( Batting helmets at that time were not required to have an " ear flap "; indeed, it was not until 2002 that all major league batters were required to wear helmets with side protection.

Since 2002, Selig subsequently tried to reinvigorate the All-Star Game by awarding the winning league home-field advantage in the World Series.

In 2002, Fox's defense-first philosophy worked well as the Panthers improved to 7 – 9 ( a six-game improvement over the previous year ) and posted the second-best overall defense in the league after having the second-worst the previous season.

But the team lost its next two games, and suffered embarrassing losses to the Houston Texans over the course of the season ( Jacksonville has struggled against the Texans since Houston entered the league in 2002 ).

Threatened with closure by league contraction, the 2002 team battled back to reach the American League Championship Series before being eliminated 4 – 1 by that year's World Series champion Anaheim Angels.

In 2002, the team was nearly disbanded when Major League Baseball selected the Twins and the Montreal Expos ( now the Washington Nationals franchise ) for elimination due to their financial weakness relative to other franchises in the league.

The. 553 OBP stood as a major league record until it was broken by Barry Bonds in 2002 and his. 735 slugging percentage was highest mark in the major leagues between 1932 and 1994.

** At Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts, the first All-Star Game tie in major league baseball history occurs, when the game is stopped in the 9th inning due to rain ( the only tie until 2002 in MLB All-Star Game history ).

Real Madrid won two more Liga titles in 2001 and 2003 and also the UEFA Champions League in 2000 and 2002, and won their third league title in 2007 after a three year drought.

His successor, Rafael Benítez, built on this and led the club to a Liga title in 2002 and the winning a double with a league title and the UEFA Cup in 2004.

In the 2002 – 03 season, the club managed to finish third in the national league, as well as reach the final of the Dutch Cup ( which was lost 1 – 4 to FC Utrecht ), but in the following years, Feyenoord disappointed in both the national league and the Dutch Cup.

For one season ( 2002 – 2003 ) the ECHL Men O ' War played minor league hockey in Lexington.

Teams and the league were collectively owned by the NBA until the end of 2002, when the NBA sold WNBA teams either to their NBA counterparts in the same city or to a third party.

Bankrolled by Calisto Tanzi, the club won these eight trophies between 1992 and 2002, a period in which it achieved its best ever league finish – as runners-up in the 1996 – 97 season – and threatened the dominance of the league's established powers: Juventus, Milan and Internazionale, the only Italian sides to have had more success in European competition than Parma.

In February 2002, he signed as a free agent with the Boston Red Sox, where at age 43 he became the oldest player to play center field in major league history when he replaced Johnny Damon for three games in April and another in July

In 2002, Chico won its second league championship in the league's and the team's final season.

The team folded with the league after the 2002 season.

They played for two seasons but folded along with the league after the 2002 season.

It folded after the 2002 season along with the league.

There is also a Major League Soccer team called the Chicago Fire, and there are / were also NBA teams called the Memphis Grizzlies ( 2001 – present ) and Charlotte Hornets ( 1988 – 2002 ) ( although the nickname " Hornets " for minor league baseball teams in Charlotte long precedes the WFL entry, and the " Grizzlies " name for the Memphis NBA team was selected when the franchise was still in Vancouver ).

The second Jackson Senators team was a member of the independent Central Baseball League from 2002 to 2005, a league that was not affiliated with Major League Baseball.

The league began play in 2002 after the demise of the All-American Association.

Before 2002, it was classified as a " High-A " league, indicating its status as a Class A league with the highest level of competition within that classification, and the fifth step between Rookie ball and the Major Leagues.

In 1992 and revised in 2002 the OECD's Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems and Networks proposed the nine generally accepted principles: Awareness, Responsibility, Response, Ethics, Democracy, Risk Assessment, Security Design and Implementation, Security Management, and Reassessment.

In effect from 1 March, 2002, all the member states of the EU except Denmark accepted Council Regulation ( EC ) 44 / 2001, which makes major changes to the Brussels Convention and is directly effective in the member states.

Nancy and her husband were jointly awarded the Congressional Gold Medal on May 16, 2002 at the Capitol, and were only the third President and First Lady to receive it ; she accepted the medal on behalf of both of them.

Appointing Zafarullah Jamali as Prime minister in 2002, Musharraf accepted his resignation in 2004 and approved the appointment of Shaukat Aziz as Prime minister instead.

The High Court accepted that the company was not therefore insolvent, and the railway administration order was discharged on 2 October 2002.

When the film was premiered in Russia in October 2002, 52 veterans of the K-19 submarine accepted flights to the Saint Petersburg premiere ; despite what they saw as technical as well as historical compromises, they praised the film and in particular the performance of Harrison Ford.

The invasion was never accepted by other countries so Portuguese Timor existed officially until independence of Timor-Leste in 2002.

Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation as Apostolic Administrator of Dili on November 26, 2002.

Lately, Boniek has served as vice-president of the Polish Football Association, and in July 2002 he accepted a nomination for the post of the main coach of the Polish national team.

She wrote the biography entitled Jane Austen, which won the $ 25, 000 Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction in April 2002, an award accepted by her daughter Meg on her behalf in Toronto, Ontario, on April 22, 2002.

One commonly accepted incentive for the systemic over-reporting of corporate income which came to light in 2002 was the granting of stock options as part of executive compensation packages.

Flag was accepted by town's council on September 27, 2001 and was included in Belarus ' coats of arms registry on January 23, 2002.

The downtown grain elevator accepted its last load of corn in 2000 and was torn down in 2002.

Law submitted his resignation as Archbishop of Boston to the Vatican, and Pope John Paul II accepted his resignation on December 13, 2002.

His Oscar for Road to Perdition ( 2002 ), which is dedicated to Hall, was posthumous and was accepted by his son Conrad W. Hall, also a cinematographer.

The Greens continued in the next coalition-cabinet, but resigned in protest on May 26, 2002, after the cabinet's decision to allow the construction of a new nuclear plant was accepted in the parliament.

Marceau accepted the honor and responsibilities of serving as Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Second World Assembly on Aging, which took place in Madrid, Spain, in April 2002.

These plot strands ended when Satan finally arranged for the Professor to be accepted into Heaven a short time after the events of the 2002 Christmas special ( an incident not covered in the series ).

Brian Gallagher, former head of United Way in Columbus, Ohio, accepted the job in 2002 and was still president and CEO at the end of 2011.

The following definition was accepted by the World Congress on Drowning in 2002 and subsequently by the World Health Organisation in 2005: " Drowning is the process of experiencing respiratory impairment from submersion / immersion in liquid.

A bidding war between Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems and General Dynamics ended on July 1, 2002 when Northrop's increased bid of $ 7. 8bn (£ 5. 1bn ) was accepted.

The university was founded in 2002 and accepted its first students in 2003, making it one of Canada's newest universities.

In 2002, the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission ( IWC ) accepted Rosenbaum's findings, and recommended that the Eubalaena nomenclature be retained for this genus.