LONG-SHOT RANGERS WIN WITH HEART.Byline: DENNIS McCARTHY Dennis McCarthy may refer to:
They were the Bad News Bears - without the fighting. A ragtag rag·tag adj. 1. Shaggy or unkempt; ragged. 2. Diverse and disorderly in appearance or composition: "They're a small ragtag army of racketeers, bandits, and murderers" team of 7- and 8-year-olds sure to finish last if they ever got a chance to play, which was doubtful. Their coach had quit before the season started, taking his three kids - all players on the team - with him. Another parent transferred his son to another team. The Texas Rangers Texas Rangers, mounted fighting force organized (1835) during the Texas Revolution. During the republic they became established as the guardians of the Texas frontier, particularly against Native Americans. were down to eight players - not even enough to field a complete team. Four of them had never thrown a baseball, swung a bat or fielded a grounder. The outlook was bleak The bleak is a small pelagic fish of the Cyprinid family. Description The body of the bleak is elongated and flat. The head is pointed and the relatively small mouth is turned upwards. The anal fin is long and has 18 to 23 fin rays. The lateral line is complete. . No coach, no bench, no chance. Yeah, well, meet the winners of the Pinto pinto Spotted horse, also called paint, piebald, skewbald, and other terms to describe variations in colour and markings. The American Indian ponies of the western U.S. were often pintos. Most pure-breed associations refuse to register horses with pinto colouring. National Championship of the Agoura PONY league The Pennsylvania-Ontario-New York League, also known as the PONY League, was a Class D minor league baseball circuit that played from 1939 through 1956. The forerunner of the modern Class A New York - Penn League, the PONY served as the first professional baseball address of . The Texas Rangers. Sixteen teams vied for the trophy. The Rangers Rapidly deployable airborne light infantry organized and trained to conduct highly complex joint direct action operations in coordination with or in support of other special operations units of all Services. won it. This tells you all you need to know about this team, says team mom Kelly Pira. The boys were sitting in the dugout dugout: see canoe. early in the season, about to face one of the toughest teams in the league, and one of them finally asked the question on all their minds. ``Coach, how are we going to beat the Giants?'' ``You're going to beat them with your heart,'' Ilene Lipton said. And that's exactly what they did. This team and its replacement coaches were nothing if not full of heart. Ilene's husband, Jeremy, could have easily said ``no way,'' when his wife - director of the Pinto National League - came home from a board meeting as the season was getting ready to start, and told him they would have to coach the Rangers because its coach had quit. The couple was already coaching son Brandon's team, as well as daughter Brianna's softball softball, variant of baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Invented (1888) in Chicago as an indoor game, it was at various times called indoor baseball, mush ball, playground ball, kitten ball, and, because it was also played by women, ladies' team, while also working full-time jobs. How would they find the time to coach another team - and one on which they didn't even have a child playing? ``We found the time, we had to,'' Ilene said. ``It wasn't fair to the boys. It was too late to put them on other teams, and not fair to tell them they wouldn't be playing this year.'' The Liptons caught a break. Derek Bergen, a team parent, volunteered as an assistant coach, and two other players signed up at the last minute. The Rangers would play with 10 boys, two fewer than the other teams. ``We had a tremendous amount of parental help, and the boys who were good players were great at helping and teaching the boys who had never played before,'' Ilene said. But it was more than catching and hitting that made this baseball team a champion, says parent Mary Sue This article is about the concept in modern literary criticism. For either part of the given name or real or fictional people named as such, see Mary and Sue. Mary Sue, sometimes shortened simply to Sue Maurer. ``The coaches set the mood for the players, and the parents in the stands,'' she said. ``They cheered errors, as well as great catches.'' Winning was great, but having fun was more important. ``My son didn't want to play at first because he had no baseball training,'' Pira said. ``But everyone on the team was so positive. He went from this shy, quiet, little boy to a kid who couldn't wait to get out there and play.'' The great thing about this first-year league is that it doesn't officially keep score. Oh, the umpires and coaches know the score. The sharp players do, too. But most of these kids are too busy laughing as they chase balls rolling through their legs to know who won or lost. ``We never told them the score during the games,'' Ilene said. ``They didn't need the pressure. We just told them to do their best and have fun. ``Only after the game did the kids ask me, Did we win, coach?'' Yeah, the Bad News Rangers won - beating the tough Marlins 18-10 for the national league championship. Dennis McCarthy, (818) 713-3749 dennis.mccarthy(at)dailynews.com |
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