No single ballplayer is able to do that, no matter how much you pay him.
In their minds, he's just a great ballplayer who's human like the rest of us.
An overpaid, aging ballplayer on a team full of them, admitting he is overpaid.
Being voted into the Hall is generally considered the greatest individual honor that any ballplayer can achieve.
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And the government spends four years and, undoubtedly, million upon million of dollars going after ... a ballplayer?
However, Reyes is not infallible and his warts as a ballplayer are just as prominent as his speed and exuberance.
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How the election turns out will depend not on who is the better ballplayer, but on what rules wind up governing the game.
It's the kind of argument that will never be settled, like who was a better ballplayer, Willie Mays or Mickey Mantle.
He was smart, too, in knowing his own weaknesses as a ballplayer.
But, according to the former ballplayer, he was a horrible father.
Always a gifted, natural athlete, Bonds was also the perfect five-tool ballplayer: He could run, field, throw, hit for average and belt the ball a mile.
Without question, Jose Reyes is a dynamic and charismatic ballplayer who has accumulated a devout following of loyal admirers not only in New York, but throughout baseball.
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Even then, it is likely that they are tracking ether a Major Leaguer whose rehabilitation assignment sends him through the Class A minor league or the development of an up-and-coming ballplayer.
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For every cheesy moment of a young (black) boy being inspired by Jackie Robinson there is another chilling moment where another young (white) boy gives into peer pressure and hurls racial epithets at the ballplayer.
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Roskam had what he described as a "general understanding" of Cobb's personality and exploits as a ballplayer until the day seven years ago that he helped his grandparents, Thomas McLaren and Beverly Cobb McLaren, clean out their garage.
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