the Military Religious Freedom Foundation Chris Rodda, Messiah College history professor John Fea, Baylor University historian Barry Hankins, and Grove City College professors Warren Throckmorton and Michael Coulter.

* 1965 – Rob Thomas, American writer

He meets 16 year old Jamal – actor Rob Brown – a gifted, Bronx reared basketball player and aspiring writer, and becomes his mentor.

In 1984, director Rob Reiner, producer Andy Scheinman and writer Nora Ephron met over lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York City to develop a project.

** Rob Cohen, American film director, producer and writer

In 1996, long-time producer Robert Morton left and head writer Rob Burnett was promoted to executive producer.

* Rob Burnett ( born 1962 ), producer, director and writer, who is the executive producer of the Late Show with David Letterman and president and CEO of Worldwide Pants.

Entourage writer Rob Weiss was a student at Hewlett High School as well.

* Comic book artist, actor, writer, director and film producer Rob Schrab grew up in Mayville.

The two main settings show the work and home life of Rob Petrie ( Dick Van Dyke ), the head writer of a comedy / variety show produced in Manhattan.

Many of the show's plots were inspired by Reiner's experiences as a writer for Your Show of Shows, but though he based the character of Rob Petrie on himself, Rob's egocentric boss Alan Brady is less Sid Caesar ( host of Your Show of Shows ) than a combination of the more abrasive Milton Berle and Jackie Gleason, according to Reiner himself.

* Rob Petrie ( Robert Simpson Petrie ; played by Dick Van Dyke ) – Head comedy writer for a fictional New York television variety series called The Alan Brady Show.

* July 8 – Rob Burnett, one time head writer for David Letterman

While the Smothers themselves were at the forefront of these efforts, credit also goes to the roster of writers and regular performers they brought to the show, including Jim Stafford ( who served as their head writer and producer ), Steve Martin, Don Novello (" Father Guido Sarducci "), Rob Reiner (" Mike Stivic "), Presidential candidate Pat Paulsen, Bob Einstein (" Super Dave Osborne ", " Marty Funkhouser ", and " Officer Judy "), Einstein's brother, Albert ( who works professionally as Albert Brooks ), and resident hippie Leigh French (" Share a Little Tea with Goldie ").

In response, eight creators announced the founding of Image Comics: illustrators Todd McFarlane ( known for his work on Spider-Man ), Jim Lee ( X-Men ), Rob Liefeld ( X-Force ), Marc Silvestri ( Wolverine ), Erik Larsen ( The Amazing Spider-Man ), Jim Valentino ( Guardians of the Galaxy ), and Whilce Portacio ( Uncanny X-Men ); and long-time Uncanny X-Men writer Chris Claremont.

** Rob Bowman ( notes writer ) for The Complete Stax / Volt Soul Singles, Vol.

In tow, Ian brought along his own team of workers ; executive assistant and Navy veteran Miranda Charles ( Sherri Shepherd ), sports writer Nate Knaborski ( Currie Graham ); and freelance photographer Oliver Browne ( Rob Estes ).

This release earned Grammy Award nominations for boxed-set producer Steve Greenberg in the Best Historical Album category and for writer Rob Bowman in the Best Album Notes category.

A co-founder of Working Dog Productions ( along with Santo Cilauro, Jane Kennedy and Rob Sitch ), Gleisner was also a writer / producer / director on Frontline which ran on the ABC from 1994 until 1997.

Santo was a writer / performer on the D-Generation's 1992-1993 sketch comedy The Late Show, appearing on such segments as Graham & the Colonel, The Oz Brothers and Jeff & Terry Bailey ( with Rob Sitch ), as well as performing in countless other sketches and filming the popular segment Shitscared.

These sketch shows were scripted by Naylor along with another writer, Rob Grant.

World in Action employed many leading journalists, among them John Pilger ; Michael Parkinson ; Gordon Burns ; Rob Rohrer ; Nick Davies, Ed Vulliamy and David Leigh of The Guardian ; Alasdair Palmer of the Sunday Telegraph ; John Ware, BBC Panoramas leading investigative reporter ; Anthony Wilson, whose second career as a music impresario was immortalised in the feature film 24 Hour Party People ; Michael Gillard, creator of the Slicker business pages in the satirical magazine Private Eye ; Donal MacIntyre ; the writer Mark Hollingsworth ; Quentin McDermott, since 1999 a leading investigative reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ; Tony Watson, editor of the Yorkshire Post for 13 years and editor-in-chief of the Press Association from December 2006 ; and Andrew Jennings, author of Lords of the Rings, who has campaigned vigorously for more than a decade against corruption in international sport.

* Rob Bowman ( music writer ), Canadian ethnomusicologist