Although every Major League Baseball team cultivates fans from outside its immediate metropolitan area, and even though the greater Phoenix area has 2 / 3 of the statewide population, Colangelo still decided to call the team the " Arizona Diamondbacks " rather than the " Phoenix Diamondbacks ".

The Diamondbacks are also known for the " Hometown Tour ", held in January, where selected players, management and broadcasters make public appearances, hold autograph signings, etc., in various locations around Phoenix and Tucson, as well as many small and mid-sized towns in other areas of Arizona.

Fan posing with 2001 Arizona Diamondbacks World Series Championship Trophy

Randy Johnson pitching for the Arizona Diamondbacks.

The award has never been presented to a member of the following five teams: Arizona Diamondbacks, Miami Marlins, New York Mets, Tampa Bay Rays, and Washington Nationals.

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* Two additional franchises: the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, now the Tampa Bay Rays ( 1998 )

After a 4 – 1 start, the club lost its next eight games and struggled to a 77 – 85 record, finishing only ahead of the expansion Arizona Diamondbacks in the NL West.

The Rockies trailed the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Arizona Diamondbacks and the San Diego Padres for most of 2007 Major League Baseball season – however – by August, Colorado showed a steady series of wins, while the Division-leading Dodgers began to struggle.

The only loss during that streak was on September 28 to the Arizona Diamondbacks, a loss that clinched the Diamondbacks ' playoff spot.

The Rockies went on to play in the NLCS against the Arizona Diamondbacks, who swept their own NLDS against the Chicago Cubs.

Their newest Spring Training home opens in March 2011 and will be shared with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

On December 14, they sent infielder Chris Burke, RHP Juan Gutiérrez, and RHP Chad Qualls to the Arizona Diamondbacks for RHP José Valverde.

In the middle of this era, in 1997, the Royals declined the opportunity to switch to the National League as part of a realignment plan to introduce the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays as expansion teams.

( The feat has since been repeated once, by the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2001.

They won the National League Division Series in five games over the Arizona Diamondbacks, but lost to the eventual World Series champions St. Louis Cardinals in six games during the NLCS.

In March 1995, two new franchises — the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays — were awarded by Major League Baseball, to begin play in 1998.

The Tampa Bay Devil Rays joined the AL East and the Arizona Diamondbacks joined the NL West.

The Brewers faced the NL West Champion Arizona Diamondbacks in the NLDS and won the first two games at Miller Park, with Yovani Gallardo pitching 8 stellar innings in a 4-1 Game 1 win.

The Diamondbacks won games 3 and 4 in Arizona, setting up a deciding Game 5 back in Miller Park.

On July 1, 2012, against the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Brewers wore green batting practice uniforms with red and white trim, a nod to the Italian flag, as part of " Italian Heritage Day ".

Clemens started for the Yankees in Game 7 of the 2001 World Series against the Arizona Diamondbacks, where he dueled Curt Schilling to a standstill after 6 innings, yielding only one run.

Although the fossils of several older proto-frogs with primitive characteristics are known, the oldest " true frog " is Prosalirus bitis, from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona.

Arizona State University's Division I athletic teams are called the Sun Devils, which is also the nickname used to refer to students and alumni of the university.

The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team whose team facilities are headquartered in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix.

The Phoenix Coyotes are a National Hockey League franchise based in Arizona.

For example, in the map of the United States of America, Utah and Arizona are adjacent, but Utah and New Mexico, which only share a point that also belongs to Arizona and Colorado, are not.

An ancient glacial lake that formed in the Great Lakes region of North America, Lake Agassiz, is named after him, as are Mount Agassiz in California's Palisades, Mount Agassiz, in the Uinta Mountains, Agassiz Peak in Arizona and in his native Switzerland, the Agassizhorn in the Bernese Alps.

