When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.

It was one of a series of recommendations by the Texas Research League.

Skorich was considered the logical choice after the club gave Norm Van Brocklin permission to seek the head coaching job with the Minnesota Vikings, the newest National Football League entry.

His goal was to obtain a National League team for this city.

When he was unable to bring about immediate expansion, he sought to convince another National League club to move here.

He was the lawyer for Ted Collins' old Boston Yankees in the National Football League.

Since 1949, the only National League club that got off to a hot start and made a runaway of the race was the '55 Dodger team.

The presentation was made before several hundred persons at the annual meeting of the League at Olney Hall, College of Marin, Kentfield.

After the end of the Greek-Persian wars the cities on the coasts became part of the Delian League, which was, however, later dissolved.

The Mills Commission, chaired by Abraham G. Mills, the fourth president of the National League, was appointed in 1905 to determine the origin of baseball.

In 1908 he was involved in trying to start a new professional baseball league, the " Union Professional League " which took the field in April but folded one month later.

Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.

The Peace of Crépy in September 1544 deprived him of this employment, but he had won a considerable reputation, and when Charles was preparing to attack the Schmalkaldic League, he took pains to win Albert's assistance.

Joining the League of Torgau in 1526, he acted in unison with the Protestants, and was among the princes who banded and plotted together to overthrow Charles V after the issue of the Augsburg Interim in May 1548.

He was one of the founders and the first president of the All-India Muslim League, and served as President of the League of Nations from 1937-38.

He was nominated to represent India to the League of Nations in 1932.

In 1906, the Aga Khan was a founding member and first president of the All India Muslim League, a political party which pushed for the creation of an independent Muslim nation in the north west regions of South Asia, then under British colonial rule, and later established the country of Pakistan in 1947.

In 1934, he was made a member of the Privy Council and served as a member of the League of Nations ( 1934 – 37 ), becoming the President of the League of Nations in 1937.

Each signed the league's constitution, and the National League was officially born.

Thus, on January 16, 1997, the Diamondbacks were officially voted into the National League while their expansion counterparts in Tampa Bay were voted into the American League.

* The British Empire, although officially a staunch supporter of the Ottoman Empire's integrity, took secret diplomatic steps encouraging Greek entry into the League in order to counteract Russian influence.

It was still officially a minor league, subject to the governing National Agreement and an underling of the National League.

The Cleveland team originated in 1900 as the Lake Shores, when the American League ( AL ) was officially a minor league.

It is currently sponsored by Barclays Bank and thus officially known as the Barclays Premier League.

At first Gaza Strip was officially administered by the All-Palestine Government, established by the Arab League in September 1948.

On November 15, 2011, it was announced that Crane had agreed to move the franchise to the American League, and the team was officially sold to Crane.

Barry Bonds holds the List of lifetime home run leaders through history | all-time home run record in Major League BaseballSadaharu Oh, pictured here in 2006, holds the officially verified all-time world home-run record outside of MLB ( Major League Baseball ).

Under Goebbels auspices the participating members ( e. g. Pierre Drieu La Rochelle and Robert Brasillach ) founded the " Europäische Schriftstellervereinigung " ( European Writers ' League ), officially in March 1942.

( 1 ) The Principal Allied and Associated Powers confer a mandate on one of their number or on a third power ; ( 2 ) the principal powers officially notify the council of the League of Nations that a certain power has been appointed mandatory for such a certain defined territory ; and ( 3 ) the council of the League of Nations takes official cognisance of the appointment of the mandatory power and informs the latter that it council considers it as invested with the mandate, and at the same time notifies it of the terms of the mandate, after assertaining whether they are in conformance with the provisions of the covenant.

A Papal Nuncio ( officially known as an Apostolic Nuncio ) is a permanent diplomatic representative ( head of diplomatic mission ) of the Holy See to a state or international organization ( e. g., the Arab League ), having the rank of an ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, usually with the ecclesiastical rank of titular archbishop.

