* The Babe Ruth Award is an annual award given to the Major League Baseball ( MLB ) player with the best performance in the World Series.

Despite the solid offensive performance, the bullpen struggled with 23 blown saves ( a Major League worst ), and the Indians finished a disappointing fourth.

Later in the 2012 season, Melky Cabrera was suspended by Major League Baseball for 50 games for the use of performance enhancing drugs.

Hand salutes similar to those used in the military are rendered by the Drum Major of a marching band or drum corps just prior to beginning their performance ( after the show announcer asks if the group is ready ), as well as following completion of the performance, both rendered to the audience.

In 1993, the choir joined actor James Earl Jones in a performance of the Star-Spangled Banner at the 1993 Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, broadcast on CBS.

Major areas of investigation included: how to use this novel platform to effectively meet its scientific goals, how to make such massively parallel machines more usable, and how to achieve performance targets at a reasonable cost, through novel machine architectures.

Major criticism and praise involving Ronstadt's politics arose during a July 17, 2004, performance at the Aladdin Theatre for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas.

" Lamont's view expressed in his memoirs was more nuanced: without the discipline of the ERM, the Major government would have given up on the fight against inflation before Black Wednesday ; ERM membership delivered a sharp break in Britain's inflation performance ; the judgment of the markets that the higher rates needed to maintain Britain's membership was undoubtedly correct ; " the ERM was a tool that broke in my hands when it had accomplished all that it could usefully do.

* Felix Mendelssohn conducts the first performance of Franz Schubert's Great C Major Symphony

The DT's are estimated Major League equivalent performance statistics based on player statistics from minor league and international baseball.

On 6 March, Major General George S. Patton was placed in command of II Corps, with the explicit task of improving performance.

* Rawlings Gold Glove Award, given to Major League Baseball players for outstanding defensive performance

Since, the Luis Aparicio Award is presented annually to honor the Venezuelan player who recorded the best individual performance in Major League Baseball, as voted on by sports journalists in Venezuela.

In either case, the skills of the team managers come into play in the " preseason " by their knowledge of the talent and ability to forecast the performance of Major League Baseball players and prospects for the coming season.

The team managers draw on a great variety of sources of information, including tout sheets by various forecasters, who predict the coming season's performance and the likely overall " value " ( often in terms of auction dollars ) of the Major League players.

The overall pitching statistics in MLB's 1968 season, led by Gibson's individual record setting performance, are often cited as one of the reasons for Major League Baseball's decision to alter pitching related rules.

* The modal age of the peak performance year for Major League Baseball position players, according to a commonly accepted theory by sabermetrician Bill James

He pitched in the 1987 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, but he suffered a shoulder injury that hampered his second-half performance.

Early doubts about the division's performance earned it the nickname of " Harper's Duds " after the name of its commander Major General G. M.

The book argues that the Oakland A's ' front office took advantage of more analytical gauges of player performance to field a team that could compete successfully against richer competitors in Major League Baseball ( MLB ).

When the stalemate was finally broken in the spring of 1944, the corps had lost another commander ; Lucas was sacked for his poor performance and replaced by Major General Lucian Truscott.

In their annual performance evaluations, called " fitness reports ", eligible Gunnery Sergeants indicate whether they wish to be considered for promotion to Master Sergeant or First Sergeant, and thus whether they enter the promotional track for Master Gunnery Sergeant or Sergeant Major.

Major performance troupes are based in Beijing and Tianjin in the north, and Shanghai in the south.

Fontaine is the only actress to have won an Academy Award for a performance in a film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Suspicion.

This is the only Academy Award winning performance directed by Hitchcock.

She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama film On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), and later starred in the thriller film North by Northwest ( 1959 ), directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Her best-known performance was as " Marion Crane " in the Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho ( 1960 ).

'" Whether they were thinking in Selznick's box office terms or in more artistic ones, Dozier and Hitchcock agreed, and Rains's performance transforms Sebastian into a classic Hitchcock villain: sympathetic, nuanced, in some ways as admirable as the protagonist.

Cited by the New York Times for a performance that was " charming and skillful ", Carroll became very much in demand thanks, in part, to director Hitchcock, who later admitted that he worked very hard with her to bring out the vivacious and sexy qualities she possessed offscreen, but which sometimes vanished when cameras rolled.

Alfred Hitchcock took notice of the low-budget film's performance at the box office, and set out to make his own low-budget horror film, which became the critically acclaimed hit Psycho ( 1960 ).

Following their performance on the Xingolati Cruise in late 2005 the band dismissed Hitchcock from the group.

* Serjeant Musgrave's Dance ( Mrs. Hitchcock ), Old Vic, 1983-84 ( with Albert Finney as Sgt Musgrave, there was a performance on 23 May 1984 at the Old Vic )

During the early stages of his career he worked with the Boulting Brothers on Private's Progress and Carlton-Browne of the F. O .. His performance as Crow in The Flight of the Phoenix ( 1965 ) earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor, making him the first Scottish actor to receive this honour ; he also received a Golden Globe nomination for New Star of the Year-Actor.

