Because Ruth had amassed 60 home runs in a season with only 154 games, compared to Maris's 61 over 162 games, baseball commissioner Ford Frick announced that Maris ' accomplishment would be recorded in the record books with an explanation ( often referred to as " an asterisk " in the retelling ).

It was an accomplishment he held for more than 26 years, until Kenny Rogers's hit record in May 2000 ( at 61 years and nine months ), " Buy Me a Rose ".

When Bonds hit his 755th home run, Selig refused to applaud Bonds ' accomplishment, instead choosing to keep his hands in his pockets and have a look of disdain on his face.

During his tenure, the Library began moving from its original home in the US Capitol Building to its own structure, an accomplishment largely the responsibility of his predecessor, Ainsworth Rand Spofford.

In 2012, the Pittsburgh Pirates started using the " Zoltan " hand signal from the movie as a way for players to congratulate their teammates after an accomplishment such as a home run or a double play.

The greatest accomplishment for Rahimić has been winning with CSKA Moscow the 2005 UEFA Cup by beating Sporting Lisbon 3 – 1 in the Final on Sporting's home field in Lisbon.

Of the six modern-day players to score 6 runs in a game, the first to perform the feat was Mel Ott of the New York Giants on August 4, 1934 ( he repeated the accomplishment ten years later, making him the only player ever to do it twice ); the most recent was Shawn Green, then of the Los Angeles Dodgers, on May 23, 2002.

The most notable accomplishment achieved during the Redskins ' 1943 season was Sammy Baugh leading the NFL in passing, punting, and interceptions.

In a unique ( if incidental ) accomplishment, Brock was the first player ever to bat in a major league regular season game in Canada.

During the 2004 season, Brady helped the Patriots set an NFL record with 21 straight wins dating from the previous year, an accomplishment honored in the Pro Football Hall of Fame ( though for official records, the NFL considers it an 18-game regular season winning streak ; it does not count playoff games ).

However, Howard's 1993 – 94 All-American season accomplishment has not been.

Often, these byes will be awarded to the highest-rated competitors in the event as a reward for some previous accomplishment ; indeed, in some American team sports — most notably American football — the number of teams qualifying for the postseason tournament will be intentionally set at a number which is not a power of two, in order to provide such an advantage to a high-achieving team in the just-completed regular season.

His most notable accomplishment is " fixing " Social Security during the fifth season of the show, the sixth year of the Bartlet administration.

Through the activity of his accomplishment, Kenting Tai Situpa crossed the Yangtse river in flood season on horseback.

In his one-off BT19, it helped him get 4 consecutive wins and both titles in the 9 races long season, a unique accomplishment for a driver and constructor.

On January 1, 2011, Tuberville became the second head coach in Texas Tech football history to win a bowl game in his first season — an accomplishment unmatched since DeWitt Weaver's first season in 1951 / 52.

Simply staying in C1 itself would have been quite an accomplishment, but Jaconi outperformed far beyond that ; that season they finished second, meaning they qualified for the playoffs to determine promotion to Serie B.

McGee's accomplishment marked an odd first in major league history, in which the batting champion for one league ended the season as a member of the other league.

Toledo's greatest accomplishment with the team may have been in the 1997 season, where the team finished 10 – 2 with a victory over Texas A & M in the Cotton Bowl Classic.

Imaginative and as comic as it is poetic in both spirit and expression, High Tor is a singular accomplishment, giving rare grace to this theatrical season in New York.

Beyond this amazing accomplishment, Sanchez reached the coveted 200 hit mark for the season.

In the 2007 – 08 season, Cleary repeated the accomplishment of scoring 20 goals in the regular season.

This accomplishment remains the Pioneer League single season record.

Perhaps Grothendieck's deepest single accomplishment is the invention of the étale and l-adic cohomology theories, which explain an observation of André Weil's that there is a deep connection between the topological characteristics of a variety and its diophantine ( number theoretic ) properties.

