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Base stealing is an important characteristic of a particular style of baseball, sometimes called " small ball " or " manufacturing runs ".
In the 1860s, aided by the War, " New York " style baseball expanded into a national game, as its first governing body, The National Association of Base Ball Players was formed.
Lanier's style of baseball took Houston by storm.
The 1978 season brought hope to baseball fans in San Diego, thanks to the arrival a young shortstop named Ozzie Smith, who arrived on the scene and turned the baseball world on its ears with an acrobatic style that redefined how the position should be played in the field.
In the 1860s, aided by the Civil War, " New York "- style baseball expanded into a national game and spawned baseball's first governing body, The National Association of Base Ball Players, was formed.
In 2009, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. started to carry the " Alan Jackson Collection " which included a special release CD available exclusively at Cracker Barrel, cowboy style shirts and t-shirts, baseball caps, home goods ( candles, kitchen goods ) including an old-fashion wooden rocking chair that has a metal plate of Alan's autograph on the headrest ; toys, spices and BBQ sauces / rubs and a replica of his own personal cowboy hat.
Sabermetric baseball analysts claimed that Choi did not get enough playing time because of bias from the Dodgers ' old school managerial style, which kept rookies on the bench for extended periods of time.
The University has a baseball field under glass ; its buildings are measured by the mile ; it hires hundreds of young Doctors of Philosophy to give rapid instruction in Sanskrit, navigation, accountancy, spectacle-fitting, sanitary engineering, Provencal poetry, tariff schedules, rutabaga-growing, motor-car designing, the history of Voronezh, the style of Matthew Arnold, the diagnosis of myohypertrophia kymoparalytica, and department-store advertising.
In 1860, the Brooklyn Excelsiors wore the ancestor of the modern rounded-top baseball cap, and by 1900, the " Brooklyn style " cap became popular.
This style of baseball cap is sometimes called a trucker cap or a " gimme cap " because it is given away for free as an advertising pitch.
Animal has also been seen in a green sumo suit, spider costume, Fred Flintstone – style outfit, a baseball uniform and a Las Vegas – era Elvis Presley jumpsuit costume.
popularized an early form of street Gangsta style in the late 1980s from the African American Gangs and Huslter clicks who were there, consisting of Dickies pants, white T-shirts, Locs shades, Chuck Taylors sneakers, with black Raiders baseball caps and Raiders Starter jackets.
In recent years, baseball catchers have begun wearing facemasks similar in style to goaltender masks.
Michael Leavitt's Art Cards, hand-painted small portraits of artists, replicated traditional baseball trading cards in style and format.
Customs officers wear a baseball style cap ( since 1994 with many variations ) while French Gendarmerie introduced a " soft kepi " in the early 2000s.
In 1985 the company obtained baseball licenses and started producing its unique style of cards under the name Sportflics.
Minus " Magic Motion ", but using the same style as its Sportflics cards, it released baseball cards under the Score brand in 1988 and football cards under the Score brand in 1989.
Some time later, he was inspired by baseball player Sparky Lyle's moustache and chose to grow one in a similar style.
The stadium was the first of the square-circle " octorad " style, which was thought to be an improvement over the other cookie cutter stadiums of the time for hosting both football and baseball ( the second and last of this style was the since-imploded Veterans Stadium ).
Despite the theoretical improvements of this style, most of the seats were still very far away from the action on the field, especially during baseball games.
Like the style known today as " small ball ", the " inside baseball " strategy of Orioles featured tight pitching, hit and run tactics, stolen bases, and precise bunting.
He wrote: " Lowe of Boston was one of those baseball phenomeons who could play any position on the team in first-class style.

style and known
In addition, several styles of music exist as the known arabo-andalous, one of the singers Chaoui style is Salim Hallali.
Buildings made of sun-dried earth are common in West Asia, North Africa, West Africa, South America, southwestern North America, Spain ( usually in the Mudéjar style ), Eastern Europe and East Anglia, particularly Norfolk, known as ' clay lump.
The dethroning of queen Isabel II meant a vacuum that was profited by the Bank of New York and some Cubans opposed to the projected extension of the 1837 Abolition Act to finance a Texas style " independence " revolution known as the Cuban 10 Years War ( 1868 – 78 ) lost by the Cubans.
Shakers today are most known for their cultural contributions ( especially style of music and furniture ). The Shakers composed thousands of songs, and also created many dances ; both were an important part of the Shaker worship services.
The religious communal society known as the Shakers emigrated from England during the 18th century and developed their own folk dance style.
Thus the Bauhaus style, also known as the International Style, was marked by the absence of ornamentation and by harmony between the function of an object or a building and its design.
The style known now as bock was a dark, malty, lightly hopped ale first brewed in the 14th century by German brewers in the Hanseatic town of Einbeck.
Walsh served as 49ers head coach for ten years, and during his tenure he and his coaching staff perfected the style of play known popularly as the West Coast offense.
A new style, during World War I, known as trench warfare, developed nearly half a century later.
On the edges of Barcelonnette and Jausiers there are several houses and villas of colonial style ( known as maisons mexicaines ), constructed by emigrants to Mexico who returned to France between 1870 and 1930.
It was then known as Bill Haley's Saddlemen, indicating their definite leaning toward the tough Western style.
The style of dance is commonly known to modern scholars as the French noble style or belle danse ( French, literally " beautiful dance "), however it is often referred to casually as baroque dance in spite of the existence of other theatrical and social dance styles during the baroque era.
With Blood Fire Death and the two following albums, Bathory pioneered the style that would become known as Viking metal.
In the middle of the 18th century, Europe began to move toward a new style in architecture, literature, and the arts, generally known as Classicism, which sought to emulate the ideals of Classical antiquity and especially those of Classical Greece.
The temples of the Preah Ko style are known for their small brick towers and for the great beauty and delicacy of their lintels.
* Classical or Angkor Wat Style ( 1080 – 1175 ): Angkor Wat, the temple and perhaps the mausoleum of King Suryavarman II, is the greatest of the Angkorian temples and defines what has come to be known as the classical style of Angkorian architecture.
Another style of comedy horror can also rely on over the top violence and gore such as in Dead Alive ( 1992 ), Evil Dead ( 1981 ), and Club Dread-such films are sometimes known as splatstick, a portmanteau of the words splatter and slapstick.
This may be seen as related to the artistic style known as " camp ".
Pablo Picasso's style and name are known even to people who are not interested in art ; likewise many know that Harry Houdini was an illusionist, Bill Gates, an entrepreneur, Albert Einstein a scientist ; Mozart and Beethoven classical composers ; Luciano Pavarotti an opera singer.
Mestre Bimba made a lot of presentations of his new style, but the most well known was the one made at 1953 to Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas, where the president would say: " A Capoeira é o único esporte verdadeiramente nacional " ( Capoeira is the only truly national sport ).
The game, first known as crapaud ( a French word meaning " toad " in reference to the original style of play by people crouched over a floor or sidewalk ), reportedly owes its modern popularity to street craps.
A more recent version, more Chinese in style, is prepared by the Ōbaku school of zen, and known as ; this is served at the head temple of Manpuku-ji, as well as various subtemples.
After leaving Rodin's workshop, Brâncuși began developing the revolutionary style for which he is known.
In America, The American Builder's Companion, written in the early 19th century by the architect Asher Benjamin, influenced many builders in the eastern states, particularly those who developed what became known as the Federal style.

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