* Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, an American professional baseball league

In 1953, the Braves promoted him to the Jacksonville Braves, their Class-A affiliate in the South Atlantic League.

A Labour Day tradition in Atlantic Canada is the Wharf Rat Rally in Digby, Nova Scotia, while the rest of Canada watches the Labour Day Classic, a Canadian Football League event where rivals like Calgary Stampeders and Edmonton Eskimos, Hamilton Tiger-Cats and Toronto Argonauts ( except in 2011, due to a scheduling conflict ), and Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers play on Labour Day weekend.

On August 20, 2012, it was announced that Clemens would sign with the Sugar Land Skeeters of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.

Cobb spent his first years in baseball as a member of the Royston Rompers, the semi-pro Royston Reds, and the Augusta Tourists of the South Atlantic League.

The Legends belong to the South Atlantic League, have one league title ( 2001 ) and four playoff appearances since 2001.

After the phonetic alphabet was developed by the International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO ) ( see history below ) it was adopted by many other international and national organizations, including the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ), the International Telecommunication Union ( ITU ), the International Maritime Organization ( IMO ), the American Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA ), the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions ( ATIS ), and the American Radio Relay League ( ARRL ).

The Atlantic League requires cities to have the market for a 4, 000 to 7, 500-seat ballpark and for the facility to be maintained at or to exceed AAA standards.

When Atlantic League professionals are signed by MLB clubs, they usually start in their AA or AAA affiliates.

In 1998, the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball played its inaugural season, with teams in Somerset, Newark, and Atlantic City ( NJ ), Nashua ( NH ), Newburgh ( NY ), and Bridgeport ( CT ).

He modeled the Atlantic League after the older Pacific Coast League, with facilities that exceed AAA-level standards.

Boulton also emphasized signing players of Major League Baseball experience for all Atlantic League teams, raising the level of play above other independent leagues.

In 2007, Frank Boulton expressed his contentment with the Atlantic League and the Ducks to Baseball America saying, " The Long Island Ducks are the best thing I've ever done in baseball.

The top minor leagues in the United States at the time, the Atlantic Coast Football League and Seaboard Football League, were also tremendously affected.

From 1998 to 2006, the Surf played in the South Division of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.

While in the Atlantic League, the Surf won the first-ever Atlantic League championship in 1998 while also hosting the inaugural Atlantic League All-Star game.

In 1998, the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball placed a team in Atlantic City called the Surf.

Category: Former Atlantic League of Professional Baseball teams

The team is a member of the Liberty Division of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball.

Category: Atlantic League of Professional Baseball teams

Category: Atlantic League of Professional Baseball teams

The Nashua Pride was one of the founding members of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball in 1998.

Category: Former Atlantic League of Professional Baseball teams

They were originally a member of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.

They are a member of the Freedom Division of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball.

On July 24, 2012 the Frontier League announced that the team folded and would be replaced by the Road Warriors ( independent baseball team ) traveling baseball team of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.

Professional sailing in France is centred on singlehanded and shorthanded ocean racing with the pinnacle of this branch of the sport being the Vendee Globe singlehanded around the world race which starts every 4 years from the French Atlantic coast.

The Atlantic League of Professional Baseball is also looking into having a team in Uniondale.

* Frank Boulton: Bay Shore High School alumni, President of Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, owner and president of the Long Island Ducks.

They were established in 2002, and played in the Atlantic Coast Hockey League ( 2002 – 2003 ), the World Hockey Association 2 ( 2003 – 2004 ), and the Southern Professional Hockey League ( 2004 – 2008 ), before folding in 2008.

Robinson is one of the investors in the Opening Day Partners group, of which owns four teams in the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.

Since 1998, Lyle has served as manager of the Somerset Patriots, a minor league baseball team of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.

The NFL and its teams have had working relationships with several independent leagues in the past, including the Association of Professional Football Leagues, the Atlantic Coast Football League, and most recently, the league owned-and-operated NFL Europe League.

* Atlantic Coast Hockey League ( ACHL ), now part of the Southern Professional Hockey League

For spring training in 2009, the Somerset Patriots became the first Atlantic League team to hold its spring training in its own locale, at the Jack Cust Baseball Academy in nearby Flemington, instead of the traditional site in Lakeland, Florida.

On September 2, 2008, Minor League Baseball announced that two teams would transfer from the fellow Class A South Atlantic League to the Midwest League.

DeLazier Field, used by the Triboro Little League, was the home field for the Minor League Baseball team known as the Bloomingdale Troopers of the North Atlantic League from 1946 to 1948.

They include the Navy's Atlantic Command at Norfolk, Virginia, which is in contact with the Polaris subs ; ;

If a broader Atlantic community is to be formed -- and my own judgment is that it lies within the realm of both our needs and our capacity -- a ready nucleus of machinery is at hand in the NATO alliance.

The time is now ripe, indeed overdue, for the vigorous development of its non-military potentialities, for its development as an instrument of Atlantic community.

Underlying these hopes and prescriptions is a conviction that the nations of the North Atlantic area do indeed form a community, at least a potential community.

That time is now past and the Atlantic nations, if they are to survive, must develop a full-fledged community, and they must also look beyond the frontiers of `` Western civilization '' toward a world-wide `` concert of free nations ''.

The decline of the Cunard line from its position of dominance in Atlantic travel is a significant development in the history of transportation.

For him to ignore the political consequences involved in an Atlantic Union of this kind is difficult to understand.

Since the goal of our international planners is a World Government, this Atlantic Community would mark a giant step in that direction for, once American economic autonomy is absorbed, a larger grouping is a question of time.

But the solution to this dilemma is not the incorporation of the United States into an Atlantic Community or `` economic empire '', but merely what libertarians like Henry Hazlitt and Ludwig Von Mises have been arguing for years: an end to government regulations, an end to government competition in industry, and a realistic depreciation allowance for industry.

This is an official preliminary contest of the Miss America Pageant held each September in Atlantic City.

A new waterfront site for the bureau is now being built at Atlantic City, New Jersey, to provide the most modern marine testing facilities as a further tool to keep the sport safe.

If you've travelled in Europe a time or two, it is quite certain that you've had that wanting-to-be-alone feeling or that you will get it on your next visit across the Atlantic.

An ordinary sea wave is rarely more than a few hundred feet long from crest to crest -- no longer than 320 feet in the Atlantic or 1,000 feet in the Pacific.

" From sea to shining sea " is an American idiom meaning from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean ( or vice versa ).

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions.

The oldest known mention of " Atlantic " is in The Histories of Herodotus around 450 BC ( Hdt.

As one component of the interconnected global ocean, it is connected in the north to the Arctic Ocean ( which is sometimes considered a sea of the Atlantic ), to the Pacific Ocean in the southwest, the Indian Ocean in the southeast, and the Southern Ocean in the south.

The Atlantic Ocean is bounded on the west by North and South America.

Covering approximately 22 % of Earth's surface, the Atlantic is second in size to the Pacific.

The volume of the Atlantic with its adjacent seas is 354, 700, 000 cubic kilometers ( 85, 100, 000 cu mi ) and without them 323, 600, 000 cubic kilometres ( 77, 640, 000 cu mi ).