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unusual facts about at-bat



Abertijne Malcourt

The only record of his having been a composer is the attribution to "Malcort" in a Ferrarese manuscript of the textless rondeau Malheur me bat; while this Malcort may have been Hendrick Malecourt, who was a singer in Bergen op Zoom around the same time, and worked directly with Obrecht, Abertijne Malcourt is currently considered to be the most likely candidate.

Afzaal Haider

Haider is a specialist medium pace bowler, whose highest score with the bat is 22, coming in a 47-run eighth-wicket partnership with Manoj Cheruparambil against Pakistan at the 2004 Asia Cup.

Akinori Iwamura

Likewise, his bat, made by the North American sportswear company Nike, also has quite a unique design.

Aquarium of the Bay

The Aquarium also has skates, bat rays and thousands of other animals including eels, flatfish, rockfish, Wrasse, Gobies, Kelpfish, Pricklebacks, Ronquil, Sculpin and Sturgeons.

Banda Sea

There are only twenty-two mammals on these islands including three endemics, the rare Dusky Pademelon (Thylogale brunii) and Tomb Bat (Taphozous achates), and an endangered mouse-eared bat, the Kei Myotis (Myotis stalkeri).

Bat-Ochirin Eldev-Ochir

By the mid-1920s he had attracted the notice of Comintern agents who were looking to recruit younger, more radical, and preferably “rural” party members to challenge the authority of “old guard” revolutionaries such as Prime Minister Balingiin Tserendorj, Deputy Prime Minister Anandyn Amar, and Party Chairman Tseren-Ochiryn Dambadorj.

Beacon Fell, Lancashire

The fell features a number of sculptures by local artist Thompson Dagnall, including Black Tiger and Kissing Seat (2006), Walking Snake (1998), Hanging Bat (1998), Spruced up Heron (1996) and Orme Sight (1996).

Bevendean

Bevendean is referenced in the chapter "The Baffling Business of the Bevendean Bat" of the fantasy novel The Brightonomicon.

Camden Riversharks

The Riversharks logo, introduced in 2005 with a new ownership group, consists of a shark biting a baseball bat superimposed over a stylized depiction of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge.

Claude Brochu

In 2001, he published the book My Turn at Bat: The Sad Saga of the Expos, which blamed Quebec ex-premier Lucien Bouchard for the sale of the baseball team.

Clyde Mashore

His first career hit, RBI and run scored all came on one swing of the bat on September 14, 1970 against the New York Mets at Montreal's Jarry Park.

Colin Guest

He scored 26 not out and 74 (his highest first-class score) in his first game for Western Australia and made some other useful contributions with the bat, but his bowling lacked its former penetration, and with strong competition for pace-bowling places in the state side from McKenzie, Sam Gannon, Laurie Mayne, Ian Brayshaw and Jim Hubble, he played no further first-class cricket after that season.

Corey Koskie

While the Brewers acquired a veteran infielder with a solid glove and bat to anchor their very young infield, Koskie's later seasons were marred by injuries, including missing most of the 2006 season with post-concussion syndrome.

Crane Wilbur

He wrote a modernization of The Bat, a play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood.

Daniel Nava

Taking the advice of Red Sox radio broadcaster Joe Castiglione, who before the game told him to swing as hard as he could on the first pitch because "that's the only first pitch in the majors you'll ever see," Nava did swing at the first pitch he saw and hit a grand slam off Phillies pitcher Joe Blanton into the Red Sox bullpen.

Declaration and forfeiture

In a game against Kent at the Bat and Ball Ground in Gravesend, Wright declared Nottinghamshire's second innings closed on 157 for 5 to set Kent a target of 231 to win.

Dodge City War

Short was discussing the matter with Governor George Washington Glick in Kansas City, and Bat Masterson called in favors from old friends including Wyatt Earp, Charlie Bassett, Johnny Millsap, Shotgun John Collins, Texas Jack Vermillion, and Johnny Green.

Dracula's Dog

The dog of an innkeeper saves a woman from being bitten by a bat, Dracula in disguise.

Fear of bats

Bats, being nocturnal animals, are associated with various dangers and fears of darkness, with the centuries of prejudices and accompanying myths of Dracula, Halloween, etc.

Floyd Robinson

In his next at-bat, he got his first career run-batted-in with a single off Dave Sisler that plated Ted Kluszewski.

