Some sabermetric statistics have entered the mainstream baseball world that measure a batter's overall performance including On-base plus slugging, commonly referred to as OPS.

Some of the starters of the 2008 season: Ian Stewart ( baseball ) | Ian Stewart, Troy Tulowitzki, Garrett Atkins and Willy Taveras

Some of Bedrock's sports heroes include: football player " Red Granite " ( Red Grange ), wrestler " Bronto Crushrock " ( Bronko Nagurski ), golfer " Arnold Palmrock " ( Arnold Palmer ), boxers " Floyd Patterstone " ( Floyd Patterson ) and " Sonny Listone " ( Sonny Liston ), and baseball players " Sandy Stoneaxe " ( Sandy Koufax ), " Lindy McShale " ( Lindy McDaniel ), " Roger Marble " ( Roger Maris ) and " Mickey Marble " or " Mickey Mantlepiece " ( Mickey Mantle ).

Some baseball historians promptly cried foul and others joined throughout the 20th century.

) Some of his contributions to the language of baseball, like the idea of the " defensive spectrum ", border on being entirely non-statistical.

Some historians speculate that the Giants got word that their star pitcher was risking his life and baseball career for the Stars and ordered him to stop, while others feel that the Stars ' coach got rid of Mathewson because he felt that, since the fullback's punting skills were hardly used, he could replace him with local resident Shirley Ellis.

Some activities in Walkersville are participating in the Glade Valley Athletic Association ( GVAA ) where kids 5-18 can participate in baseball, softball, soccer, basketball, football, lacrosse, wrestling, poms and cheerleading.

Some Japanese baseball teams responded to the success of the J.

Some baseball parks have signature hot dogs, such as Fenway Franks at Fenway Park in Boston and Dodger Dogs at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.

Some soccer, baseball and basketball clubs also have re-edited their former garments to raise their sales.

Some of his other memorable film roles were as the baseball manager in Joe E. Brown's Elmer, the Great ( 1933 ), and as the wedding host in Charlie Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux ( 1947 ).

Some baseball cards can be worth thousands of dollars.

Some winners have gone on to play in other professional sports, including Bo Jackson in baseball and Charlie Ward in basketball.

Some baseball historians consider him one of the greatest players in history.

Some cards, particularly those produced by tobacco companies featuring baseball players, later developed into collectibles and lost their function as a business advertisement.

Some years after the premiere, it was claimed that producer Harry Frazee, a former owner of the Boston Red Sox, financed the show by selling baseball superstar Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees, resulting in the " Curse of the Bambino ," which, according to a popular superstition, kept the Red Sox from winning the World Series from until.

Some baseball writers expressed shock that Alomar failed to get in on the first ballot, but many attributed the near-miss to sportswriters holding a grudge over the 1996 spitting incident with John Hirschbeck, including Alomar's brother Sandy and Hirschbeck himself.

Some baseball observers feel it might be fairer to reverse this ( in other words, always follow the DH rule of the visiting team instead of the home team ), thereby offsetting the home-field advantage as well as exposing the fans of the home team to the other league's rules.

Some armed forces also use baseball caps as part of their uniforms, especially the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard.

Some baseball pitchers throw a variation of the riseball known as a " backspin fastball.

Some examples in baseball include players having to dress up in strange costumes, or getting hit in the face with a cream pie ; a traditional rookie's " hazing " procedure in American football involves taping players to a goalpost and dousing them with ice water, Gatorade, and other substances.

Some baseball historians consider the 1946 election a mistake, and believe that Chesbro was elected solely on the basis of his 1904 season.

Some think that various folk games resulted in a game called town ball from which baseball was eventually born.

Some of their points seem more national loyalty than evidence: Americans tended to reject any suggestion that baseball evolved from an English game, while some English observers concluded that baseball was little more than their rounders without the round.

Some classical rabbinical literature argues that this was the original form of the name and was a reference to the advanced age of Jacob when Benjamin was born.

Some scholars have suggested that Amos ’ s reference to Edom is symbolic of all nations who were once enemies of Israel and not meant to literally mean Edomites in the flesh.

Some questions are still unanswered, such as the inclusion in the BCI repertoire of some characters ( currently about 24 ) that are already encoded in the UCS ( like digits, punctuation signs, spaces and some markers ), but whose unification may cause problems due to the very strict graphical layouts required by the published Bliss reference guides.

Some historians believe that the story by Petrus Olai refers to a source from the first half of the 15th century, making this the oldest reference to the falling flag.

Some interpreters understand this reference to be an allusion to the events described in Zechariah 3: 1, 2.

Some modern reference works of history call Keitai simply King Ohoto of Koshi.

The first reference to the incendiary properties of such mixtures is the passage of the Zhenyuan miaodao yaolüe, a Taoist text tentatively dated to the mid-9th century AD: " Some have heated together sulfur, realgar and saltpeter with honey ; smoke and flames result, so that their hands and faces have been burnt, and even the whole house where they were working burned down.

Some arguments in favor of partial authenticity rely on the language used in the Testimonim, e. g. that the passage calls Jesus " a wise man " which is not laudatory enough for an interpolator, neither is the reference to " amazing deeds ".

Some Islamic scholars dispute the authenticity of this reference and consider the meaning of jihad as a holy war to be more important.

In 1963 he published an article that was extremely influential in the field: " Some universals of grammar with particular reference to the order of meaningful elements ".

Some extremely large or traditional research libraries are entirely reference in this sense, lending none of their material ; most academic research libraries, at least in the U. S., now lend books, but not periodicals or other material.

Some items at reference libraries may be historical and even unique.

Some libraries have additional galleries beyond the public ones, where reference materials are stored.

Some standard values of atmospheric pressure such as 101. 325 kPa or 100 kPa have been defined, and some instruments use one of these standard values as a constant zero reference instead of the actual variable ambient air pressure.

Some scholars regard the reference in Mark as a late addition, and the reference is possibly based on the Gospel of Luke.

Some critics also believe the explicit reference to the Trinity in 1 John to have been a later addition.

Some languages are defined by a specification document ( for example, the C programming language is specified by an ISO Standard ), while other languages, such as Perl 5 and earlier, have a dominant implementation that is used as a reference.

Some sociologists have also pointed out, with reference to the USA and elsewhere, that forms of racism have in many instances mutated from more blatant expressions hereof into more covert kinds ( albeit that blatant forms of hatred and discrimination still endure ).

Some adaptations of weighted reference counting seek to avoid this by attempting to give weight back from a dying reference to one which is still active.

Some of the reasons reference counting may have been preferred to other forms of garbage collection in Delphi include:

Some antirealists attempt to explain the success of scientific theories without reference to truth.

Some modern optical power meters have the capability to set to zero the reference level measured at the output of the reference fiber, so that the transmission loss of the fiber under test may be read out directly.