Prior to the 1900 season, the league changed its name to the American League and moved several franchises to larger, strategic locations.

Prior to 1969, the National League champion ( the " pennant winner ") was determined by the best win-loss record at the end of the regular season.

The disappointing season also saw fans start to become frustrated with the constant injuries to ace pitchers Mark Prior and Kerry Wood.

Prior to the 1995 season, the Rockies acquired free-agent outfielder Larry Walker, previously of the Montreal Expos, who replaced Kingery as the 4th member of the " Blake Street Bombers "— named after the street on which the new ballpark ( Coors Field ) was located — along with Galarraga, Bichette, and third baseman Vinny Castilla, who had played sparingly with the major-league club during the previous season.

Prior to the 1899 season, Frank Robison, the Spiders owner, bought the St. Louis Browns, thus owning two clubs simultaneously.

Prior to the 2002 season, the Marlins traded RHP Matt Clement and RHP Antonio Alfonseca to the Cubs for RHP Julian Tavarez, LHP Dontrelle Willis, RHP Jose Cueto and C Ryan Jorgensen.

Prior to the start of the season the Astros acquired outfielder Billy Hatcher from the Cubs for Jerry Mumphrey.

Prior to the 2012 season, new Jaguars owner Shahid Khan announced that the team would once again use a black jersey, something they had not done since 2007.

Prior to the 2009 season, the Royals renovated Kauffman Stadium.

Prior to the 1999 season, Clemens was traded to the New York Yankees where he won his only two World Series titles.

Prior to this contract agreement the Padres had offered to renew Gonzalez's contract during the offseason at $ 380, 500, only $ 500 over the league minimum for the 2007 season.

Prior to Carroll Rosenbloom's death, the Rams had already announced their intentions to leave the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and move to Anaheim Stadium in Orange County for the 1980 season.

Prior to the season, the league declined to approve the Raiders ' proposal to move from Oakland, California to Los Angeles.

Prior to the 2001 season, star free agent shortstop Alex Rodriguez, was signed by the Rangers in the most lucrative deal in baseball history: a 10-year, $ 252 million contract.

Prior to the 2004 season, little hope was held out for the Rangers to improve on their losing ways.

Prior to the 1966 season, Reds owner Bill DeWitt sent Robinson to Baltimore in exchange for pitcher Milt Pappas, pitcher Jack Baldschun and outfielder Dick Simpson.

Prior to round one of the 1998 season, Carey booted six second half goals in the Ansett Cup Grand Final against St Kilda, earning himself the Michael Tuck Medal, as the best on ground in the pre-season Grand Final, and issuing an ominous warning to the rest of the competition that he was over his injury woes of the previous year.

Prior to the 2009 season, the maximum team roster size was changed from 13 players ( 11 active and 2 inactive ) to 11 players ( all active ).

Prior to the 2006 season, the franchise was purchased by Get Hooked, LLC, a group of investors from Fairfield County that included McGregor and Foster.

Prior to the 2007 – 08 season, the Devils relocated to Newark to play their home games at the newly-constructed Prudential Center.

Prior to the 1978 – 79 season, owner Jack Vickers sold the team to Arthur Imperatore, who announced that he wished to move the team to the New Jersey Meadowlands.

Prior to the 1991 – 92 season, the Flyers acquired Rod Brind ' Amour from St. Louis.

Prior to instituting controlled burns, the county forests and pastures burned for months during the dry season.

Prior to its sale to News Corp, the last members of the board of directors of the company were: Christopher Bancroft, Lewis B. Campbell, Michael Elefante, John Engler, Harvey Golub, Leslie Hill, Irvine Hockaday, Peter Kann, David Li, M. Peter McPherson ( Chairman ), Frank Newman, James Ottaway, Elizabeth Steele, and William Steere.

Prior to the 2011-12 season, the team decided to hire a new coach, Lawrence Frank, former head coach of the New Jersey Nets and an assistant coach of the Boston Celtics, and part ways with yet another member of the 2004 championship team, veteran guard Richard Hamilton.

Prior to the 1974 – 75 season, Scallen and his ownership group from Minnesota sold the team to local media mogul Frank Griffiths for $ 9 million.

