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

As a bit of a shocker for Brewers fans, who were used to the team sporting several power hitters, the Brewers in 1992 instead led the American League with 256 stolen bases, while hitting only 82 home runs, with only two players ( Greg Vaughn and Paul Molitor ) hitting more than 12 for the year.

Babe Ruth, noted as one of the most prolific hitters in Major League Baseball history, spent the majority of his career in the American League.

At the time of his last major league game in 2003, the ten-time American League ( AL ) All-Star ranked among the sport's top 100 all-time home run hitters and was its all-time leader in base on balls.

Play in the Pacific League is similar to that in American League baseball, with the use of designated hitters, unlike the Central League, which doesn't have the DH and is closer to National League baseball.

Until 2010, the designated hitter rule was applied based on the league in which the host team plays ; it was used for games played in American League ballparks in each such instance, both teams used a designated hitter while in National League ballparks, lineups have scheduled the pitcher to hit, though pinch hitters have almost always been used.

Designated hitters are used in Pacific League teams ' home games, as in the American League in Major League Baseball.

Despite missing 15 games with chicken pox and patellar tendinitis in both knees that plagued him throughout the first half of the 1993 season, Anderson led all American League leadoff hitters in extra-base hits ( 56 ) and RBI ( 62 ).

He led American League leadoff hitters with a. 408 on-base percentage and reached base 279 times, ninth most in the league.

In 1995, he established a reputation as one of the most feared hitters in the American League when he hit 39 home runs with 126 RBIs and a. 300 average.

Mathews was regarded as one of the strongest power hitters of his time, often being compared to American League contemporary Mickey Mantle, in terms of power hitting strength.

One of the most physically intimidating () hitters in the sport, he was named the National League's Rookie of the Year in, and went on to lead the American League in home runs and total bases twice each and in slugging average, runs batted in and walks once each.

From 1916 to 1920, Felsch was one of the best hitters in the American League, finishing in the top 10 in more than a few major batting categories.

He joined the Chicago White Sox the next season, and became one of the top sluggers and designated hitters in the American League.

On a team full of good hitters, Donlin found it difficult to get regular playing time because of his poor defense and decided to jump to the Baltimore Orioles of the new American League in to play for his former teammate in St. Louis, John McGraw.

One of the American League's better hitters during his first four seasons, Alexander led the league in hits in 1929 and won a batting title in 1932, but a lack of defensive capability coupled with a leg injury ultimately cut short his Major League career.

Many leagues allow designated hitters, notably Major League Baseball's American League ( which instituted the DH in 1973 to boost offensive output ).

* Designated hitters: used primarily by the American League as a substitute for the pitcher, but only for batting.

As a regular starter for the A's, Tenace had a low batting average but a fair amount of power, hitting 20 home runs in four consecutive years in Oakland, finishing among the top 10 home run hitters in the American League each year.

He led all American League hitters in RBIs among those with 425 at bats or less, only Barry Bonds and Jason Bay had more in the Major Leagues.

Amongst American League hitters that year, Lawton was tied for fourth in times hit by pitch ( 15 ); ninth in walks ( 86 ), tenth in on base percentage (. 387 ), and tied for tenth in triples.

In 1981, he led the pinch hitters of the American League with three home runs and 12 RBIs.

In 2006, Johnson led all leadoff hitters in the American League with a. 390 on-base percentage and also had a. 319 batting average.

* Torii Hunter, American Major League Baseball center fielder, for his ability to scale the outfield wall to rob hitters of home runs

The American Association had long been considered inferior to the NL, but in that season Browning proved that he was indeed among the game's top hitters by winning his third batting title with a. 373 mark.