* 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 ".

Anheuser-Busch has placed Budweiser as an official partner and sponsor of Major League Soccer and Los Angeles Galaxy and was the headline sponsor of the British Basketball League in the 1990s, taking over from rival company Carlsberg.

* Columbus Crew, Major League Soccer team

In Major League Soccer, Valderrama scored relatively few goals ( 16 ) for a midfielder, but is the league's second all-time leader in assists ( 114 ) after Steve Ralston ( 121 ), a former teammate.

* Major League Soccer MVP: 1996

| 1996 || rowspan =" 2 "| Tampa Bay Mutiny || rowspan =" 2 "| Major League Soccer || 23 || 4 ||||||||

| 1998 || rowspan =" 2 "| Miami Fusion || rowspan =" 2 "| Major League Soccer || 18 || 2 ||||||||

| 1999 || rowspan =" 3 "| Tampa Bay Mutiny || rowspan =" 3 "| Major League Soccer || 27 || 3 ||||||||

| 2001 || rowspan =" 3 "| Colorado Rapids || rowspan =" 3 "| Major League Soccer || 12 || 0 ||||||||

The club is a member of the Eastern Conference of Major League Soccer.

Lamar Hunt, who was founder or co-founder of the American Football League, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Chicago Bulls, the United Soccer Association, and Major League Soccer, also founded the team.

For the 1997 Major League Soccer season, their record was 21 – 11 ; they won the Western Conference regular season championship.

He is also part-owner of the Seattle Sounders FC, which joined Major League Soccer ( MLS ) in 2009.

Pepsi also sponsors Major League Soccer.

* Atiba Harris is a Kittitian footballer who currently plays for Vancouver Whitecaps FC in Major League Soccer.

The jerseys matched their new sister team, the expansion Seattle Sounders FC of Major League Soccer who wear green jerseys with blue pants.

The Los Angeles Galaxy, which competes in Major League Soccer, played in South Korea during Unification Church's Peace Cup.

** Kasey Keller, American Major League Soccer player

** Major League Soccer kicks off in front of an overflow crowd of 31, 683 packed in Spartan Stadium, to witness the historic first game.

* The Chicago Fire, a Major League Soccer team, was founded on October 8, 1997, the 126th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire.

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

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 ).

Major League Soccer

Major League Soccer ( MLS ) is a professional soccer league representing the sport's highest level in the United States and Canada.