H.P. Lovecraft's: Necronomicon

(While the story takes minor elements from "The Whisperer in Darkness", the bat-like aliens have little in common with the Mi-go. The only real similarity seems to be in their ability to transfer a human brain into a new container, albeit one of their own bodies rather than a canister, as a means to expand their population. They also bear no physical resemblance aside from wings.)

Hampshire County Cricket Club in 2005

Hampshire won the toss and chose to bat at a Southgate wicket which the final scores suggested to be not as batting-friendly as a month ago, when 13 wickets fell in the Championship match between Middlesex and Glamorgan.

Honduran white bat

The Honduran white bat cuts the side veins extending out from the midrib of the large leave of the Heliconia plant causing them to fold down to form a 'tent'.

Ian Sturmer

With the bat, Sturmer scored 2 not out in Loughborough's first-innings, while in their second he was dismissed for 5 runs by Adam Riley.

Information Center for Israeli Art

The Bat Sheva and Yitzhak Katz Archive contains personal writings and letters of artists including Sionah Tagger, Israel Paldi and Arieh Lubin.

Interstate 781

In April 2009, project engineers discovered that Indiana bats—an endangered species of bat—live in the area in and surrounding the proposed right-of-way of the Fort Drum Connector (I-781).

Itzik Zohar

Zohar grew up in a ma'abara (transit camp) on the border of Bat Yam and Jaffa, where the family's ramshackle hut was not even sufficient to protect them from the elements.

KBTE

Before the station acquired the urban contemporary format, KBTE was an active rock station as "The Bat"; however the station began stunting with loops of The Go-Go's 1980s song We Got The Beat before the launch of The Beat.

Keast's tube-nosed fruit bat

The Keast's Tube-nosed Fruit Bat (Nyctimene keasti) is a species of megabat in the Pteropodidae family found in Babar, Tanimbar, and the Kai Islands.

Kyle Hodnett

With the bat, he scored 6 runs before being dismissed by Dolar Mahmud.

Large Asian roundleaf bat

The Large Asian Roundleaf Bat (Hipposideros lekaguli) is a species of bat in the family Hipposideridae.

Manuel Lee

Lee recorded his first major league hit in his eighth at-bat, singling against Rick Behenna of the Cleveland Indians on June 2 at Exhibition Stadium.

Marcus Sharp

Sharp failed to get a chance to bat for the team, as they declared 140 runs behind in their first innings before forging to victory thanks to the peripatetic Trevor Jesty, who scored a century in the second innings.

Na Ji-Wan

Na's big bat in Game 7 helped earn him MVP honors in the Korean Series, although Tigers' starting pitcher Aquilino López arguably deserved the award.

New York Doll

The central focus of the film, however, is Arthur's life after conversion to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after struggles with alcoholism, drug abuse, an attempt at suicide, and a beating with a baseball bat that, contrary to popular belief, did not happen during the Rodney King riots, but left him near death, and needing a long recovery.

Night Flyer

Night Flyer, popular name for an Olitiau, a gigantic humanoid cryptid bat hypothesized to exist in Central Africa

Ölziin Badrakh

Known as one of the "rurals", he was one of several younger, more radicalized party members from rural areas (others included Jambyn Lkhümbe, Tsengeltiin Jigjidjav, Zolbingiin Shijee, Bat-Ochirin Eldev-Ochir, and Peljidiin Genden) recruited by the Soviets in the late 1920s to challenge the MRPR "old guard" of Balingiin Tserendorj, Tseren-Ochiryn Dambadorj, and Anandyn Amar.

On Leather Wings

Back at the Batcave, Batman analyzes the list of components that Langstrom used to create the giant bat and develops a way to reverse the process.

Orokonui Ecosanctuary

The Trust plans to "bring back to the ecosanctuary native species that would have been there in times past" including Kiwi, seabirds, Kākāriki, South Island robin, Saddleback, Kākā, native bats, Tuatara and Jewelled gecko.

Playtoons

Plus, other stories include "Tadd and Todd", "The Ruckus", "The Very Bad Bunny", "Scrambled Eggs Super!", "The Zax", "Don and Donna Go to Bat", "Tubby and the Lantern" and "Robert the Rose Horse".

