That verdict, the pendency of other antitrust cases and the threat of a class action filed by Reggie White, then with the Philadelphia Eagles, on behalf of all NFL players caused the parties to settle the antitrust cases and to agree on a formula that permitted free agency.

In the spring of 1977, Jaworski was traded by the Rams to the Philadelphia Eagles for former All-Pro tight end Charle Young ; the trade was technically illegal under NFL by-laws since both Jaworski and Young had completed their contracts, but no one raised any objection to the deal so it was permitted to stand.

Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.

After one-hitting Boston on May 2, 1904, Philadelphia Athletics pitcher Rube Waddell taunted Young to face him so that he could repeat his performance against Boston's ace.

Tillohash became a good friend of Sapir, and visited him at his home in New York and Philadelphia.

Sapir's parents had by now divorced and his father seemed to suffer from a psychosis, and made it necessary for him to leave Canada for Philadelphia, where Edward continued to support him financially.

His work forced him to move among several cities, including Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City.

Cukor's dismissal from Wind freed him to direct The Women ( 1939 ), notable for its all-female cast, followed by The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ), starring Katharine Hepburn.

Best known for directing The Silence of the Lambs, which won him the Academy Award for Best Director, he has also directed the acclaimed movies Philadelphia, Rachel Getting Married, the Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense and a trilogy of Neil Young documentary / concert movies.

According to Bill Libby's Book, Charlie O and the Angry A's, owner Charlie O. Finley banned the word " Athletics " from the club's name because he felt that name was too closely associated with former Philadelphia Athletics owner Connie Mack, and he wanted the name " Oakland A's " to become just as closely associated with him.

At Elijah's suggestion, he walks through a crowd in a Philadelphia train station and senses crimes perpetrated by strangers who brush past him: a jewel thief, a racist hate crime perpetrator, and a rapist.

He is reputed to have met with Hoban then, and summoned the architect to Philadelphia and met with him there in June 1792.

US President Chester A. Arthur appointed him as one of the commissioners to the National Conference of Electricians, which convened in Philadelphia in September of 1884, and Gibbs presided over one of its sessions.

However, he was able to regain enough money in his law practice to purchase an Illinois newspaper to support him in the presidential election of 1860, for which he gained the financial support of businessmen in Philadelphia and New York City.

Other travels took him southwest to Philadelphia and New York City in 1854, and west across the Great Lakes region in 1861, visiting Niagara Falls, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Mackinac Island.

She had wanted him for her comeback vehicle, The Philadelphia Story ( 1940 ).

While allowing him to participate in the All-Century Team, MLB has refused to allow him to participate in local events in Cincinnati, such as the 25th anniversary reunion of the Big Red Machine, the closing of Cinergy Field, and the opening of the Great American Ballpark, as well as the closing of Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia and 1980 Phillies anniversary celebrations.

The Los Angeles Dodgers and Minnesota Twins also made offers, and the hometown Philadelphia Phillies gave him a tryout, but declined because of his " hitting skills ".

Born in Philadelphia, Stockton was the son of a prominent Methodist minister who discouraged him from a writing career.

Early in Game 7, Lindros was on the receiving end of a controversial hit by Scott Stevens, giving him another concussion and leaving the Philadelphia crowd deflated.

On June 28, 2007, the Miami Heat selected Colorado State forward Jason Smith with the 20th overall selection then traded him to the Philadelphia 76ers for the draft rights to the 21st overall selection, guard Daequan Cook from Ohio State, and cash considerations.

Feeling the team needed an established center to advance deep into the playoffs, Philadelphia acquired Dikembe Mutombo from the Atlanta Hawks in a deal that sent Ratliff, Nazr Mohammed, Toni Kukoč, and Pepe Sanchez to Atlanta ( Sanchez was reacquired later in the season after the Hawks waived him ).

In a second draft-day trade, the Bulls selected Rodney Carney and traded him to the Philadelphia 76ers for guard Thabo Sefolosha.

To help keep him out of trouble, his father bought him a large transoceanic radio, and Smith became an avid fan of R & B music and the disc jockeys who played it, such as " Jocko " Henderson of Philadelphia, New York's " Dr. Jive " ( Tommy Smalls ), the " Moon Dog " Alan Freed, and Nashville's " John R ." Richbourg, who later became his mentor.

Audubon returned to Philadelphia in 1824 to seek a publisher for his bird drawings.

In 2011, the Third Circuit again affirmed the conviction as well as its decision to vacate the death sentence, and the District Attorney of Philadelphia announced that prosecutors would no longer seek the death penalty.

Growing interest in the upcoming Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia led Laboulaye to decide it was time to seek public support.

The Philadelphia City Council and the Pennsylvania General Assembly created a committee to study the project and seek support of the U. S. Congress.

Schmick will join his Indian congregation as they seek refuge in Bethlehem, follow them as captives to Philadelphia, and remain with them after they settle in Wyalusing, Pennsylvania.

In Philadelphia they seek out Meadows's mother, only to find her away for the day and the house cluttered with empty whiskey bottles.

Effective 6 September 2011, Sunoco announced that it would exit the crude oil refining business and seek to sell its Philadelphia and Marcus Hook refineries by mid-2012.

