Chicago ( Joliet Slammers, Schaumburg Boomers and Windy City ThunderBolts ) has 3 teams and St. Louis ( Gateway Grizzlies & River City Rascals ) has 2 teams while Cleveland ( Lake Erie Crushers ), Cincinnati ( Florence Freedom ) and Pittsburgh ( Washington Wild Things ) each have one.

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The Rockford RiverHawks ( including years as Portsmouth and Springfield ) are currently tied with the Florence Freedom ( including years as Erie and Johnstown ) for the most league championships with three each.

The city is home to the Florence Freedom independent minor league baseball team.

The Freedom have played at Champion Window Field in Florence since the venue's completion in 2004.

Peter Fatse-All Star Rightfielder for the Florence Freedom.

* Florence Freedom Baseball

The Florence Freedom are a professional baseball team based in the Northern Kentucky city of Florence, located near the city of Cincinnati.

The team was sold after the 2002 season and moved to Florence, where it became known as the Freedom.

The Freedom played their 2003 home games at Foundation Field in Hamilton, Ohio, about north of Cincinnati, while the ownership group was building a new stadium ( Champion Window Field ) in Florence.

In 2004, the Freedom opened Champion Window Field in Florence.

Image: Florencefreedom. jpg | Florence Freedom logo 2003-2007

Image: FlorenceFreedom. PNG | Florence Freedom logo 2008-present

The judges were Yvonne Braithwaite Burke, Partner, Kutak, Rode & Huie ; Hamilton Fish III, Publisher, The Nation ; Florence McMullin, Chair, The Washington Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee ; and Aryeh Neier, Professor of Law, New York University.

" The relocation of the team from Welland to Erie forced the Frontier League incarnation of the Erie Sailors to relocate Johnstown, Pennsylvania where they became the Johnstown Steal ( this team is now known as the Florence Freedom, based in Florence, Kentucky ).

* Florence Freedom, an independent minor league baseball team that plays in the Frontier League

The plaintiffs are The King ’ s English, Inc .; Sam Weller ’ s Zion Bookstore ; Nathan Florence ; W. Andrew McCullough ; Computer Solutions International, Inc .; Mountain Wireless Utah, LLC ; the Sexual Health Network, Inc., Utah Progressive Network Education Fund, Inc .; the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression ; the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah ; the Association of American Publishers ; the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund ; the Freedom to Read Foundation ; and the Publishers Marketing Association.

He returned to independent baseball in 2004, managing the Florence Freedom for part of the season.

Based on a statement by Darnley made in 1894, it was believed that a group of Victorian ladies, including Darnley's later wife Florence Morphy, made the presentation after the victory in the Third Test in 1883.

John XXIII was acknowledged as pope by France, England, Bohemia, Prussia, Portugal, parts of the Holy Roman Empire, and numerous Northern Italian city states, including Florence and Venice ; however, the Avignon Pope Benedict XIII was regarded as pope by the Kingdoms of Aragon, Castile, and Scotland and Gregory XII was still favored by Ladislaus of Naples, Carlo I Malatesta, the princes of Bavaria, Louis III, Elector Palatine, and parts of Germany and Poland.

* The middle Valdarno, with the plain including Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Prato and Pistoia.

Lorenzo was an accomplished musician and brought composers and singers to Florence, including Alexander Agricola, Johannes Ghiselin, and Heinrich Isaac.

Shortly before leaving Florence, as they knew that they would soon have to retreat, the Germans murdered many freedom fighters and political opponents publicly, in streets and squares including the Piazza Santo Spirito.

The period featured considerable formal innovation, including possibly the introduction of the Sicilian octave to Florence, where it influenced Petrarch.

Subsequent ' numerologists ' including Lynn Buess ( 1978 ), Mark Gruner ( 1979 ), Kathleen Roquemore ( 1985 ), and Florence Campbell ( 1983 ), expanded on the use of numerology for assessing major aspects of personality and cyclical patterns in life.

European opera houses and festivals including the Royal Opera in London, La Scala in Milan, the Salzburg Festival, La Fenice in Venice, and the Maggio Musicale in Florence have also transmitted their productions to theaters in cities around the world since 2006, including 90 cities in the U. S.

A minority ( including Jean-Jacques Rousseau ) could interpret The Prince as a satire meant to be given to the Medici after their recapture of Florence and their subsequent expulsion of Machiavelli from Florence.

Documents mentioning cards date from 1371 in Spain, 1377 in Switzerland, and 1380 in many locations including Florence and Paris.

Various theories have been proposed to account for its origins and characteristics, focusing on a variety of factors including the social and civic peculiarities of Florence at the time ; its political structure ; the patronage of its dominant family, the Medici ; and the migration of Greek scholars and texts to Italy following the Fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Ottoman Turks.

