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.

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.

Central titles ( 1995-1999 ), and 2 American League pennants ( 1995, 1997 ) as Indians manager.

Ireland's domestic Rugby League competition has been running since 1997.

The Marlins have the distinction of winning a World Series championship every year they qualified for the postseason, doing so in 1997 and 2003 — both times as the National League wild card team.

They defeated the American League champion Cleveland Indians in the 1997 series, which was notable for shortstop Edgar Renteria driving in second baseman Craig Counsell for the series-clinching run in the eleventh inning of the seventh and deciding game and the " fire sale " which occurred in the off-season following the dramatic win.

In the 1997 National League Championship Series, Brown, riddled with the flu, proceeded to pitch a complete game in Game Six, defeating the Atlanta Braves and helping the Marlins reach the World Series, which they eventually won over the Cleveland Indians.

* Charles Johnson ( 1994 – 1998, 2001 – 2002 ) — A four-time Gold Glove Award winner, in 1997 Johnson set a Major League single-season record for catchers by playing in 123 games without committing a single error.

In 1997, Major League Baseball " universally " retired his uniform number, 42, across all major league teams ; the first pro athlete in any sport to be so honored.

On April 15, 1997, Robinson's jersey number, 42, was retired throughout Major League Baseball, the first time any jersey number had been retired throughout one of the four major American sports leagues.

For the 1997 Major League Soccer season, their record was 21 – 11 ; they won the Western Conference regular season championship.

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.

Newcastle finished runners-up in both the Premier League and FA Cup during his first season, but they could only finish 13th in 1997 – 98, which led to his dismissal the following season.

In January 1997 Dalglish was appointed manager of Premier League side Newcastle United on a three-and-a-half-year contract, taking over from Kevin Keegan.

The 1997 – 98 campaign saw Newcastle finish in only 13th place and, despite Dalglish achieving some notable successes during the season ( including a 3 – 2 UEFA Champions League win over Barcelona and an FA Cup final appearance against Arsenal ), he was sacked by Freddie Shepherd after two draws in the opening two games of the subsequent 1998 – 1999 season, and replaced by former Chelsea manager Ruud Gullit.

The Brewers were part of the American League from their creation as an expansion club in 1969 through the 1997 season, after which they moved to the National League Central Division.

In 1997, Martínez posted a 17 – 8 record for the Expos, and led the league in half a dozen pitching categories, including a 1. 90 ERA, 305 strikeouts and 13 complete games pitched, and became the only Expo ever to win the National League Cy Young Award.

Since 1997, the term Subway Series has also been applied to interleague play during the regular season between the Yankees and National League New York Mets.

* Terran Sandwith, retired Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played eight games in the National Hockey League for the Edmonton Oilers during the 1997 – 98 season

Gretzky's jersey number 99 is only the second number ever to be retired league-wide by a major North American sports league, the other being Jackie Robinson's number 42, which was retired by Major League Baseball in 1997.

She remained extremely popular among many ANC supporters, and, in December 1993 and April 1997, she was elected president of the ANC Women's League, though she withdrew her candidacy for ANC Deputy President at the movement's Mafikeng conference in December 1997.

** Witto Aloma, Cuban Major League Baseball player ( d. 1997 )

In early 1997, Major League Baseball decided to assign one new team to each league: Tampa Bay joined the American League and Arizona joined the National League.

the history of both the League of Nations and the United Nations demonstrates that.

The League of Women Voters, 40 now and admitting it proudly, is inviting financial contributions in the windup of its fund drive.

Obviously, if this club is going to move from second to first in the American League, it will have to show improvement someplace.

The professional organizations such as American Institute of Interior Designers, National Society of Interior Designers, Home Fashions League and various trade associations, can and do aid greatly in this work.

Thus creativity may run all the way from making a cake, building a chicken coop, or producing a book, to founding a business, creating a League of Nations or, developing a mature character.

The Ivy League enjoys no easy dominion here, and the boys are as likely to dress in rather foppish Continental fashion, or even in nondescript working class manner, as they are in the restrained, button-down Ivy way.

And this gives rise to an easy camaraderie probably unequaled elsewhere in the Ivy League.

It is still, however, the junior member of the League, if not in years at least in the catching up it has had to do.

Nearly any lad with a modicum of skill might find a payday awaiting him in the Three I League, or the Pony League, or the Coastal Plains League, or the fast Eastern League, if not indeed in one of the hundreds of city leagues that abounded everywhere.

While fifty years before, Albert Goodwill Spalding, secretary of the Chicago Ball Club of the National League, could write earnestly to the manager of the Buffalo club and request a guarantee of one hundred dollars for a baseball game in August, in this Golden Era a game at the Yankee Stadium might bring in nearly a hundred thousand dollars at the gate.

Over the first five frames, Jack Fisher, the big righthander who figures to be in the middle of Oriole plans for a drive on the 1961 American League pennant, held the A's scoreless while yielding three scattered hits.

If the Orioles are to break their losing streak within the next two days, it will have to be at the expense of the American League champion New York Yankees, who come in here tomorrow for a night game and a single test Sunday afternoon.

-- The flavor of Baltimore's Florida Grapefruit League news ripened considerably late today when the Orioles were advised that Ron Hansen has fulfilled his obligations under the Army's military training program and is ready for belated spring training.

Skinny Brown and Hoyt Wilhelm, the Flock's veteran knuckleball specialists, are slated to oppose the American League champions in tomorrow's 8 P.M. contest.

Ryne Duren and Roland Sheldon, a rookie righthander who posted a 15-1 record last year for the Yanks' Auburn ( N.Y. ) farm club of the Class-D New York-Pennsylvania League, are the probable rival pitchers.

-- Bobby Waters of Sylvania, Ga., relief quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League, will undergo a knee operation tomorrow at Franklin Hospital here.

The Dallas Texans were back home Monday with their third victory in four American Football League starts -- a 19-12 triumph over the Denver Broncos -- but their visit will be a short one.

With Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra both out of action due to injuries, the American League champs still mounted a 15-hit attack against a parade of eight Cincinnati pitchers, the most ever used by one team in a series game.