At one point in the game when the skinny old man in suspenders who was acting as umpire got in the way of a thrown ball and took it painfully in the kidneys, he lay there unattended while players and spectators wrangled over whether the ball was `` dead '' or the base runners were free to score.

Shaw and Skorich headed a group of players, coaches and team officials who received an engrossed copy of an official city citation and a pair of silver cufflinks shaped like a football.

Speakers at a Tipoff Club dinner dealt lavish praise to a group of St. Louis University players who, in the words of Coach John Benington, `` had more confidence in themselves than I did ''.

`` Several times I found the players pepping me up, where it usually is the coach who is supposed to deliver the fight talk.

Andre Kirk Agassi (; born April 29, 1970 in Las Vegas, Nevada ) is a retired American professional tennis player and former World No. 1, who was one of the game's most dominant players from the early 1990s to the mid 2000s.

* In Bananagrams, players place tiles from a pool into crossword-style word arrangements in a race to see who can finish the pool of tiles first.

While the players were on the tour, the National League instituted new rules regarding player pay that led to a revolt of players, led by Ward, who started the Players ' League the following season ( 1890 ).

By this time Colangelo and the other partners were embroiled in a dispute over the financial health and direction of the Diamondbacks ( and notably including over $ 150 million in deferred compensation to many players who were key members of the 2001 World Series winning team and others ).

Notable players who turned out for the club during this period included midfielders Giancarlo De Sisti and Francesco Rocca.

There have been several players in the VFL / AFL who were born outside Australia and since 1982, an increasing number of players have been recruited from outside Australia through initiatives such as the Irish experiment and more recently, international scholarship programs.

This expansion has been further aided by multiculturalism and assisted by exhibition matches as well as exposure generated through players who have converted to and from other football codes.

The selections have caused some controversy, mainly because of the predominance of VFL players at the expense of those who played in other leagues in the years before there was a national competition.

In poker, for example, the top card of the deck stub is burned at the beginning of each betting round, so that players who might have been able to read markings on that card during the previous round are less able to take advantage of that information.

As of the end of the 2008 season, players who have hit 115 or more career sacrifice flies:

In baseball, the statistic applies also to players who, prior to a game, are included on a starting lineup card or are announced as ex ante substitutes, whether they actually play or not, although, in Major League Baseball, the application of this statistic does not extend to consecutive games played streaks.

Over the next couple seasons, The Boston Red Stockings dominated the league and hoarded many of the game's best players, even those who were under contract with other teams.

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.

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Typically, the tallest members of a team will play " center ", " power forward " or " small forward " positions, while shorter players or those who possess the best ball handling skills and speed play " point guard " or " shooting guard ".

Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players ( singles ) or two opposing pairs ( doubles ), who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net.

Replacement grips have an adhesive backing, whereas overgrips have only a small patch of adhesive at the start of the tape and must be applied under tension ; overgrips are more convenient for players who change grips frequently, because they may be removed more rapidly without damaging the underlying material.

Since the 1960s, blackjack has been a high profile target of advantage players, particularly card counters, who track the profile of cards that have been dealt and adapt their wager and playing strategies accordingly.

The eye in the sky usually makes a video recording of the table, which helps in resolving disputes and identifying dealer mistakes, and is also used to protect the casino against dealers who steal chips or players who cheat.

The reason for this is that the sacrifice fly, unlike the sacrifice bunt, is not considered a tactical maneuver ( players presumably don't try to hit a fly ball to advance a runner ).

A 12 will draw ( push – neither win nor lose ), ensuring that the house maintains its edge over all players, whether they bet pass or don't pass.

Betting on don't pass is often called " playing the dark side ," and it is considered by some players to be in poor taste, or even taboo, because it goes directly against conventional play.

Because these don't have wider fingerboards, some players find them more difficult to finger and bow.

In addition to that, players are allowed to wear shin guards, eye protectors and protective padding for vital areas, although most don't.

John Wayne is a graceful man and so are some of the great ball players ... but, of course, they don't run the risk of being called sissies.

Gameplay also tends to de-emphasize or entirely exclude verbal communication as a game element, with many games being fully playable if all players know the rules, even if they don't speak a common language.

However, if the board held A-K-Q-J-3, the players would tie, because both would play the hand A-A-K-Q-J ; in this case it is said that the players ' kickers " don't play ", or that the " kicker on the board plays ".

While steals don't win much money per hand, they can accumulate to considerable profit if the players to the left of the stealer are tight enough not to contest enough steals.

Since the voters in the two-round system don't have to choose their second round votes while voting in the first round, they are able to adjust their votes as players in a game.

They have specific rules, as do multiplayer games, but mathematical puzzles don't usually involve competition between two or more players.

" I don't think our players have seen anything like this since junior high school ," said Vikings head coach Bud Grant.

During the summer of 1992 Southampton's manager, Ian Branfoot, became " the most popular manager in English football ", as he took telephone calls from clubs " trying to bargain with players they don't want plus cash ".

However, such rules of etiquette need not apply, and in practice they often don't, to massive game worlds with thousands of players who know one another only through the game system.

GameSpot was slightly less approving of the game, giving it a 7. 6 / 10 and telling players to " Expect to enjoy it immensely for the first week or two, but don't expect to find very much long-term fun.

Change of possession after scoring is often accompanied by rules determining where the ball is thrown from as opposed to actually kicking since throwing offers more control to players who may be playing in street-accessible areas and don't wish to chase a ball through traffic.

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a relaxation is offered in allowing one of their pawns to be placed on their Track-Start-Space this means they don't get bored before they even start, in that they feel a part of things rather than the tedium of waiting for a 1 or a 2, which can be a bit wearisome even for experienced players.

In the 1976 film Network, at seeing an audition tape, the character Diana Christensen ( played by Faye Dunaway ) shouts " We don't want faith healers, evangelists or Oberammergau passion players!

This is often downplayed, however, as many players don't wish to roleplay their character's human guise of ( for example ) an accountant.

GameSpot said that while the game is " decent enough to make it worth the $ 5 price the Wii's Virtual Console ", it features " questionable design decision " and can get confusing if players don't have the help of walkthroughs.

If players lose all of the coins or don't defeat the Koopa Kids within fifteen turns, the game is over.

They have flamboyant entrance lines in which they draw attention to themselves and deliver more plot exposition than is sane ; they go in for longer-than-long conversations of oneliners ( like endless tennis rallies between players you don't care about ); they do a great deal of speaking at cross-purposes.