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* Tim Wakefield — Won Game 1 and Game 4 for the Red Sox, and very likely would have been the ALCS MVP had Boston held on to win the series.
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While knuckleballer Tim Wakefield was on the mound for the Red Sox, he related a story that then-Reds manager Sparky Anderson told him that he was thinking of trading for knuckleballer Phil Niekro.
The fingertip grip is actually more commonly used today by pitchers who throw the knuckleball, like retired Boston Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield, who had a knuckleball with a lot of movement.
A few knuckleball pitchers, such as Hoyt Wilhelm and Tim Wakefield, required their own catchers, specifically assigned to them, to catch their knuckleballs.
The lower physical strain also gives them the potential for greater career longevity, as some have continued to pitch professionally well into their forties, such as Tim Wakefield, Tom Candiotti, and the Niekro brothers.
Other prominent knuckleball pitchers have included Joe Niekro ( Phil's brother ), Charlie Hough, Dave Jolly, Ben Flowers, Wilbur Wood, Tom Candiotti, Bob Purkey, Steve Sparks, Eddie Rommel, Tim Wakefield and R. A. Dickey.
, when Tim Wakefield announced his retirement from Major League Baseball, R. A. Dickey of the New York Mets is the only knuckleballer in the big leagues.
On March 2, 2010, she trained with Tim Wakefield at the Boston Red Sox minor league training facility.
The Boston Red Sox did this fairly systematically in their 2004 world championship season, with Doug Mirabelli regularly catching in place of Jason Varitek when Tim Wakefield was pitching.
In the bottom of the 11th inning, Aaron Boone launched a solo home run off knuckleballing Boston starter Tim Wakefield ( pitching in relief ) to win the game and the pennant for the Yankees.
Leyland helped develop such All-Stars as Barry Bonds, Jay Bell, Tim Wakefield, Andy Van Slyke and Bobby Bonilla in Pittsburgh before a fire sale in the mid-1990s soured him with new ownership.
Tim Wakefield pitched a scoreless tenth for Boston and in the bottom of the eleventh faced Aaron Boone, who had entered earlier as a pinch-runner.
Milt Pappas, Jerry Reuss, Frank Tanana, Charlie Hough, Chuck Finley, Kenny Rogers, and Tim Wakefield are the only other pitchers with at least 200 career victories who have done so.
The highest pitch count since 1990 is 172, by Tim Wakefield for the Pittsburgh Pirates against the Atlanta Braves on April 27, 1993.
The GreenJackets boast third baseman Kevin Youkilis and Dustin Pedroia as the only prospects to make the Red Sox roster, although knuckle baller Tim Wakefield pitched there in 1989 with the Pirates organization.
However, neither one lasted in the rotation and Mirabelli soon found himself partnered with knuckleballer Tim Wakefield.
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In 1992 – 1993 a research team headed by Tim White discovered the first A. ramidus fossils — seventeen fragments including skull, mandible, teeth and arm bones — from the Afar Depression in the Middle Awash river valley of Ethiopia.
It is believed that authority and the grace of God is directly passed down to Orthodox bishops and clergy through the laying on of hands — a practice started by the apostles, and that this unbroken historical and physical link is an essential element of the true church ( Acts 8: 17, 1 Tim 4: 14, Heb 6: 2 ).
Employee Tim Anderson said of their situation, " It was phenomenal — we had a basement that just printed money.
Examples include Susan Sarandon's suggestions that the character of Louise pack shoes in plastic bags in one scene of Thelma & Louise, and another where her character exchanges jewelry for a hat and other items — and Tim Robbins's collaboration with Scott and Susan Sarandon to rework the final scene with a more upbeat ending.
Nelson claims some aspects of his vision are in the process of being fulfilled by Tim Berners-Lee's invention of the World Wide Web, but he dislikes the World Wide Web, XML and all embedded markup – regarding Berners-Lee's work as a gross over-simplification of his original vision: HTML is precisely what we were trying to PREVENT — ever-breaking links, links going outward only, quotes you can't follow to their origins, no version management, no rights management.
The authors — Tim Anderson, Marc Blank, Bruce Daniels, and Dave Lebling — were members of the MIT Dynamic Modelling Group.
In the show, McGarrett oversaw State Police officers — a young officer, Danny Williams ( played by Tim O ' Kelly in the show's pilot but replaced in the regular series by James MacArthur ), Chin Ho Kelly ( played by Kam Fong Chun ) and Kono Kalakaua ( played by Zulu ) for seasons one through four.
In 2006, they filmed trainers at Carson & Barnes Circus — including Tim Frisco, the animal-care director — striking elephants while shouting at them ; The Washington Post writes that the video shows Frisco shouting " Make ' em scream !".
Ultimately, Curry refused to participate in the tests, and he was traded along with Antonio Davis to the New York Knicks for Michael Sweetney, Tim Thomas, and what became the second pick of the 2006 NBA Draft — as well as the right to swap picks with New York in the 2007 NBA Draft.
Two former Fianna members made an attempt on his life 1n 1928, but Harling escaped and actually shot dead one of his attackers — Tim Coghlan.
The Choir is an atmospheric Christian alternative rock band, led by Derri Daugherty on guitar and vocals, Steve Hindalong on drums — who also writes most of the band's lyrics — along with Tim Chandler on bass guitar, Dan Michaels on saxophone and lyricon and Marc Byrd on guitar ( since 2005 ).
The city government is made up of Mayor Darryl Ray, and a five-person city council — Danny Robinson, Hal C. Buckelew, Mark Gargus, Ross Norris, and Tim McNair and City Manager Ed Lowe
* Nevada City Film Festival — Started in 2001, the festival has grown from a showcase for local filmmakers to an international film festival hosting notable filmmakers from around the country including director Mike Mills ( Thumbsucker, The Beginners ), director Jonathan Krisel ( Portlandia ), actress and comedian Natasha Leggero ( Last Comic Standing ), and Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim of Tim & Eric's Awesome Show, Great Job!
Some new sequences have been added ( e. g., an introduction to act three, in which Tim, the Company Stage Manager, and Poppy, the Assistant Stage Manager, make simultaneous apologies — the former in front of the curtain, the latter over the PA — for the delay in the performance ).
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