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The team achieved good results and in 1960 the club presented a team that won the third division of the Buenos Aires league, reaching the second division.
* 1975 – The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.
2B Orlando Hudson became the recipient of his second career Gold Glove Award, as announced on November 3 becoming only the sixth infielder in major league history to win a Gold Glove award in both the American and National Leagues.
Their second Coppa Italia trophy was won in 1968 – 69 when it was competed in a small league like system.
The White Stockings finished the season in second place, but ultimately were forced to drop out of the league during the city's recovery period, finally returning to National Association play in 1874.
* Introducing a second wild card playoff team in each league ( 2012 )
The current world rankings show England in top place for association croquet, followed by Australia and New Zealand sharing second place, with the United States in fourth position ; the same four countries appear in the top six of the golf croquet league table, below Egypt in top position, and with South Africa at number five.
Walker came very close to winning the Triple Crown that year, leading the league in home runs but finishing second to Tony Gwynn in batting average and third in RBI ( teammate Galarraga led the league.
He became the second player in major league history to hit for the cycle and have an unassisted triple play, which he did on April 29, 2007, in his career.
As of the 2010 season, each voter places a vote for first, second, third, fourth and fifth place among the pitchers of each league.
Young led his league in wins five times ( 1892, 1895, and 1901 – 1903 ), finishing second twice.
Young led his league in fewest walks per nine innings thirteen times and finished second one season.
Although the WHIP ratio was not calculated until well after Young's death, Young was the retroactive league leader in this category seven times and was second or third another seven times.
With Colorado beating Detroit in the third round in 1996, in the second round of both 1999 and 2000, and the Red Wings beating the Avs in the third round in 1997, the battles between these two teams had become one of the fiercest in the league.
In the 2010 – 11 season the average Premier League match attendance was 35, 363, the second highest of any professional football league other than the German Bundesliga, and stadium occupancy was 92. 2 % capacity.
Catcher Charles Johnson led the league with a. 995 fielding percentage, threw out a league-high 48 percent of base runners, and collected his second straight Gold Glove Award for fielding excellence.
He was again the First Division's leading goal scorer, this time with 30 goals, and helped Everton finish second in the league.
As a result, Geelong finished second in the inaugural season, a good start to the new league.
A prodigious home run hitter, Greenberg narrowly missed breaking Babe Ruth's single-season home run record in 1938, when he was again voted to the All-Star Team and hit 58 home runs, leading the league for the second time.
In 1938, Greenberg led the league in runs scored ( 144 ) and at-bats per home run ( 9. 6 ), tied for the AL lead in walks ( 119 ), was second in RBIs ( 146 ), slugging percentage (. 683 ), and total bases ( 380 ), and third in OBP (. 438 ) and set a still-standing major league record of 39 homers in his home park, the newly reconfigured Briggs Stadium.
He was second in the league behind Ted Williams in runs scored ( 129 ) and OBP (. 433 ), all while batting. 340 ( 5th-best in the AL ).
Cesar Cedeno led the club with 81 RBIs and the league with 40 doubles, but batted just. 264 and had 102 strikeouts in his second season with the Astros.

second and Eastern
* 1942 – World War II: second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons.
On September 5, 1901 Patrick T. Powers, president of the Eastern League announced the formation of the second National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, the NABPL or " NA " for short.
Critics do, however, acknowledge that the author of Daniel was familiar with the history of Near Eastern imperial power from the sixth to the second centuries.
Eastern Orthodoxy is the second largest single denomination in Christianity, with over 200 million adherents.
This marks the second major phase of the Zhou dynasty: the Eastern Zhou.
The second phase, between CE 500 and 900, saw Slavic, Turkic, and other tribes on the move, resettling in Eastern Europe and gradually making it predominantly Slavic, and affecting Anatolia and the Caucasus as the first Turkic tribes ( Avars, Huns, Khazars, Pechenegs ), as well as Bulgars, and possibly Magyars arrived.
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially called the Orthodox Catholic Church and commonly referred to as the Orthodox Church, is the second largest Christian church in the world, with an estimated 300 million adherents, primarily in Eastern and Southeastern Europe.
The Eastern Harbour Tunnel is the second under-water tunnel across Victoria Harbour, and is part of Route 2 ( Hong Kong ) | Route 2.
In the first post war years Tito was widely considered a communist leader very loyal to Moscow, indeed, he was often viewed as second only to Stalin in the Eastern Bloc.
Near Eastern antiquities, the second newest department, dates from 1881 and presents an overview of early Near Eastern civilization and " first settlements ", before the arrival of Islam.
* Thomas L. Friedman, From Beirut to Jerusalem: One Man's Middle Eastern Odyssey, second edition, Harpers Collins, 1998.
XIII by James of Bulgaria ), which would be passed to mean " funeral meal " and then " food to serve " during this office ( see today's μαχαρωνιά-macharōnia in Eastern Thrace, in the sense of " rice-based dish served at the funeral "), in which case the term would be composed of the double root of μακάριος " blessed " and αἰωνίος ( aiōnios ), " eternally ", and the second from the Greek μακαρία " barley broth ", which would have added the suffix-one.
From the middle and late Eastern Han to the early Wei and Jin dynasties, the net growth of ancient Chinese science and technology experienced a peak ( second only to that of the Northern Song dynasty )... Han studies of the Confucian classics, which for a long time had hindered the socialization of science, were declining.
Air China owns 17. 5 % of Cathay Pacific ( second largest shareholder ) and the Civil Aviation Administration of China ( CAAC ), an administrative agency of the State Council, owns majority and controlling stakes in China Southern Airlines, China Eastern Airlines, and Air China.
Alexander's pontificate was signaled by efforts to reunite the Eastern Orthodox churches with the Catholic Church, by the establishment of the Inquisition in France, by favours shown to the mendicant orders, and by an attempt to organize a crusade against the Tatars after the second raid against Poland in 1259.
Three cases were disposed of during the Court's first session, one during an extraordinary sitting between 8 January and 7 February 1923 ( the Tunis-Morocco Nationality Question ), four during the second ordinary sitting between 15 June 1923 and 15 September 1923 ( Eastern Carelia Question, S. S. Wimbledon Case, German Settlers Question, Acquisition of Polish Nationality Question ) and one during a second extraordinary session from 12 November to 6 December 1923 ( Jaworznia Question ).
Askin accused the state government of allowing the transport infrastructure of the state to decline and promised to build the Newcastle freeway without a toll, to construct the Eastern Suburbs Railway and to plan for a second crossing of Sydney Harbour.
While usually trying cases in appeal in third instance ( as is normally the case in the Eastern Catholic Churches ), or even in second instance if appeal is made to it directly from the sentence of a tribunal of first instance, it is also a court of first instance for cases specified in the law and for others committed to the Rota by the Roman Pontiff.
* The second, the Eastern Suburbs line, opened in 1979.
Wanting to set itself up more like the NFL right before the merger, the AFL expanded the playoffs for the 1969 season, by having the second place teams from each division face the first place teams from the other division ( Western Champion vs. Eastern Runner-Up, and vice versa ).
The Vikings earned their second appearance in the Super Bowl after defeating the wild card Washington Redskins, 27-20, and the NFC Eastern Champion Dallas Cowboys 27-10, in the playoffs.

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