* 1973 – The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.

* Jackie Robinson Day ( Major League Baseball )

He wrote, " Robert Henderson, Harold Seymour, and other scholars have since debunked the Doubleday-Cooperstown myth, which nonetheless remains powerful in the American imagination because of the efforts of Major League Baseball and the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

* 1921 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.

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* 1941 – Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1-0.

* Adrian Cann ( born 1980 ), Canadian Major League Soccer player

* Adrian Gonzalez ( born 1982 ), Mexican-American Major League Baseball player

Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.

* 1994 – Major League Baseball players go on strike.

* Alfonso Soriano, a current Major League Baseball outfielder playing for the Chicago Cubs

* Brian Bruney, Major League Baseball relief pitcher

In 1888 – 1889, Spalding took a group of Major League players around the world to promote baseball and Spalding sporting goods.

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The club then moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in and played in that city through ( sometimes referred to as the " Football Cardinals " and / or the " Big Red " to avoid confusion with the Major League Baseball St. Louis Cardinals ).

They play in the West Division of Major League Baseball's National League.

In the fall of 1993, Jerry Colangelo, majority owner of the Phoenix Suns, the area's NBA franchise, announced he was assembling an ownership group, " Arizona Baseball, Inc .," to apply for a Major League Baseball expansion team.

This was after a great deal of lobbying by the Maricopa County Sports Authority, a local group formed to preserve Cactus League spring training in Arizona and eventually secure a Major League franchise for the state.

A $ 130 million franchise fee was paid to Major League Baseball.

Although every Major League Baseball team cultivates fans from outside its immediate metropolitan area, and even though the greater Phoenix area has 2 / 3 of the statewide population, Colangelo still decided to call the team the " Arizona Diamondbacks " rather than the " Phoenix Diamondbacks ".

Randy Johnson was awarded with his fourth consecutive Cy Young Award as well the Major League Baseball Triple Crown.

By the 2004 season the Diamondbacks had dropped to a dismal 51 – 111 record, the worst in Major League Baseball and one of the 10 worst records in the modern era, despite Johnson pitching a perfect game on May 18 of that season.

Of great surprise to many fans was a brand new color scheme ; apparently the original colors used by the franchise since Major League Baseball awarded it to Jerry Colangelo's ownership group in 1995 were to be discontinued.

After winning the opening game of the season on March 31 on the road against the Cincinnati Reds, the Diamondbacks found themselves with the best record in Major League Baseball, 20 – 8, by the start of May.

During the 1950s, the National Football League had grown to rival Major League Baseball as one of the most popular professional sports leagues in the United States.

The World Series, baseball's championship series which determines the champion of Major League Baseball for that season, is held in mid-to-late October ( sometimes spilling over into November to accommodate longer series ) and is nicknamed the " Fall Classic ".

Major food crops (" Ground provisions ") are yams, sweet potatoes, corn, eddoes, cassava, and several varieties of beans.

Major corporation headquarters like Nova Chemicals, FedEx Ground, First Health / Coventry and the consumer division of GlaxoSmithKline are located in Moon.

Ground was broken in for the new home of Major League Baseball's San Francisco Giants, who had moved west from New York following the end of the 1957 season.

Many Major League Baseball stars got their start at the Parade Ground, including Joe Torre and Sandy Koufax.

Plaque to Governor Holt on the Major Joseph Winston monument, commemorating Holt's role in establishing Guilford Courthouse National Military Park | Guilford Battle Ground Company and his gift of the Winston monument

Major works include The White Canoe, an opera seria for hand puppets to the libretto by Edward Gorey, six string quartets, Figure & Ground for string trio, Field Study for vn, tb, ban, gui, Decoherence for x orchestras of x players, Twoity fl, pf and A Beckett Gray Code for wind quintet.

* Major Tom 2000 ( Ground Control vs. Major Tom ) Germany

In " Space Oddity ", from the 1969 album David Bowie ( later retitled Space Oddity ), Major Tom's departure from Earth is successful and everything goes according to plan, but he then cuts off contact with Ground Control.

Martin had remained optimistic that a negotiated settlement could be reached whereby the US would not have to pull out of South Vietnam and, in an effort to avert defeatism and panic he specifically instructed Major James Kean, Commanding Officer of the Marine Security Guard Battalion and Ground Support Force Commander United States Embassy Compound, that he could not begin to remove the tamarind tree and other trees and shrubbery which prevented the use of the Embassy parking lot as a helicopter landing zone.

Major landmarks: Yolande Pompey Recreation Ground

When directed, I MEF deploys and is employed as a Marine Air Ground Task Force ( MAGTF ) in support of Combatant Commander ( COCOM ) requirements for contingency response or Major Theater War ; with appropriate augmentation, serves as the core element of a Joint Task Force ( JTF ); prepares and deploys combat ready MAGTF ’ s to support COCOM presence and crisis response ; and supports service and COCOM initiatives as required.

On May 17, 1950, the base was renamed the " Long Range Proving Ground Base " but three months later was renamed " Patrick Air Force Base ", in honor of Major General Mason Patrick.

Both commanders of the 160th, Ground commander LCDR Erik S. Kristensen, of SEAL Team 10, and aviation element commander Major Stephen C. Reich, were killed in the shootdown.

For his bravery, he was awarded by the United States of America the Bronze Star Medal with " V " Device for Heroism in Ground Combat and ended the war as a Major subjects.

However, Major League Baseball is working with a group of umpires to standardize Ground Rules, to make them easier for teams and umpires.