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The switch-hitting catcher only had 94 plate appearances in the minors in 2007 season posting a .309/.404/.617 line since he was called-up by the Braves when Brian McCann succumbed to injury.
Ben Berkon: Jarrod Saltalamacchia Might Be Underrated Ben Berkon 2011
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His Harvard buddies all begin getting called-up, two of them from n+1 publishing books.
Mike Smith: Home Run for Harbach Mike Smith 2011
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Last month Southern Cross announced that it had been forced to call a meeting to update investors "pursuant to section 656 of the Companies Act 2006" – a little-known section of company law that sets out the procedure that must be followed when the net assets of a public company fall below half of its called-up share capital.
Southern Cross shareholders told of NHP role in break up 2011
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His Harvard buddies all begin getting called-up, two of them from n+1 publishing books.
Mike Smith: Home Run for Harbach Mike Smith 2011
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Like Donkin, this man revealed that beneath the calm exterior he was in truth "concentrated and angry, gloating fiercely over a called-up image of infinite torment -- like men gloat over the accursed images of cruelty and revenge, of greed, and of power."
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Like convicts, draftees were prone to say it was all a big mistake, but for the half million of us called-up in 1961, the mistake was the same for all and the case was clear.
Pacific Light 2010
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Still not sure why Aaron Johnson is being called-up for Scott Summers, though.
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Like Donkin, this man revealed that beneath the calm exterior he was in truth "concentrated and angry, gloating fiercely over a called-up image of infinite torment -- like men gloat over the accursed images of cruelty and revenge, of greed, and of power."
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Lee made his NHL debut after being called-up from AHL Binghamton. ...
USATODAY.com 2007
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In times of emergency and war it is augmented by called-up reservists.
Israel At War (Cont'd) Galai, Shmuel 2009
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