He'll still be a top player, they concede, because he's got a great glove and the long ball going for him.

At one point in the game when the skinny old man in suspenders who was acting as umpire got in the way of a thrown ball and took it painfully in the kidneys, he lay there unattended while players and spectators wrangled over whether the ball was `` dead '' or the base runners were free to score.

In the last of the sixth inning Mike Deegan got up to bat and hit a fast ball over the left fielder's head.

By the time the fielder got his hands on the ball Deegan was rounding third base and heading for home.

Whenever a person got the ball in the basket, his team would gain a point.

Yet he hurled himself downwards and backwards and got the base of his thumb to the ball, with the momentum sending him cascading to the ground.

It was only when he heard the applause and praise of captain Bobby Moore and then looked up and saw the ball trundling towards the advertising hoardings at the far corner, that he realised he'd managed to divert the ball over the bar – he'd known he got a touch but still assumed the ball had gone in.

Right fielder Roger Maris quickly got to the ball and rifled a throw to the infield, preventing Alou from scoring the tying run ( he only reached 3rd base ).

After the ensuing kickoff, New England lost 13 yards in 3 plays and had to punt again, but got the ball back with great field position when defensive back Raymond Clayborn recovered a fumble from Suhey at their own 46-yard line.

* One time, as the referees were spotting the ball before a measurement to determine if the Chiefs got a first down, Stram yelled to the officials, " You didn't mark it right!

After forcing the Cowboys to punt, Baltimore got the ball back on their own 18-yard line.

Dallas ' defense forced Baltimore to punt after 3 plays, and got the ball back with great starting field position after receiving David Lee's 38-yard punt at the Colts 48-yard line with less than 2 minutes left in the game.

The Cowboys got the ball back on their 40-yard line with a few seconds remaining after O ' Brien's ensuing squib kick, but Morton's pass to Garrison was intercepted by Logan at the Baltimore 29-yard line, and time expired.

Then Miami got the ball on their own 37-yard line with 2: 55 left in the first quarter.

) After an exchange of punts, Minnesota got the ball back at their 43-yard line.

Miami went three-and-out, and Minnesota got the ball back at their own 3-yard line.

Miami got the ball back at their 10-yard line with 6: 24 left in the game, and Csonka and Kiick then ran out the clock.

After an exchange of punts, Minnesota got the ball back on their own 20-yard line.

The Steelers offense got the ball back their own 6-yard line with 3: 47 left in the half.

The next time the Raiders got the ball, they did even better, driving 64 yards in 10 plays and scoring on a 1-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Ken Stabler to tight end Dave Casper, increasing their lead to 10 – 0.

Then, Oakland got the ball back in excellent field position after returner Neal Colzie returned Minnesota's punt 25 yards to the Vikings 35-yard line.

The 49ers only gained 8 yards on their ensuing drive, and Bengals got the ball back after receiving Jim Miller's 44 yard punt at their own 47-yard line.

'< p >" A puzzled witness to the ' rain-making ' process said: ' The queerest looking clouds you ever saw began to form soon after they got the thing rolling.

Diogenes having nothing to do – of course no one thought of giving him a job – was moved by the sight to gather up his philosopher's cloak and begin rolling his tub energetically up and down the Craneum ; an acquaintance asked for, and got, the explanation: " I do not want to be thought the only idler in such a busy multitude ; I am rolling my tub to be like the rest.

The cars from fourth row onwards ( Peterson started from the third ) were rolling when the green light came on and got a jump on those ahead, resulting in an accordion effect as the cars approached the chicane, bunching them tightly together.

Straczynski claims to have always intended the Battle of the Line storyline to be resolved in early season two: " I said, from the very beginning, that once the series got rolling, no single primary question could be allowed to go more than about one season before answering it, otherwise you get into a frustrating Twin Peaks situation where * nothing * is resolved ".

Kirby, William R. Kraft, David M. Lewis, Thomas A. Moynahan and Thomas J. O ' Brien got the ball rolling with investments of $ 200 each, and the certificate of incorporation for Indians, Inc. was received from the state of Indiana on November 9, 1955.

