There are only a few professional cheerleading leagues around the world ; some professional leagues include the NBA Cheerleading League, the NFL Cheerleading League, the CFL Cheerleading League, the MLS Cheerleading League, the MLB Cheerleading League, and the NHL Ice Dancers.

The sellout streak is driven by the Red Sox's loyal fan base, the success of the Red Sox during this time ( a winning record over nine seasons, during which time the team achieved at least 90 wins seven times, six playoff appearances and two World Series Championships ), and Fenway Park's low capacity: fourth lowest in seating capacity and second lowest in total of all MLB stadiums ; it is one of the seven MLB ballparks that cannot accommodate at least 40, 000 spectators.

Crane was given a $ 70 million concession by MLB for agreeing to the switch ; the move was a condition for the sale to the new ownership group.

As a result, in 1949, at the age of fifteen, Aaron had his first tryout with a MLB franchise, with the Brooklyn Dodgers ; however, he did not make the team.

As a result of his standout play, Aaron received two offers from MLB teams via telegram ; one offer was from the New York Giants, the other from the then Boston Braves.

* 1956 – New York Yankees's Don Larsen pitched the only perfect game in a World Series ; one of only 20 perfect games in MLB history.

They and the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are the only MLB California teams to originate in California ; the Dodgers and Giants are originally from New York, and the Athletics are originally from Philadelphia.

This difference in rules between leagues is unique to MLB ; the other sports leagues of the US and Canada have one set of rules for all teams.

In sports, the Oakland Athletics MLB club won three consecutive World Series championships in 1972, 1973, and 1974, in addition to three consecutive World Series appearances from 1988 to 1990 ; the A's won the 1989 contest.

A 13-time All-Star, Griffey was one of the most prolific home run hitters in baseball history ; his 630 home runs rank as the sixth-most in MLB history.

** It is likely the 1965 and 1968 Series were preserved by the CBC due to the Twins ' and Tigers ' proximity to Canada ; the country would not get its own MLB team until the Montreal Expos began play in 1969.

* Bob Welch, 1990 Cy Young winner ( MLB ), Oakland Athletics two-time All-Star ; lived in neighboring Ferndale but attended school in Hazel Park

* John Vander Wal, retired pro baseball player ( Montreal, Colorado, San Diego, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, N. Y. Yankees, Cincinnati, Milwaukee ), current pro scout for San Diego Padres organization ; also holds the MLB record for pinch hits in a season ( 28 )

The former one has a channel called HiHD ; the later one use its HD channel for broadcasting MLB baseball.

Hee-seop Choi (; ; Hangul: 최희섭 ; Hanja: 崔熙燮 ; born March 19, 1979 in Hwasun, Jeollanam-do, South Korea ) is a professional baseball player who has played in the MLB for the Chicago Cubs, Florida Marlins, and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

There have been instances of one-handed drag bunts as well ; in MLB, Rafael Furcal has been known to try such a bunt.

It was the third MLB stadium to have a retractable roof and the first in the United States ( at the time, only Toronto's SkyDome, now Rogers Centre and Montreal's Olympic Stadium had them ; others are now at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Miller Park in Milwaukee, Safeco Field in Seattle and Marlins Park in Miami ).

The game usually occurs on the second Tuesday in July and marks the symbolic halfway point in the Major League Baseball ( MLB ) season ( though not the mathematical halfway point ; in most seasons, that actually takes place one week earlier ).

< nowiki >***</ nowiki > MLB Commissioner Bud Selig named La Russa to manage the National League for the 2012 All-Star Game ; La Russa was the second manager in league history to manage an All-Star Game following retirement ; Cardinals won the 2011 N. L.

* in 1981, it was moved to Sunday, August 9, because of an MLB players ' strike ; also, the only game to be played on a weekend

Stanley Frank " Stan " Musial ( or ; born November 21, 1920 ) is a retired professional baseball player who played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) for the St. Louis Cardinals ( 1941 – 1963 ).

In both the farmer's tale in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man and in Thomas Mann's The Holy Sinner, the incest hero rises above the myth by accepting the wish as motive ; ;

Mrs. Ralph Taussig, for junior aides ; ;

Two film versions were released in 1973: one directed by Joseph Losey, starring Jane Fonda, David Warner and Trevor Howard ; and the other by Patrick Garland with Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins, and Ralph Richardson.

Caligula has been played by Ralph Bates in the 1968 ITV television series The Caesars ; John Hurt in the 1976 BBC television series I, Claudius ; John McEnery in the 1985 miniseries A. D .; Szabolcs Hajdu in the 1996 film Caligula ; and John Simm in the 2004 miniseries Imperium Nerone.

