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.

However, in 1991, as part of Major League Baseball's two-team expansion ( they also added the former Florida ( now Miami ) Marlins ), an ownership group representing Denver led by John Antonucci and Michael I. Monus were granted a franchise ; they took the name “ Rockies ” due to Denver's proximity to the Rocky Mountains, which is reflected in their logo.

Houston officials had been making efforts to bring a Major League team to Texas before the expansion in 1962.

Major League Baseball returned to the city in 1969 with the Royals, who have proven stable and became the first American League expansion team to reach the playoffs, in 1976, the World Series, in 1980 and to win the World Series, in 1985 against the state-rival St. Louis Cardinals in the " Show-Me Series.

Major expansion of this port is also taking place, with the completion of a new complex just last year, the port is expanding rapidly.

In 1960, Major League Baseball granted the city of Minneapolis an expansion team.

Major expansion is required and a start has been made.

The Mets have appeared in more World Series — four — than any other expansion team in Major League Baseball history.

Major changes during the Oligocene included a global expansion of grasslands, and a regression of tropical broad leaf forests to the equatorial belt.

Confident that Major League Baseball would return to Seattle within a few years, King County built the multi-purpose Kingdome, which would become home to the NFL's expansion Seattle Seahawks in 1976.

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

In 1969, the San Diego Padres joined the ranks of Major League Baseball as one of four new expansion teams, along with the Montreal Expos ( now the Washington Nationals ), the Kansas City Royals and the Seattle Pilots ( now the Milwaukee Brewers ).

Major League Baseball expansion in 1961 included the formation of the Los Angeles Angels, the move to Minnesota to become the Minnesota Twins by the former Washington Senators and the formation of a new franchise called the Washington Senators.

Wirth also organized the Senate Task Force on the Expansion of Major League Baseball, which became a major factor in the awarding of a new expansion franchise to Denver.

The league today also has eight teams, a number that is not likely to change without further expansion or contraction within Major League Baseball.

Major local growth began in the 1950s, spurred partly by the expansion of adjacent Andrews Air Force Base, home of the Air Force Systems Command and the President's plane Air Force One.

Major improvements to the public school system and downtown district are currently among the most visible aspects ; long-term effects include major highway improvements on U. S. Route 61 and a much-discussed potential expansion of Tunica Municipal Airport.

* The Major League Baseball expansion Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays make their debuts ( both are American League teams ).

In 1960, when Major League Baseball announced plans to add an expansion team in Los Angeles, Autry — who had once declined an opportunity to play in the minor leagues — expressed an interest in acquiring the radio broadcast rights to the team's games.

Rumors of Russian expansion into the Hindu Kush and a Russian presence in Tibet prompted the Viceroy of India Lord Curzon to appoint Younghusband, by then a Major, to serve as British commissioner to Tibet from 1902-1904.

Soon thereafter he decided to inquire to Major League Baseball about bringing an expansion team to Arizona.

On March 27, 1814, United States forces and Indian allies under Major General Andrew Jackson defeated the Red Sticks, a part of the Creek Indian tribe who opposed American expansion, effectively ending the Creek War.

The league disbanded in August 1960 without playing a single game, but it helped to accelerate the expansion of Major League Baseball.

Accordingly, the NL placed one of its expansion teams in Houston ( the then Houston Colt 45's ), a Continental League city without an existing Major League Baseball team.

Though the AL placed one of its expansion teams ( the Washington Senators ) in a previously existing Major League Baseball city ( Washington, D. C .), this was done to replace the original Senators team, which had relocated to Minneapolis-St. Paul and become the Minnesota Twins.

Beginning in 1906, Pennsylvania conservationist Major Israel McCreight of Du Bois, Pennsylvania argued that President Theodore Roosevelt ’ s conservation speeches were limited to businessmen in the lumber industry and recommended a campaign of youth education and a national policy on conservation education.

Major industries in Southeast Alaska include commercial fishing and tourism ( primarily the cruise ship industry ).

Major fishing industry.

Major public health institutions sprung up in both urban and rural communities as both agriculture and industry experienced significant growth between 1949 to 1958.

Major employers are the natural gas industry, DuPont, Global-Tungsten and Powders ( former Sylvania ), Masonite, and Cargill Regional Beef, Wyalusing.

Major industries are forestry and tourism, with the once-dominant paper-making industry in sharp decline.

In 1998 he was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour, a UK national honour bestowed for outstanding achievement in the arts, literature, music, science, politics, industry or religion ( fellow recipients included in 2011 Douglas Hurd, former British Foreign Secretary, Norman Tebbit, former Secretary of State of Employment under Margaret Thatcher, and former Conservative Prime Minister Sir John Major ).

Major entertainment, county services, educational facilities and local industry can be found in nearby Arcata and Eureka.

Major resources for the Caruthersville area include commerce supplied by the Mississippi river barge and transport industry as well as agriculture which accounts for 60 % of the local economy.

Major festivals and arts events include the Home Water Festival, a two-week extravaganza in the middle of July ; and the Shrimp Festival, celebrating the local and traditional industry, is in the first weekend in October.

Major industry within the town of Pamplico includes Marsh Lumber Company and Double A Body Builders.

The marque Facel Vega was created in 1954 by Jean Daninos ( brother of the humorist Pierre Daninos, who wrote Les Carnets du Major Thompson ), although the Facel company had been established by the Bonzavia Company in 1939 as a subcontracting company for the aviations industry.

Major technology firms such as Electronic Arts, Creo ( now part of Eastman Kodak ), Ballard Power Systems and Telus base their operations in Burnaby ; heavy industry includes Chevron Corporation and Petro-Canada petroleum refineries on the shores of Burrard Inlet.

Bell spent several years out of the aviation industry, but in 1928 was hired by Major Ruben H. Fleet at Consolidated Aircraft, in Buffalo, New York where he was guaranteed an interest in the company.

However, since the decline of the British coal industry, tourism is now becoming a major influence on the local economy due to the popularity of the Robin Hood legend and the alleged location of his base at the Major Oak.

Major electricity customers are the chemical industry in Rheinfelden and the aluminium plant at Neuhausen am Rheinfall.

Major industries include tourism, traffic, seaborne trade, agriculture, fishing and fish farming activities, metal manufacturing and mechanical engineering industry, chemicals and non-metal industry and banking.

Major industries in Stockton have included ship building and repairing, heavy engineering as well as steel and chemicals manufacturing, however during the twentieth century the town's heavy industry declined dramatically, along with that of the surrounding Teesside area.

Major organizations are IAAPA ( International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions ) and WWA ( World Waterpark Association ) which is the industry trade association.

Yielding to pressure from Congress and industry, Secretary Baker placed Benedict Crowell in charge of munitions and made Major General George W. Goethals acting quartermaster general and General Peyton C. March chief of staff.

Major causes of the decline were the diversion of labor from agriculture to industry ( in 1948 an estimated 2. 2 million workers were employed in agriculture ; by 1960, only 1. 5 million ); the suppression of the kulak, the most experienced and productive farmer ; and the peasantry's opposition to collectivization, which resulted in sabotage.

Major industries of Rostov Oblast are agriculture, agricultural industry, food processing, heavy industry, coal and automobile manufacture.

Major industries include shipbuilding, processing industry, tourism, traffic, food industries, construction industries and other non-metal industries.