Its fiery leader Ban Johnson railed against the National League and promised to build a new league that would grab the best players and field the best teams.

Ban Johnson had other designs for the NA.

American League President Ban Johnson said a recalculation showed that Cobb had won the race anyway, and Chalmers ended up awarding cars to both players.

The WL reorganized itself in November, with Ban Johnson as President.

Around the same time Ban Johnson changed the name of his minor league ( Western League ) to the American League.

* March 28 – Ban Johnson, American baseball executive ( b. 1864 )

In its early history, the Western League struggled until 1894, when Ban Johnson became the president of the league.

* Norwalk is the birthplace of Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Paul Brown and American League Baseball's first president, Ban Johnson.

The truth is somewhat more nuanced and dates to a long-running dispute between Frazee and American League founder and president Ban Johnson.

He was suspended indefinitely by league president Ban Johnson, but his suspension was eventually reduced to 10 days and $ 50.

The angry Speaker held out for $ 10, 000 of the cash that Boston had got, eventually, with the aid of AL President Ban Johnson, receiving it.

This “ retirement ” was forced by AL President Ban Johnson after a scandal involving gambling broke in, in which Dutch Leonard claimed that Speaker and Ty Cobb fixed at least one Cleveland-Detroit game.

Then American League president Ban Johnson disliked Frazee for this reason, saying he was " too New York " and making reference to the " mystery " of his religion — polite code that would have been well understood in the 1920s.

In 1901 when Ban Johnson formed the American League, one of the first acts was to raid the National League and offer their stars big contracts.

The WL had reorganized itself in November, 1893, with Ban Johnson as President.

In 1894, another team calling itself the Millers was formed when Ban Johnson and Charles Comiskey revived the Western League in hopes of making it a second major league.

Landis ' only significant rival in the early years was longtime American League founder and president Ban Johnson, who was as iron-willed as Landis.

MPA graduates currently serve in some important positions within the public sector including Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, CIA Director David Petraeus, President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Mexico Felipe Calderón, Foreign Minister of Serbia Vuk Jeremić, NYC Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, Treasurer of Australia Wayne Swan, Health Minister of Australia Tanya Plibersek, former Commandant of the U. S. Coast Guard Thad Allen.

* Ban Johnson ( 1864 – 1931 ), American baseball executive, founder of the American League

Various National League officials and owners were present for the opening pre-game ceremonies, including league president Harry Pulliam, Civil War veteran and manager of Pittsburgh's first professional baseball team Al Pratt, and American League president Ban Johnson.

During several of those years with the Naps he and Ty Cobb dominated AL hitting categories and traded batting titles with each other, most poignantly coming in 1910 when the league's batting champion was not decided until well after the last game of the season and after an investigation by American League President Ban Johnson.

Following the players ' acquittal, Gandil said, " I guess that'll learn Ban Johnson he can't frame an honest bunch of ball players.

When Ban Johnson, a longtime friend, announced plans to form the American League, Griffith was one of the ringleaders in getting National League players to jump ship.

A special committee selects managers Connie Mack and John McGraw, former league presidents Morgan Bulkeley and Ban Johnson, and pioneer shortstop / promoter George Wright.

In May 2007, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon named Brundtland, as well as Ricardo Lagos ( the former president of Chile ), and Han Seung-soo ( the former foreign minister of South Korea ), to serve as UN Special Envoys for Climate Change.

As president, Bush pushed through a $ 1. 3 trillion tax cut program and the No Child Left Behind Act, and also pushed for socially conservative efforts such as the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act and faith-based welfare initiatives.

On 12 September 2008, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon selected Prodi as president of the African Union-UN peacekeeping panel.

* French president Jacques Chirac ’ s decision to run a nuclear test series at Mururoa in 1995, just one year before the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty was to be signed, caused worldwide protest, including an embargo of French wine.

French president Jacques Chirac ’ s decision to run a nuclear test series at Mururoa on on 5 September and 2 October 1995, just one year before the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty was to be signed, caused worldwide protest, including an embargo of French wine.

Specifically, Secretaries General Kofi Annan and Ban Ki Moon, the council's president Doru Costea, the European Union, Canada and the United States have accused the council of focusing disproportionately on the Israeli – Palestinian conflict.

Ban Johnson, AL president, suggested Huggins to Ruppert as a replacement for Donovan.

McGinnity was arrested for the incident and permanently suspended by AL president Ban Johnson, who wanted there to be no fighting in AL games.

In 1906, he received a spectacular career boost from fellow Youngstowner Jimmy McAleer, an ex-major leaguer who was so impressed with the young man's ability that he recommended Evans to American League president Ban Johnson.

Both men had agreed before the fight that they would not report it to league officials, but word of the incident eventually reached the league president, Ban Johnson.

When American League president Ban Johnson got word of it, however, he pressured Mexican authorities to deport Chase.

In, Ban Johnson, the American League president enlisted Lange as his chief organizer of baseball teams in Europe, mainly in England, France, Belgium, and Italy.

That league's president, Ban Johnson, was eager to create a reputation for the AL as a solid challenger to the NL, and he gave umpires a greater measure of support than they had previously received, demonstrating that attacks upon umpires would not be tolerated and that their judgment was final.

In 1894-95, he umpired in the Western League, where he first became associated with that league's president, Ban Johnson.

However, the New York Giants, who had already clinched the National League pennant, refused to play in the 1904 World Series because of a perception of the " Junior Circuit " as being inferior ( and because of alleged animosity between American League founder and first president, Ban Johnson, and the hierarchy of the Giants, owner John T. Brush and his team's Hall of Fame coach, player-manager John McGraw ); thus, there was no World Series that year.

Frazee and Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert were friends, and American League president Ban Johnson's attempts to drive Frazee out of the game had caused the five teams loyal to Johnson to make no deals with the Red Sox as long as Frazee owned the club, leaving only the Yankees and White Sox as trading partners.

* American Psychological Association Rejects Blanket Ban on Participation in Interrogation of U. S. Detainees

Condolences came from the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, the European Union, the OAS, The Union of South American Nations declared three days of national mourning in all South American countries.

In 1974, the United Methodist General Board of Church and Society formed the National Coalition to Ban Handguns, a group of thirty religious, labor, and nonprofit organizations with the goal of addressing " the high rates of gun-related crime and death in American society " by licensing gun owners, registering firearms, and banning private ownership of handguns with " reasonable limited exceptions " for “ police, military, licensed security guards, antique dealers who have guns in unfireable condition, and licensed pistol clubs where firearms are kept on the premises .” In the 1980s and 1990s, the coalition grew to 44 member groups.

Since Resolution 2758 makes no mention of Taiwan, Ban Ki-moon's interpretation to this effect came under fire from the American media (" King of the UN ," Wall Street Journal ).

Owing to business rivalry between the two leagues, especially in New York, and to personal animosity between Giants manager John McGraw and American League President Ban Johnson, the Giants declined to meet the champions of the " junior " or " minor " league.

The Tigers submitted several game balls to American League President Ban Johnson after the game to check for irregularities, but Johnson dismissed the charge.

Although American League President Ban Johnson sought a confrontation, Tener brokered a deal in which Brooklyn paid for Kraft's rights and sent him to Newark.