As a result of these conferences and others, the judges of the Permanent Court of International Justice officially resigned in October 1945, and via a resolution by the League of Nations on 18 April, the Court ceased to exist, being replaced with the International Court of Justice.

Syria considered Abdallah's schemes for an expanded Hashimite kingdom as intervention in its domestic affairs and officially complained to the Arab League.

This was known as the Knox – Porter Resolution ; subsequent Peace treaties were signed with both countries and Ratified by the Senate and signed by Harding on July 21, 1921 ; that officially ended World War I for the U. S. The Senate had refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles in both 1919 and 1920 because it required the U. S. to endorse the League of Nations.

The Primera División ( First Division ) of the Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional ( LFP ), commonly known in the English-speaking world as La Liga (, The League ), and officially named for sponsorship reasons Liga BBVA ( BBVA League ) is the top professional association football division of the Spanish football league system.

* The Hanseatic League, a trading alliance between many cities in northern Europe, is officially founded.

The Romans validated home rule officially under the Lycian League in 168 BC.

* New York Red Bulls ( officially Red Bull New York ) – a soccer franchise competing in the United States ' Major League Soccer

The portion of Route 37 within Toms River Township was officially named Little League World Champions Boulevard in 1998 following Toms River East Little League's victory in the 1998 Little League World Series.

To shore up his country against the threat of the Illyrians, Amyntas established an alliance with the Chalkidian League led by Olynthus.

The American Football League ( AFL ) was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League ( NFL ) merged with it.

After a series of rival leagues were organized but failed, ( most notably the American Base Ball Association, which spawned the clubs which would ultimately become the St. Louis Cardinals and Brooklyn Dodgers ) the current American League, evolving from the minor Western League of 1893, was established in 1901.

A second league, the Eastern Colored League, was established in 1923.

Charlton was an established player by the time the next season was fully underway, which saw United, as current League champions, become the first English team to compete in the European Cup.

The Red Sox logo worn on uniforms in 1908, announcing the team's first official nicknameIn, the upstart American League established a competing club in Boston.

A reserves team has played in the Northern Conference of the North East Australian Football League since the competition was established in 2011.

The Gayanashagowa, the oral constitution of the Iroquois nation also known as the Great Law of Peace, established a system of governance in which sachems ( tribal chiefs ) of the members of the Iroquois League made decisions on the basis of universal consensus of all chiefs following discussions that were initiated by a single tribe.

Concurrently, Cairo has established itself as a political and economic hub for North Africa and the Arab World, with many multinational businesses and organizations, including the Arab League, operating out of the city.

Cy Young's career is seen as a bridge from baseball's earliest days to its modern era ; he pitched against stars such as Cap Anson, already an established player when the National League was first formed in 1876, as well as against Eddie Collins, who played until 1930.

The resulting Treaty of Versailles, due to European allies ' punitive and territorial designs, showed insufficient conformity with these points and the U. S. signed separate treaties with each of its adversaries ; due to Senate objections also, the U. S. never joined the League of Nations, which was established as a result of Wilson's initiative.

Wollheim was a member of the New York Science Fiction League, one of the clubs established by Hugo Gernsback to promote science fiction.

And also away from the world of Football there are a number of established fanzines, for example Rugby League has such notable publications as Who The Hell Was St. George Anyway?

They are the oldest established football team from London playing in the Premier League.

The League of Nations was established in 1919 at the negotiations over the Treaty of Versailles following the end of World War I.

The Albanians regained control of their territories in 1444 when the League of Lezhë was established, initially under the rule of George Kastrioti and after his death it was led by Lekë Dukagjini.

Also during that year, Aaron established the record for most seasons with thirty or more home runs in the National League.

He hit his 40th home run of the season against the Giants ' Jerry Johnson on August 10, which established a National League record for most seasons with 40 or more home runs ( seven ).

In 1885, the Montreal City Hockey League was established.

The ILO was established as an agency of the League of Nations following the Treaty of Versailles, which ended World War I.

* 1878 – League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stephano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria and Greece.