One of the most famous involved star second baseman Napoleon Lajoie, who in 1901 went across town in Philadelphia from the National League Phillies to the American League Athletics.

With the win, the Rockies made the playoffs for the first time since 1995, and went on to face the Philadelphia Phillies in the NLDS.

Following their bye week, Dallas went on a three game winning streak including wins over Atlanta and NFC East division rival Philadelphia.

After defeating the St. Louis Blues, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and the Colorado Avalanche in the first three rounds, the Wings went on to beat the Philadelphia Flyers in four straight games in the Stanley Cup Finals.

From there he went by steamboat to " Quaker City " ( Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) and continued to the safe house of abolitionist David Ruggles in New York ; the whole journey took less than 24 hours.

Washington's army of 11, 000 went into winter quarters at Valley Forge north of Philadelphia in December 1777.

He was replaced as the director of Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), but he went on to direct The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), Born Yesterday ( 1950 ), A Star Is Born ( 1954 ) and My Fair Lady ( 1964 ).

Cotten went to Hollywood, but discovered there that his stage success in The Philadelphia Story translated to, in the words of his agent Leland Hayward, " spending a solid year creating the Cary Grant role.

" This organisation took off when carpentry workers from Philadelphia went on strike to protest their pay wages and working hours.

One of the most famous involved star second baseman Napoleon Lajoie, who in 1901 went across town in Philadelphia from the National League Phillies to the American League Athletics.

On June 6, 2007, CEO Brian Tierney of Philadelphia Media Holdings L. L. C., owning company of The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly. com, went public in an article on Philly. com expressing interest in " joining with outside partners to buy Dow Jones.

The Indianapolis and Minneapolis teams were replaced by teams in Baltimore and Philadelphia in 1901, but it is unclear and disputed as to which team went where.

In the 1980 NLCS versus the Philadelphia Phillies, Ryan pitched well in Game 2, leaving the game tied 2 – 2 in the seventh ( having contributed to both Astros runs with a run scored following a walk, and a sacrifice bunt leading to a run ) but again got a no decision in a game that went extra innings.

In the third round of the playoffs, the Islanders nearly did it again, rallying from another 3 – 0 deficit to force a seventh game against the defending Stanley Cup champion Philadelphia Flyers before the Flyers took the decisive seventh game at home and went on to win the Stanley Cup.

They went on to win the series in six games and reach the finals for the first time in franchise history, where they would face the NHL's regular season champions, the Philadelphia Flyers, who had gone undefeated for 35 straight games ( 25 – 0 – 10 ) during the regular season.

In Game Five of that series, as the 76ers went to victory and the NBA Finals, Philadelphia fans chanted " Boston is dead!

The 76ers went on to win their third NBA championship ( and second in Philadelphia ) with a four-game sweep of the Los Angeles Lakers, who had defeated them the season before.

He then went to the Philadelphia Phillies ( 1964 – 67 ), the Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1968 to mid-1969 ), and finished the 1969 season with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Surveyors from Philadelphia went north along the Delaware River to survey land.

Among the team's players were the XFL's most well-known, Rod Smart ( later with the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles, Carolina Panthers, and the Oakland Raiders ), who went by the nickname of " He Hate Me ", which appeared on the back of his jersey.

Kovacs also went outside of the studio for some of his sketches, running through a downtown Philadelphia restaurant in a gorilla suit in one, and looking into a construction pit saying it was deep enough to see to China, when a man in Chinese clothing popped up, said a few words in the language, and ran off.

During Raitt's sophomore year, Waterman relocated to Philadelphia, and a number of local musicians he counted among his friends went with him.

Payne moved his family to Philadelphia, where he went into business as a starch merchant.

He watched the girl until she had gone into the trees, and waited until he couldn't hear the sound of her horse any longer, then went up to where the children were sleeping.

We went out of the office and down the hall to a window where documents and more officials awaited us, the rest of the office personnel hot upon our heels.

Many years later I went to see S.K. in England, where he was living at Whiteleaf, near Aylesbury, and he showed me beside his cottage there the remains of the road on which Boadicea is supposed to have travelled.

`` The President says '', the translator came in, `` that the reason he asked you where you were going is because he hoped you would be visiting other areas in Southeast Asia, and that everywhere you went, you would seek the answer to your question.

He went for the bed, jumped on it, and struck where he could, repeatedly.

it took them over an hour to get back to the station where they should have changed, in order to take the line that went to the Place Redoute.

He went into the print shop, where Fletcher had just finished cleaning the press.

I don't know where Ma went.

She went into the living room and turned on three lamps, then back into the kitchen where she turned on the ceiling light and the switch that lit the floods on the barn, illuminating the driveway.

Now there was no work in the fields, nor would there be till it rained, and she did not know where he went.

Every night they all went to Mama and Papa Albright's, and sat on the open front porch, where they could get the breeze.

Mother even went so far as to trump up for me matrimonial opportunities with Pasadena debs who had been educated abroad, and with those of the more lenient Los Angeles area where a debutante was a girl who had been to high school.

`` Then she went to Deauville where she met a member of a powerful Greek syndicate of gamblers ''.

To settle this slight, O'Banion went down to the La Salle Theatre in the Loop, where, he had learned, Dave Miller was attending the opening of a musical comedy.

From that point on he said he went to the post office and then walked leisurely to where his niece was staying, more than a mile away.

At 6:00 p.m. we went to the Kyoto Spring dances at the place where these beautiful dances originated.

I finally went downstairs to the bar off the main lobby where most of the cast were drowning their sorrows over the untimely passing of Ask Tony.

They went up onto a front porch and into a small hallway where a dim bulb burned high in the ceiling.

She paused at the kitchen door, caught her breath, told herself firmly that the opium was only an attempt to frighten her and went into the kitchen, where Glendora was eyeing the chickens dismally and Maude was cleaning lamp chimneys.

Home is where a man was born, reared, went to school and, most particularly, where grandma is.

Holmes went to Atlanta's Morehouse ( Negro ) College, where he is a B student and star halfback.

And the bed that sagged in a certain place where all the weight had been put too many times before and the walls fine and thin for overhearing talk in the next room when Gratt went out for ice, the sound coming through the walls like something on the other side of the curtain, so you knew they heard you when they were quiet and while you lay wondering what they had heard you listened.

I did my shopping, had my dentist appointment, and from there I went to the women's lunch at our parish church where we discussed plans for the annual Christmas bazaar, so that dusk was beginning to gather when I drove home in the late afternoon.

Outside, the old man, beyond all the curses of the spirits his daughter bore, went to her and twisted the gnarled talons of his fingers in her hair and turned her and pushed her rudely ahead of him into the trees where the moon sent out a thousand arms.