The cities of San Luis Potosí in Mexico ; St. Louis, Missouri ; St. Louis, Michigan ; San Luis, Arizona ; San Luis, Colorado ; Saint-Louis du Sénégal ; Saint-Louis in Alsace ; as well as Lake Saint-Louis in Quebec, the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia in California and rue Saint Louis of Pondicherry are among the many places named after the king and saint.

In states bordering Mexico, including Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, suspects who are not United States citizens are given an additional warning:

Meat Puppets are an American rock band formed in January 1980, in Phoenix, Arizona.

Among these are the Koestler Parapsychology Unit at the University of Edinburgh ; the Parapsychology Research Group at Liverpool Hope University ( this closed in April 2011 ); the SOPHIA Project at the University of Arizona ; the Consciousness and Transpersonal Psychology Research Unit of Liverpool John Moores University ; the Center for the Study of Anomalous Psychological Processes at the University of Northampton ; and the Anomalistic Psychology Research Unit at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Other hotbeds for charter schools are Kansas City ( 24 %), Washington, D. C. ( 20-24 %) and the State of Arizona.

Almost 1 in 4 public schools in Arizona are charter schools, comprising about 8 % of total enrollment.

Other hotbeds for charter schools are Kansas City ( 24 %), Washington, D. C. ( 20-24 %) and the State of Arizona.

Almost 1 in 4 public schools in Arizona are charter schools, comprising about 8 % of total enrollment.

These are complete tables of congressional delegations from Arizona to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives.

Some deadlines are as short as 10 days ( for Arizona State Employees to file a " Prohibited Personnel Practice " Complaint before the Arizona State Personnel Board ; and Ohio public employees to file appeals with the State Personnel Board of Review ).

This was the first major professional sports championship for the state of Arizona and the first for a team ( in the four major North American professional sports leagues ) owned or controlled by Colangelo, whose basketball Suns made it to the NBA Finals in 1976 and 1993 but lost both times.

* Arizona Cardinals, an American professional football team

* Arizona Cardinals, a professional American football team, formerly the St. Louis Cardinals ( 1960-1987 )

* Derek Eitel 2010, First graduate to be drafted into a professional sport in 96 years, signing with the Arizona Diamondbacks

The Phoenix Suns are a professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona.

The Phoenix Mercury is a professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association ( WNBA ).

Jesús Ernesto González ( born October 3, 1984 in Phoenix, Arizona ) is a Mexican-American professional boxer in the Super Middleweight division.

* John McDonald plays professional baseball with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

He played college football at Brigham Young University, where he was a two-time All-American ( 1980, 1981 ) and later in the professional ranks with the Chicago Bears, San Diego Chargers, Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings, Arizona Cardinals, Cleveland Browns, and Green Bay Packers.

Colangelo has been involved in many professional sports teams in Arizona.

Colangelo, as a friend of promoter Bob Arum, also helped to bring professional boxing to Arizona.

Robert Pacho ( August 1, 1911 – May 1, 1978 ) was a Mexican-American professional boxer from Yuma, Arizona.

* The Morgan Athletic Club, which will eventually become Arizona Cardinals, is founded in Chicago and is the sport's oldest professional team.

* Ron Wolfley, former NFL professional fullback for the Arizona Cardinals and Cleveland Browns.

The Arizona Wranglers were a professional American Football team in the United States Football League in the mid 1980s.

The Arizona Outlaws were a professional American football team that played in the United States Football League in the mid 1980s.

In professional sports, it is the mascot of the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball's National League and the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League.

Shea Matthew Hillenbrand ( born July 27, 1975, in Mesa, Arizona ) is a professional baseball player who currently plays for the Bridgeport Bluefish of the independent Atlantic League.

The Arizona Rattlers are a professional arena football team based in Phoenix, Arizona.

William Eugene Smith ( December 30, 1918, Wichita, Kansas – October 15, 1978, Tucson, Arizona ) was an American photojournalist known for his refusal to compromise professional standards and his brutally vivid World War II photographs.