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.

Hanks is known for his roles in Apollo 13, Big, That Thing You Do !, The Green Mile, You've Got Mail, Sleepless in Seattle, Charlie Wilson's War, Catch Me If You Can, Forrest Gump, A League of Their Own, The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons and as the voice of Woody in the Toy Story movie franchise.

Although the Angels were a sub -. 500 team and remained one for much of his time there, Ryan managed to post some winning records, notably 19 – 16 in, 21 – 16 in and 22 – 16 in ( the 22 wins tied what remains the Angels franchise record, set by Clyde Wright in ).

In 1984, the Trappers ( who, at the time, were the Triple-A farm team of the California Angels ) became the first Canadian franchise to win a championship.

Arte Moreno ( right ), owner of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball franchise, poses for a picture with a fan of the team. Arturo " Arte " Moreno ( born August 1946 ) is an American businessman.

The Angels were 1 strike away from advancing to the World Series for the first time in franchise history.

Glover is well known for his roles as Mr. Albert Johnson in The Color Purple, as Michael Harrigan in Predator 2, as corrupt cop James McFee in Witness, as Detective Roger Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon film franchise ( where he coined the catchphrase " I'm too old for this shit "), as Detective David Tapp in Saw, and as George Knox in Angels in the Outfield.

Henry Richard " Huntz " Hall ( August 15, 1920 ; – January 30, 1999 ) was an American radio, theatrical, and motion picture performer noted primarily for his roles in the " Dead End Kids " movies, such as Angels with Dirty Faces ( 1938 ), which gave way to the " The Bowery Boys " movie franchise, a prolific and highly successful series of comedies in the 1940s and 1950s.

Known affectionately among Angels fans as the King Fish, he is considered one of the greatest players in the Angels ' franchise history.

Despite setting the Angels ' franchise record for home runs and finishing his career with over 1, 000 RBIs, Salmon was never selected as an All-Star during his 14 year career.

In 1981, the franchise changed affiliations, moving from the Brewers to the California Angels.

The Midland franchise under the Angels won the Texas League Organization of the year in 1990 and 1994 and as the RockHounds in 2002.

This category includes baseball managers for the franchise formerly known as the Anaheim Angels.

2011 marked the ninth straight year in which the Angels franchise had drawn more than three million fans in attendance for the regular baseball season.

In 2011, ESPN ranked the Los Angeles Angels # 4 on its list of Ultimate Team Rankings ahead of every team in baseball and any franchise in Los Angeles.

The Angels franchise of today was established in MLB in 1961 after former owner Gene Autry bought the rights to continue the franchise name from Walter O ' Malley, the former Los Angeles Dodgers owner who had acquired the franchise from Phil Wrigley, the owner of the Chicago Cubs at the time.

As stated in the book Under the Halo: The Official History of Angels Baseball, " Autry agreed to buy the franchise name for $ 350, 000, and continue the history of the previously popular Pacific Coast League team as his own expansion team in the MLB.

An expansion franchise, the club continued in Los Angeles as the Los Angeles Angels, and played their home games at Los Angeles ' Wrigley Field ( not to be confused with Chicago's stadium of the same name ), which had formerly been the home of the PCL Los Angeles Angels.

The otherwise vacant lot, upon which the children's dilapidated hideout mansion stands, is today the location for One California Plaza, a high-rise office complex, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles museum center in Downtown Los Angeles, as well as at the restored Angels Flight funicular.

He is today best remembered as the author of A Dictionary of Angels, Including the Fallen Angels, ( 1967 ) a populist work detailing the types of Angel classes and their roles.

The adding of the " Los Angeles " to the Angels name still causes some resentment in the minds of many Dodger fans today.

In 1964, a year before the first draft, University of Wisconsin outfielder Rick Reichardt was given a record bonus of $ 205, 000 ($ today ) by the Los Angeles Angels.

But when tiny, 145-pound Albert Gregory Pearson of the Los Angeles Angels, who once caught three straight fly balls in center field because, as a teammate explained, `` the other team thought no one was out there '', hits seven home runs in four months ( three more than his total in 1958, 1959, and 1960 ), his achievement borders on the ridiculous.

Such fascinating novelties in the score as the fugual treatment of `` On The Side Of The Angels '' and `` Politics And Poker '' were handled splendidly, and I thought Rudy Bond and his band of tuneful ward-heelers made `` Little Tin Box '' even better than it was done by the New York cast ; ;

What Gabriel was asking was that mankind forego all its parochial moral judgments, and contract to let the Angels serve on Earth as it is in Heaven regardless of the applicable Earth laws.

but even more awesome was the fact that it was trailing an enormous comet's-tail of Angels.

And why was it causing so much agitation among the Angels, and being followed by so many of them??

Dee's journals did not describe the language as " Enochian ", instead preferring " Angelical ", the " Celestial Speech ", the " Language of Angels ", the " First Language of God-Christ ", the " Holy Language ", or " Adamical " because, according to Dee's Angels, it was used by Adam in Paradise to name all things.

On August 18, 1967, Red Sox batter Tony Conigliaro was hit almost directly in the left eye by a fastball thrown by Jack Hamilton of the California Angels.

The original team was christened the Blue Angels in 1946, when one of the pilots came across the name of New York City's Blue Angel Nightclub in The New Yorker magazine ; the team introduced themselves as the " Blue Angels " to the public for the first time on 21 July 1946, in Omaha, Nebraska.

The official Blue Angels insignia was designed by then team leader Lt. Cmdr.

On 22 May 2011, The Blue Angels were performing at the Lynchburg Regional Airshow in Lynchburg, Virginia, when the Diamond formation flew the Barrel Roll Break maneuver at an altitude that was lower than the required minimum altitude.

Joe Walsh, famed musician who was part of the United States rock band the Eagles, sang the National Anthem of Chile at a Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim baseball game in 2003.

Probably the first novel to depict cyberspace and combat within it was John M. Ford's Web of Angels ( 1980 ).

Charlotte was interred in the family vault in the Church of St Michael and All Angels at Haworth.

The film Wrong is Right ( 1982 ) starring Sean Connery was loosely based on his novel, The Better Angels.

The musical style was emphasized in many of the episode titles, which were in English, such as: " Asteroid Blues ", " Honky Tonk Woman ", " Ballad of Fallen Angels ", " Heavy Metal Queen ", " Jamming With Edward ", " Jupiter Jazz " and " Mushroom Samba ".

The term " cyberspace " was first used by the cyberpunk science fiction author William Gibson, though the concept was described somewhat earlier, for example in the Vernor Vinge short story " True Names ," and even earlier in John M. Ford's novel, Web of Angels.

The second offering from the company was Charlie's Angels ( 2000 ), a major box office success in 2000 that helped solidify the standing of both Barrymore and the company.

In 2003, she reprised her role as Dylan Sanders in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance in Olive, the Other Reindeer and appeared with Ben Stiller in Duplex in 2003.

Although the worship of images would eventually fall out of favour ( and be replaced by the iconoclastic fire temples ), the lasting legacy of the Achaemenids was a vast, complex hierarchy of Yazatas ( modern Zoroastrianism's Angels ) that were now not just evident in the religion, but firmly established, not least because the divinities received dedications in the Zoroastrian calendar, thus ensuring that they were frequently invoked.

She was interred in the Church of St. Michael and All Angels family vault, Haworth, West Yorkshire.