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	Squeeze play: Protein's grip like a baseball bunter's
		Like all good baseball players, the protein calmodulin appreciates the importance of maintaining a good grip.
		He said the team hopes to learn more through follow-up investigations of the structure of calmodulin that is bound to the receptor in the absence of calcium.
		It has been speculated that lead poisoning may have played a role in the fall of the Roman Empire: it is thought to have been caused by the concentration of grape juice in lead containers.
	pda.physorg.com /lofi-news-calmodulin-calcium-grip_79715795.html (749 words)

	Squeeze - BR Bullpen
		A squeeze or squeeze bunt is a bunt intended to score a runner from third base.
		A successful squeeze is scored as a sacrifice hit, unless the batter is safe at first without benefit of an error, in which case it can be a hit.
		Without going to those lengths, the squeeze can still be an effective weapon today: on October 1, 2003 (Boxscore) the Oakland Athletics beat the Boston Red Sox in the 12th inning of Game 1 of the 2003 ALDS on a successful squeeze by catcher Ramon Hernandez.
	www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Squeeze (323 words)

	Squeeze play (baseball) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In baseball, a squeeze play is a sacrifice bunt with a runner on third and fewer than two outs.
		In a safety squeeze, the runner at third does not take off until the batter makes contact, waiting for more certainty that the ball will go to a location from which it will be difficult for the fielding team to make a play at the plate.
		These plays may be used in the late innings of a close game in order to score a winning or tying run.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Squeeze_play_(baseball) (463 words)

	Squeeze play (baseball) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In baseball, a squeeze play is a sacrifice play in which the batter bunts the ball, expecting to be easily thrown out at first base, while a runner at third base tries to score on the play.
		In a safety squeeze, the runner at third takes off when the batter makes contact, and hopes that the ball will go to a location from which it will be difficult for the fielding team to make a play at the plate.
		These plays are often used in the late innings of a close game with fewer than two out, in order to force in a winning or tying run.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/s/sq/squeeze_play__baseball_.html (261 words)

	Houston Astros Baseball Basics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		If a play is being made on the obstructed runner, or if the batterrunner is obstructed before he touches first base, the ball is dead and all runners shall advance, without liability to be put out, to the bases they would have reached, in the umpire’s judgment, if there had been no obstruction.
		On a play where a runner was trapped between second and third and obstructed by the third baseman going into third base while the throw is in flight from the shortstop, if such throw goes into the dugout the obstructed runner is to be awarded home base.
		Appeal plays may require an umpire to recognize an apparent “fourth out.” If the third out is made during a play in which an appeal play is sustained on another runner, the appeal play decision takes precedence in determining the out.
	www.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/hou/baseball_basics/hou_basics_runner.jsp (4781 words)

	DMB FAQ's
		Baseball is a game of small advantages, and if you conistently outsmarts your opponent, those small gains will add up to more wins.
		The outcome of a bunt play depends on (a) the batter's bunt rating, (b) the range and error ratings of the fielder who plays the ball, and (c) whether the fielder was playing in.
		And many squeeze bunt attempts are fouled off, putting the batter behind in the count and making him much less of a threat to drive the runner in from third some other way.
	www.sportsattic.com /faq2.htm (4253 words)

	ESPN.com - Squeeze play: Baseball's troubling issue
		Baseball has issues along these lines, no doubt about it, but the issues are not intrinsic to the playing of the game itself.
		And let's not forget, baseball was never that welcoming for fl players in the first place, which is why they had to form their own leagues in the first half of the 20th Century, if they wanted to play.
		He played right field, made some sparkling plays, hit.667 for the two-game set, scored runs, was encouraged to run, to take the extra base, and sent gunshot relay throws through to get two runners trying to advance.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1580814&type=page2Story (2945 words)