Concerned primarily with the fate of the small states in a federal union potentially dominated by powerful, populous neighbors, the fiery Bedford warned the delegates at Philadelphia that the small states might have to seek foreign alliances for their own protection.

He had helped establish schools in New York and Philadelphia and despite never having visited the colonies often saw patients crossing the Atlantic to seek his advice as a physician.

On January 25, 2007 Brady announced that he would seek the Democratic Party nomination for mayor of Philadelphia.

While still in school in Philadelphia Fredi's family moved North to Harlem, New York in the Great Migration in an effort to seek better opportunities in the industrial north.

At the time when Lane began his employment at Pendleton ’ s, it was common practice for aspiring American artists — especially those who, like Lane, could not afford a more formal education in the arts by traveling to Europe or by attending one of the prestigious American art academies, such as New York ’ s National Academy of Design or Philadelphia ’ s Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts — to seek work as a lithographer, this being the next logical step in their pursuit of a career in the arts.

The National African Religion Congress is an organization, formed by Gro Mambo Angela Novanyon Idizol in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1998, which aims to seek tolerance for African religions, as well as creating credentialing standards for priests and priestesses and working on legal issues of concern to such practitioners, such as having the legal power to perform marriages.

Accompanied by his brother James, he travelled to New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D. C. to seek medical treatment.

Both players had a better fielding percentage, more total chances, better zone rating, more putouts, more double plays turned, better range factor and more assists than their counterparts who won the award instead ( Chicago Cubs first baseman Derrek Lee and Philadelphia Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins ).

Three teams in the Eastern Division finished with better records than San Diego but failed to qualify for the playoffs, including second-place Philadelphia, which won 88 games and all six of its contests with the Padres.

Oakland was ranked by Business Week as # 43 on its list of " Great Places to Raise Kids -- for Less ", with only two places deemed better than Oakland: Matawan ( 12th ) and Echelon near Philadelphia ( 4th ).

* Cornelius McGillicuddy, Sr., better known as Connie Mack, baseball player, Philadelphia Athletics owner and manager, and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame

Bud Grant joined the team in 1953 after a two-year stint with the Philadelphia Eagles, as one of numerous NFL players lured to Canada during the first part of the decade for then better salaries.

After that embarrassment, he began to face better opposition and by 1951, was beating some of the better middleweight boxers on the Philadelphia scene.

I figured there was some kind of a flaw that keeps them from getting better than they are, and then when I saw Robert Crumb's work in the early ' 60s, when he moved from Philadelphia to Cleveland, and he moved around the corner from me, I thought ' Man, comics are where it's at '.

Shaw places a series of newspaper advertisements, publicizing this price and asserting that his Grey Gull Records were " Better Than 75 cent Records ... MUCH better " ( ad in the Philadelphia Inquirer, 10 September 1922, p. 6 ) As well, Shaw introduced a new method of selling phonograph records ... one which would much later become standard practice in the record industry.

There is a late colonial-era mansion named after Cliveden in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, better known as the Chew Mansion of note in the 1777 Battle of Germantown.

The Three Degrees had a moderate hit with a remake of the Five Keys ' " Close Your Eyes ", but scored better on Roulette with their remake of the Chantel's " Maybe " and " When Will I See You Again " on Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff's Philadelphia International Records.

"), New Jersey (" Not technically a city, but, hey "), Philadelphia (" Or, as ' Burghers call it, ' Filthydelphia '"), Darby Conley's "@##" (" Again, not technically a city, per se "), and New Orleans (" Worse than Lubbock, but better than Darby Conley's @##!

Octavio Victor Rojas Rivas ( born March 6, 1939 in Havana, Cuba ), better known as Cookie Rojas, is a former Major League Baseball second baseman and outfielder who played for the Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, and Kansas City Royals.

The St. Louis Rams and the Philadelphia Eagles had better regular season records at 12-4, and thus under the playoff format, each would have to win two playoff games to reach the league championship game.

Stetson, now 35 years old, and in better health, returned east and established his own hat firm in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which produced high quality hats for outdoor use.

Duncan Bowen Black ( born February 18, 1972 ), better known by his pseudonym Atrios (), is an American liberal blogger living in Philadelphia.

* 1934 Philadelphia Stars won best half of season however Crawfords with better whole season record disputed title.

The timing could not have been better for the team from Philadelphia as Sam Thompson joined the club the prior season and Ed Delahanty would become a Phillie the following year.

Tatiana Palacios Chapa ( born 12 December 1968 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ), better known as simply " Tatiana ", is a Mexican singer and actress.

Stokowski later made amends by giving her a prestigious date with the much better known Philadelphia Orchestra.

All four Philadelphia outfielders ended the season with a batting average better than. 400 ( Tuck Turner at. 416, Thompson and Ed Delahanty at. 407, and Billy Hamilton at. 404 ).

MFSB was a group of soul music studio musicians based in Philadelphia at the Sigma Sound Studios ; they later went on to become a name-brand instrumental group, and their best known hit was TSOP ( The Sound of Philadelphia ), better known as the theme from Soul Train.