During the off-season the club hired Leigh Matthews, who in 1990 had delivered Collingwood its first premiership since 1958.

During the off-season, the team signed Japanese shortstop Tsuyoshi Nishioka to fill a hole in the middle infield, re-signed Jim Thome, who was in pursuit of career home run number 600, and also re-signed Carl Pavano.

During the off-season, the Brewers lost C. C.

During the 1960s, Clemente batted over. 300 in every year except 1968, when, thanks to yet another freak off-season injury ( à la 1965 ), he got off to the worst start of his major league career, hitting just. 245 by the All-Star break, and doing well just to reach. 291 by season's end.

During the off-season, Clemente was involved in charity work.

During the off-season, in a mysterious accident, owner Carroll Rosenbloom drowned, and a power struggle ensued between Carroll's second wife, Georgia Frontiere, and his son, Steve Rosenbloom.

During the off-season of 1954, Williams was offered the chance to be manager of the Red Sox.

During the off-season while playing for the Reds in the late 1950s, he attended Xavier University in Cincinnati.

During the off-season, though still active in baseball, Jackson worked as a field reporter and color commentator for ABC Sports.

During the off-season, the Bulls drafted Jimmy Butler 30th overall in the 2011 NBA draft.

During the 1996 off-season, the Lakers acquired 17-year-old Kobe Bryant from the Charlotte Hornets for Vlade Divac ; Bryant was drafted 13th overall out of Lower Merion High School in Ardmore, Pennsylvania in that years draft, by Charlotte.

During the 2006 off-season many Oilers left the team.

During the 2011 off-season, the team again made several moves to bolster the offence and defence, trading for fan favourite Ryan Smyth from the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for centre Colin Fraser and a 7th round draft pick.

During the off-season Burke bought out the remaining year on Bertuzzi's contract and traded Schneider to the Atlanta Thrashers.

During the 2007 – 08 off-season, the Connecticut Sun made major changes to their roster in an effort to win that ever-elusive championship title.

During the off-season, Capozzi improved the team for the 1959 season in the following ways ; first by hiring Wayne Robinson from the Winnipeg Blue Bombers to become the new head coach, then bringing in a corps of veteran players to add more experience to the team.

During the off-season, Kariya became a restricted free agent before re-signing with the Ducks to a one-year, $ 10 million contract in July 2002.

During the off-season, Predators owner Craig Leipold put the team up for sale ; two of the leading candidates to buy the franchise both had plans to relocate the team.

During the 2005 off-season, after Nomar Garciaparra left the Cubs via free agency, Prior was mentioned as part of a possible deal for Baltimore Orioles's shortstop Miguel Tejada, but this trade did not come to pass.

During the off-season of 2012, Brodeur hired agent Pat Brisson, leading many to believe he would test free-agency.

During the off-season, he took courses at Assumption University in Windsor, Ontario.

During the WNBA's off-season, she began working as a stockbroker in New York City.

During the off-season, the team competes in various exhibition games and tournaments against college teams in Ontario, and sometimes teams from the National Collegiate Athletic Association.

During the 2010 off-season, citing irreconcilable differences with Oiler management due to their handling of his various ailments, Souray requested a trade out of Edmonton.

During the latter half of the 19th century, considerable public improvements were made to the town, which became, despite its neighbouring collieries, a pleasant place to live.

During the 1930s and 40s, significant improvements were made to the ground, making it one of the largest in the country at that time.

During the height of the Malenkov – Khrushchev struggle, Khrushchev actively fought for improvements in Soviet agriculture and the strengthening of the role of the Central Committee.

During the last half of the 19th century, government assumed expanding responsibilities for public welfare and public works improvements.

During the 1950s — as a result of these improvements and the strong international export prices — beef, cotton, and coffee became significant export products for the first time.

During the 1920s, several improvements were put in place, such as a new 74 cubic inch ( 1, 200 cc ) V-Twin, introduced in 1922, and the " Teardrop " gas tank in 1925.

During his term, Adams worked on transforming America into a world power through " internal improvements ," as a part of the " American System ".

During World War I, as a result of improvements by the rival firm Schütte-Lanz Luftschiffbau, the design was changed to the more familiar streamlined shape and empennage of cruciform fins used by almost all airships ever since.

During the late 1930s, Onsager researched the dipole theory of dielectrics, making improvements for another topic that had been studied by Peter Debye.

During the 1940s he developed several encoding schemes that were dramatic improvements on existing codes.

During the summer of 2007, 9th and 9th saw sidewalk and street improvements as well as an art installation by Troy Pillow of Seattle, Washington inspired by the 9 Muses of Greek myth, thanks in part to a monetary grant from Salt Lake City.

During his 11 year term, Urechean committed himself to the restoration of the church tower of the Catedrala Nașterea Domnului, as well as improvements in public transport.

During her reign, Catherine the Great decided to make improvements to the square.

During 1999 – 2004, a strategy led by the World Health Organization and UNICEF led to improvements in measles vaccination coverage that averted an estimated 1. 4 million measles deaths worldwide.

During his first term as Premier, Lang carried out many social programmes, including state pensions for widowed mothers with dependent children under fourteen, a universal and mandatory system of workers ' compensation for death, illness and injury incurred on the job, funded by premiums levied on employers, the abolition of student fees in state-run high schools and improvements to various welfare schemes such as child endowment ( which Lang's government had introduced ).

During the 17th century, improvements to the portability of the musket, combined with the invention of the bayonet, saw the obsolescence of the pike in most European armies.

During 1999 and 2000, California spent millions on onetime projects like buying new rail cars and track improvements.

During the course of his confrontations, Escalante's car is stolen, adding to his despair, only to discover that it was stolen by one of his students to make some improvements to it as a token of gratitude for his service.

During the 1960s, the construction of Interstate 10 and improvements to Veterans Memorial Highway aided the rapid development of Kenner as a suburb of New Orleans.

During the same year, the Locust Mountain Coal and Iron Company commenced making extensive openings and improvements upon their valuable coal lands in the vicinity of Mt.

" During this same period, road improvements allowed the stagecoach lines to be replaced with automobile taxis, reducing the travel time from the railroad to just three hours.

During the 1970s, continued growth brought about improvements to the municipal infrastructure, including road construction, and a new water / sewage system.

During the 20th century, the mechanical lathe underwent major improvements eventually leading to the automated cymbal lathe

During his lifetime, Westinghouse made many improvements to his invention.