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In leagues like the National Hockey League where regular season standings are based on a point system ( i. e. two points are awarded for a win, one point for losing in overtime or a shootout, and zero points for a loss in regulation ), a team may be forced to use an extra attacker even when the scored is tied near the end of regulation of its last regular season game to avoid being eliminated from playoff contention.
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You're not in the big leagues, but if you can't give and take down here what the hell do you think it'll be like up there ''??
The leagues are full of guys like that ''.
There are also many cities that run hat leagues, structured like a hat tournament, but where the group of players stay together over the course of a season.
They show that the Macedonian institutions were near to those of the Greek federal states, like the Aetolian and Achaean leagues, whose unity was reinforced by the presence of the king.
In contrast, football ( soccer ) leagues like the Premier League are tournaments in the second sense, but not the first, having matches spread across many stadia over a period of up to a year.
There is a ship, we understand, Now riding in the river ; Tis newly come from Lubberland, The like I think was never ; You that a lazy life do love. I'd have you now go over, They say the land is not aboveTwo thousand leagues from Dover.
" And Jackie and I agreed we shouldn't challenge anybody or cause trouble — or we'd both be out of the big leagues, just like that.
The town had one of the largest table tennis leagues in the country with over 120 teams competing during the 1970s, but sadly, like the game of squash, the sport has declined in the town during recent years.
Just like in real football, each year fantasy football leagues have a draft ( note: in dynasty leagues, this normally consists of NFL rookies only ), in which each team drafts NFL players.
These leagues also go by the nicknames the " farm system ," " farm club ," or " farm team ( s )" because of a joke passed around by major league players in the 1930s when St. Louis Cardinals ' general manager Branch Rickey formalized the system, and teams in small towns were " growing players down on the farm like corn.
These leagues play a complete season like Triple-A and Double-A, April through early September.
This classification severely restricted the rights of the major leagues to draft players out of the PCL, and at the time it seemed like the PCL would eventually become a third major league.
In 1980, it looked like Joe was headed to AAA Charleston -- until Andre Thornton was felled by a knee injury, giving Charboneau his shot at the big leagues.
In 1974, amateur status was abandoned by the Football Association and amateur leagues like the Northern had to find a place in the overall structure of non-League football.
With the Houston Astros moving to the American League for the 2013 MLB season, which will require Interleague play season-round ( as well as the Astros to start using a DH full-time ), there is debate within MLB to unify the rules of the two leagues, with either the National League adopting the DH or the American League returning to its pre-1973 rules and have the pitcher hit, like the National League.
Since the Climax Series does not affect a team's position in regular season, the nature of the Japan Series slightly changed from a match between the Champions of leagues in the past to a mini-tournament postseason in nowadays, somewhat like the World Series in MLB.
Just like prefectures, most leagues have been replaced by prefecture-level cities.
As well as counting for standings in national and international gaming leagues such as the CPL there are regular events such as QuakeCon in which the very best players from around the world compete against one another, much like in popular sports.
Some junior leagues, like the Greater Metro Junior A Hockey League and Manitoba Major Junior Hockey League operate outside the jurisdiction of Hockey Canada.
In 1975 and 1976, the ABA proposed a champion game between the leagues at the end of the season much like the NFL-AFL championship, but the NBA turned each offer down.
The Canadian Football League nicknames one of their rivalries as the Banjo Bowl and another QEW Bowl ( also known as the Battle of Ontario ); like most Canadian sports leagues, however, the CFL's championship is instead known as a cup ( in the CFL's case, the Grey Cup ).
Professional sports and major leagues including in the USA remain virtually all-male and in some cases like the WNBA are absolutely gender-specific participation apart from the NBA in basketball.
Unfortunately, like many infielders of his time, Gil was a light hitter, and his major league career coincided with what has been called the second deadball era, when batting averages and run production in both leagues were at an unusually low level.
Since then no new league has been formed of non-league clubs to try to achieve parity with The Football League ( only to play at a lower level, like independent professional leagues in American baseball today ).
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During the 1950s, the National Football League had grown to rival Major League Baseball as one of the most popular professional sports leagues in the United States.
Many statistics are also available from outside of Major League Baseball, from leagues such as the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players and the Negro Leagues.
In the National and Central leagues, the pitcher is required to bat, per the traditional rules.
The early years of the National League were tumultuous, with threats from rival leagues and a rebellion by players against the hated " reserve clause ", which restricted the free movement of players between clubs.
A number of other leagues, including the venerable Eastern League, threatened the dominance of the National League.
Nevertheless, these financially troubled leagues, by beginning the practice of selling players to the more affluent National and American leagues, embarked on a path that eventually led to the loss of their independent status.
After 1902 both leagues and the NABPL signed a new National Agreement which achieved three things:
During the rough and tumble years of the American-National struggle, player contracts were violated at the independents as well: Players that the team had developed would sign deals with the National or American leagues without any form of compensation to the indy club.
One award was presented for both leagues in 1947 and 1948 ; since 1949, the honor has been given to one player each in the National and American League.
At the end of the 1900 season, the American League removed itself from baseball's National Agreement ( the formal understanding between the NL and the minor leagues ).
Selig oversaw baseball through the 1994 strike, the introduction of the wild card, interleague play, and the merging of the National and American leagues under the Office of the Commissioner.
Whereas in the past, the National and American leagues had separate administrative organizations ( which, for example, allowed for the introduction of different rules such as the designated hitter ), under Selig, Major League Baseball consolidated the administrative functions of both leagues into the Commissioner's Office in 2000.
In 1984, the two leagues, American and National, each had two divisions, East and West.
Just as many contemporary Minor League Baseball leagues operate today, the National League was using a split season format during the 1892 season.
In 1987, both the National and American League Rookie of the Year Awards were renamed the " Jackie Robinson Award " in honor of the first recipient ( Robinson's Major League Rookie of the Year Award in 1947 encompassed both leagues ).
Pepsi has official sponsorship deals with three of the four major North American professional sports leagues: the National Football League, National Hockey League and Major League Baseball.
His 1. 87 ERA was the lowest in the major leagues, the lowest of his 22-season career, and the lowest by any National Leaguer since Greg Maddux in 1995.
Dissatisfied with the post-revolutionary leadership of the National Salvation Front, student leagues and opposition groups organized large-scale protests continued in 1990 ( the Golaniad ), which were violently stopped by the miners of Valea Jiului ( the Mineriad ).
In 1920, the weak National Commission, which had been created to manage relationships between the two leagues, was replaced with the much more powerful Commissioner of Baseball, who had the power to make decisions for all of professional baseball unilaterally.
In 2000, the American and National Leagues were dissolved as legal entities, and Major League Baseball became a single, overall " league " de jure ( albeit with two components called " leagues "), although it had operated as a de facto single entity for many years.
The same rules and regulations are used in both leagues, with one exception: the American League operates under the Designated Hitter Rule, while the National League does not.
Currently, there are two major leagues: the National League ( founded in 1876 ) and the American League ( major-league status in 1901 ).
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