In fact, Major League Baseball had no official record book at the time, but the stigma remained with Maris for many years, and the concept of a real or figurative asterisk denoting less-than-official records has become widely used in sports and other competitive endeavors.

The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball ’ s American League Eastern Division.

On June 30, 2009, the Orioles rallied to score 10 runs against Boston Red Sox after facing a 10 – 1 deficit in the 7th inning, winning the game by 11 – 10, setting a Major League Baseball record for the largest comeback by a last-place team over a first-place team.

The sellout streak set a Major League Baseball record ; this was broken by the Boston Red Sox on September 8, 2008, though Boston's Fenway Park is considerably smaller than Progressive Field.

Located at 4 Yawkey Way, it has served as the home ballpark of the Boston Red Sox baseball club since it opened in 1912 and is the oldest Major League Baseball stadium currently in use.

In addition to Major League Baseball, Fenway Park has been the site of many other sporting and cultural events, including professional football games for the Boston Redskins and the Boston Patriots, concerts, soccer and hockey games, political and religious campaigns.

The author's paternal grandfather, Major Thomas Melvill, an honored participant in the Boston Tea Party, who refused to change the style of his clothing or manners to fit the times, was depicted in Oliver Wendell Holmes's poem " The Last Leaf ".

* 2004 – Major League Baseball: The Boston Red Sox complete a four-game sweep of the 2004 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, giving the team their first World Series championship since 1918.

Major league baseball player Moe Berg of the Boston Red Sox was an OSS agent

Fans are generally encouraged to sing along, and at some ballparks, the words " home team " are replaced with the team name, as is the case with the Atlanta Braves, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Milwaukee Brewers, Philadelphia Phillies, Toronto Blue Jays, Seattle Mariners, Colorado Rockies, and several other Major League Baseball teams.

He played his entire 22-year Major League Baseball career as the left fielder for the Boston Red Sox ( 1939 – 1942 and 1946 – 1960 ).

The Boston Red Sox won the World Series of Major League Baseball in 2004, their first since 1918.

A Brief History of the Pequot War: Especially of the Memorable taking of their Fort at Mistick in Connecticut in 1637 / Written by Major John Mason, a principal actor therein, as then chief captain and commander of Connecticut forces ; With an introduction and some explanatory notes by the Reverend Mr. Thomas Prince ( Boston: Printed & sold by.

A Brief History of the Pequot War: Especially of the Memorable taking of their Fort at Mistick in Connecticut in 1637 / Written by Major John Mason, a principal actor therein, as then chief captain and commander of Connecticut forces ; With an introduction and some explanatory notes by the Reverend Mr. Thomas Prince ( Boston: Printed & sold by.

On July 9, 1972, Ryan struck out three batters on nine pitches in the second inning of a 3 – 0 win over the Boston Red Sox ; he became the seventh American League pitcher to accomplish the nine-pitch / three-strikeout half-inning, and the first ( and currently only ) pitcher in Major League history to accomplish the feat in both leagues.

During King William's War, there was the naval Action of July 14, 1696 off Saint John, New Brunswick and Major Benjamin Church arrived by sea from Boston and raided various Acadian communities around the Bay ( See Raid on Chignecto ( 1696 )).

Only three other major North American professional sports teams have accomplished this feat, the 1941 – 42 Toronto Maple Leafs, the 2004 Boston Red Sox ( from the Major League Baseball ), and the 2009 – 10 Philadelphia Flyers.

* Boston Braves ( baseball ), the Major League Baseball team now known as the Atlanta Braves

* Major League Baseball player Aaron Robinson ( New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox ).

Major Chinatowns emerged in Boston and Lowell, Massachusetts ; Detroit, Michigan ; Corpus Christi, Texas ; Camden and Trenton, New Jersey ; Chicago ; Los Angeles, South Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco and San Diego, California ; New York City ; New Orleans ; Akron, Ohio ; Cincinnati, Ohio ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ; Portland, Oregon ; Seattle ; Vancouver ; Toronto ; Montreal and other major cities.

