Nor is it an accident that baseball, growing into the national game in the last 75 years, has become a microcosm of American life, that learned societies such as the American Folklore Society and the American Historical Association were founded in the 1880s, or that courses in American literature, American civilization, American anything have swept our school and college curricula.

Waters injured his left knee in the last game of the 1960 season.

I never did miss one in a playoff game -- I kicked about 20 in the five playoff games my last two years ''.

The Texas Aggies got a day off Monday -- a special gift from Coach Jim Myers for its conference victory last Saturday night, but Myers announced that halfback George Hargett, shaken up in the Tech game, would not play against Trinity Saturday.

Larry Scherer last night pitched a no-hit game, said to be the first in Billiken baseball history, as the Blue and White beat Southeast Missouri State College, 5-1, at Crystal City.

Alumni played its last game in 1911 and was definitely dissolved on April 24, 1913.

Three years he was occupied in campaigns against the Slavic Wends, who as pagans were considered fair game, and whose subjugation to Christianity was the aim of the Wendish Crusade of 1147 in which Albert took part ; diplomatic measures were more successful, and by an arrangement made with the last of the Wendish princes of Brandenburg, Pribislav of the Hevelli, Albert secured this district when the prince died in 1150.

When emulators of 1980s video game consoles began to appear on home computers in the late 1990s, the Atari 7800 was one of the last to be emulated.

It would be his last game ; during spring training the following year he developed glaucoma, which ended his career.

It was not unusual for a single baseball to last an entire game.

It turned out that the Cubs and Giants ended the season tied for first place, so the game was indeed replayed, and the Cubs won the game, the pennant, and subsequently the World Series ( the last Cubs Series victory to date, as it turns out ).

* Book on 2001 WS is " the last word on the inside game of baseball "

When the last hand has finished being played, the dealer reveals the hole card, and stands or draws further cards according to the rules of the game for dealer drawing.

However, United maintained their aggregate lead to reach the last four and were in jubilant mood as they left to catch their flight home, thinking of an important League game against Wolves at the weekend.

His last game was against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on 28 April 1973, and before the game the BBC cameras for Match of the Day captured the Chelsea chairman handing Charlton a commemorative cigarette case.

But with their last move, they have to open the next ( and larger ) chain, and the novice loses the game.

For his last game, the theme from Pearl Harbor, " There You'll Be " by Faith Hill, was featured.

The theme from Field of Dreams was played at the last game at Memorial Stadium in 1991, and the song " Magic to Do " from the stage musical Pippin was used that season to commemorate " Orioles Magic " on 33rd Street.

Of the eight original American League teams, the Orioles were the last of the eight to win the World Series, doing so in 1966 with its four – game sweep of the heavily favored Los Angeles Dodgers.

At the end of the game, the last remaining housemate is declared the winner of that particular series and receives prizes, often including a large amount of money, a car, a vacation and ( in some editions ) a house.

The game is organised by the Rotary club of Bodmin and was last played in 2010.

On the last pitch, the overconfident Casey strikes out, ending the game and sending the crowd home unhappy.

:::" One inning more to play " in standard baseball jargon means that the home team has one set of at-bats remaining: the poem is set just before the start of Mudville's final turn ( of a regulation game ), in the bottom of the ninth inning ( Mudville was the home team and the home team bats last in an inning ).

It was the third game in the Hexen / Heretic series, and the last in the Serpent Riders trilogy.

The creator of the series would then go on to produce the second of his " Agri-soap " trilogy Bracken starring Gabriel Byrne whose character had appeared in the last number of season of The Riordans.

Recycler was also the last of a distinct sonic trilogy in the ZZ Top catalogue.

* Seneca writes the tragedy Agamemnon, which he intends to be read as the last chapter of a trilogy including two of his other tragedies, Medea and Edipus.

UK chillout maestro Mixmaster Morris also named his band The Irresistible Force after one that appears at the festival in the last part of the trilogy.

* the story was also inserted in C Dart-Thornton's last book of the Bitterbynd trilogy

Whereas the play ( and the trilogy of which it is the last play ) was meant to end with somber mourning for the dead brothers, the spurious ending features a herald announcing the prohibition against burying Polyneices, and Antigone's declaration that she will defy that edict

These rivers play an important role in The Tiger in the Well, the last Sally Lockhart mystery in Philip Pullman's trilogy.

is a platform game developed by Rare and published by Nintendo and was the last installment in the Donkey Kong Country trilogy until Nintendo announced Retro Studios would be developing the next installment, Donkey Kong Country Returns for the Nintendo Wii.

This trilogy was complemented by his last opera Lysistrata, first performed in Athens ( 14 April 2002 ): a call for peace ... With his operas, and with his song cycles from 1974 to 2006, Theodorakis ushered in the period of his Lyrical Life.

His last well-known film appearances were in 2002 through 2007 as Uncle Ben in the Spider-Man film trilogy.

The film was originally intended to be the last in a trilogy, until director Robert Rodriguez conceived Spy Kids: All the Time in the World, released on August 19, 2011.

The film forms the second part of an informal trilogy, together with the first part Days of Being Wild ( released in 1991 ) and the last part 2046 ( released in 2004 ).

It was the last of three books in the " breeder set " trilogy, released in 1930, to test-market the series.

This follow-up to 2003 ’ s Scandinavian Leather and the last offering in the Apocalypse trilogy was released throughout Europe on the 9th of May ( Norway 2 May ).

* The same theme is taken up in Guy Gavriel Kay's " The Fionavar Tapestry ", where the Athurian characters are resurrected and have further adventures in the world of Fionavar, in the course of which they overcome the jealousies of their previous lives ; when last appearing in this trilogy, Guinevere is depicted having one of her arms around each of the two men, the three of them bound to live happily ever after.

For this trilogy ( begun in the previous serial, Mawdryn Undead, and concluded in the next serial, Enlightenment ), the enemy was the Black Guardian, who last faced the fourth incarnation of the Doctor at the conclusion of The Key to Time saga in The Armageddon Factor ( 1979 ).

Referring to the subjectivity of reality throughout the film trilogy, Morpheus ' last line in Matrix Revolutions, said in disbelief as the Sentinels retreat from Zion, is " Is this real?

Imago, the last book of the trilogy, implies that ooloi, unlike the other genders, are capable of deception, keeping secrets and feelings of possessiveness.

* April 3-In the last chapter of the Olivares-Castillo trilogy, Rubén Olivares recovers from a knockdown to regain the world Featherweight title with a fifteen round unanimous decision over Chucho Castillo in Inglewood.

* September 28-In the last chapter of their trilogy, Muhammad Ali retains the world Heavyweight championship with a disputed fifteen round unanimous decision over Ken Norton, at New York's Yankee Stadium.

Fabricant was the ' political adviser ' to the BBC series The Final Cut, the last of the House of Cards trilogy starring Ian Richardson the infamous Machiavellian Prime Minister, Francis Urquhart.

* The Amber Spyglass, the last book in the His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman

Although the novel is the first part of the Trilogy, the film was the last part of Hoffman's version of the trilogy to be made, following The Deluge, which was filmed in 1974, and Colonel Wolodyjowski, which was filmed in 1969.

In three novels-the last book of the Psi Corp trilogy, and the last two books of the Centauri Prime trilogy-the authors explored the period between the end of Babylon 5 and Sheridan's death in 2281.