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His first job as a teenager was as a minor league bat boy with the Pirates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
As Manchester City became the best team in the Premier League, the Premier League became the most powerful league in Europe and, by extension, the world.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
For older players, Tommy John surgery—a ligament repair and reconstruction named for the major league pitcher it was first performed on and widespread among pros—is on the rise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026
The host Patriots hadn’t lost a league game since 2017 and had beaten Cleveland 13 consecutive times, by an average score of 40-8.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Even with our standing in league, usually the only people who show up at track meets are dedicated parents, plus the occasional boyfriend or girlfriend.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
Once we’re leagued up, we’ll post the results, and there’ll be a weekly column here summing up the score, the scenario, and the stats.
From The Verge ● Feb. 28, 2019
Other Post stockholders leagued to announce that Newhouse's 15% invasion was as far as he would be allowed to go.
From Time Magazine Archive
He may be leagued with his appointees to abstract and share a larger percentage of the assets than the law allows, thus cheating legitimate creditors.
From Time Magazine Archive
The interests leagued against Wiley, finally manufactured charges that he had misused the funds of his Bureau; and, though exonerated by President Taft after a careful investigation had been made, he resigned in protest.
From Time Magazine Archive
Big-hoofed gray horses spackled like wolves, that rolled their eyes and whinnied at my footfall, leagued with men as if strapped to their business by harness I could not see.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
In the first place, he was on bad terms with Mrs. Oldershaw, which would protect me from all danger of the two leaguing together against me if I trusted him.
From Armadale by Wilkie Collins
The personal advancement of the southern Hy-Nials was more to him than the political advancement of his country; and he disgraced his name and his nation by leaguing with the invaders.
From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack
Ho, ye, Of God the least beloved, of Man the most, That like not leaguing with the lesser host, Behold the invested Mount, And that assaulting Sea with ne’er a coast.
From The Unknown Eros by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore
The godlike wish of genius, man to bless, With rank and wealth still leaguing to oppress!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
Presently we find him warring against nobles of Maine who had taken William’s part, and leaguing with the Bretons against William himself.
From William the Conqueror by Edward Augustus Freeman
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