	Sports Rules - Baseball
		Baseball as a game is essentially very similar to Softball, and to a lesser extent, Rounders.
		The extra innings are played on a sudden-death basis, where the game ends as soon as one team has lost an innings.
		The other umpires may take any position on the field, which can provide them with a clear view of play, and a good view of the base that they are responsible for, and that runners keep within 90 centimetres (three feet) of the lines.
	sportsrules.50g.com /_framed/50g/sportsrules/baseball.htm (2691 words)

	How to Bunt - eHow.com
		Use the squeeze play in either a close game, with a base runner of at least average speed on third base, and with fewer than two outs in the inning.
		Suicide squeeze plays occur when a base runner on third base heads home and the hitter attempts to bunt.
		Safety squeeze plays occur when the runner doesn't attempt to steal home until the batter bunts the ball down.
	www.ehow.com /how_1824_bunt-baseball-hit.html (1333 words)

	USATODAY.com - Baseball salaries top-heavy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		That means baseball's middle class — the journeymen, midlevel players and rising stars who make up the 60% of players in the center of the payroll — are taking home less of the payroll pie each year.
		The union divided baseball's total payroll into 10 tiers and found salaries in the top tier increased the least (69.6%) and the middle tiers increased the most (166%-172%).
		Major League Baseball vice president Rob Manfred says the gap between the median salary and highest-paid players is to be expected because players aren't eligible for salary arbitration until after three seasons.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/baseball/salaries/2002-10-16-analysis_x.htm (551 words)

	WorthPlaying - Xbox 360 (X360) , PlayStation 3 (PS3), Nintendo Wii, Xbox, PlayStation 2 (PS2), GameCube (NGC), PSP, ...
		Squeeze plays are often put into action when a team is looking to score a go-ahead, a tying, or an insurance run in the late innings.
		In All-Star Baseball when you decide to put a squeeze play into action it is important to remember two important factors, the hitters ability to get the ball down and the pitch count.
		The likelihood of a squeeze play working dramatically improves based on the bunter’s ability to get the ball down in fair territory and the count in which you decide to put the play into action.
	www.worthplaying.com /article.php?sid=16421 (919 words)

	Baseball Instruction: Bunting - How to Squeeze Bunt
		There are two types of squeeze bunts: the safety squeeze and the suicide squeeze.
		For the hitter, the suicide squeeze is much like the safety squeeze in that you must wait until the pitcher cannot change the direction of the pitch before you pivot to bunt.
		Unlike the safety squeeze where the location of the bunt is of primary concern, in a suicide squeeze, you want to make sure you bunt the ball fairly.
	www.qcbaseball.com /skills/Bunting_Squeeze1.aspx (371 words)

	ESPN.com - Page2 - Squeeze play: Baseball's troubling issue
		Baseball has a Problem, a deeply rooted Problem, but it is not the pace of the game, or the performance or interest level of any human sub-grouping; no, it is baseball's uneasy truce with the social construct called race.
		I do know Dusty knows baseball exceedingly well, and something of the historical role of fl players in baseball; after all, he was on the Braves team when Hank Aaron, who Baker and the rest of the Braves called "Supe," as in "Superstar," was chasing the Babe's home run record.
		It's almost like the famous baseball manager Alvin Dark, who said fl players put on their baseball caps one way (clapping the cap on the head and pulling it down by the bill) and white players another (sitting the cap on the head and then sliding down the crown of the cap in back).
	www.espn.go.com /page2/s/wiley/030715.html (2960 words)

	The Squeeze Play - Topic Powered by eve community
		The squeeze usually is call at not bunting situations, how can a pitcher know about it, and then throw a pitch to certain spot?.
		There are two kind of squeeze: The more commun the 3rd base runner will be out if the hitter miss the bunt, the other way to do the squeeze, the 3rd base runner wait a little to run, after see if the bunt is good enough to score.
		If we think we have a squeeze play coming, we may have the pitcher step off early in the count to gauge the runners agressiveness and whether a young hitter will show bunt early.
	www.hsbaseballweb.com /eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/8686003481/m/5561029101 (2613 words)

	squeeze - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		Baseball To cause (a run or base runner) to score on a squeeze play.
		Example: She squeezed the oranges (into a jug); We might be able to squeeze some more money/information out of him.
		Be careful not to confuse this with the short squeeze, which is an upward movement in price of a stock caused by investors covering their short positions.
	dictionary.reference.com /browse/squeeze (1184 words)

