* In Major, the protagonist's father, Shigeharu Honda, is hit in the head by a pitch during a major league match.

In Major League Baseball, the Rookie of the Year Award is annually given to one player from each league as voted on by the Baseball Writers Association of America ( BBWAA ).

After 1993, it was implemented for good when Major League Baseball restructured each league into three divisions, but their next playing was in 1995 due to the cancellation of the 1994 playoffs.

After 1993, it was implemented for good when Major League Baseball restructured each league into three divisions, but their next playing was in 1995 due to the cancellation of the 1994 playoffs.

When his quest to keep the team in Milwaukee finally failed after the 1965 season, he changed the group's name to Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc., after the minor league baseball team he grew up watching, and devoted himself to returning Major League Baseball to Milwaukee.

* 1940 – Ray Sadecki, American Major league baseball pitcher

The game's innovation was that " owners " in a Rotisserie league would draft teams from the list of active Major League Baseball players and would follow their statistics during the ongoing season to compile their scores.

Many early players were introduced to the game by these sports journalists, especially during the 1981 Major League Baseball strike ; with little else to write about, many baseball writers wrote columns about Rotisserie league.

In 1997, Major League Baseball " universally " retired his uniform number, 42, across all major league teams ; the first pro athlete in any sport to be so honored.

In 2002, the team was nearly disbanded when Major League Baseball selected the Twins and the Montreal Expos ( now the Washington Nationals franchise ) for elimination due to their financial weakness relative to other franchises in the league.

Major league baseball player Moe Berg of the Boston Red Sox was an OSS agent

The 1994 – 95 Major League Baseball strike was a blow to the Phillies ' attendance and on-field success, as was the arrival of the Braves in the division due to league realignment.

Gretzky's jersey number 99 is only the second number ever to be retired league-wide by a major North American sports league, the other being Jackie Robinson's number 42, which was retired by Major League Baseball in 1997.

** Abner Powell, Major league baseball player ( d. 1953 )

Major League Baseball ( MLB ) is a professional baseball league, consisting of teams that play in the American League and the National League.

Major League Baseball maintains a unique, controlling relationship over the sport, including most aspects of minor league baseball.

In early 1997, Major League Baseball decided to assign one new team to each league: Tampa Bay joined the American League and Arizona joined the National League.

In 2000, the American and National Leagues were dissolved as legal entities, and Major League Baseball became a single, overall " league " de jure ( albeit with two components called " leagues "), although it had operated as a de facto single entity for many years.

The Hall relented and agreed to admit Negro league players on an equal basis with their Major League counterparts in 1971.

Hank Aaron was the last Negro league player to hold a regular position in Major League Baseball.

Minnie Miñoso was the last Negro league player to play in a Major League game when he appeared in two games for the Chicago White Sox in 1980.

On June 5, 2008, Major League Baseball held a special draft of the surviving Negro league players to acknowledge and rectify their exclusion from the major leagues on the basis of race.

There is also a Major League Soccer team called the Chicago Fire, and there are / were also NBA teams called the Memphis Grizzlies ( 2001 – present ) and Charlotte Hornets ( 1988 – 2002 ) ( although the nickname " Hornets " for minor league baseball teams in Charlotte long precedes the WFL entry, and the " Grizzlies " name for the Memphis NBA team was selected when the franchise was still in Vancouver ).

The team is a member of the Western Major Baseball League, a collegiate summer baseball league operating in the prairie provinces of Canada.

< p align =" justify "> The Central Baseball League, formerly the Texas-Louisiana League, was a minor league whose member teams were independent of any Major League Baseball affiliations.

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

Statistics have been kept for professional baseball since the creation of the American League and National League, now part of Major League Baseball.

In baseball, the statistic applies also to players who, prior to a game, are included on a starting lineup card or are announced as ex ante substitutes, whether they actually play or not, although, in Major League Baseball, the application of this statistic does not extend to consecutive games played streaks.

George Herman Ruth, Jr. ( February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948 ), best known as " Babe " Ruth and nicknamed " the Bambino " and " the Sultan of Swat ", was an American baseball player who spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) playing for three teams ( 1914 – 1935 ).

The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball ’ s American League Eastern Division.

Jerome Holtzman, Major League Baseball's official historian from 1999 until his death in 2008, believed Selig to be the best commissioner in baseball history.

He ultimately chose the former when a deal between the city, Hamilton County, and Major League Baseball's Cincinnati Reds ( who were seeking a replacement for the obsolete Crosley Field ) was struck that resulted in an agreement to build a multipurpose stadium which could host both baseball and football games.

The massive stadium did, however, permit the Indians to set the then record for the largest crowd to see a Major League baseball game.

At an official age of 42, Paige became the oldest rookie in Major League baseball history, and the first black pitcher.

The Cy Young Award is an honor given annually in baseball to the best pitchers in Major League Baseball ( MLB ), one each for the American League ( AL ) and National League ( NL ).

That same year, baseball fans named him to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team.

Located at 4 Yawkey Way, it has served as the home ballpark of the Boston Red Sox baseball club since it opened in 1912 and is the oldest Major League Baseball stadium currently in use.

The Miami Marlins are a professional baseball team based in Miami, Florida and a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball ( MLB's ) National League.

Henry Louis " Hank " Aaron ( born February 5, 1934 ), nicknamed " Hammer ," or " Hammerin ' Hank ," is a retired American baseball right fielder who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) from 1954 through 1976.

* 1921 – Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.

Jack Roosevelt " Jackie " Robinson ( January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972 ) was an American baseball player who became the first black Major League Baseball ( MLB ) player of the modern era.

Johnny Lee Bench ( born December 7, 1947 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ) is a former professional baseball catcher who played in the Major Leagues for the Cincinnati Reds from 1967 to 1983 and is a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Other NBC Sports duties that Albert held were play-by-play announcing for the NFL, college basketball, horse racing, boxing, NHL All-Star Games, and Major League Baseball, as well as hosting baseball studio and pre-game shows.

He is also the only former Major League Baseball player whose baseball card is displayed at CIA headquarters.

Osborne Earl " Ozzie " Smith ( born December 26, 1954 ) is an American former baseball shortstop who played in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) for the San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals from 1978 to 1996.

In Game 1 of the 2010 National League Division Series, Halladay threw the second no-hitter in Major League baseball postseason history, leading the Phillies over the Cincinnati Reds, 4 – 0.