Obviously, if this club is going to move from second to first in the American League, it will have to show improvement someplace.

When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.

The professional organizations such as American Institute of Interior Designers, National Society of Interior Designers, Home Fashions League and various trade associations, can and do aid greatly in this work.

Over the first five frames, Jack Fisher, the big righthander who figures to be in the middle of Oriole plans for a drive on the 1961 American League pennant, held the A's scoreless while yielding three scattered hits.

If the Orioles are to break their losing streak within the next two days, it will have to be at the expense of the American League champion New York Yankees, who come in here tomorrow for a night game and a single test Sunday afternoon.

Skinny Brown and Hoyt Wilhelm, the Flock's veteran knuckleball specialists, are slated to oppose the American League champions in tomorrow's 8 P.M. contest.

The Dallas Texans were back home Monday with their third victory in four American Football League starts -- a 19-12 triumph over the Denver Broncos -- but their visit will be a short one.

With Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra both out of action due to injuries, the American League champs still mounted a 15-hit attack against a parade of eight Cincinnati pitchers, the most ever used by one team in a series game.

Mantle, the bull-necked blond switch-hitter, had one sensational triple-crown season, 1959, when he batted and also led the American League in home runs, 52, and rbi's, 130.

Experts point to the thinning of pitching talent in the American League caused by expansion.

( American League expansion created, inevitably, weaker teams.

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

* 1981 – Alex Suarez, American bassist ( Cobra Starship and This Is Ivy League )

* 1957 – Vince Gill, American singer-songwriter and musician ( Pure Prairie League and The Notorious Cherry Bombs )

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.

* Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, an American professional baseball league

* American Protective League, a WWI era pro-war organization

* American Premier League, A Twenty20 cricket league in United States of America

* 1932 – Meir Kahane, American rabbi and activist, founder of the Jewish Defense League ( d. 1990 )

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* 1959 – Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.

* Adrian Arrington ( born 1985 ), American National Football League ( NFL ) player

* Adrian McPherson ( born 1983 ), American quarterback in the Canadian Football League

Arthur Robinson traveled with the baseball clubs as staff correspondent for the American.

The only area in which American boys hold their own is the baseball throw.

Nor is it an accident that baseball, growing into the national game in the last 75 years, has become a microcosm of American life, that learned societies such as the American Folklore Society and the American Historical Association were founded in the 1880s, or that courses in American literature, American civilization, American anything have swept our school and college curricula.

for every grown man ( except a few who were always suspected of being shy on virility ) knew at least the fundamentals of baseball, just as every male American in this era liked to imagine ( or pretend ) that he could fight with his fists.

* Henry Austin ( baseball ) ( 1844 – 1904 ), American baseball player

* Chris Carter ( left-handed hitter ) ( born 1982 ), American baseball player nicknamed " The Animal "

* Brad Lesley ( born 1958 ), American baseball player and television personality also nicknamed " The Animal "

* 1903 – Mickey Cochrane, American baseball player ( d. 1962 )

* 1969 – Bret Boone, American baseball player

* 1971 – Lou Merloni, American baseball player

* 1977 – Andy Phillips, American baseball player

* 1978 – Blaine Neal, American baseball player

* 1972 – Paul Lo Duca, American baseball player

* 1979 – Jordan De Jong, American baseball player

* 1985 – Brennan Boesch, American baseball player

* 1949 – Phil Garner, American baseball manager

* 1917 – Peanuts Lowrey, American baseball player ( d. 1986 )

* 1931 – Joe Cunningham, American baseball player

* 1935 – Ernie Broglio, American baseball player