The Meat Puppets later gained significant exposure when the Kirkwood brothers served as guest musicians on Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance in 1993.

At the end of one particular performance, a U. S. Marine in the audience shouted, " That was righteous, brothers!

The brothers have infamously, despite their high status in the mainstream, never appeared on Top of the Pops, with the use of music videos to replace the performance, sometimes accompanied by a video apologising for their absence.

The Essex Rebellion of 1601 has a dramatic element as just before the uprising, supporters of the Earl of Essex, among them Charles and Joscelyn Percy ( younger brothers of the Earl of Northumberland ), paid for a performance of Richard II at the Globe Theatre, apparently with the goal of stirring public ill will towards the monarchy.

On 7 February 1601, just before the uprising, supporters of the Earl of Essex, among them Charles and Joscelyn Percy ( younger brothers of the Earl of Northumberland ), paid for a performance at the Globe Theatre on the eve of their armed rebellion.

These famous brothers sold out the three performances in less than 1 hour, each performance was sold out in 10 minutes.

" The final straw for the band came at the Rock En Seine festival in Paris when an altercation between the brothers prior to their performance ( an altercation subsequently described by Noel as " no physical violence but there was a lot of World Wrestling Federation stuff ") resulted in the destruction of one of Noel's guitars and saw him announce his departure from the group.

During the performance, the two brothers shook hands at the end of " Acquiesce ".

At the end of the performance of " Why ", all 3 brothers broke down into tears.

It was a benefit performance, and the only time that the three brothers would appear together on the same stage.

* The Muscle Magician: Chunk is being made fun of by the other, 36-year-old brothers for only being 35 and a half, and therefore a “ kid ”, so he runs away and attends a circus performance where he finds a magician who controls people ’ s muscles.

The band's first performance was in 1988 at Putnam's mother's house in front of some family members, namely his mother, his two little brothers and his grandmother, as well as some of his mother's friends.

While the original performance includes the satirically quoted word " niggers ", subsequent performances by the reformed Dead Kennedys, and other artists listed here have substituted the word " brothers " in its place.

Alice Cooper was friends with the Krofft brothers and submitted an original performance both as a favor to them and to promote his upcoming album release.

In 1927 he rejoined the Lockheed brothers and their new ( 1926 ) Lockheed Corporation, working as chief engineer on the Lockheed Vega, the civilian transport monoplane with a cantilever wing that produced unusually high performance for that period, and was widely used by such top pilots as Wiley Post, Amelia Earhart, and Hubert Wilkins.

His parents had met at one of the first performances of Pelléas et Mélisande in 1902 ; his mother and two brothers were singers, and his sister, 15 years older, was the soprano Geneviève Touraine, who gave the first performance of Poulenc's Fiançailles pour rire in 1942.

Some other regularly featured highlights include a " Breakdown " ( in which ESPN analyst Sean Salisbury would comedically break down an athlete's performance in a previously hosted segment ), " Do Not Lend Tapes to This Person " ( which is usually a pre / post-commercial close-up shot of a poster featuring a notorious celebrity such as Vince McMahon or George W. Bush, athlete or fictional character such as Bigfoot or Freddy Krueger ; a picture of the Sklars on the board was the series ' final shot ), " What to Look For " ( in which the Sklar brothers point out certain happenings that they find ironic or personally amusing ), " Cheap Shot of the Week " ( which usually showcases an athlete featured earlier in the show at their worst ), and " What Got Cut " ( which shows the viewer at home what didn't make the cut due to time constraints, also an acknowledgment that the show once ran in hour-long episodes, rather than the latter half-hour ).

Following the disappointing performance of the Geffen LP, the brothers and sisters officially disbanded in 1985.

Part two of the film is based on the struggles of young Michael Jackson as he deals with his brothers marrying early into The Jackson 5 success, his problems with acne as a teenager, his eventual solo superstardom based on the success of his albums Off the Wall and Thriller and his legendary Motown 25 performance of " Billie Jean " as well as his difficult relationship with his father.

Hasni's first significant performance as a singer occurred when he attended a local wedding party, where the group led by the famous Naoui brothers was playing.

The Emperor was a well-known patron of the arts and a composer ; upon hearing Krieger's performance, he was sufficiently impressed to ennoble him and all his brothers and sisters.

A feature of the summer was the emergence of Albert Trott and the performance of the brothers in tandem.

Berlioz wrote a review in Maurice Schlesinger's widely distributed and very influential La Revue et Gazette musicale de Paris of a performance at a music evening given by the Tilmant brothers on May 6, 1838:

There was also a tone of anticipation that members who joined the resurrected Katipunan would be eligible for inclusion in the regular army of the Republic and would “ stand ready to perform such service as our country may call upon them to perform, they will not be permitted to excuse themselves from the performance of such duty and in case of disobedience on their part such punishment as the other brothers consider fitting will be inflicted .” And taking their oaths before God and Country, the members adjourned, with the agreement that the secrets of the reconvened society would not be revealed-or guilty ones would be punished with death!