The rabbis recognize a positive value to the yetzer hara: one tradition identifies it with the observation on the last day of creation that God's accomplishment was " very good " ( God's work on the preceding days was just described as " good ") and explain that without the yetzer ha ' ra there would be no marriage, children, commerce or other fruits of human labor ; the implication is that yetzer ha ' tov and yetzer ha ' ra are best understood not as moral categories of good and evil but as selfless versus selfish orientations, either of which used rightly can serve God's will.

The public was given free access on three days per week, which was " perceived as a major accomplishment and was generally appreciated ".

Two years later, under the pressure of Allies ( especially France desperate to open a new front ), on August 14 / 27 1916 it joined the Allies, for which they were promised support for the accomplishment of national unity, Romania declared war on Austria-Hungary.

The nation's recognition of the Bears ' accomplishment was overshadowed by the explosion of the Challenger two days later, an event which caused the cancellation of the Bears ' post-Super Bowl White House visit ; the surviving members of the team eventually would be invited to the White House in 2011.

The most significant accomplishment was the train station, which was built on an elevated platform over bridges and allows for the separation of traffic and pedestrians.

The most visible accomplishment so far is the recognition by the Patent Co-operation Treaty ( PCT ) of the innovative character and industrial applicability of the UNL, which was obtained in May 2002 through the World Intellectual Property Organisation ( WIPO ).

This accomplishment says less about the jazz excellence of these records than it does about the tastes of the largely white, record-buying public to which Whiteman ( and Goldkette before him ) catered.

The final accomplishment of Bruckner's life was to be his Symphony No. 9 in D minor which he started in August 1887, and which he dedicated " To God the Beloved.

For his support of Eugene McCarthy in 1968 ( and effective use of television commercials in California ) and his opposition to the War in Vietnam, Newman was placed nineteenth on Richard Nixon's enemies list, which Newman claimed was his greatest accomplishment and was also a huge supporter of Mumia Abu Jamal.

The end of the 19th century did mark a significant accomplishment in the profession with the advancements in asepsis and anesthesia which paved the way for the mainstream introduction and later success of the Caesarean Section.

Yossarian is presented as embracing the latter option, such as when he, " throbbed with a mighty sense of accomplishment each time he gazed at officers ' club building and reflected that none of the work that had gone into it was his ," which casts Yossarian as an anti-hero.

His most famous accomplishment came when, as Minister of Health in the post-war Attlee government, he spearheaded the establishment of the National Health Service, which provides medical care free at point-of-need to all Britons.

Leadership has been described as “ a process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task ".

The completed volumes, which continue to be significant references in zoology, represent an astonishing accomplishment by an individual.

This accomplishment can certainly be attributed to the success of " Cumbersome ," which was a Top 40 hit, as well as another popular single, " Water's Edge " and " My My ".

The opportunities denied them also deprive them of the pride of accomplishment which others, who have those opportunities, can develop for themselves.

Historically, the photoelectric effect is associated with Albert Einstein, who relied upon the phenomenon to establish the fundamental principle of quantum mechanics, in 1905, an accomplishment for which Einstein received the 1921 Nobel Prize.

His keystone accomplishment was the establishment of the Save the Everglades program, which as now been joined by the federal government in a joint effort.

To say his recreation of the text was accepted is anticlimactic ; HAJ Munro characterized this accomplishment as " a work which will be a landmark for scholars as long as the Latin language continues to be studied.

Those who completed the sundae without assistance of dining companions were asked to stand before the dining room and shout, in a loud voice, " I made a pig of myself at Farrell's ", after which the other diners would cheer, and a ribbon would be awarded in recognition of the accomplishment.

There is in his craftsmanship, in his readiness to apply the traditional methods to contemporary requirements, something of that accomplishment which makes even the second-rate man of letters interesting.

His continued failure to effect a purpose for the accomplishment of which he possessed inadequate resources led Sussex to pray for his recall from Ireland ; and his wish was granted in May 1564.