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Under Selig's watch, the Brewers also won seven Organization of the Year awards, although they posted one of the worst winning percentages in the history of Major League Baseball, over periods of ten years or more.
Since their establishment as a Major League franchise in 1901, the Indians have won two World Series championships, in 1920 and 1948.
The Cubs have won 10 of those pennants in Major League Baseball's Modern Era ( 1901 – present ), while all 18 of the Cardinals ' have been won since 1901.
Major won in excess of 14 million votes, the highest popular vote recorded by a British political party in a general election.
On becoming Prime Minister Major had promised to keep Britain " at the very heart of Europe ", and claimed to have won " game, set and match for Britain " – by negotiating the social chapter and single currency opt-outs from the Maastricht Treaty, and by ensuring that there was no overt mention of a " Federal " Europe and that foreign and defence policy were kept as matters of inter-governmental cooperation, in separate " pillars " from the supranational European Union.
For the 1997 Major League Soccer season, their record was 21 – 11 ; they won the Western Conference regular season championship.
The season was highlighted by starter Zack Greinke, who did not allow an earned run in the first 24 innings of the season, went on to finish the year with a Major League-leading 2. 16 earned run average, and won the American League Cy Young award.
For the first time, however, opposition political parties won significant numbers of seats, and despite some irregularities and threats of violence from Major General Lekhanya, Lesotho experienced its first peaceful election.
The Mariners won 116 games in, which set the American League record for most wins in a single season and tied the 1906 Chicago Cubs for the Major League record for most wins in a single season.
** Major sports championship since the 49ers won Super Bowl XXIX in 1995.
Major concessions were won for trade union rights, higher minimum wages and better working conditions.
The Boston Red Sox won the World Series of Major League Baseball in 2004, their first since 1918.
** The United Kingdom general election is narrowly won by the Conservative Party led by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom John Major.
He won the 1958 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Major Pollock in Separate Tables, his only nomination for an Oscar.
In the party leadership of contest 1995, in which John Major won against John Redwood, Clarke kept faith in Major and commented " I don't think the Conservative Party could win an election in 1, 000 years on this ultra right-wing programme ".
* Jouett Meekin-pitcher who won 153 games in Major League Baseball
Barry Bonds is second, having won the MVP award seven times in Major League Baseball.
* Mike Marshall ( baseball pitcher ), Major League Baseball pitcher who won the 1974 Cy Young Award
* Bob Maier ( 1915-1993 ), third baseman who played for the Detroit Tigers team that won the 1945 World Series in his only season in the Major Leagues.
* Robert Hoke-Confederate Major General who won the Battle of Plymouth, American businessman and railroad executive
* Jake Daubert, Major League Baseball player, born in Shamokin won two National League batting titles and was MVP in 1913
This needs to be expanded to include, for example, Harvey Wollman, Governor of South Dakota ; the McNichol twins ( Army Generals ); twins Dennis Koslowski and Duane Koslowski, Olympic wrestlers ( Dennis won Silver in ' 92 and Bronze in ' 88 Greco-Roman wrestling ; Duane won a world championship in 1986 ); Air Force Major General Chris Divich ; Air Force Lt. Col. Duane Divich ; " Smokey " Joe Mendel, tied the world record for the 100-yd dash in 1931 ; NFL pro football player Bill Noetlich ; and there are more.

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They emerged as interchangeable cogs in a faulty but formidable machine: shaved nearly naked, hair queued, greatcoated, jackbooted, and best of all -- in the opinion of the British professional, Major Semple-Lisle -- `` their minds are not estranged from the paths of obedience by those smatterings of knowledge which only serve to lead to insubordination and mutiny ''.
The Americans lost forty-four men, among them Major Joseph Morris of Morgan's regiment, an officer who was regarded with high esteem and affection, not only by his commander, but by Washington and Lafayette as well.
It was Baker, working through Provost Marshal Enoch Crowder and Major Hugh S. ( `` Old Ironpants '' ) Johnson, who arranged for a secret printing by the million of selective service blanks -- again before the Act was passed -- until corridors in the Government Printing Office were full and the basement of the Washington Post Office was stacked to the ceiling.
Its people, including Pierre Bottineau and other American Fur Company employees and the refugees from Fort Garry, were joined by the remaining Scots and Swiss from Fort Snelling when Major Joseph Plympton expelled them from the reservation in May 1840.
Major to this effort is to get all world powers to withdraw to their own territories, say by 1970.
The commander of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Major Robert Anderson sent a request for provisions to Washington, and the execution of Lincoln's order to meet that request was seen by the secessionists as an act of war.
President Lincoln rejected two geographically limited emancipation attempts by Major General John C. Frémont in August 1861 and by Major General David Hunter in May 1862, on the grounds that it was not within their power, and it would upset the border states loyal to the Union.
* 1985 – The Nigerian government is peacefully overthrown by Army Chief of Staff Major General Ibrahim Babangida.
` Alexander Mackenzie `, the Royal Military College of Canada March for bagpipes, was composed in his honour by Pipe Major Don M. Carrigan, who was the College Pipe Major 1973 to 1985.
* 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.
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.
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.
Major Steven E. Walburn argues in a 1998 article in The Air Force Law Review that this form of guilty plea should be adopted for usage by the United States military.
Major population growth within Ajaccio occurred between 1945 and 1975, with a doubling of the city's population, caused by a general shift of the population away from rural areas.
Colonel Zerbo also encountered resistance from trade unions and was overthrown two years later on November 7, 1982, by Major Dr. Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo and the Council of Popular Salvation ( CSP ).
To date, one Major League player has died as a result of being struck by a pitch: Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was hit in the head by Carl Mays on August 16, 1920, and died the next morning.
* In Major, the protagonist's father, Shigeharu Honda, is hit in the head by a pitch during a major league match.
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.

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