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.

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.

In Major League Baseball history, Ty Cobb had a record 4, 191 hits ( later revised to 4, 189 ) by 1928 in sports | 1928 ; Pete Rose would surpass it 57 years later, and finish with 4, 256 career hits.

In 1887, Hugh Nicol set a still-standing Major League record with 138 stolen bases, many of which would not have counted under modern rules.

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 massive stadium did, however, permit the Indians to set the then record for the largest crowd to see a Major League baseball game.

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.

Although they fell to the " Hitless Wonders " White Sox in the 1906 World Series, the Cubs recorded a record 116 victories and the best winning percentage (. 763 ) in Major League history.

In addition, despite the losses, the club saw a home attendance of 4, 483, 350 for the season, setting a Major League record that still stands and isn't likely to be broken.

When the season ended, he posted a 1. 26 ERA, which gave him not only the lowest in his career, but also gave him a Major League record of being the oldest pitcher with 150 + innings pitched to post a season ERA under 1. 50.

Although the phrase " perfect game " appeared in record books as early as 1922, and was a common expression years before that, Major League Baseball did not formalize the definition of a " perfect game " until 1991, long after Young's death.

The Red Sox have sold out every home game since May 15, 2003 ; in 2008, the park sold out its 456th consecutive Red Sox game, breaking a Major League Baseball record.

Its fortunes have risen since the Red Sox ' 1967 " Impossible Dream " season, and on September 8, 2008 with a game versus the Tampa Bay Rays, Fenway Park broke the all-time Major League record with its 456th consecutive sellout, surpassing the previous record held by Jacobs Field ( now Progressive Field ) in Cleveland, Ohio.

* Charles Johnson ( 1994 – 1998, 2001 – 2002 ) — A four-time Gold Glove Award winner, in 1997 Johnson set a Major League single-season record for catchers by playing in 123 games without committing a single error.

* 1996 – Major snowstorm paralyzes Midwestern United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ties all-time record low temperature at-26 ° F (- 32. 2 ° C )

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 ).

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

In 1969, the new manager of the Twins, Billy Martin, pushed aggressive base running all-around, and Rod Carew set the all-time Major League record by stealing home seven times.

In their 1962 inaugural season, the Mets posted a record of 40 – 120, the worst regular season record since Major League Baseball went to a 162-game season ( two games from their inaugural season were never made up ).

* 1998 Major League Baseball home run record chase

" Major record labels signed most of the prominent grunge bands in Seattle, while a second influx of bands moved to the city in hopes of success.

Major precursors of indie pop included Postcard bands Josef K and Orange Juice, and significant labels included Creation, Subway and Glass.

Sugar Minott continued to record on his Black Roots label, Youth Promotion Label and for Major and Independent labels.

Major labels may also wholly or partially acquire independent labels.

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Major labels signed three-chord grunge / punk-style rock bands, commercial radio played them and the ' alternative ' sound soon became ubiquitous, ultimately culminating in manufactured pop groups, styled to sound raucously ' alternative ' and appearing on television commercials for mobile phones.

Major labels were also reluctant to release an album featuring cult musicians of the past, causing Grohl to opt for the smaller, metal-based Southern Lord Records.

Major record labels also released tribute albums ; at one point there were at least six Kennedy tribute albums available for purchase in record stores, with the most popular being Dickie Goodman's John Fitzgerald Kennedy: The Presidential Years 1960-1963 ( 20th Century 3127 ), which climbed to number eight on the Billboard album chart and stood as the biggest-selling tribute album of all time until the double-CD tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales thirty-four years later ().

Major industrial employers include Greening Donald ( automotive airbag components ), Resolve Corporation ( computer outsourcing ), Clorox Company of Canada ( Glad garbage bags ), Relizon Canada ( pressure sensitive labels ), Plastiflex Canada Inc. ( plastic hoses ), Rochling Engineering Plastics ( formerly Symplastics Limited )( plastic sheets ) and HiSAN of Canada ( automotive components ).

Major labels with small acts to promote have also attempted to use MP3 blogs.

Major labels including A & M ( UK ) were starting to show interest, but certain band members felt loyal to the Factory organisation.

Artists who attend are usually either promoting their own existing enterprise or are promoting Major labels or other corporate bodies.

Major record companies began to open " superclubs " promoting their own acts, forcing many independent clubs and labels out of business.