	Squeeze play: Protein's grip like a baseball bunter's
		In a surprising find, researchers from Rice University and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UT-Houston) report in the Oct. 11 issue of Structure the first-ever case of calmodulin using a different kind of grip, a more open grasp that's reminiscent of a batter trying to lay down a bunt.
		MacKenzie believes the new grip plays a key role in allowing our muscles to contract and relax quickly.
		He said the team hopes to learn more through follow-up investigations of the structure of calmodulin that is bound to the receptor in the absence of calcium.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2006-10/ru-spp101006.php (696 words)

	Squeeze play (baseball) Summary
		In baseball, a squeeze play is a sacrifice bunt with a runner on third and fewer than two outs.
		The squeeze play is one of the rare instances in which baseball expands beyond the one-on-one confrontations that make it unique among team sports.
		This overview of how the play works shows the combination of running, hitting, pitching, element of surprise, defensive maneuvering, and throwing that are all present during the play.
	www.bookrags.com /Squeeze_play_(baseball) (173 words)

	University of Sioux Falls
		Anderson, who plays for the San Angelo Colts of the United Baseball League, broke the record by hitting an RBI single to left field in the first inning of a game yesterday.
		He was the University of Sioux Falls assistant baseball coach for four years before starting his own instructional baseball facility, in Sioux Falls, called Squeeze Play.
		Weber primarily played shortstop for the Cougars in 2003 and 2004 and batted in the leadoff position.
	www.usiouxfalls.edu /sports/baseball (1010 words)

	HuskersHQ: Baseball
		Richmond baseball coach Ron Atkins doesn't expect a whole lot of gratitude from the crowd at Haymarket Park this weekend, even if his Spiders are a big reason Nebraska is at home again.
		Nebraska baseball coach Dave Van Horn expects ace pitcher Shane Komine to be 100 percent healthy and ready to pitch when the Cornhuskers open their season early next year.
		Nebraska baseball coach Dave Van Horn is a rare individual in that he actually describes spending a hot summer day teaching baseball fundamentals to a horde of youngsters as refreshing.
	www.theindependent.com /HuskersHQ/baseball.html (5432 words)

	Little League Online
		WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (April 13, 2006) – As the Official Fresh Snack of Little League Baseball and Softball, Sunkist is calling for all Little League players, coaches, families and friends across America to share their best, most exciting story about how their team made a sensational squeeze play that saved the day.
		Squeeze play stories will be reviewed and the best will win 20 general admission tickets to one Six Flags Theme Park in the United States.
		The story can be about an amazing winning play on the field, or a sensational volunteer effort made off the field by a player, coach or other local league official.
	www.littleleague.org /media/squeezeplay.asp (506 words)

	Amazon.com: Squeeze Play: Books: Kate Angell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Reading Kate Angell's SQUEEZE PLAY, I can honestly say you don't need to be a baseball fan to thoroughly enjoy the games she plays in her the initial installment of this new series featuring the ballplayers of the `Richmond Rogues'.
		Squeeze Play is a good light-read...and I don't mean that in a negative way.
		Squeeze Play was a good read If you like light-hearted romance, you'll like this one.
	www.amazon.com /Squeeze-Play-Kate-Angell/dp/0505526670 (1914 words)

