Like the Yankees' slugger, Mays, the terror of the Giants, has had seasons that would be considered the ultimate by most players, but not by -- or for -- Willie.

The Beverly Hillbillies ranked among the top twenty most watched programs on television for eight of its nine seasons, twice ranking as the number one series of the year, with a number of episodes that remain among the most watched television episodes of all time.

Except for the Chobe, Okavango, Boteti and Limpopo rivers, most of Botswana's rivers cease to flow during the dry and early rainy seasons.

Apart from the far north, most regions are characterized by a cycle of alternating rainy and dry seasons.

Most of the rainfall in autumn and winter is caused by the Atlantic depressions, which are most active during those seasons.

Patrick Mannelly holds the record for the most seasons in a Bears uniform with 15.

Halas holds the team record for coaching the most seasons with 40 and for having the most career victories of 324.

They were the most consistent team in the top flight of English football over the three seasons immediately before the Second World War.

Throughout the first seven seasons of the series he has a complicated relationship with Lana Lang, as well as his self-perceived guilt over the fact that the meteor shower that killed Lana's parents and created most of the superhumans he fought in the show's first few years was caused by his rocket coming to Earth and dragging pieces of Krypton with it.

On Tuesday, February 14, 2012, the Red Wings set the NHL record for most consecutive wins at home in a single season by winning their 21st home game with a 3-1 victory over the Dallas Stars, and on Sunday, February 19, 2012, defeated the San Jose Sharks to record their 23rd consecutive home victory, breaking the overall record previously held by the Boston Bruins over two seasons from 1929-1930.

In 2000, Essendon won 20 consecutive matches before losing to the Western Bulldogs in round 21 and went on to win their 16th premiership, defeating and completing one of the most dominant single seasons in AFL / VFL history.

The only seasons in recent times when this pattern was not followed were 1999 – 2000, when most rounds were played a few weeks earlier than normal as an experiment, and 2010 – 2011 when the FA Cup Final was played before the Premier League season had finished, in order to allow the stadium to be ready for the UEFA Champions League final.

One of the most visible traits of this fictional world is that the seasons do not pass once per year.

Several times since 1995, the American Shakespeare Center has mounted repertories that included both Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, with the same actors performing the same roles in each ; in their 2001 and 2009 seasons the two plays were " directed, designed, and rehearsed together to make the most out of the shared scenes and situations ".

He missed all but 19 games of the 1941 season, the three full seasons that followed, and most of 1945 to World War II military service and missed most of another season with a broken wrist.

Hefner and Burns later collaborated on numerous other television projects, most notably on The Girls Next Door, a reality series that ran for six seasons ( 2005 – 2009 ) and 90 episodes.

Also during that year, Aaron established the record for most seasons with thirty or more home runs in the National League.

He hit his 40th home run of the season against the Giants ' Jerry Johnson on August 10, which established a National League record for most seasons with 40 or more home runs ( seven ).

The Nez Perce, as many western Native American tribes, were migratory and would travel with the seasons, according to where the most abundant food was to be found at a given time of year.

Spring and autumn are transitional seasons marked by mild temperatures and variable winds and bring the most pleasant weather.

In the United Kingdom, most drama and comedy series run for shorter seasons — typically six, seven or thirteen episodes — and are then replaced by others.

Several times since 1995, the American Shakespeare Center has mounted repertories that included both Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, with the same actors performing the same roles in each ; in their 2001 and 2009 seasons the two plays were " directed, designed, and rehearsed together to make the most out of the shared scenes and situations ".

Iran is the next most successful nation being twice runner-up.

In the May – June 2000 issue of Modern Maturity, the AARP highlighted what they called the most ' alive ' places to retire in the U. S. Bisbee was a runner-up as one of the " quirkiest " towns in America.

For the second annual " Beastie Awards " in 1989, Dragons readers voted Pool of Radiance the most popular fantasy role-playing game of the year, with Ultima V as the runner-up.

His 1997 novel Underworld, a gargantuan work chronicling American life through and immediately after the Cold War and examining with equal depth subjects as various as baseball and nuclear weapons, is generally agreed upon to be his masterpiece and was the runner-up in a survey asking writers to identify the most important work of fiction of the last 25 years.

Els has finished runner-up in six majors and most notably for his runner-up finishes to Tiger Woods.

After finishing runner-up in 1972 and 1973, the year in which Fernando Morena, one of Uruguay's most historical goal scorers arrived, the club won the Uruguayan championship, in 1974 and 1975.

Keres finished second or equal second in four straight Candidates ' tournaments ( 1953, 1956, 1959, 1962 ), making him the player with the most runner-up finishes in that event.

At the conclusion of the season, Yashin was runner-up for both the Hart Trophy for the NHL's most valuable player, as well as being named an NHL Second Team All-Star.

In his three-year spell with the team, he took six podiums, most of which were scored during the 1971 Formula One season in which he also finished as runner-up in the Drivers ' Championship.

His 2004 victory at the Hahnenkamm downhill in Kitzbühel is often regarded as one of the most impressive downhill victories in alpine skiing history, besting runner-up Daron Rahlves by a lengthy 1. 21 seconds, an equivalent of 142 feet ( 43 m ) at 80 mph ( 129 km / h ).

is one of the most successful basketball clubs in Europe, having won the Euroleague competition five times, and been runner-up a further eight times.

As a six-year-old, Cigar won five of eight starts and $ 4, 910, 000, making him the holder and runner-up record of most stakes money won in a single season.

As of 2012, he is the most recent German player, male or female, to reach the singles final of a Grand Slam tournament, finishing as runner-up at the 2003 Australian Open.

A year later it was runner-up of Yugoslavia, and then after a poor season ( 9th ), comes the most successful years in the then 20-year history of the club.

Durex condoms was declared the runner-up of the most account sales of condoms in the United States, with Trojan condoms being no.

Since 1991, when the league started, Gorica won the title four times, was a runner-up on another four occasions and finished 3rd five times, which makes the club second most successful football team in the country.

However, for most of the 1980s and early 1990s, it fought a spirited battle with KMOV for the runner-up spot behind longtime leader KSDK.

While shaded by the specactular success of the previous decade, the Dragons remained competitive throughout most of the 1970s winning premierships in 1977 and 1979, being runner-up Grand Finalists in 1971 and 1975 and finishing the regular season in 3rd place or better in all years excepting 1974 and 1978.

After the camp session ends, the cabin with the most points wins a special prize, while runner-up cabins receive other consolation prizes.

The usual outcome is three senators for the party with the most votes, and one senator for the runner-up, except in very close races.

Though victories in badminton's three most prestigious events for individual players, the Olympics, the All England Championships, and the World Championships, eluded Kusharjanto, he and Timur came close in all three with a runner-up finish at the 1997 All Englands, a bronze medal at the 1997 World Championships in Glasgow, and a silver medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.

During his career as a strongman, Pudzianowski won five World's Strongest Man titles — more than any other athlete — as well as two runner-up titles ( including his most recent performance in the 32nd edition ).

In 1954 he was runner-up for the Hart Trophy and won the Norris Trophy as the NHL's top defenceman, the first time the trophy was awarded and also won the Lady Byng Trophy in 1951, 1953 and 1954 as the NHL's most gentlemanly player.