The tile could create a new chain of tiles, and the player who placed it on the board would have the opportunity to found a new chain.

Once the operator took his finger off, the player would speed up until its tachometer was back in phase with the master, and as this happened, the phasing effect would appear to slide up the frequency spectrum.

This happens when a player has almost no walks or times hit by pitch, with a higher number of sacrifice flies ( e. g. if a player has 2 hits in 6 at bats plus a sacrifice fly, his batting average would be. 333, but his on-base percentage would be. 286 ).

Finally, for 1950 only, runners would be credited with a stolen base if they were " well advanced " toward the base they were attempting to steal ", and the pitcher is charged with a balk, with the further exception of a player attempting to steal, who would otherwise have been forced to advance on the balk by a runner behind them.

Runners would specifically not be charged with being caught, if the player was put out after a wild pitch or passed ball.

During the rough and tumble years of the American-National struggle, player contracts were violated at the independents as well: Players that the team had developed would sign deals with the National or American leagues without any form of compensation to the indy club.

Before the 1910 season, Hugh Chalmers of Chalmers Automobile announced he would present a Chalmers Model 30 automobile to the player with the highest batting average in Major League Baseball at the end of the season.

Charlton's role was developing from traditional inside-forward to what today would be termed an attacking midfield player, with Ramsey planning to build the team for the 1966 World Cup around him.

Faced with position 1, a novice player would create position 2 and lose.

An experienced player would create position 3 and win.

Modell's Baltimore team, while retaining all current player contracts, would, for purposes of team history, appear as an expansion team, a " new franchise.

For instance, if the cube showed the number 2 and a player wanted to redouble the stakes to put it at 4, the opponent choosing to drop the redouble would lose two, or twice the original stake.

During the Labor Day weekend in 1952, The Saddlemen were renamed Bill Haley with Haley's Comets ( inspired by a popular mispronunciation of Halley's Comet ), and in 1953, Haley's recording of " Crazy Man, Crazy " ( co-written by Haley and his bass player, Marshall Lytle although Lytle would not receive credit until 2001 ) became the first rock and roll song to hit the American charts, peaking at no. 15 on Billboard and no. 11 on Cash Box.

A player may not make any move that would put or leave his king under attack.

It is illegal for a player to make a move that would put or leave his own king in check.

Should a player accidentally see a card, other than one's own, proper etiquette would be to admit this.

If a 12 is rolled, it is a push ( this is to reverse the natural house advantage: because the don't come bet puts the player in the position of the house, it would otherwise favour the player ).

In 1987, shortly after it was decided that Charlotte would receive an expansion National Basketball Association franchise ( the Charlotte Hornets ), former NFL player Jerry Richardson met with a group of potential backers to discuss the possibility of bringing an NFL expansion team to the Carolina region.

Bengals quarterback Virgil Carter would be the first player to successfully implement Walsh's system, leading the NFL in pass completion percentage in 1971.

`` Also, if you're going to believe those prints, you'll have to look for a killer who's a top-grade piano player ''.

Benington said, `` I've never seen a player have a game as great as Mankowski did against Bradley that day ''.

The Auction simulates a ' history ' of competition between the descendants of Oberon for player characters who have not had dozens of decades to get to know each other.

After a player places a tile, and the results of that placement have been handled, he may purchase up to three shares of stock.

A player may only purchase shares of stock in chains that have already been founded.

Games can be based on pure strategy, chance ( e. g. rolling dice ) or a mixture of the two, and usually have a goal which a player aims to achieve.

Trivia games have a great deal of randomness based on the questions a player has to answer.

Some games involve commanding multiple game pieces ( or units ), such as chess pieces or Monopoly houses and hotels, that have unique designations and capabilities within the parameters of the game ; in other games, such as Go, all pieces controlled by a player have the same capabilities.

General managers and baseball scouts have long used the major statistics, among other factors and opinions, to understand player value.

But, while a sacrifice fly doesn't affect a player's batting average, it counts as a plate appearance and a lower on-base percentage, and a player on a hitting streak will have the hit streak end if he has no official at-bats but has a sacrifice fly.