Major fashion labels such as Carolina Herrera, Oscar de la Renta, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Liz Claiborne, Nicole Miller, and Andrew Marc have showrooms, production facilities, or support offices located in the Garment District.

Major label advances are generally much larger than independent labels can offer.

Major labels tend to ask for more options in a contract than independents.

Major labels tend to watch indie label artists and gauge their success, and may offer to sign acts from independents when their contract is up.

Major record companies and their major indie satellite labels will not offer the artist the option to finance the production of their own master.

Major labels had had some success promoting two kinds of country acts: Southern novelty performers like Tex Williams and singers like Frankie Laine, who mixed pop and country in a conventionally sentimental style.

Major paved the way for the Belfast Agreement, also known as the ' Good Friday Agreement ', which was signed after he left office.

Soon after his arrival at Sydney, in August 1806, Bligh was given an address of welcome signed by Major Johnston for the military, by Richard Atkins for the civilian officers, and by John Macarthur for the free settlers.

Bridgeport was the home of Major Leaguer, James " Orator " O ' Rourke, who signed the first African-American to play for a professional baseball team in 1895.

When signing the Treaty of New Echota in 1835 Major Ridge said " I have signed my death warrant.

Major League Baseball catcher, coach, scout & manager who scouted & signed Major Leagues ’ 1st black player, Jackie Robinson.

* Branch Rickey, baseball agent that signed Jackie Robinson ; also credited with forming the farm leagues for Major League Baseball

In 1965, after graduating from Alvin High School, one of Major League Baseball's Hall of Famer pitchers, Nolan Ryan, signed a professional baseball contract with the New York Mets, and was assigned to a minor league team in the Appalachian League called the Marion Mets ( 1965 – 1976 ) in Marion, Virginia.

He began his professional baseball career with the Greenville Spinners of the Carolina Association, married 15-year-old Katie Wynn, and eventually signed with Connie Mack to play Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Athletics.

After having been initialled in Dayton, Ohio on 21 November 1995, the full and formal agreement was signed in Paris on 14 December 1995 and witnessed by French President Jacques Chirac, U. S. President Bill Clinton, UK Prime Minister John Major, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin.

On May 3, 1945, a message from Major General Stanley Eric Reinhart ’ s 261st Infantry Regiment stated at 3: 15 am: " AMG Officer has unconditional surrender of PASSAU signed by Burgermeister, Chief of Police and Lt. Col of Med Corps there.

With soul music coming to the forefront in the 60s, Okeh signed Major Lance, who gave the label two big successes with " The Monkey Time " and " Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um ".

The 2007 season in Major League Soccer started with news that global icon David Beckham signed with the Los Angeles Galaxy.

Major amending treaties were signed to complete the development of a single, internal market in the Single European Act 1986, to further the development of a more social Europe in the Treaty of Amsterdam 1997, and to make minor amendments to the relative power of member states in the EU institutions in the Treaty of Nice 2001 and the Treaty of Lisbon 2007.

Santo became the first player to invoke the ten-and-five rule under the collective bargaining agreement signed after the 1972 Major League Baseball strike ( the rule allows players with 10 years ' service, the last five with the same team, to decline any trade ).

Killebrew signed his contract under Major League Baseball ( MLB )' s Bonus Rule, which required that he spend two full seasons on the major league roster.

Banks signed with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League in and broke into the Major Leagues in with the Chicago Cubs as their first black player.

On 19 June of that year, he signed another copy of the treaty, when Major Thomas Bunbury insisted that he do so ( Oliver 2007 ).

So, which one of you signed up as " Major Woody " and " Private Parts?!

Matsui signed with the New York Mets on December 17, 2003, becoming the first Japanese infielder to sign with a Major League Baseball team.

His only Major League appearance took place on July 22, 1887, when the Philadelphia Athletics signed him from the Reading club to pitch in a game against the Cleveland Blues at Jefferson Street Grounds.

He believed that Major League Baseball's decades-old reserve clause was unfair in that it kept players beholden for life to the team with which they originally signed, even when they had satisfied the terms and conditions of those contracts.

In January 2005, he was signed to a one-year deal with the Astros, at the age of 44, making him at that time the oldest active pitcher in Major League Baseball.

Rhéaume was signed to the Trois-Rivières Draveurs in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, one of Canada's top junior ice hockey leagues, for the 1991-1992 season, becoming the first woman ever to play in a men's Junior A hockey game.