However, they then went into one of the longest championship droughts in baseball history, called by some the " Curse of the Bambino " after its alleged beginning with the Red Sox's sale of Babe Ruth to the rival Yankees two years after their world championship in 1918, an 86-year wait before the team's sixth World Championship in.

However, this new election could not be held on time due to delay in preparation and has been postponed to October 2006 after an agreement was reached amongst the rival parties.

However, he allowed both Plectrude and the young Theudoald to live and treated them with kindness — unusual for those times, when mercy to a former gaoler, or a potential rival, was rare.

However, when his father died, and a rival to the Borgia family entered the Papal seat, Cesare was overthrown in a matter of months.

However, the group saw its membership fall sharply in the late 1980s, as many centre-right members moved to the rival European People's Party group, dominated by the German CDU and the ideology of Christian democracy in general.

However, with the rise of the rival Dutch East India Company, Portuguese influence in Asia was gradually eclipsed.

However, during their testimony at their Combatant Status Review Tribunals, several Guantanamo captives, including Abu Zubaydah, described the Khaldan camp as being run by a rival jihadist organizationone that did not support attacking civilians.

However, in early 1972 he faced a new threat in the form of Simon Kapwepwe's decision to leave UNIP and found a rival party, the United Progressive Party, which Kaunda immediately attempted to suppress.

However, according to Louis Marie DeCormenin, Stephen was the key person responsible for issuing the orders, and took great delight in destroying his rival and his supporters.

However, as it is composed of both pure goodness and pure evil, it might have enough power to rival that of God Himself.

However, because of the fierce competition between the giraffe and rival foragers, those with the shorter necks could only find food at the level rivals were also feeding at.

" However, he is also notorious for having electrocuted a number of dogs in 1888, both by direct and alternating current, in an attempt to argue that the former ( which he had a vested business interest in promoting ) was safer than the latter ( favored by his rival George Westinghouse ).

However, Kekkonen began to see Karjalainen as a rival instead, and eventually rejected the idea.

However, his great rival Thucydides promptly discarded Herodotus's all-embracing approach to history, offering instead a more precise, sharply focused monograph, dealing not with vast empires over the centuries but with 27 years of war between Athens and Sparta.

However, the following year, a detachment of soldiers from Britain ( they had been drafted to Italy to suppress brigands ) also denounced Perennis to the emperor as plotting to make his own son emperor ( they had been enabled to do so by Cleander, who was seeking to dispose of his rival ), and Commodus gave them permission to execute him as well as his wife and sons.

However, this was thrown out in 1412, and all subsequent emperors came from the family of the former Northern Court rival, the ultimately successful Emperor Go-Komatsu.

However, the army have decided to hand over power to his fierce political rival, Andry Rajoelina.

However, he was defeated by a rival, which led to the opportunity for UN peace keepers to be brought in.

However, the conflict between the two companies continued by proxy during the interval before the outbreak of the Seven Years War, with British and French forces fighting on behalf of rival claimants to the thrones of Hyderabad and the Carnatic.

However, in its final years Young Talent Time began to struggle for ratings, particularly following the decision of the rival Nine Network to move its popular early morning variety show Hey Hey It's Saturday to an evening slot in 1984, putting it in direct competition to YTT on Saturday nights at 6. 30pm.

However, this campaign was ultimately a failure due to a rival military officer of Shen disobeying direct orders, and the territory gained from the Western Xia was eventually lost.

However, Liu Chong, a member of the Later Han imperial family, established a rival Northern Han regime in Taiyuan, and requested Khitan aid to defeat the Later Zhou.

However, just when it looked as if the new gun was about to become a great success, a great deal of opposition to the gun arose, both inside the army and from rival arms manufacturers, particularly Joseph Whitworth of Manchester.

However, horror remained Karloff's primary genre, and he gave a string of lauded performances in 1930s Universal horror films, including several with Lugosi, his main rival as heir to Lon Chaney, Sr .' s status as the top horror film star.

However, they buckled under the strain of some of the longest road trips in the league — their nearest division rival, the Blues, were over 1, 000 miles away — and finished in last place.

However, five American League teams had threatened to block the league assignments because of concerns that they would have additional games out of their time zone, causing early starts that would decrease revenue and TV ratings.

However, the University of Washington was unwilling to let the fledgling league use Husky Stadium, probably due to the excessive wear and tear that would have caused to the facility's grass surface.

However, their time in league football was even less successful and considerably briefer than that of Accrington Stanley: they dropped out of the league in 1893 and folded shortly afterwards due to financial problems.

However, some researchers have disputed the major league status of the Union Association, pointing out that franchises came and went and contending that the St. Louis club, which was deliberately " stacked " by the league's president ( who owned that club ), was the only club that was anywhere close to major league caliber.

However, many major league baseball and NFL teams in the United States also promote 24 ounce cans marked with team logos.

However, Per Thulberg, director general of the Swedish National Agency for Education, has said that the system " has not led to better results " and in the 2000s Sweden's ranking in the PISA league tables worsened.

However, Leicester became injury struck and nervous and gained only one point from their last 5 games, with Banks himself missing the final 3 games of the season through injury and eventually fell to a disappointing 4th place in the league.

However, he and his colleagues were denied title glory as Liverpool also won their final league game of the season at Chelsea.

However, an examination of the box scores indicate this spike in walks was due to a few games against Saint Louis Browns ' pitchers with horrific control, not a general league tendency.

However, when Dodgers owner Walter O ' Malley got wind of these developments, he threatened to scuttle the whole deal by invoking his exclusive rights to operate a major league team in southern California.

However some of the historic Italian clubs have not joined the new league and continue to participate in different tournaments organized by other federations.

However, following Manchester United's first league title in 1908 and the FA Cup a year later, it was decided that Bank Street was too restrictive for Davies ' ambition ; in February 1909, six weeks before the club's first FA Cup title, Old Trafford was named as the home of Manchester United, following the purchase of land for around £ 60, 000.

However, it soon became clear that it would be impractical to have an odd number of teams per league: baseball would either have to give teams many more off-days than in the past, or interleague play would have to be extended year-round, or both.

However, rather than continuing to receive their higher share of the league television revenue, the Mara sons pushed for equal sharing of revenue for the benefit of the entire league.

However, due to the special 75th anniversary uniforms serving as the " alternates " for one game in 2007, the Eagles could not wear the alternate black jersey that season per league rules ( alternate uniforms are permitted twice per season but only one can be used ).

However, Michael, in league with the Lombard king Desiderius, and the Duke of Rimini had imprisoned Leo, who had been elected first.

However, WWE's has made a few attempts to enter this market with their " mini's " in the 1990s and the " junior's league " as recent as 2006.

However, he did not lead the league in any of those seasons ; in 2001, he finished behind Barry Bonds, who hit 73 homers, breaking the single-season home run record set by McGwire in 1998 ( 70 ).

However, the Dolphins ' passing attack, led by quarterback David Woodley, ranked last in the league with 1, 401 total yards, 8 touchdowns, and 13 interceptions.

However, their defense ranked second to last in the league in yards allowed.

However, the NFL pulled the game away from Arizona after the league joined a massive, nationwide tourist boycott by various groups to protest the state ’ s refusal to recognize Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

However, the Rams had one of the worst defenses in the league, ranking second to last in points allowed.