The traces of influences from ancient Roman and Greek art that are present in some of Masaccio's works presumably originated from this trip: they should also have been present in a lost Sagra, ( today known through some drawings, including one by Michelangelo ), a fresco commissioned for the consecration ceremony of the church of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence ( April 19, 1422 ).

* May 22 – Francis repudiates the Treaty of Madrid and forms the League of Cognac against Charles, including the Pope, Milan, Venice, and Florence.

There was a much more significant flood in 1966 which damaged most of the art collections in Florence severely, including the Uffizi.

Prime examples include furniture designed by George Nelson Associates, Charles and Ray Eames, Paul McCobb, Florence Knoll, Harry Bertoia, Eero Saarinen, Harvey Probber, Vladamir Kagan and Danish modern designers including Finn Juhl and Arne Jacobsen.

By bringing Chrysoloras to Florence, Salutati made it possible for a select group of scholars ( including Bruni and Vergerio ) to read Aristotle and Plato in the original ancient Greek.

The Union was ratified at the Council of Florence in 1439 which John attended with 700 followers including Patriarch Joseph II of Constantinople and George Gemistos Plethon, a Neoplatonist philosopher influential among the academics of Italy.

The proxy wedding ceremony in Florence was celebrated with lavish entertainments, including examples of the newly-invented musical genre of opera, Jacopo Peri's Euridice.

Many highly educated amateurs now also travelled to Egypt, however, including women such as Harriet Martineau and Florence Nightingale, who both left fascinatingly philosophical accounts of their travels, which revealed learned familiarity with all the latest European Egyptology.

New dams built upstream of Florence have greatly alleviated the problem in recent years.

* A commentary on Isaiah, discovered more or less complete in a manuscript in Florence early in the 20th century and published 50 years later.

In 1513 he went to Rome, where he painted a Peter and Paul, now in the Pinacoteca Vaticana, while from the following years are the St. Mark Evangelist of Palazzo Pitti in Florence and the frescoes in the Dominican convent of Pian di Mugnone.

* A large series depicting commedia dell ' arte figures called Balli di Sfessania, in a simple, caricature-like style, from his years in Florence.

Just a few years before his death, Alberti completed De iciarchia ( On Ruling the Household ), a dialogue about Florence during the Medici rule.

Remey in his later years in Florence | Florence, Italy.

Once Siena had been conquered by Florence under the rule of the Medici family in 1555, Montalcino held out for almost four years, but ultimately fell to the Florentines, under whose control it remained until the Grand Duchy of Tuscany was amalgamated into a united Italy in 1861.

In 1494, Florence restored the republic — expelling the Medici family, who had ruled Florence for some sixty years.

To this, Sixtus IV replied with an interdict and two years ' of war with Florence.

Florence Kling DeWolfe was a divorcée, five years Harding's senior, and the mother of a young son, Marshall Eugene DeWolfe.

Both of Keynes's parents outlived him: father John Neville Keynes ( 1852 – 1949 ) by three years, and mother Florence Ada Keynes ( 1861 – 1958 ) by 12 years.

In her biography of Harold Washington, Florence Hamlish Levinsohn surmises that the three years Washington spent fighting for his country in the South Pacific while experiencing racial prejudice and discrimination helped shape his views on racial justice in the mayoral run to come.

These three members of the Medici family had great skills in the management of so " restive and independent a city " as Florence, but when Lorenzo died in 1492, his son Piero proved quite incapable, and within two years he and his supporters were forced into exile a republican government replac him.

His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years ( from 1504 – 1508 ) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates.

Raphael would have been aware of his works in Florence, but in his most original work of these years, he strikes out in a different direction.

Ingres and his wife moved to Florence in 1820 at the urging of the Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Bartolini, an old friend from his years in Paris, who hoped that Ingres would improve his position materially, but Ingres, as before, had to rely on his drawings of tourists and diplomats for support.

" On January 13, 1495 he preached his great Renovation Sermon to a huge audience in the Cathedral, recalling that he had begun prophesying in Florence four years earlier, although the divine light had come to him " more than fifteen, maybe twenty years ago.

The first trial by fire in Florence for over four hundred years was set for April 7.

Other regulars and semi-regulars over the years included Nanette Fabray, Kaye Ballard, Wally Cox, Morey Amsterdam, Florence Henderson, Marty Allen, Wayland Flowers and Madame, Barbara Eden, George Gobel, Vincent Price, Charo, Sandy Duncan, Carol Wayne, Jonathan Winters, Karen Valentine, and Joan Rivers.