* Article on changing HBP rates in The Hardball Times

* The Hardball Times is a website as well as an annual volume that evaluates the preceding major league season and presents original research articles on various sabermetric topics.

* John Walsh, " Strike Zone: Fact vs. Fiction ," The Hardball Times, July 11, 2007.

The Hardball Times has developed its own Win Shares, as well as a number of derivative statistics, such as Win Shares Above Bench, Win Shares Percentage, Win Shares Above Average, and All Star Win Shares.

* Sortable Win Shares for 2004-2008 MLB-The Hardball Times

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* The Williams-Santo Cubs 1961-1965 @ The Hardball Times

* 15-july 21-1963 / The Hardball Times ' This Week in Annotated Baseball History discusses Thigpen's career

* Interview, The Hardball Times, 5 / 2 / 05

In addition to those more obvious changes, Craig Brown of The Hardball Times also attributed Mussina's renaissance to excellent control, noting that he was walking fewer batters than ever before and was becoming a ground-ball pitcher for the first time in his career.

Entering the season The Hardball Times predicted him as their " consensus pick for the Cy Young ".

Vazquez throws from a 3 / 4 arm slot with " good command of a running / sinking fastball " that has, according to FanGraphs, overall averaged 91 mph according to Josh Kalk of The Hardball Times was " over 93 mph on average " in his peak.

Dave Studeman of The Hardball Times derived Expected Fielding Independent Pitching ( xFIP ), a regressed version of FIP.

Never known for his speed on the basepaths, Phillips was picked as the slowest active ballplayer by using a formula based on Bill James ' speed scores by the Hardball Times in April 2006.

The Hardball Times measured the average age of all Major League Baseball teams relative to how much each player contributed to his team.

One Hardball Times writer predicted that the Giants ' old players would stop producing in the future.

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In 1994, he co-starred on the Fox comedy Hardball as Frank Valente, the young, ego-centric star player on a fictional professional baseball team.

* Hardball, a sports term used to distinguish baseball from its variant softball

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Hardball 5 is notable in its features which have since become standard in modern baseball video games:

* The season 3 Numb3rs episode " Hardball " focuses on sabermetrics, and the season 1 episode " Sacrifice " also covers the subject.

Although his ratings were less than 1 / 6 Bill O ' Reilly, whose The O ' Reilly Factor shared the same time slot, Donahue was the highest rated show on MSNBC at the time it was canceled, managing to beat out Chris Matthews ' " Hardball " in the ratings .< ref name = surr >

On August 31, 2006, Harris was interviewed on Hardball with Chris Matthews, where she responded to the criticisms from her former staffers with " We have their email traffic, we know what was behind all that, we know who's been paid and who isn't.

Hardball is a talking-head style cable news show where the moderator advances opinions on a wide range of topics, focusing primarily on current political issues.

After moving over to CNBC during the rampdown of America's Talking, the show was renamed Hardball with Chris Matthews and eventually moved to MSNBC, where it still airs nightly at 5 p. m. and 7 p. m.

After passing a leadership course, Gravity was made the leader of Nevada's Initiative team, the Heavy Hitters, where he was joined by Initiative graduates Hardball, Nonstop and Telemetry.

Another member of the jury, Ann Redington, who broke down and cried as the verdict was being read, also told Chris Matthews, in a March 7, 2007, appearance on Hardball, that she hoped Libby would eventually be pardoned by President Bush ; she told Matthews that she believed Libby " got caught in a difficult situation where he got caught in the initial lie, and it just snowballed " and added: " It kind of bothers me that there was this whole big crime being investigated and he got caught up in the investigation as opposed to in the actual crime that was supposedly committed.

In 2008, the Raptors added a new spectator deck large enough for 1, 200 spectators, two more concession stands, a Hardball Café, and an additional 2, 000 fixed seats to the stadium.

Buchanan stated on the September 7, 2004 edition of Hardball with Chris Matthews, " There is a chance I would vote for Peroutka.

* Chris Matthews, television talk show host and pundit, known for a nightly hour-long talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews on MSNBC

Christopher John " Chris " Matthews ( born December 17, 1945 ) is an American news anchor and political commentator known for his nightly hour-long talk show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, which is televised on the American cable television channel MSNBC.

On March 22, 2009, Matthews renewed the contract for Hardball with Chris Matthews through 2012.

Matthews apologized for the comments on the January 17, 2008, edition of Hardball.

In February 2010 the Family Research Council's Senior Researcher for Policy Studies, Peter Sprigg, stated on NBC's Hardball that gay behavior should be outlawed and that " criminal sanctions against homosexual behavior " should be enforced.

He has also appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews speaking for Obama.

On Hardball, McCarthy said that she thought Gillibrand was working for the NRA.

* Hardball is a free computer game similar to Breakout which was made for the Palm OS.

In August 2004, following claims by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that presidential candidate John Kerry had exaggerated his record during the Vietnam War, Malkin appeared on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews and stated that there were " legitimate questions " over whether Kerry's wounds were " self-inflicted.

Guerriero is an advocate for equality, having appeared on major television programs such as Nightline, Hardball with Chris Matthews, The Today Show, and The O ' Reilly Factor.

* Hardball, a computer game made for the Palm OS and similar to Breakout

* Hardball, a slang term used for full metal jacket bullet pistol ammunition, particularly in. 45 ACP caliber

On May 1, 2002, on MSNBC's " Hardball with Chris Matthews ", Armey, then the House Republican Majority Leader, called for Palestinians to be expelled from the Palestinian Occupied Territories.

The first games for the Atari ST were mostly ports from 8-bit platforms, like Hardball and SunDog, or from old arcade games like Crystal Castles.

Matthews told Malkin that Hardball " is not a show for this kind of talk.

On " Hardball with Chris Matthews " for September 19, 2008, Cramer stated " It's not too late to be on the pom-pom ... the sideline " in regards to home teaser loans.

The program initially replaced Hardball with Chris Matthews, which moved to sister channel MSNBC, for the 8 p. m. Eastern Time slot, but later moved to the 5 p. m. slot.

As the Shadow Initiative prepares to capture Hardball in Madripoor, Mary reveals that the reason why she joined the Initiative is because she couldn't merge or block out her four personalities, so she offered to join in exchange for a pardon and to help integrate her fractured mind, which is still a work in progress.