Prior to their convictions, Gotti allowed Gallo to retire and promoted Sammy Gravano in his place while slating Frank Locascio to serve as acting underboss in the event of Armone's imprisonment.

Prior to fall 2006, all Addison residents were zoned to Frank for Kindergarten through 4th Grade, E. D. Walker Elementary School for 5th and 6th grades, and Marsh Middle School for 7th and 8th grades.

The song has also been recorded by Fire + Ice, Gae Bolg, Bert Jansch, The John Renbourn Group, Pentangle, Finest Kind, Martin Carthy, Roy Bailey, Martyn Bates in collaboration with Max Eastley, the Watersons, Steeleye Span, Jethro Tull, Joe Walsh, Fairport Convention, The Minstrels of Mayhem, Galley Beggar, Donnybrook Fair, Oysterband, Frank Black, Chris Wood, Quadriga Consort, Maddy Prior, Heather Alexander, Leslie Fish, Tim van Eyken, Barry Dransfield and many other performers.

Prior to Sturges, other figures in Hollywood ( such as Charlie Chaplin, D. W. Griffith, and Frank Capra ) had directed films from their own scripts.

Prior to 1968, Alfred Deakin, Joseph Cook, Earle Page, Frank Forde and Arthur Fadden all became Prime Minister after having previously been unofficial deputies.

Prior to writing the script to Alien, O ' Bannon had been working in France for Chilean cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky's planned adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic science-fiction novel Dune.

Prior to this, she guest starred on an episode of MADtv from season eleven, where she played Hillary Clinton in a parody of My Name Is Earl, " My Name Is Dubya ", in which George W. Bush ( Frank Caliendo ) makes a list of all the bad things he's done in the past and rectifies them one by one.

Prior to this, Frank Peterson had some disagreements with Cretu and he left the project in 1991.

Prior to the release of the virus as a biological control for the rabbits, Fenner, Frank Macfarlane Burnet, and Ian Clunies Ross famously injected themselves with myxoma virus, to prove it was not dangerous for humans.

Illustrators, artists and photographers included Edward Duncan, Bruce Bairnsfather, H. M. Bateman, Edmund Blampied, Mabel Lucie Attwell, E. H. Shepherd, Kate Greenaway, W. Heath Robinson and his brother Charles Robinson, George E. Studdy, David Wright, Melton Prior, William Simpson, Frederic Villiers, Frank Reynolds, Lawson Wood, C. E. Turner, R. Caton Woodville, A. Forestier, Fortunino Matania, Christina Broom and Louis Wain.

Prior to the Le Mans race, chassis CSX 2602 was also raced at Daytona ( driven by Rick Muther and John Timanus ) in 1965, Sebring ( driven by Lew Spencer, Jim Adams, and Phil Hill ) in 1965, Monza ( driven by Jack Sears and Sir John Whitmore ) in 1965, and Nurburgring ( driven by Jack Sears and Frank Gardner ) also in 1965.

Prior to Game 6, Yankees manager Joe Torre's brother Frank underwent heart transplant surgery.

Prior to forming The Mr. T Experience, members Frank Portman and Byron Stamatatos had played together in a band called the Bent Nails while in high school in Millbrae, California.

Prior to this, he starred as Frank Skinner in the 1970 cult sci-fi series broadcast on UK ITV, Timeslip.

Prior to the start of the season, general manager Frank Cashen brought in Tim Teufel, a right-handed hitting infielder from the Minnesota Twins for Billy Beane, Joe Klink and Bill Latham.

Prior to the 2004 – 05 season ( after four seasons in Chicago ), Crawford was traded, along with Jerome Williams, to the Knicks for Dikembe Mutombo, Othella Harrington, Frank Williams and Cezary Trybanski.

Benjamin is a touring lecturer and a published author and wrote liner notes on New World Records In addition to curating the collection of Arthur Prior, Benjamin also curates the collections of Simone Mantia, B. F. Alart, and Frank H. Wells and has worked with archivists and historians including Thornton ' Tony Hagert's Vernacular Music Research

The Bobs was built by Frank Prior and Fred Church at a cost of $ 80, 000.

* Lloyd Bridges as Frank Prior