Lastly, and perhaps most notably, I once sang the national anthem at a World Series baseball game, though I was not in the vicinity of the microphone at the time.
Though an epilogue examines tactical what-ifs, no effort is made to say what it all meant, and the whole story reads rather like an inside view of a tight World Series baseball championship.
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Mid-sized market (St Louis is the 17th largest MSA) with a history of success (2nd most World Series titles in baseball) and a team that is still competitive enough in the modern day to keep fans caring.
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The worst case scenario for Fox execs: a Rays-Reds World Series that might produce great baseball, but would be a ratings dud.
Banned from baseball amid World Series fixing and gambling scandals, White Sox great "Shoeless Joe" Jackson and the league's all-time hits leader Pete Rose are barred from even being considered.
Baseball switched its World Series opener from Saturday to Wednesday in 2007, the effect being to play over just one weekend instead of two.
This game will pull a national-TV rating that's huge by sports standards: If precedent holds it will likely outdraw most games of Major League Baseball's World Series.
Her persistence led to on-air sports jobs at CNN and NBC -- where she covered high-profile events including the Olympics, baseball's World Series and the Wimbledon tennis championship.
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Postseason baseball, plus the World Series, will continue to interrupt "X Factor's" schedule.
All baseball fan would agree that the World Series is one of the most emotional times of the year.
During much of his NFL career, he also was an outfielder with four Major League Baseball teams and played in a World Series with the Atlanta Braves.
Baseball's biggest event, the World Series, is a non-event outside of North America and Japan.
Baseball's deals will keep the World Series on Fox, with the two companies sharing responsibility for televising the earlier rounds of the playoffs along with ESPN and possibly the MLB Network.
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Which are the greatest teams in baseball history that failed to take home a World Series title?
Television ratings for the World Series have been strong so Fox does not want to lose baseball.
Hundreds of teams at all levels of college baseball, including five of the last six College World Series champions, have ditched body signals altogether in favor of a system in which the coach flashes or yells a series of numbers.
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The Red Sox, directed by whiz-kid GM Theo Epstein and famed baseball statistician Bill James, had just won their first World Series in 86 years.
Yet they personify why most commentators and fans, as well as Major League Baseball and its partners, lament the possibility of a World Series that includes the Giants and Rangers.
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And even if a sweet enough east-coast offer made him relent, New York's two existing major-league baseball teams, the Yankees (last season's World Series champions) and the Mets, could block any deal.
We all kid ourselves that during March Madness, the courts are loaded with mostly African American ballplayers, yet when the College World Series tips off in May, you will see mostly whites on the baseball diamond.
The baseball universe is properly aligned again, with the Yankees' World Series victory.
As baseball's off-season hits the home stretch, World Series hero Johnny Damon sits at home and waits to see where he'll be playing next season.
Major League Baseball must come to terms with the fact that viewership for World Series games will no longer approach a 30.0 rating and must readjust their expectations to reflect modesty and the current consumption patterns of consumers.
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So powerful is this curse, apparently, it can upturn natural law so as to let a baseball roll through a first baseman's legs during a crucial World Series game.
Last year we predicted that Chicago s baseball team would end more than 80 years of futility by winning the World Series.
Its baseball team has won two straight American League Central titles and made it to the World Series last year.
Every year, it seems as if baseball writers and pundits are revisiting the same conversation regarding poor television ratings and the World Series.
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One reader pointed me to a very different kind of film, Opposite Field, which tells the story of Little League Baseball in Uganda and the team that should have won the Little League World Series last year but for visa troubles.
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Rivera, baseball's all-time saves leader, had been an essential part of five World Series-winning teams with the Yankees.
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