" While runs scored is considered an important individual batting statistic, it is regarded as less significant than runs batted in ( RBIs )— superiority in the latter, for instance, is one of the elements of the exceptional batting achievement known as the Triple Crown.

While with the Beavers, Bancroft earned the nickname " Beauty ", for his habit of referring to pitches as " beauties " while he batted.

While he batted. 278, he had a career-low ( to that point ). 330 slugging percentage, and failed to hit a home run for the first time in his career.

While playing for the Pawtucket Red Sox in, he posted a. 263 batting average with 14 doubles, 7 home runs and 54 runs batted in before being called up late in the season to make his major league debut with the Red Sox on September 6, 1977 at the age of 24.

While the Buffaloes struggled to a last-place finish in 2007, and also not having any protection to speak of in the lineup, Rhodes ' comeback was a spectacular one, batting. 291 and hitting 42 home runs to go with 96 runs batted in.

While playing alongside future Phillies teammates Pat Burrell, Johnny Estrada, Adam Eaton, and Brandon Duckworth, Rollins batted. 244 with 18 doubles and 23 stolen bases, though he was the youngest player on the team by two years.

While a switch hitter earlier in his career, Snow batted exclusively left-handed after 1998.

While playing in 139 games, he stole 16 bases and batted in 31 runs in 503 at-bats.

While the Rams had momentum early in the game, it shifted to San Francisco's favor for good when safety Ronnie Lott batted down a pass intended for a wide open Flipper Anderson.

While mainly a bowler, Trumble batted well enough to make 851 runs in Test cricket at an average of 19. 79 with a highest score of 70.

While in single-A, he batted. 392 with 28 doubles and a 15 game hitting streak.

While lacking the talent of the fast left-arm swing of Davidson and the leg-spin of Benaud, his economical, nagging right-arm medium pace ( a cricketing " switch-hitter ", he batted left-handed ) was often strategically useful and occasionally, especially in Pakistan and India, destructive.

While there, he batted. 252 in the 1967 season, hitting 4 home runs in 155 at-bats.

While playing for Essex against Derbyshire at Queen's Park, Chesterfield in 1947, he batted at number eleven, and came to the wicket with Essex 199 for 9 wickets.

While no larger than Dutch Springs, this mining supply town had the appearance of being far busier and more prosperous.

While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.

While several yards from it, still concealed by the shrubbery, she'd seen two men on her left at the pool's edge.

While his comrades cocked the trap, that one behaved as if it was some dull maneuver.

While she was struggling to get her skirt down and get on her feet again, Jack ran over, offered her his hand and said, `` Gosh, I'm sorry, Miss Langford.

While the pattern is uneven, some having gained more than others, nationalism has in fact served the Western peoples well.

While sovereignty has roots in antiquity, in its present usage it is essentially modern.

While he was handling the multi-million-dollar funding operations of the Government he had to resort to borrowing small sums from friends.

While there may still be many Faulknerian Lucas Beauchamps scattered through the rural South, such men appear to be a vanishing breed.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

While this was under consideration, dauntless as ever Wright set about the building of Taliesin 3.

While my memory holds with relentless tenacity, as I cannot too often stress, to my wrongs, when it comes to my shames, it gestures and jokes and toys with chronology like a prestidigitator in the hope of distracting me from them.

While the picture was taken, Mr. Miller's disposition to be generous to Mr. Sandburg increased to the point where he advised, ' I won't even charge you the one dollar rental fee ' ''.

While studying at the seminary in Andover, Adoniram had been working on a New Testament translation from the original Greek.

While with the Whiteman band Mercer met Jerry Arlen.

While Johnny made himself comfortable on the couch, I'd play the tunes for him.

While Arlen and Mercer collaborated on Hot Nocturne, Mercer worked also with Arthur Schwartz on another film, Navy Blues.

While I was sitting at one of the rewrite telephones with my derby and my great beard, Arthur Brisbane whizzed in with some editorial copy in his hand.

While Thomas' injured back led him to restrain his mount from its most violent gait he moved quickly enough when he had to.

While the final combat of the campaign was being worked out at Jonesborough, Thomas, on Sherman's instructions, ordered Slocum, now commanding the Twentieth Corps, to make an effort to occupy Atlanta if he could do so without exposing his bridgehead to a counterattack.

While driving the cow back home the woman was assaulted by a servant maid of Gorton.

While Aristotle censors literature only for the young, Plato would banish all poets from his ideal state.

While Plato finally allows a few acceptable hymns to the gods and famous men, still he clearly leaves the way open for further discussion of the issue.

While S.K. did not like Dylan Thomas, I liked his poems very much, but I made the mistake of telling Dylan Thomas so, whereupon he said to me, `` I suppose you think you know all about me ''.

While The Space Merchants indicates, as Kingsley Amis has correctly observed, some of the `` impending consequences of the growth of industrial and commercial power '' and satirizes `` existing habits in the advertising profession '', its warning and analysis penetrate much deeper.

While the philosopher Karl Popper " never took their methodology ( whatever that may mean ) seriously " ( p. 289 ), Popper wrote counter-criticism to reduce the irrationalist ' and ' intelligence-destroying " political influence " of critical theorists on students ( Karl Popper pages 288 – 300 in Positivist Debate in German Sociology ).

While his lifetime average was only. 271, he hit between. 288 and. 327 during his peak years with the Reds.

While his statistics only improved slightly over 1985 ( his average went up to. 288 and 168 hits, with fewer home runs and RBI-and more strike outs ).