It demonstrated that women are playing at the big-league level of every field of endeavor.
For Mr. Chesney, a sports nut who hosts many top athletes backstage, stadium concerts help sustain a big-league aura.
Yet purely as a business decision, calling any new big-league sports team the Senators would be seen as ill-advised.
"Jack Hanley brought big-league thinking to a nonprofit industry, " says Douglas Tieman, head of the Caron Foundation, a Pennsylvania treatment center.
The players' union would certainly prefer relegation to eliminating big-league ball clubs.
He would wear a pad on his forearm plus a padded batting glove, because he has broken his hand twice in his big-league career.
With two big-league teams to choose from, folks in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York and the San Francisco Bay area get double the baseball.
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If he does sign, Cashman wouldn't commit to Nakajima even getting a spot on the big-league roster only that he'd be invited to major-league camp.
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He and his best friend, Brad Null, hit the road after graduating from Stanford in 1998 to catch home games at all 30 big-league parks.
Kaval shrugs off the idea that California is played out, despite the presence of the Angels, Athletics, Dodgers, Giants and Padres, plus 12 big-league-affiliated minors.
Why would big-league donors give before all this is worked out?
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While he was a big-league lyricist, Mr. Burke was strictly an amateur composer it was his longtime collaboration with Jimmy Van Heusen that put him on the map and "Donnybrook!"
Lately, however, the small planner shops are getting big-league competition.
Every time I see or hear that train, that's what I think about: my dad and my brothers and riding through Kansas on our way to see big-league baseball.
No big-league pitcher had ever suffered an injury like this an open dislocation of the ankle, a gruesome injury where the leg bone protrudes through the skin and come back to pitch.
Indeed, when, after 33 years without a big-league baseball team, Washington was awarded one for the 2005 season, the owners, probably wisely, went with Nationals, not Senators, for a name.
Health alone will not keep a big-league rotation intact.
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Cueto (10-5), Mat Latos, Bronson Arroyo, Homer Bailey and Mike Leake all have avoided the disabled list no easy feat, considering 75 big-league starters already have been sidelined this season, according to Stats LLC.
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As long as you have an HD-equipped radio (three million have been sold by Ibiquity, which is owned by big-league radio chains) you can listen to the digital signal free, without a subscription, and at the same frequencies, too.
And aside from making a few MD-80s for McDonnell Douglas between 1985 and 1994, the closest China comes to being a manufacturer of big-league commercial aircraft is the Airbus assembly plant in Tianjin, where it puts together A320s from kits.
Both countries have big-league wine industries (Argentina's is the world's fifth-largest), nearly 500 years of vintages, and growing areas with Eden-like climates for farming wine grapes--so warm and dry that grapes easily ripen and pesticides, fungicides, and anti-rot measures are often unnecessary.
He made the big-league roster.
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Far from the rough gem that the young Ruth offered an unsuspecting baseball world, Bonds was born and raised to play the game by a father who was a big-league star (the late Bobby Bonds), a godfather who was an icon (Willie Mays) and a string of talented coaches.
The Big Four- Premier League, Bundesliga, La Liga and Serie A, account for 52% of players and fully 75% by value.
Stanton also had an MRI Saturday, and it showed a bruised left shoulder that caused him to miss his second straight game for the Marlins, who began the day a big league-worst 1-9.
Cardiff admit they "would love" to sign the Wales captain who is out of favour at the Premier League big-spenders.
He served as the Rockies' shortstop from 1994-97 before wrapping up his 14-year big league career with three years in Atlanta.
Meanwhile, Drogba himself believes Chelsea captain John Terry will also remain at the club, despite continued interest from Premier League big-spenders Manchester City.
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