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.

( or ): A player missing the opponent's ball added one point to his opponent's total ; the shooter conceded two points if that player's own ball ( then acting as the ) went into a pocket after striking the opponent's ball ; and the player conceded three points if the cue ball was pocketed without even hitting the opponent's ball.

A player committing a foul must return one carrom man that was already pocketed.

" On a " due ", the player has to replace one previously pocketed carrom man on the board.

A typical game might require a player to score 100 points, meaning at least 100 balls must be pocketed to win.

The penalties for a are the loss of 1 point, re-a previously pocketed ball if possible, and in the case of a "" the incoming player gets behind the.

Therefore, any ball pocketed prior to the scratch ( on the same turn ) remains in the pockets ; otherwise the potentially unaffected third player could be placed at a disadvantage no fault of his own.

In this circumstance, the player who scratches selects one of his or her own balls to be pocketed immediately.

In the extreme peculiarity that the final shot leaves only the cue ball on the table ( i. e. a player has pocketed his opponent's ball and inadvertently his own ball in a single shot ) 1 ball of each set will be placed at the break mark and the shooting player continues.

For example: in checkers, if a player jumps the opponent's piece, that piece is captured.

When a player removes a large group ( four bubbles or more ) some of those removed are transferred to the opponent's arena, usually delaying their efforts to remove all the bubbles from their individual arena.

If the losing player has not borne off any checkers and still has checkers on the bar or in the opponent's home board, then the player has lost a backgammon, which counts for triple a normal loss.

( In some instances a player may choose to stop the jumping sequence part way, in order to impede the opponent's progress, or to align pieces for planned future moves.

For example, if a player's " home " or destination corner is empty ( not an opponent's starting corner ), the player can freely arrange his / her pieces to serve as a ' ladder ' or ' bridge ' between the two opposite ends.

A player will often endeavour to finish a turn with the opponent's balls wired from each other.

; Touchdown: Achieved when the ball is in possession of a player in the opponent's goal area, or when the ball in the possession of a player crosses or touches the plane of the opponent's goal-line, worth 6 points ( 5 points until 1956 ).

In American and Canadian football, a forward pass — usually referred to simply as a pass — consists of one offensive player throwing the football towards another downfield in the direction of the opponent's goal line.

It is possible that an opponent could have as little as something like 7 ♣ 9 ♣ ( making a pair of sevens ); in this case even catching any of the three remaining aces or tens will give the player a pair to beat the opponent's, so those are even more potential outs.

According to David Sklansky, game theory shows that a player should bluff a percentage of the time equal to his opponent's pot odds to call the bluff.

For example, it is a foul for a player to reach over an opponent's mount in an attempt to hook.

In a ride-off, a player rides his pony alongside an opponent's mount in order to move an opponent away from the ball or to take him out of a play.

A player wins by either getting 5 ( or more ) of their stones in a row or by capturing 5 ( or more ) pairs of their opponent's stones.

For example, by blocking one end of a tessera, a player has changed his opponent's tessera into a potential pente ( which, of course, the opponent would make into a pente ).

Also, captures can greatly alter the state of the board, so players should beware the potential for captures to bring new life to the opponent's old threats, or to invalidate formations that a player is trying to create.

Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court.

A skilled player can impart several varieties of spin to the ball, altering its trajectory and limiting an opponent's options to great advantage.

The player has the right to inspect his opponent's racket before a match to see the type of rubber used and what color it is.

When a player captures an opponent's piece, the player can make a play on the tic-tac-toe board regardless if the other player has not yet made a play.