The main use of the plate appearance statistic is in determining a player's eligibility for leadership in some offensive statistical categories, notably batting average ; currently, a player must have 3. 1 PAs per game scheduled to qualify for the batting title ( for the 162-game schedule, that means 502 PAs ).

Hank Greenberg, Stan Musial, Alex Rodriguez, and Robin Yount have won at different positions, while Rodriguez is the only player who has won the award with two different teams at two different positions.

Jimmie Foxx was the first player to win multiple times ; 9 players have won three times, and 19 have won twice.

Fred Lynn and Ichiro Suzuki are the only two players who have been named Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player in the same year, and Fernando Valenzuela is the only player to have won Rookie of the Year and the Cy Young Award in the same year.

Sam Jethroe is the oldest player to have won the award, at age 32, 33 days older than 2000 winner Kazuhiro Sasaki ( also 32 ).

If the player and dealer have the same point total, this is called a " push " and the player typically doesn't win or lose money on that hand.

The player whose bet is at the front of the betting box is deemed to have control over the position, and the dealer will consult the controlling player for playing decisions regarding the hand ; the other players of that box are said to " play behind ".

* Split ( only available as first decision of a hand ): If the first two cards have the same value, the player can split them into two hands, by moving a second bet equal to the first into an area outside the betting box of the original bet.

Brunei's leaders are concerned that steadily increased integration in the world economy will undermine internal social cohesion although it has taken steps to become a more prominent player by serving as chairman for the 2000 APEC ( Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation ) forum.

Coleman is a flute player and has taken several flutes with her to the ISS, including a pennywhistle from Paddy Moloney of The Chieftains, an old Irish flute from Matt Molloy of The Chieftains, and a flute from Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.

" Cake " was taken to mean someone who was vain and not particularly " manly ," whereas a " lulu " in baseball slang of the period was " an unskilled player ".

Should this player score or be sent off, a drink must be taken.

Otherwise, the player is taken to the Results Screen, which rates the player's performance with a letter grade and a numerical score, among other statistics.

George Blanda was the first player taken in the first draft in 1963. 1963 draft results

While a controversial player both on and off the field at times, Botham also held a number of Test cricket records, and still holds the record for the highest number of wickets taken by an England bowler.

He still holds the record for the highest number of Test wickets taken by an England player ( 383 ).

Since his debut in 1992, Muralitharan has taken 800 Test wickets and over 500 One Day International wickets, becoming the first player to take 1, 000 wickets combined in the two main forms of international cricket.

The player has two minutes to defeat the boss, with the time taken contributing to the player's total score for that Dream.

Carey had been recruited at the same time as Longmire, but taken longer to develop as a player.

* Simplified / Montreal progressive scoring: Each player receives 10 points for satisfying the contract plus twice the number of tricks taken, otherwise they receive zero points.

* Simplified negative scoring: Each player scores the square of the number of overtricks or undertricks taken.

If a player fails to make the contract and takes overtrick ( s ), he / she scores the number of tricks taken.

If a player has overbid, he / she scores the difference between tricks bid and tricks taken times-10.

* Variable bonus scoring: Each player scores one point for each trick taken, plus a variable bonus if the player takes the exact number of tricks bid.

The fact that the shot is taken right after a ceiling shot-floor bounce usually leaves the opponent in the rear of the court defenseless against the CB Pinch, when the player has suddenly rushed forward to take the shot.

In 2004 Feyenoord player Jorge Acuña was taken to hospital with head, neck and rib injuries after Feyenoord players were attacked by Ajax hooligans during a match between the reserve teams of both clubs.

He was voted the sport's greatest living player in a poll taken in the baseball centennial year of 1969.

Players can not take from the stock pile on their first turn unless a player acting prior has taken from the discard pile and discarded a card.

The point of order ends when any player ( or, depending on local rules, only the dealer, or only the player that called point of order ) announces " end point of order ," " point taken ," " point of disorder ," or " pick your cards up ," at which point the cards are picked back up and play resumes.

By identifying each square with reference to the player on move, descriptive notation better reflects the symmetry of the game's starting position (" both players opened with P-K4 and planned to play B-KN2 as soon as possible "), and because the pieces captured are named, it is easy to skim over a game record and see which ones have been taken at any particular point.

The Olympic Oath was first taken at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp by the fencer / water polo player Victor Boin.