Popeye the Sailor: 1933–1938, Volume 1

From the vault: Three Bray Productions/International Film Service studio shorts: "Colonel Heeza Liar at the Bat" (1915), "Krazy Kat Goes-a-Wooing (1916), "Domestic Difficulties" (1916)

Red bat

Western Red Bat (Lasiurus blossevillii), a species of bat found in Western United States, also called the "Desert red bat"

Saurophthirus

It was 2.50 cm (1 in) long and possibly sucked the blood of pterosaurs in the Cretaceous, in the way that bat fleas feed on bat blood today.

Steve Stroughter

Pinch-hitting for Jim Essian, Stroughter grounded out in his first big league at-bat, which was against Doug Corbett of the Minnesota Twins.

SWALEC Stadium

England winning the toss decided to bat first, with Andrew Strauss scoring the first test runs scored at the venue and Ben Hilfenhaus taking the first wicket.

The New Adventures of Batman

Complicating matters is Bat-Mite, a well-meaning imp from another dimension called Ergo, who considers himself Batman's biggest fan.

Tim Harkness

On April 17, 1964, Harkness led off for the Mets in the bottom of the first inning and had a single off of Bob Friend in the third inning to become the first Mets player to bat and the first to get a hit in the team's first game played at Shea Stadium as part of a 4–3 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Triaenops rufus

Triaenops menamena, the bat species from Madagascar to which the name was long, but incorrectly, applied; and

Zefania Carmel

As teammates on Israel’s Zevulun Bat-Yam Club, the two won the Israeli Championship in 1966 in the 420-Class, and topped an international field of competition in the same event on New York’s Hudson River in August 1967.


see also

1917 World Series

The great athlete Jim Thorpe, better known for football in general, made his only World Series "appearance" during Game 5, where he was listed in the lineup card as starting in right field; but for his turn at bat in the top of the first inning he was replaced by a left-handed hitting Dave Robertson.

Allen Shofe

He has also served as Chief of Staff to Congressman Gil Gutknecht; head of corporate and regulatory affairs-Middle East and North Africa at BAT Industries; Division manager at 3M; aide to former Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson; and Campaign Director for the Minnesota Republican Senate Caucus.

Chuck Lindstrom

He was on deck for a third at bat when Sammy Esposito struck out looking to end the White Sox' last offensive inning in a game they won 11-4.

Dante Bichette

During his time in Colorado, his at-bat music was Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel.

Eikichi Yazawa

In 2007, Ichiro Suzuki (Seattle Mariners), a major league player, chose his "Tomaranai Ha~Ha" as an AT-BAT MUSIC of 2008 with Ringo Shiina's "Yokushitsu" and "Identity".

Hal Breeden

Pinch hitting for Earl Stephenson in the bottom of the seventh inning, Hal grounded out in his only at-bat of the game.

Inside-the-park home run

Johnnie LeMaster hit the only inside-the-park home run to be recorded in a first career MLB at-bat on September 2, 1975, against future Hall of Famer Don Sutton.

John Paciorek

John Francis Paciorek (born February 11, 1945, in Detroit, Michigan) is an American baseball player with three career Major League at-bats, all for the Houston Colt .45s in 1963.

Mark Grace

The song that played most frequently on the Wrigley Field organ prior to a Grace at bat was "Taking Care of Business" which Grace explained was due to his bit part in a Jim Belushi film of the same name.

Rob Belloir

He made his major league debut on August 2, and fouled out pinch hitting for pitcher Max Leon in his only at-bat.

Tim Beckham

In his only at-bat, he recorded his first career hit, a single, off of Rangers pitcher Tanner Scheppers.

Tim Spehr

In his first at-bat with the Atlanta Braves in 1997, he hit a grand slam (the first of two grand slams in that game, the second would be by Ryan Klesko) to help power a comeback from a 0–6 deficit to the Phillies.

Todd Frazier

Frazier is a fan of Frank Sinatra, even choosing Sinatra's songs to play when he walks up to the batter's box before an at-bat during home games.

Tom Upton

He split the 1944 season between the Norfolk Tars and Kansas City Blues, hitting a combined .140 with a .162 slugging percentage in 222 at-bat.

Tyrone Woods

Woods missed 10 games due to a suspension he served after charging the mound when Shugo Fujii threw high and inside during an at bat.

Walt Walsh

Walsh only played two games, never getting an at-bat for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1920.