However, under strong pressure from Washington state officials, MLB asked Soriano to try to find a local buyer first.

However he was given a chance to attend Bradley University and was a star on the baseball team, despite his under-sized 5 ' 8 " frame, before the Minnesota Twins selected him in the 1st round ( 3rd pick ) of the 1982 MLB Draft.

However, with the ongoing MLB strike, Jordan decided to quit the sport rather than becoming a replacement player and being labeled a strikebreaker.

However, Robbie had foreseen Miami would be a likely location for a new or relocated MLB team, and the stadium was designed to make any necessary renovations for baseball as seamless as possible.

However, MLB. com's Pitch / FX tracker clocked the throw at 105.

However, due to MLB rules at the time, he could not call the 1980 World Series, as local broadcasters were not allowed to call games due to contract conflicts with MLB, NBC and CBS Radio.

However, the following month, the Mariners made it to the MLB postseason for the first time, and defeated the New York Yankees in the decisive 5th game of the 1995 American League Division Series on the heels of a walk-off game-winning double hit by Edgar Martinez.

( However, if Fox is scheduled to broadcast the NLCS and the ALCS series is a showdown between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox, then MLB will move the ALCS to Fox ).

However, an exclusive licensing deal between Major League Baseball and Take-Two Interactive in 2005 prohibited EA Sports from making another MLB game until 2012.

However, he played sparingly for the Giants in his first MLB seasons, appearing in only 17 games in 1915 and 49 games in 1916.

However, he batted only. 258, his lowest MLB season average of his career.

However, as the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission, operator of the Metrodome, won an injunction requiring the Twins to play there in 2002, MLB was unable to revoke the Twins franchise, and so had to keep the Twins and Expos as part of the MLB schedule.

However, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig had moved the starting time of Game 5 to primetime, due to the rematch, and Fox had a triple-header, first the Seattle Seahawks – New England Patriots game at Gillette Stadium at 1: 00 pm ET, then Game 4 of the NLCS between the St. Louis Cardinals and Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park at 4: 30 pm ET.

However, the application of any foreign substance to a ball is expressly prohibited by 8. 02 of the MLB Official Rules, and, if caught, results in an automatic eight-game suspension.

However, the Chorizo did not become a regular participant in the Sausage Race until the season because of an MLB rule stating that a team may not introduce a new mascot in the middle of a season.

However, the MLB is expected to institute a rule making this move a balk after the 2012 baseball season, to the consternation of former practitioners such as Nelson.

However, he actually set the MLB single-season RBIs record with 191 in 1930.

( However, in the long-lasting Japan-Baseball game series Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū series, Daisuke is never given " Gyroball " ability for any installment, nor in the MLB Power Pros series installment.

However, the MLB Commissioners office issued a statement that since the Dominican League is affiliated with MLB, Ramirez would not be eligible to play without first serving his mandated suspension.

However, finalization of the financing deal stalled due to complex negotiations among the city government, MLB as owner of the team, and the bank.

However, the Australian Baseball League, International Baseball League of Australia and Claxton Shield in recent years have been played in the Australian summer, this is due to the MLB and other northern hemisphere baseball leagues being played in the northern summer, therefore many high profile players from Australia were unable to play in the southern winter.

However, this first level of metatheatre is deepened and complicated by frequent briefer and more intense metatheatrical episodes ; see, for example, the Players ' pantomimes of Hamlet in Acts 2 and 3, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern's obsessive role-playing, and the Player's " death " in Act 3.

However, in 1890, nearly all of the Giants ' stars jumped to the upstart Players ' League, whose New York franchise was also named the Giants.

However generally they follow the rules described in Standard American 21, The Rubber Bridge Players Guide for the Twenty-first Century by John Sheridan Thomas.

However, Famous Players exercised their option to extend his contract, preventing him from accepting any employment other than with the studio.

However, just one week later at the Lipton International Players Championships in Miami, Sampras defeated two top-40 players before losing to world number 18 Emilio Sánchez.

However, as of 2008, only the Scotiabank Theatre, formerly Famous Players SilverCity, ( with an animatronic fire breathing dragon and IMAX screen ) is in the mall.

However, the series was canceled on September 14 of that year due to an ongoing strike by the Major League Baseball Players Association, which began on August 12.

However, on March 26, Ames overcame the record defeat by taking The Players Championship at the TPC at Sawgrass.

However, many readers complained that the humor that had made Game Players such an enjoyable magazine was missing from the Ultra version, which prompted a return to form soon after the switch.

However, in 1982, Canadian touring pros formed the Tournament Players Division ( TPD ) within the Canadian Professional Golfers Association ( CPGA ) and proposed a reorganized circuit.

However the PGA Tour itself dates the formal establishment of the Tour to 1968, when the " Tournament Players Division " split from the PGA of America.

However the Women's International Squash Players Association ( WISPA ), refused to grant permission for her to play in the outfit.

However, the National Football League still liked the idea of a spring developmental league — and they needed another pro Football league to help their cause in the antitrust and free agency lawsuit with the National Football League Players ' Association.

However, there are also two special ranks specific to the St. X Players.

However, the branding of other concessions varies ; Cineplex and Galaxy have historically been associated with Pizza Pizza and Yogen Früz, while Famous Players has served Yum Brands ( including KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell ), Burger King, Baskin-Robbins, and TCBY products.

However, many contend, and history would seem to bear it out, that filming took place at the Famous Players Astoria Studios in Astoria, Queens, New York, with the exteriors shot at the " Walking Dunes " in East Hampton, Long Island.

However, when the major professional clubs formed the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players in 1871, Atlantic declined to field a team.

However, his success in non-televised events was considerably better including an appearance in the Bristol Players Championship final – losing 3 – 2 to Dennis Priestley.

However, throughout the 1990s, Famous Players Theatres remained a major competitor in the Maritimes.

However, he remained good enough to be selected for the Players of the South against Gentlemen of the South in 1903, while the following year he achieved career-best innings figures of 9 – 75 against Oxford University.