Out of the church and into his big car, it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college, his expansiveness, the quaint little pine board tourist courts, cabins really, with a cute naked light bulb in the ceiling ( unfrosted and naked as a streetlight, like the one on the corner where you used to play when you were a kid, where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs, watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ), a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls, an insect Highway Patrol with feelers waving.

Later, defeated Queensland Premier Wayne Goss said that the people of his state had turned so violently on Keating that they were " sitting on their verandas with baseball bats " waiting for the writs to drop.

Von Soemmerring did not change his opinion that these forms were bats and this " bat model " for interpreting pterosaurs would remain influential long after a consensus had been reached around 1860 that they were reptiles.

Major League Baseball confiscated and tested 76 of Sosa's other bats after his ejection ; all were found to be clean, with no cork.

Five bats he had sent to the Hall of Fame in past years were also tested, and were all clean as well.

Because people were getting smashed with bats.

He therefore fashioned smaller bats for them, to suit their sizes, and they were taught to play straight and " learn defence, with the left shoulder well forward ", before attempting to hit.

He wrote that two teams were first seen carrying their curving bats to the venue, choosing a pitch and arguing over the rules to be played.

In the sitcom, references were made to an innumerable collection of bizarre and unconventional creatures such as hawks, bats, and alligators, although there were a handful with some consistency throughout the various media which the characters have subsequently appeared in.

They were originally made of lead, but in the 15th century, magically reinforced beaters bats were introduced.

This process often produced images which were reminiscent of real organisms for instance beetles, bats, or trees.

Details of his baseball career — which were still fresh in most fans ' minds in 1942 — are limited to montages of ballparks, pennants, and Cooper swinging bats and running bases, though Gehrig's best-known major league record — 2, 130 consecutive games played — is prominently cited.

The ancestors of both bats and birds were terrestrial quadrupeds, and each has independently evolved powered flight via adaptations of their forelimbs.

For example, in the 1980s and 1990s, some researchers proposed ( based primarily on the similarity of the visual pathways ) that the Megachiroptera were in fact more closely affiliated with the primates than the Microchiroptera, with the two groups of bats having therefore evolved flight via convergence ( see Flying primates theory ).

These were often called washing beetles or bats and could be used by the waterside on a rock ( a beetling-stone ), on a block ( battling-block ), or on a board.

The willow is used for making cricket bats, and the trees were first planted in the 1880s when one of the directors saw the need for alternative sources of income.

New Zealand had no land mammals ( apart from native bats ) before humans arrived, and ecological niches occupied by mammals in other parts of the world were taken by nonmammals.

Salangen is the most northern place in the world were bats live.

It was once thought that the main pollinators were bats ; however recent evidence suggests that two nocturnal arboreal mammals, the kinkajou and the olingo, may be the primary pollinators.

Surrounding the walkthrough area, which would include the bats, were enclosures which would house the lemurs, Aye-ayes, Narrow-striped mongoose and Malagasy Giant Rats.

In 2009, Great Tits were reported killing and eating pipistrelle bats.

In the off-season, the Red Sox sold Maxwell to the Baltimore Orioles, but Maxwell had only four at bats for the Orioles before he was sold to the Detroit Tigers on May 9, 1955.

The Vipers intended to auction the bats off to raise funds for their Snakes and Batters charity fund, however they were instead sold to Ripley's Believe it or Not for $ 10, 000.

Today, Hillerich & Bradsby manufactures over one million wooden bats per year, accounting for about two of three wooden bats sold worldwide.

By the 1920s, bats made from Australian wood were shaped and sold under the R M Crockett label.

This evolved in the late 1990s into the treatment of other parts ( that did more than just increase the life of a product ) such as amplifier valves ( improved sound quality ), baseball bats ( greater sweet spot ), golf clubs ( greater sweet spot ), racing engines ( greater performance under stress ), firearms ( less warping after continuous shooting ), knives, razor blades, brake rotors and even pantyhose.

Games played under these rules use smaller bats and balls and are played on a smaller pitch compared to GAA games.

In Austin, Texas, a colony of Mexican free-tailed bats summers ( they winter in Mexico ) under the Congress Avenue Bridge ten blocks south of the Texas State Capitol.

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The widespread use of maple bats has come under fire recently, because maple bats are more likely than ash bats to shatter into multiple pieces.

The bats incinerated the test range and roosted under a fuel tank.

Some plants, invertebrates, sea mammals, and many flying species as aquatic birds, parrots, and bats have spread to new locations, either under their own power or due to freak events such as storms, or have been transported by human actions.

The league is designed to give college players the minor league experience, providing players an opportunity to play under the same conditions using wooden bats, minor league specification baseballs, experiencing overnight road trips, and playing nightly before fans in a stadium.

Teams are run similar to a professional minor league team, providing players an opportunity to play under the same conditions, using wooden bats and minor league specification baseballs.

Linnaeus was the first to remove bats from the birds and classify them under mammals.

Two different species of flying fox ( bats ) have also been found on the island ( described under National Park ).

He was a 1963 All-American and set the school record for season batting average (. 537 ) that year, which was the national leading average for 100 at bats and under.

The league is designed to give college players the minor league experience, providing players an opportunity to play under the same conditions using wooden bats, minor league specification baseballs, experiencing overnight road trips, and playing nightly before fans in a stadium.

McDougall, who bats and throws right-handed, played college baseball for the Florida State University Seminoles ( 1999 – 2000 ), where he played under head coach Mike Martin and was a first team consensus All-American in 1999.

The bats will most likely be found in the forest roosting under leaves.

All bats in Britain are protected under Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act of 1981.

Rabid bats can be avoided by jumping as well as slipping under, fire ants must be jumped a total of three times in order to pass a screen containing them, and piranha fish swim randomly in either direction.

Like in the Sega CD game, Jonathan Harker has to Punch and kick his enemies, such as bats, rats, snakes, spiders, gargoyles, and more critters, as well as some of his henchmen, that are all under the Vampire lord's control.

In the 1982 World Series, Iorg played for the Cardinals, primarily as their World Series designated hitter ( the entire 1982 World Series was played under American League rules ) and batted. 529 with 9 hits in 17 at bats as the Cardinals defeated the Milwaukee Brewers in seven games.

Every morning when Jeff wakes up, he spends some time under a tanning machine, bats around a boxing ball, drinks a health drink, and races the bus to work on foot.