Playing shortstop, he batted. 402 as a junior and. 401 as a senior ; although he was not drafted, he was offered a contract by the Kansas City Royals.

Playing in his third and final major junior season, Smyl recorded a WCJHL career high 76 points over 53 games.

Playing for his hometown Winnipeg Monarchs, McCarthy was one of the most dominant junior defenders of his era.

Comedian Phil Hartman ( who during his career as a graphic artist had designed several America album covers ) was featured as the voice of a televangelist preacher on " Playing God ".

Playing in six ALCS, he set league playoff records for career games, putouts, assists, total chances and double plays by a shortstop, all of which were broken between 1998 and 2002 by Omar Vizquel and Derek Jeter.

Playing in the position of midfield, Gascoigne's career included spells at Newcastle United, Tottenham Hotspur, Lazio, Rangers, Middlesbrough, Everton and Gansu Tianma, at all of which he scored at least one goal.

Playing on a line with former Oiler teammate Doug Weight, Guerin revived his career, easily eclipsing his disappointing goal-scoring mark from the 2005 – 06 season.

Playing his entire career for St. Louis teams, Brecheen ended his career in as a playing coach with the St. Louis Browns ; it was that team's final season in the city before their move to Baltimore.

Playing second base for the Cardinals, Frisch appeared in four more World Series ( 1928, 1930 – 31, 1934 ), bringing his career total to eight.

Playing for the France national team, Petit earned 63 caps and scored 6 international goals in his career and won the 1998 FIFA World Cup and the Euro 2000.

Playing for the San Francisco Giants most of his career, Marichal was known for his high leg kick, pinpoint control and intimidation tactics, which included aiming pitches directly at the opposing batters ' helmets.

Playing career:

Posey is also the author of Playing With Trains, a book on model railroading published by Random House, and The Mudge Pond Express, an autobiography which centers around his personal racing career and love of the sport.

Playing the vast majority of his career with his home town club of Ajax before traveling the world as both a player and a coach.

Playing as either a central defender or defensive midfielder, he represented five clubs during his professional career, namely Real Madrid – achieving great team success as an important player – and Valencia ; during his early 20's, he also had an unassuming abroad spell, with Roma.

Playing predominately as a striker, but later in his career was used as a midfielder, Clough was capped by England 14 times in the early 1990s.

Playing on a Nuggets team which was one of the worst in the league at the time, Van Exel achieved several career highs.

Playing his 100th career game on November 17, 1981, Peplinski scored four goals against the Winnipeg Jets as part of a career high 30-goal, 67-point season in 1980 – 81 season.

Playing mostly as an inside forward or centre forward ( and occasionally as a right-winger ), Radford spent most of his career at Arsenal.

Playing mostly left field and first base, he batted. 286 with career highs in home runs with 12 and runs batted in with 40.

Playing dual roles for the third time in his career, Suriya appeared as father and son, with both characters also demanding scenes shot throughout their lives ranging from scenes as a 16-year-old to scenes as a 65-year-old.

Playing in Spain since 1999, and representing nearly ten different clubs during his professional career, he received a passport from that country in August 2006.

Playing career:

Playing mainly at inside-forward, he would finish his career with time at Luton Town, Leyton Orient, Brighton and Hove Albion, and Crystal Palace.

Playing in eleven NHL seasons, Engblom finished in NHL career with 29 goals and 177 assists.

Playing to the pitcher's desire to return to his Midwestern roots and challenging Spalding's integrity, Hulbert convinced Spalding to sign a contract to play for the White Stockings ( now known as the Chicago Cubs ) in 1876.

The U. S. Playing Card Company now owns the eponymous Hoyle brand, and publishes a series of rulebooks for various families of card games that have largely standardized the games ' rules in countries and languages where the rulebooks are widely distributed.

Playing at pace, Brazil were putting England under enormous pressure and an attack was begun by captain Carlos Alberto who sent a fizzing low ball down the right flank for the speedy Jairzinho to latch on to.

In November 2007, she took part in Chess Champions League – Playing for a Better World in Vitoria Gasteiz, Spain a tournament to raise funds for equipment for a Hospital in Mbuji-Mayi, Congo.

Playing cards are typically palm-sized for convenient handling.

Playing cards even competed with devotional images as the most common uses for woodcut in this period.

Recently Parma was chosen for the setting of John Grisham's American football comedy Playing for Pizza.

Playing in his first ever NFL playoff game, Warner threw for 395 yards and 5 touchdowns, with 1 interception, as the Rams defeated the Minnesota Vikings, 49 – 37, by scoring 35 unanswered points in the second half.

( Playing a corner in this scenario creates a fork for " X " to win.

Playing in the surf is a favourite activity for many people.

Ars Magica 5th edition won the Origins Award for Best Role Playing Game of 2004.

Playing on the node produces a sonically weak tone, and the technique is only used when the player or composer is looking for a muted sound from the instrument.

* Maurice Denis — Portrait of the Artist Aged Eighteen, Princess Maleine's Minuet or Marthe Playing the Piano, The Green Trees or Beech Trees in Kerduel, October Night ( panel for the decoration of a girl's room )

* Performers Playing Opposite Sex: While several performers have won Tonys for roles that have involved cross dressing, only two have won for playing a character of the opposite sex: Mary Martin in the title role of Peter Pan ( 1955 ) and Harvey Fierstein as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray ( 2003 ).

The violinist and teacher Leopold Auer, writing in his book Violin Playing as I Teach It ( 1920 ), advised violinists to practise playing completely without vibrato, and to stop playing for a few minutes as soon as they noticed themselves playing with vibrato in order for them to gain complete control over their technique.

When the company Iron Crown Enterprises gained the licensing rights for games made from Tolkien's books, they expanded the selection of named dragons considerably in both Middle-earth Role Playing and The Wizards, a trading card game set in Middle-earth.

* The Generic Universal Role Playing System ( GURPS ) sourcebook for Riverworld adventure, by Steve Jackson Games

* 1950, Claude Shannon publishes " Programming a Computer for Playing Chess ", one of the first papers on the problem of computer chess.

* Rules for Playing Rounders GAA

Although Quantz wrote many pieces of music, mainly for the flute ( including around 300 flute concertos and 200 + sonatas ), he is best known today as the author of Versuch einer Anweisung die Flöte traversiere zu spielen ( 1752 ) ( titled On Playing the Flute in English ), a treatise on traverso flute playing.