News of the signings by the Boston and Philadelphia players leaked to the press before the season ended, and all of them suffered verbal abuse and physical threats from the kranks, as baseball fans were called at the time, in Beantown and the City of Brotherly Love.

The next week, their dream season ended at home with a loss to the Cowboys 30 – 27 in the divisional playoffs.

The Falcons ' 1991 season ended in a divisional playoff loss to the Washington Redskins.

Their season ended with a loss to Donovan McNabb and the Philadelphia Eagles 20 – 6 in the NFC divisional playoffs.

Although they failed to make the playoffs in 2009, the streak ended when the team rallied to win their final three regular season games to record back-to-back winning seasons for the first time in franchise history.

Arizona ended the 2003 season with an 84-78 record, in 3rd place in the NL West.

Cruijff returned in 1985 as the new manager and Ajax ended the season with 120 goals, of which 37 were from van Basten.

It turned out that the Cubs and Giants ended the season tied for first place, so the game was indeed replayed, and the Cubs won the game, the pennant, and subsequently the World Series ( the last Cubs Series victory to date, as it turns out ).

Although he would go on to have back-to-back 17-win seasons for the Chicago Cubs in 1971 and 1972, including a no-hitter in the latter season, this did not help the Reds, who ended up losing the 1970 World Series to Robinson and the Orioles.

After the season ended, the Orioles showcased altered uniforms, with a circular ' Maryland ' patch added to the left-hand sleeve of all jerseys and the grey road jerseys displaying Baltimore across the chest for the first time since 1972.

They ended up with another losing season, but it wasn't as bad as the previous year.

The car was fast — Rindt set pole position twice during the season — but Brabham and Rindt finished only three races between them, and ended the year with only ten points.

Seifert was fired shortly after the season ended, finishing with an overall record of 16 – 32 as head coach of the Panthers.

Drawing almost no fans at home, they ended up playing most of their season on the road, and became known as " The Wanderers.

" The team ended the season in 12th place, 84 games out of first place, with an all-time worst record of 20 wins and 134 losses.

The season ended in disappointment when Boston swept the final three games to advance to the 2007 World Series.

Prospects for the 2009 season dimmed early when the Indians ended May with a record of 22-30.

Many superstitious fans attribute this collapse to an incident at Shea Stadium when a fan released a black cat onto the field, further cursing the club, although the " Amazin ' Mets " ended the season at a torrid pace, finishing with a remarkable 100 wins.

The 1983 Cubs had finished 71 – 91 under Lee Elia, who was fired before the season ended by Green.

The loss ended a spectacular season for the Cubs, one that brought alive a slumbering franchise and made the Cubs relevant for a whole new generation of Cubs fans.

After a down-to-the-wire Wild Card chase with the San Francisco Giants, Chicago and San Francisco ended the regular season tied, and thus squared off in a one game playoff at Wrigley Field in which third baseman Gary Gaetti hit the eventual game winning homer.

The club ended the season with a 97 – 64 record and met Los Angeles in the NLDS.

Had it not been for the strike that ended the season, they may have broken their own season attendance record, as they were on a pace to do just that.

The season ended with a 77 – 67 record, good for second place in the West division and the club's first playoff appearance as the Wild Card winner.

Author of the Albany Plan Of Union, which, had it been adopted, might have avoided the Revolution, he fought the colonists' front-line battles in London, negotiated the treaty of alliance with France and the peace that ended the war, headed the state government of Pennsylvania, and exercised an important moderating influence at the Federal Convention.

Its appeal from ballots to bullets at Fort Sumter ended by costing the Southerners their right to have slaves -- a right that was even less compatible with the sovereignty of man.

The preliminaries ended with the publication of Steele's Crisis on January 19, and from that point on the fight proceeded at a rapid pace.

At the point where they ended, another settlement grew up around a chapel built at the boat landing by Father Lucian Galtier in 1840.

`` I want to be in Scotty's Bar at midnight when Marsha makes her phone call there '', he ended grimly.

The Government reported last week that the index of prices received by farmers rose in the month ended at mid-September for the third consecutive month, reaching 242% of the 1910-14 average compared with 237% at mid-July.

The ceremony ended with the laying of a wreath at the crypt of Pike in the House of the Temple.

In September 1862, the Confederate campaign in Maryland ended in defeat at the Battle of Antietam, which dissuaded the British from intervening.

In 1863, Confederate general Robert E. Lee's northward advance ended in defeat at the Battle of Gettysburg.

After the first two matches ended in stalemate and the Third Test at Old Trafford never started due to rain.

The 1948 series ended with one of the most poignant moments in cricket history, as Bradman played his final innings for Australia in the Fifth Test at The Oval, needing to score only four runs to end with a career batting average of exactly 100.

The First Test at Brisbane ended in a draw, but England won the Second Test, at Adelaide, by an innings and 71 runs.

* Celebration of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 which ended the slavery in the British Empire, generally celebrated as a part of Carnival, as the Caribbean Carnival takes place at this time ( British West Indies ):

When the Gothic campaign ended in Roman victory at the Battle of Naissus in September, Gallienus ' successor Claudius II Gothicus turned north to deal with the Alemanni, who were swarming over all Italy north of the Po River.

In 746, Carloman ended an uprising by summarily executing all Alemannic nobility at the blood court at Cannstatt, and for the following century, Alemannia was ruled by Frankish dukes.

A second invasion also ended in defeat at the Battle of Verona, though Alaric forced the Roman Senate to pay a large subsidy to the Visigoths.

A three day riot broke out in Rome between the people and the Praetorians, and it only ended with the death of Ulpian, who was hunted down and killed at the feet of the Emperor.

However, the invasion ended in 490 BC with the decisive Athenian victory at the Battle of Marathon.

* 1809 – Two Austrian army corps in Bavaria are defeated by a First French Empire army led by Napoleon I of France at the Battle of Abensberg on the second day of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.

On the same day the Austrian main army is defeated by a First French Empire Corps led by Louis-Nicolas Davout at the Battle of Teugen-Hausen in Bavaria, part of a four day campaign that ended in a French victory.