Major urban design projects by Ricardo Bofill-Taller de Arquitectura include Place de l ’ Europe ( Luxembourg ), Nova Karlin ( Prague ), Port Praski ( Warsaw ), New Castellana ( Madrid ), Tarragona ’ s new seafront, Nova Bocana ( Barcelona ), Puerto Triana ( Seville ), Central Artery ( Boston ) and the remodelling of Kobe in Japan.

Dodger Stadium is currently the third oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball ( behind Fenway Park in Boston and Wrigley Field in Chicago ) and is, by seating capacity, the largest ballpark in the world.

His first career Major League hit occurred in the bottom of the 11th inning against the Boston Red Sox on October 1, a single to right field off of Steve Crawford.

Major equipment included over 140 main battle tanks, 600 reconnaissance vehicles, over 320 armored vehicles, infantry fighting vehicles, 298 howitzers carriers.

Major new features in AIX 6. 1 included full role-based access control, workload partitions ( which enable application mobility ), enhanced security ( Addition of AES encryption type for NFS v3 and v4 ) and Live Partition Mobility on the POWER6 hardware.

In baseball, the statistic applies also to players who, prior to a game, are included on a starting lineup card or are announced as ex ante substitutes, whether they actually play or not, although, in Major League Baseball, the application of this statistic does not extend to consecutive games played streaks.

Major battles included the Battle of the Somme.

Major Croatian advances in foreign relations during this period have included:

" Major categories included:

In classical times, they were included by Ptolemy within the constellation Ursa Major in his star catalogue.

Major films of this type during the 1940s included Bicycle Thieves, Rome, Open City, and La Terra Trema.

Major new features included the new Explorer shell from Windows 95, scalability and feature improvements to the core architecture, kernel, USER32, COM and MSRPC.

Victims of their campaign against the Egyptian state in the 1990s included the head of the counter-terrorism police ( Major General Raouf Khayrat ), a parliamentary speaker ( Rifaat al-Mahgoub ), dozens of European tourists and Egyptian bystanders, and over 100 Egyptian police.

This included the production of the KAA Interoperability Admiralty Chart by Major Hammond and which was subsequently distributed to both countries, having been produced by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office.

Major serials included the following:

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

Major acts included Ride, Lush, Chapterhouse, and The Boo Radleys, who enjoyed considerable attention in the UK, but largely failed to break through in the US.

* Major sporting events cancelled in the North America included:

Highlights included Johnson earning his 300th career victory, becoming the twenty-fourth pitcher in Major League history to do so, as well as struggling starter Jonathan Sánchez tossing a no-hitter against the San Diego Padres on July 10, the first Giants no-hitter since 1976.

In 1872, four monastic officials from Tibet arrived in Tawang and supervised a boundary settlement with Major R. Graham, NEFA official, which included the Tawang Tract as part of Tibet.

Major cities with a Green presence were spread throughout the country and included Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Oklahoma City, and Washington, DC.

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.

Within a week, however, he was giving his first sermon to a congregation that included his old teacher, John Major.

Major battles fought on territory in Upper Canada included ;

During the 90s, many releases included recordings of classical compositions: Pictures at an Exhibition ( on Turn of the Tides ), Largo ( from Xerxes ) ( on Tyranny of Beauty ), Symphony in A Minor ( by J. S. Bach ), and Concerto in A Major / Adagio ( by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ) ( both on Ambient Monkeys ).

Major historic sites of mining in the Belt included Central City in the Front Range, west of Denver ( 4. 2 million troy ounces ( 131 t ) of gold 1859-1960 ).

Major cash crops included cotton, cashews, tea and rice.

Major corporations in the 19th and early 20th centuries included the Baldwin Locomotive Works, William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Company, and the Pennsylvania Railroad.