In her sophomore year she had started going steady with Bobby Joe, who was a football player, Future Homemakers sweetheart, and president of Future Farmers.

Other hitters bloomed with more or less vigor in the news and a few even dared to dream of matching Ruth, who was still called Jidge by all his friends, or Leo or Two-Head by those who dared to taunt him ( Leo was the name of the ball player he liked the least ) and who called most of the world `` Kid ''.

Ruth was a delinquent boy still, but he was in every way a great ball player who was out to win the game and occasionally risked a cracked bone to do it.

) The sorry fact about this young man, who was barely of age when he broke into major-league baseball, was that he really was a better ball player than he was given credit for being -- never so good as he claimed, and always an irritant to his associates, but a good steady performer when he could fight down the temptation to orate on his skills or cut up in public.

Andre Kirk Agassi (; born April 29, 1970 in Las Vegas, Nevada ) is a retired American professional tennis player and former World No. 1, who was one of the game's most dominant players from the early 1990s to the mid 2000s.

The Auction simulates a ' history ' of competition between the descendants of Oberon for player characters who have not had dozens of decades to get to know each other.

A player may intend, for example, to create a character who is a strong, mighty warrior, but being " outplayed " in the auction may result in lower attribute scores than anticipated, therefore necessitating a change of character concept.

While the players were on the tour, the National League instituted new rules regarding player pay that led to a revolt of players, led by Ward, who started the Players ' League the following season ( 1890 ).

The tile could create a new chain of tiles, and the player who placed it on the board would have the opportunity to found a new chain.

If a tile is placed between two hotel chains of the same size, the individual player who places the tile decides which hotel chain remains on the board and which is acquired.

Mergers also give each player who holds any interest at all in a chain a chance to sell his stock or to trade it in for shares of the acquiring chain.

Starting with the player who caused the merger to happen, each player may either sell his shares in the acquired chain, trade in two shares of the acquired chain for one share of the acquiring chain, or hold on to his shares of the acquired chain.

In the second game of the Falcons 1999 season, running back Jamaal Anderson, who had been a key player in the Falcons ' 1998 success, suffered a season-ending knee injury.

After the war, he played piano and guitar ( his first guitar was built by friend and author Sydney Hopkins, who wrote Mister God, This Is Anna ), and in 1949 joined Chris Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies.

To this day, a player who leads the league in all of these three statistics earns the " Triple Crown.

The player who experienced this phenomenon with the most number of at-bats in a season was Ernie Bowman, who over 125 at-bats in 1963 had a batting average of. 184 and an on-base percentage of. 181.

The most recent player credited with a " straight " steal of home was Pete Kozma of the St. Louis Cardinals who stole home against the Chicago Cubs on September 21, 2012.

Finally, for 1950 only, runners would be credited with a stolen base if they were " well advanced " toward the base they were attempting to steal ", and the pitcher is charged with a balk, with the further exception of a player attempting to steal, who would otherwise have been forced to advance on the balk by a runner behind them.

The expression " You can't steal first base " is sometimes used in reference to a player who is fast but not very good at getting on base in the first place.

In the American, Pacific, and both Cuban leagues, there is a tenth player, a designated hitter, who bats for the pitcher.

Hank Greenberg, Stan Musial, Alex Rodriguez, and Robin Yount have won at different positions, while Rodriguez is the only player who has won the award with two different teams at two different positions.

In baseball statistics, a player is credited with a plate appearance ( denoted by PA ) each time he completes a turn batting.

A player completes a turn batting when: he strikes out or is declared out before reaching first base ; or he reaches first base safely or is awarded first base ( by a base on balls, hit by pitch, or catcher's interference ); or he hits a fair ball which causes a preceding runner to be put out for the third out before he himself is put out or reaches first base safely ( see also left on base, fielder's choice, force play )

* The guessing player completes the word, or guesses the whole word correctly

* The other player completes the diagram:

The dealer completes their shuffle, and then sets the cards face-down on the table near the designated player, typically the player to the dealer's right.

Either the player cutting or the dealer then completes the cut by placing the remaining bottom portion on top of the cards that have been cut off.

Examining him will cause a jingle ( that which plays when the player completes a puzzle or opens a doorway in The Legend of Zelda games ) to play.

An interesting aspect of Hecks is that the sides of the board have no predefined color: the black and white players do not have to declare in advance which pair of sides they attempt to connect, and the first player who completes a path across the board wins.

The story continues in this fashion, the player continuing to choose other numbered sections, until their character is either stopped, killed, or completes the quest.

Once one completes a level, the player can receive a bonus by correctly unscrambling the letters one grabbed into a word ).

If a player completes the game and gets 100 points on all 60 levels in the game, a secret ending will occur.

After one player completes all three phases play is turned over to the opposing player.