* Payne-Gallwey, Ralph, Sir, The Crossbow: Mediaeval and Modern, Military and Sporting ; its Construction, History & Management with a Treatise on the Balista and Catapult of the Ancients and An Appendix on the Catapult, Balista & the Turkish Bow, New York: Bramhall House, 1958.

* Smith, Ralph Lee, The Wired Nation ; Cable TV: the electronic communications highway.

* 1937 – Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay ; neither is ever seen again.

My arguments perverted some others, particularly Collins and Ralph ; but each of them having afterwards wrong'd me greatly without the least compunction, and recollecting Keith's conduct towards me ( who was another freethinker ) and my own towards Vernon and Miss Read, which at times gave me great trouble, I began to suspect that this doctrine, tho ' it might be true, was not very useful.

* Guldbagge Awards, Sweden: Best Actress in a leading role ( won jointly by Alexandra Dahlström and Rebecka Liljeberg ); Best Direction ( won by Lukas Moodysson ); Best Film ; Best Screenplay ( won by Lukas Moodysson ); Best Supporting Actor ( Nominee, Ralph Carlsson ) ( 1999 )

The game's designers took inspiration from the post-apocalyptic novels and movies of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s ; the first edition rules cite Brian Aldiss's Hothouse, Andre Norton's Star Man's Son ( also published as Daybreak-2250 A. D .), Sterling E. Lanier's Hiero's Journey, and Ralph Bakshi's Wizards.

Gernsback wrote fiction, including the novel Ralph 124C 41 + in 1911 ; the title is a pun on the phrase " one to foresee for many "(" one plus ").

Critics argue that the Charter presents the history of German people as starting from the expulsions, while ignoring events like Holocaust: professor Micha Brumlik pointed out that one third of signatories were former devoted Nazis and many actively helped in realisation of Hitler's goals ; Ralph Giordano wrote in Hamburger Abendblatt " the Charter doesn't contain a word about Hitler, Auschwitz and Buchenwald.

La Vérité de la Religion Chrétienne Réformée ( 1717 ) was a controversial treatise which in its four parts attacks the characteristic doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church ; it was translated into English, for the use of the Roman Catholics of his diocese of Dromore, by Dr. Ralph Lambert, afterwards bishop of Meath.

In 1997, a $ 325, 000 bronze sculpture ( equal to $ today ) by artists Ralph Helmick, Stu Schecter, and John Outterbridge depicting oversized nine-foot busts of Robinson and his brother Mack was erected at Garfield Avenue, across from the main entrance of Pasadena City Hall ; a granite footprint lists multiple donors to the commission project, which was organized by the Robinson Memorial Foundation and supported by members of the Robinson family.

Reliable accounts of the middle and later parts of John's reign are more limited, with Gervase of Canterbury and Ralph of Coggeshall writing the main accounts ; neither of them were positive about John's performance as king.

It was, in fact, so unusual that Davis had to persuade the Roost's manager, Ralph Watkins, to allow the sign to be worded in this way ; he prevailed only with the help of Monte Kay, the club's artistic director.

For a time during the 19th century pantheism was the theological viewpoint of many leading writers and philosophers, attracting figures such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge in Britain ; Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in Germany ; Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau in the USA.

At the Federal level, the two U. S. Senators from Texas are Republicans John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison ; Paris is part of Texas ' US Congressional 4th District, which is currently represented by Republican Ralph M. Hall.

The Academic Quad, anchored by a statue of founder William Marsh Rice, includes Ralph Adams Cram's masterpiece, the asymmetrical Lovett Hall, the original administrative building ; Fondren Library ; Herzstein Hall, the physics building and home to the largest amphitheater on campus ; Sewall Hall for the social sciences and arts ; Rayzor Hall for the languages ; and Anderson Hall of the Architecture department.

In 1957 Hodges set the NL record for career grand slams, breaking the mark of 12 shared by Rogers Hornsby and Ralph Kiner ; his final total of 14 was tied by Hank Aaron and Willie McCovey in 1972, and broken by Aaron in 1974.

; NL: Ralph Kiner, 7 ( 1946 – 1952 )

The home run was his 40th of the season, making him the first Cardinal with three-straight 40-home run seasons ; and it was the 200th career, making him the third youngest major league player to reach that milestone ( behind Mel Ott and Eddie Matthews ) and the second-fastest to reach it ( behind Kiner ).