So we said let ’ s start recording and get the ball rolling, and we did, but then this contract got presented to us that just wasn ’ t fair.

That said, it was Bobby's success that really got the ball rolling.

However, it was not until 1796 that the Lacroix brand got its first major production deal, during the Napoleonic wars, when Napoleon himself granted the company a licence to produce fine rolling papers for his soldiers who until then had been forced to roll cigarettes using paper torn from the pages of various books.

However, George Washington quickly got the ball rolling, and along with Jefferson, personally oversaw the process as plans were developed and implemented.

Mario Delgado got things rolling with a double, Brett Harker came in to pinch-run, and eventually scored on Gomes ' second RBI single of the game, his 53rd RBI of the season.

Almost immediately after production got rolling in 1945, chief stylist John Reinhart was told, much against his judgment, to update the Clipper.

He had predictable mannerisms-having got to the crease with his " rolling, self-reliant " walk, he took guard, twirled his bat, tapped his bat in the crease and took several shuffling steps up to it.

The FA picked up a reputation for unreliability ( for a Nikon ) and ultimately did not sell as well as hoped because, by the time production got rolling, its technology was eclipsed in the public's imagination by the advent of autofocusing SLRs-especially the landmark Minolta Maxxum 7000 in 1985.

Saab provided engines and spare parts, as well as the assistance of an engineer nicknamed " Turbo Anders " who flew over from Sweden rather frequently once things got rolling.

Wheely Big Cheese got a hit on Panic Attack, rolling it into the air.

Referring to the Vancouver, Canada's USAR team who came to his flooded town's aid, " They started rolling with us and got in boats to save people.

In the United States, the ball got rolling when Holbert Racing began making modifications to their own chassis and rebadging them with " 962 HR -" serial numbers.

That's why the British never got the tribes to fight for the King.

Rumors of the offer Tom Horn had made at the Stockgrowers' Association meeting had leaked out by then, and as a grand jury investigation of the murder got underway, the prosecuting attorney, a Colonel Baird, ordered that the tall stock detective be summoned for questioning.

He flexed his muscles for several minutes, got into the tub, and then grew self-conscious of splashing as he washed.

Every so often the diminishing sound of a car came under the trailer as it slowed down for the wreck then speeded up again as it got clear.

`` You think I got you and Artie and Herr Schaffner all the way out here just for the boat ride??

We of the liberal-led world got all set for peace and rehabilitation.

Henrietta, however, was at that time engaged in a lengthy correspondence with Joe's older and more serious brother, Morris, who was just about her own age and whom she had got to know well during trips to Philadelphia with Papa, when he substituted for Rabbi Jastrow at Rodeph Shalom Temple there during its Rabbi's absence in Europe.

As he made plans for the new Taliesin, Wright also got on paper his conception of a cathedral of steel and glass to house a congregation of all faiths, and the idea for a planetarium with a sloping ramp.

When he heard that Paul Whiteman was looking for singers to replace the Rhythm Boys, Mercer applied and got the job, `` not for my voice, I'm sure, but because I could write songs and material generally ''.

After we got a script and the spots for the songs were blocked out, we'd get together for an hour or so every day.

As I got off the trolley at Kehl bridge the next morning, I was met by what looked like 5,000 students, some of whom were carrying sticks apparently for the coming `` battle '' with the police.

Finally we got them out of the house, after the boy had run away four times looking for other Nazis, threatening to murder village schoolchildren and bragging that he was to be the next Fuhrer.

Then they returned to their hotel and got ready for bed.

But I've got news for Krim: he's not typical, he's pretty special.

The owner of the painting got it for $750,000, sold it for $500,000 in a market crash, and bought it back for $590,000.

Somebody, got to be somebody If I don't put my two cents in soon, somebody else will I know they're waitin only for one thing: for the bastards what done it to be nailed.

He carried the wood, carried the water, did the cooking, cleaning and mending, and occasionally got a kick in the butt for his pains.

When they got home Harold was grateful for the stillness in the apartment, and thought how, under different circumstances, they might have stayed on here, in these old-fashioned, high-ceilinged rooms that reminded him of the Irelands' apartment in the East Eighties.