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The Portuguese's mastery of the deadball could be a potent weapon at this year's World Cup and Getafe goalkeeper Oscar Ustari was powerless to prevent his 13th-minute strike from the edge of the penalty area arrowing into the top corner.
Analysis 2010
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"I tried to get myself off of her and (the official) ended up calling a deadball tech."
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More clour on Magnus Eikrem from Darragh Errity: "Young norwegian centre midfielder with a Joaquin Pheonix type hairlip and a reputation as a deadball specialist".
Bursaspor v Manchester United - as it happened Barney Ronay 2010
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Even after 2010 was declared Year of the Pitcher, games across MLB are still being played with scores straight out of the deadball era.
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Even after 2010 was declared Year of the Pitcher, games across MLB are still being played with scores straight out of the deadball era.
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The deadball era is still treated the same in trhe record book as the liver ball era, as is the 162 game season to the 154 game season.
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Uefa's president, Michel Platini, will be at Celtic Manor to argue his case for extra officials behind each deadball line instead of technology, and the IFAB is likely to allow Uefa to continue with the five-man match official system at next year's European Championship finals in Poland and Ukraine.
Fifa makes pledge to fund goalline technology experiments 2011
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You have to remember that he played during the deadball era, when it was quite common to see guys hit under 10 home runs and drive in over 120 runs during a season, which Wagner did in 1901 when he hit 6 home runs and drove in 126 runs while hitting .353!
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The most-recent pitchers to be in the same conversation are Jim Nash and Sam McDowell, who both pitched in the modern deadball era of the late 1960s.
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#65@Alan: I wonder if defense was more demanding during the deadball era for 3B due to more bunting.
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