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An 8-time American League ( AL ) All-Star, he was named the AL's Most Valuable Player in after becoming the first major league player in 19 years to hit for 400 total bases, and went on to become the ninth player to lead the major leagues in total bases in consecutive seasons, and join Ty Cobb as one of two players to lead the AL in total bases three years in a row.
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An 8-time National League ( NL ) All-Star, he was named the league's Rookie of the Year in after batting. 282 with 19 home runs and 65 runs batted in ( RBI ), and won the Most Valuable Player Award in after leading the league with 49 homers and 137 RBI ; he had been runner-up for the award in both 1981 and 1983.
* 8-time National League 3B Gold Glove Award ( 1998, 2000 – 04, 2006, 2010 )
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* 8-time All-Star ( 1943 – 44, 1945 game, 1946, 1948 – 51 )
* 8-time All-Star ( 1972 – 74, 1977 – 79, 1981, 1983 )
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During this period he was champion of Montenegro several times, an 8-time South-Adriatic champion, national title winner in the junior category, as well as International Đerdap Cup winner in 1980.
He was an 8-time Pro Bowl selection and a 3-time First-team All-Pro, recording 150⅓ career sacks.
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A wealthy suburb of Fort Worth, Southlake is known for exemplary public schools, Southlake Town Square, and Carroll High School's 8-time state champion football team.
* Garry Maddox, 8-time golden glove winning and starting center fielder for the 1980 World Champion Philadelphia Phillies.
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* John Mazza, 8-time titleist on the Professional Bowlers Association ( PBA ) Tour
He also appears on Whitey Morgan and the 78's recorded at Levon Helm's studio in December 2009 and January 2010 by the Outlaw Country band Whitey Morgan and the 78's and Last Bird Home by Chris Castle, also recorded at Levon's studio in 2011. Campbell played guitar, pedal steel, banjo, slide, mandolin, and fiddle on Dan Brenner's 2011 album Little Dark Angel produced by 8-time Grammy winner Jay Newland.
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The women's basketball team are 8-time NESCAC champions, holding an astonishing 7-year streak.
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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
American and AL
In the United States and Canada, professional Major League Baseball ( MLB ) teams are divided into the National League ( NL ) and American League ( AL ), each with three divisions: East, West, and Central.
* Abolition of the American and National league offices and presidencies, and inclusion of all umpiring crews into a common pool for AL and NL games, instead of having separate pools per league ( 2000 )
The White Stockings won the 1900 American League pennant led by player-manager Dick Padden, the final WL / AL championship season as a minor league .< ref >
The Cleveland team originated in 1900 as the Lake Shores, when the American League ( AL ) was officially a minor league.
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 ).
Aaron spent 21 seasons with the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves in the National League ( NL ) before playing for the Milwaukee Brewers of the American League ( AL ) for the final two years of his career.
He was named the American League Manager of the Year for his efforts and shortstop Angel Berroa was named AL Rookie of the Year.
In 1986, he won the American League ( AL ) Cy Young Award, the AL Most Valuable Player ( MVP ) Award, and the All-Star Game MVP Award, and he struck out an MLB-record 20 batters in a single game.
A 14-time All-Star and five-time World Series champion, Jackson won two Silver Slugger Awards, the 1973 American League ( AL ) Most Valuable Player ( MVP ) Award, two World Series MVP Awards, and the 1977 Babe Ruth Award.
While playing with Seattle, Griffey was a 10-time American League Gold Glove winner, the 1992 All-Star Game MVP, 1997 AL MVP, 1998 ESPY co-winner for Male Athlete of the Year, 1999 Players Choice Awards Player of the Decade ( by the players ), and was named to the All-Century team in 1999.
He received three American League ( AL ) Most Valuable Player ( MVP ) Awards and played in twenty All-Star games.
The American League of Professional Baseball Clubs, or simply the American League ( AL ), is one of two leagues that make up Major League Baseball in the United States and Canada.
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.
His 100 steals set a new American League ( AL ) record, surpassing Ty Cobb's 96 set in 1915.
The first Japanese-born everyday position player in the major leagues, Ichiro led the American League ( AL ) in batting average and stolen bases en route to being named AL Rookie of the Year and AL Most Valuable Player ( MVP ).
Mattingly was named to the American League ( AL ) All-Star team six times.
Most notably playing for the Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago White Sox, he led the American League in home runs twice, and led both leagues in slugging average ( the AL twice ) and on base percentage.
A 19-time All-Star and two-time American League ( AL ) Most Valuable Player ( MVP ), Ripken is perhaps best known for breaking Lou Gehrig's record for consecutive games played, a record that had stood for 56 years and many deemed unbreakable.
* 9 – 14 October — New York Giants ( NL ) defeats Philadelphia Athletics ( AL ) by 4 games to 1 in the 1905 World Series, which is the first organised by the modern National and American Leagues.
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