	GameSpy: Out of the Park Baseball 5 Review
		They chose Out of the Park Baseball 4 because, as league commissioner Joe Strano put it, their only real choice to run the kind of quality league they wanted to establish was to either program the game themselves or use Out of the Park Baseball 4.
		A number of minor bugs, like one that caused the game to freeze or crash when you did a squeeze play, were fixed in one of many patches.
		And we still do not have a team leader screen, team records are not kept, and there is a general lack of statistics tracking at the team level except what is found on the expanded standings screen or in the news section reports.
	pc.gamespy.com /pc/out-of-the-park-baseball-5/547897p3.html (872 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- Squeeze play is on
		The inaugural World Baseball Classic is roughly three months away from its semifinal and championship games at Petco Park, yet things are still wayyyyyy up in the air.
		Major League Baseball hopes it can clarify matters – and begin to generate some sorely missing buzz about the global event – at the annual winter meetings this week in Dallas.
		It's believed that a limit of nine or 10 players from each big-league club's 25-man roster will be freed to play in the event, which starts March 3 and climaxes in the championship game March 20.
	www.signonsandiego.com /sports/baseball/20051204-9999-lz1s4sunspcl.html (853 words)

	Squeeze play - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Squeeze Play (pricing game), a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right.
		Play (Squeeze album) A 1991 record, Play, by the band Squeeze.
		"Squeeze play" is a song by Snoop Dogg from his album Snoop Dogg Presents...Doggy Style Allstars Vol.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Squeeze_play (108 words)

	Squeeze Play - CFO Magazine - April Issue 2004 - CFO.com
		Major League Baseball CFO Jonathan Mariner counters that teams do share their financials with MLB, which distributes the numbers to the other teams and the players' union.
		In finance terms, baseball's 30 teams are best viewed not as competitors, but as franchises of a self-regulating monopoly conglomerate.
		(Baseball has long enjoyed a unique—if debatable—exemption from antitrust law.) Team CFOs report not only to their presidents and owners, but also to Mariner, who has something of a hybrid job—the former CFO of the Marlins manages both the finances of the league and the financial health of all teams.
	www.cfo.com /article.cfm/3012785?f=related (630 words)

	Online Etymology Dictionary
		"wooden scraping instrument with a rubber blade," 1844, a nautical word, perhaps from squeege "to press" (1782), an alteration of squeeze.
		1647, probably a variant of squash (1), perhaps by influence of obsolete squiss "to squeeze or crush" (1558).
		ankhein "to squeeze," ankhone "a strangling;" L. angere "to throttle, torment;" O.Ir.
	www.etymonline.com /index.php?search=squeeze (730 words)

	squeeze. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
		To extract by or as if by applying pressure: squeeze juice from a lemon; squeezed a confession out of a suspect.
		To obtain room for by pressure; cram: squeezed her books into the briefcase.
		Baseball To cause (a run or base runner) to score on a squeeze play.
	www.bartleby.com /61/49/S0684900.html (273 words)

	Deep Creek Baseball Association
		With players of only two ages involved, as is the case with PONY Baseball, it is far easier to permit every player to play more positions since the difference in skills within the age group is not that great.
		The game of baseball cannot be played as it was intended to be played if the physical capability of the players does not match the physical achievements required for the game.
		Outfielders can play in a position proportionately equal to that played by a major leaguer, and the double play, squeeze play, and various strategy tactics, difficult for adults and nearly impossible for youngsters on a full size diamond, become a probability rather than an impossibility.
	eteamz.active.com /DeepCreekBaseball/index.cfm (635 words)

	Bemidji State Athletics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Bemidji State University baseball team saw its season-long five-game winning streak come to an end today as the University of Minnesota Duluth and the Beavers collided in their first contest as non-conference opponents in nearly 30 years.
		The Bemidji State baseball team was swept in a two-game series with the Fighting Sioux of the University of North Dakota Wednesday afternoon at the BSU Baseball Field.
		Bemidji State baseball scored just one run and was held to eight base hits at St. Cloud State, dropping and 4-1 and 6-0 decisions in a non-conference double-header sweep Monday afternoon.
	info.bemidjistate.edu /sports/sports/baseball/index.html (4278 words)

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