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DIED. CHARLIE MUSE, 87, executive for baseball's Pittsburgh Pirates who developed the modern batting helmet; in Sun City Center, Fla. At the behest of Pirates general manager Branch Rickey, he (along with inventor Ralph Davia and designer Ed Crick) came up with a plastic model to protect the batter's head. Despite initial image concerns of players, the helmets were soon adopted by the Pirates and other major league clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones May 30, 2005 | 5/22/2005 | See Source »

There is one essential difference between the legend and his successor. Rose can always laugh at himself. Cobb preferred to smile when the opposition blew a big lead. He was not much on irony; that his base-stealing records were surpassed by three black men, Wills, Lou Brock and Rickey Henderson, would not have amused him. Nor did he appreciate a generous anecdote told about him by a batting pupil. In 1960 Lefty O'Doul was asked, "What do you think Cobb would hit today?" The old outfielder guessed, "Oh, maybe .340." Then why do you say Cobb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Failures Can't Come Home | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

...GEORGE RICKEY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 11, 2005 | 4/3/2005 | See Source »

...tried a lot of things in my efforts to fill The Void. I care about beirut enough to know my career win-loss record (it’s good). I’ve simulated so many franchise seasons in my EA Sports games that even Rickey Henderson finally retired. I own such a multitude of sports jerseys that I ended up with the nickname “Jersey Jon.” Of course, I maintain that the last laugh will be mine when I finally meet a cute girl who swoons at the sight of my authentic Paul Pierce...

Author: By Jonathan P. Hay, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A ROMP IN THE HAY: Time to Fill ‘The Void’ | 3/12/2004 | See Source »

...trample one another on a field littered with 50,000 packs of baseball cards. But Veeck didn't go far enough. First of all, he should have removed the Tigers from those baseball-card packs. And he should have replaced the entire lineup with Tiger look-alike midgets, signed Rickey Henderson, put patches of the still living Al Kaline on their sleeves and accidentally blown a water main in their lame new ballpark so the team could have finished the season in its original home, Tiger Stadium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beautiful Losers? Not These Bums | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

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