Current and former
Big League partners include Albert Pujols, Anthony Rizzo, Buster Posey, David Ortiz and Jose Bautista, and other players who advise, test, and approve Marucci's full line of baseball and softball products before going to market.
Smith's interviews revealed that just about everyone could name at least one, and maybe even several, African American ballplayers who had the ability to play in the
big leagues. (19)
ideas into the North with them." Powers said it was only a matter of time before Blacks were admitted into the
big leagues ("Broun and Powers Take a Stand," 1933, Section II, 5).
Unfamiliar with the workings of a major league clubhouse in his first
big league spring training, Bard thought he had been sent down.
The other problem is the attitude of the player (and perhaps his agent as well): "I have been successful to this point, and now that I'm in the
big leagues they want me to change.
By 1995, only Jim Thorpe remained in the
big leagues as a tepid trooper awaiting his 50th birthday and an escape to the mulligan tour four years down the road.
For some of these rookies admittance to the
big leagues was a long time coming.
It brings you into the fiat-screen full-color
big leagues without breaking your pocketbook.
One former STS participant, among a group that includes five Nobel laureates, recalls the finalist competition as his introduction to the "
big leagues of science."
The firm's rock bottom stock price indicates that Wall Street is no longer willing to pay for the aggressive, frenzied acquisition strategy that catapulted CHS into the
big leagues of PC distribution.
The 6-foot-4 Santana, who has played both the outfield and infield as a professional, is the son of former major league shortstop Rafael Santana, who played all or parts of seven years in the
big leagues from 1983-90 for the Cardinals, Mets, Yankees and Indians, and won a World Series title in 1986 as the Mets' everyday shortstop.
It's just neat getting up every morning knowing that I'm coming here, knowing that I'm having a chance to pitch in the
big leagues.