When a player completes a race, the remaining time is added to the next race's allotted time.

The North American version lacks this cover as well as additional features that become available after the player completes the game once.

If the player completes all four skyscrapers, he is taken back to the first skyscraper and the game restarts from the beginning, but the player keeps his score.

In Missions Mode the player completes various missions to attain points, which can be used to buy various art and costumes.

When a player can place a tile that completes a hexagonal shape ( i. e. the 6th piece & all 3 numbers match ), score the tile's points plus a bonus 50 points, less any penalty if pieces have been drawn.

If a player completes two hexagons in one move the player receives 100 points.

This level can then be played as often as desired, until the player quits the game, but the endgame movie only plays if the player completes all five levels in order.

With 112 caps, he is the fourth most capped player for the Azzurri.

The first player with an improvement at the fourth level can claim any of their cities as a metropolis, worth four victory points instead of two for that city.

If a player finishes in fifth to eighth position they are " ranked out " and the race must be replayed – at the cost of one of a limited number of lives – until a placing of fourth or above is achieved.

Cliff Branch became just the fourth player to catch a touchdown in two different Super Bowls.

The key player on that drive was fullback Tom Rathman, who caught 3 passes for 39 yards, kept the drive alive with a successful run on a fourth down conversion, and capped it off with a 1-yard touchdown to make the score 20 – 3.

He became the fourth player to rush for touchdowns in back-to-back Super Bowls, joining Franco Harris, John Riggins and Thomas ).

He was also the fourth player, after Bart Starr ( 1966 ), Terry Bradshaw ( 1978 ), and Joe Montana ( 1989 ), to win both the NFL MVP and Super Bowl MVP during the same season.

; Scales: While, as mentioned under Fingering, a player will usually play a given instrument only in its tonic key and possibly in the key beginning on the fourth ( e. g. G on a D whistle ), nearly any key is possible, becoming progressively more difficult to keep in tune as the player moves away from the whistle's tonic, according to the circle of fifths.

In the third and fourth season, when Enos leaves for his own show, he is replaced by Deputy Cletus Hogg, Boss's cousin, who is slightly more wily than Enos but who is generally also a reluctant player in Hogg's plots.

Later film roles of note include those of suffragist Olive Chancellor in The Bostonians ( 1984, a fourth Best Actress Academy Award nomination ), transsexual tennis player Renée Richards in Second Serve ( 1986 ); Mrs. Wilcox in Howards End ( 1992, her sixth Academy Award nomination, this time in a supporting role ); crime boss Max in Mission: Impossible ( 1996, when discussing the role of Max, DePalma and Cruise thought it would be fun to cast an actor like Redgrave ; they then decided to go with the real thing ); Oscar Wilde ’ s mother in Wilde ( 1997 ); Clarissa Dalloway in Mrs. Dalloway ( 1997 ); and Dr. Sonia Wick in Girl, Interrupted ( 1999 ).

In his second game as a Mariner, on May 20, Henderson hit a leadoff home run, thus becoming the third player to hit a home run in four different decades ( Ted Williams and Willie McCovey were the others, and Omar Vizquel became the fourth in 2010 ).

A letter in The Times ( London ), January 16, 1905, signed by Oswald Crawford, describes auction bridge as first played in 1904, while a book by " John Doe " ( F. Roe ), published in Alláhábád, India, in 1889, puts forward auction bridge as an invention of three members of the Indian Civil Service stationed at an isolated community, designed a three-handed form of bridge to compensate the lack of a fourth player.

The NRA rules state that a half rounder is scored if half a circuit is completed by a player without being put out, or if the batter has not hit the ball but makes it all the way to the fourth base.

One rounder is gained if the player reaches the fourth post and touches it before the next ball is bowled and is not caught out and hit by the ball.

A half rounder is gained if: the player reaches the fourth post having missed the ball ; the player reaches the second post having hit the ball ; if a batter is obstructed by a fielder whilst running ; or if the same batter has two consecutive no balls.

Ward was honored with the Conn Smythe Trophy for the playoffs ' most valuable player, becoming just the fourth rookie to be honored with the award.

Tim Duncan was named Finals MVP, becoming only the fourth player to win the MVP award three times ( joining Magic Johnson, Shaquille O ' Neal, and Michael Jordan ).

At the end of each race, points are awarded based on what order the player finished in ranging from one point for fourth to nine points for the winner of the race.

For example in a casino with a three-raise rule, if one player opens the betting for $ 5, the next raises by $ 5 making it $ 10, a third player raises another $ 5, and a fourth player raises $ 5 again making the current bet $ 20, the betting is said to be capped at that point, and no further raises beyond the $ 20 level will be allowed on that round.

A fourth face-up card and fourth betting round is followed by a showdown, if necessary ( it usually won't be – most deals of five-card stud end early when a player bets and gets no calls ).