* 1973 – The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.

* Jackie Robinson Day ( Major League Baseball )

He wrote, " Robert Henderson, Harold Seymour, and other scholars have since debunked the Doubleday-Cooperstown myth, which nonetheless remains powerful in the American imagination because of the efforts of Major League Baseball and the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.

* 1921 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.

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* 1941 – Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1-0.

* Adrian Cann ( born 1980 ), Canadian Major League Soccer player

* Adrian Gonzalez ( born 1982 ), Mexican-American Major League Baseball player

Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.

* 1994 – Major League Baseball players go on strike.

* Alfonso Soriano, a current Major League Baseball outfielder playing for the Chicago Cubs

* Brian Bruney, Major League Baseball relief pitcher

In 1888 – 1889, Spalding took a group of Major League players around the world to promote baseball and Spalding sporting goods.

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The club then moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in and played in that city through ( sometimes referred to as the " Football Cardinals " and / or the " Big Red " to avoid confusion with the Major League Baseball St. Louis Cardinals ).

They play in the West Division of Major League Baseball's National League.

In the fall of 1993, Jerry Colangelo, majority owner of the Phoenix Suns, the area's NBA franchise, announced he was assembling an ownership group, " Arizona Baseball, Inc .," to apply for a Major League Baseball expansion team.

This was after a great deal of lobbying by the Maricopa County Sports Authority, a local group formed to preserve Cactus League spring training in Arizona and eventually secure a Major League franchise for the state.

A $ 130 million franchise fee was paid to Major League Baseball.

Although every Major League Baseball team cultivates fans from outside its immediate metropolitan area, and even though the greater Phoenix area has 2 / 3 of the statewide population, Colangelo still decided to call the team the " Arizona Diamondbacks " rather than the " Phoenix Diamondbacks ".

Randy Johnson was awarded with his fourth consecutive Cy Young Award as well the Major League Baseball Triple Crown.

By the 2004 season the Diamondbacks had dropped to a dismal 51 – 111 record, the worst in Major League Baseball and one of the 10 worst records in the modern era, despite Johnson pitching a perfect game on May 18 of that season.

Of great surprise to many fans was a brand new color scheme ; apparently the original colors used by the franchise since Major League Baseball awarded it to Jerry Colangelo's ownership group in 1995 were to be discontinued.

After winning the opening game of the season on March 31 on the road against the Cincinnati Reds, the Diamondbacks found themselves with the best record in Major League Baseball, 20 – 8, by the start of May.

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.

The World Series, baseball's championship series which determines the champion of Major League Baseball for that season, is held in mid-to-late October ( sometimes spilling over into November to accommodate longer series ) and is nicknamed the " Fall Classic ".

Barry Bonds holds the List of lifetime home run leaders through history | all-time home run record in Major League BaseballSadaharu Oh, pictured here in 2006, holds the officially verified all-time world home-run record outside of MLB ( Major League Baseball ).

At about noon on 2 May 1997, Major officially returned his seals of office as Prime Minister to The Queen.

* New York Red Bulls ( officially Red Bull New York ) – a soccer franchise competing in the United States ' Major League Soccer

Flemish Austrian troops under Major General ( later Field Marshal ) Johann von Moitelle arrested Lafayette's party the evening of 17 August at Rochefort, Belgium, at that time a village in the officially neutral Prince-Bishopric of Liège.

Major changes since then include: the founding of Round Square in 1966, an international community of schools sharing Hahn's educational ideals ; the school officially becoming co-educational in 1972 ; and the moving of Aberlour House, Gordonstoun's preparatory school, from Speyside to a purpose built Junior School on campus in 2004.

* In South Los Angeles between the intersection of Century Boulevard and Central Avenue to the east and 98th Street and Figueroa Street to the west is a route designated by officially installed city signs as the Marshall W. " Major " Taylor Bike Route.

If a relief pitcher satisfies all of the criteria for a save, except he does not finish the game, he will often be credited with a hold ( which is not an officially recognized statistic by Major League Baseball ).

At the same time, a team from Sondergruppe R comprising Schleicher, Eugen Ott, Fedor von Bock and Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord formed the liaison with Major Bruno Ernst Buchrucker, who led the so-called Arbeits-Kommandos ( Work Commandos ), which officially was a labor group intended to assist with civilian projects, but in reality were thinly disguised soldiers that allowed Germany to exceed the limits on troop strength set by Versailles.

U. S. Army Major John C. Frémont arrived in California claiming to be on a mission to find a route to the Pacific ( his mission officially was to find the source of the Arkansas River ), he began encouraging a parallel rebellion among the Anglo-American settlers.

The Winchester Single Shot, known to most shooters as either the " Low-wall " or " High-wall " depending on model, but officially marketed by Winchester as the Single Shot Rifle, was produced to satisfy the demands of the growing sport of " Match Shooting ", excelling at it, with Major Ned H. Roberts ( inventor of the. 257 Roberts cartridge ) describing the Model 1885 Single Shot as "... the most reliable, strongest, and altogether best single shot rifle ever produced.

On a further four occasions, a team has thrown a no-hitter for eight innings in a losing effort, but those four games are not officially recognized as no-hitters by Major League Baseball because the outing lasted fewer than nine innings.

The 13th Airborne Division was the fifth airborne division to be formed in the United States during World War II, and was officially activated on 13 August 1943 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina under the command of Major General George W. Griner Jr. Only a few months after the activation of the division, however, Major General Griner was ordered to take command of the 98th Infantry Division, and was replaced by Major General Eldridge G. Chapman, who would go on to command the division for the rest of the conflict.

The officers of Sondergruppe R formed the liaison with Major Bruno Ernst Buchrucker, who led the so-called Arbeits-Kommandos ( Work Commandos ), which was officially a labor group intended to assist with civilian projects, but were in reality thinly disguised soldiers that allowed Germany to exceed the limits on troop strength set by Versailles.

This move was designed to officially acknowledge the ever-increasing complexity of modern warfare, while still maintaining the First Sergeant and Sergeant Major programs, with their historic command prestige.

Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps ( officially abbreviated to SgtMajMarCor, and unofficially as SMMC ) is a unique non-commissioned rank and billet in the United States Marine Corps.

Although not officially considered a Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, when Archibald Sommers was appointed to the grade of Sergeant Major January 1, 1801, it was a solitary post, similar to the modern billet of Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps.

Before NBC officially decided to part ways with Major League Baseball ( for the second time in about 12 years ) on September 26, 2000, Fox's payment would've been $ 345 million while NBC would've paid $ 240 million.

In 1921, Seeckt founded the Arbeits-Kommandos ( Work Commandos ) commanded by Major Ernst von Buchrucker, which was officially a labour group intended to assist with civilian projects, but in reality were thinly disguised soldiers that allowed Germany to exceed the limits on troop strength set by Versailles.

On 8 October 2004, a memorial service was held in Melville's honour aboard the current HMS Dasher, a patrol boat, in which Melville's role as " Major Martin " was officially recognised by the Royal Navy.