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The Major League Baseball All-Star Game, also known as the " Midsummer Classic ", is an annual baseball game between players from the National League and the American League, currently selected by fans for starting fielders, managers for pitchers, managers and players select reserves.
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* 1973 – The American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.
* Jackie Robinson Day ( Major League Baseball )
He wrote, " Robert Henderson, Harold Seymour, and other scholars have since debunked the Doubleday-Cooperstown myth, which nonetheless remains powerful in the American imagination because of the efforts of Major League Baseball and the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown.
* 1921 – Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
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* 1941 – Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1-0.
* Adrian Cann ( born 1980 ), Canadian Major League Soccer player
* Adrian Gonzalez ( born 1982 ), Mexican-American Major League Baseball player
Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
* 1994 – Major League Baseball players go on strike.
* Alfonso Soriano, a current Major League Baseball outfielder playing for the Chicago Cubs
* Brian Bruney, Major League Baseball relief pitcher
In 1888 – 1889, Spalding took a group of Major League players around the world to promote baseball and Spalding sporting goods.
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The club then moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in and played in that city through ( sometimes referred to as the " Football Cardinals " and / or the " Big Red " to avoid confusion with the Major League Baseball St. Louis Cardinals ).
They play in the West Division of Major League Baseball's National League.
In the fall of 1993, Jerry Colangelo, majority owner of the Phoenix Suns, the area's NBA franchise, announced he was assembling an ownership group, " Arizona Baseball, Inc .," to apply for a Major League Baseball expansion team.
This was after a great deal of lobbying by the Maricopa County Sports Authority, a local group formed to preserve Cactus League spring training in Arizona and eventually secure a Major League franchise for the state.
A $ 130 million franchise fee was paid to Major League Baseball.
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 ".
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Randy Johnson was awarded with his fourth consecutive Cy Young Award as well the Major League Baseball Triple Crown.
By the 2004 season the Diamondbacks had dropped to a dismal 51 – 111 record, the worst in Major League Baseball and one of the 10 worst records in the modern era, despite Johnson pitching a perfect game on May 18 of that season.
Of great surprise to many fans was a brand new color scheme ; apparently the original colors used by the franchise since Major League Baseball awarded it to Jerry Colangelo's ownership group in 1995 were to be discontinued.
After winning the opening game of the season on March 31 on the road against the Cincinnati Reds, the Diamondbacks found themselves with the best record in Major League Baseball, 20 – 8, by the start of May.
During the 1950s, the National Football League had grown to rival Major League Baseball as one of the most popular professional sports leagues in the United States.
The World Series, baseball's championship series which determines the champion of Major League Baseball for that season, is held in mid-to-late October ( sometimes spilling over into November to accommodate longer series ) and is nicknamed the " Fall Classic ".
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* 1933 – The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park.
The 2012 Season marks the third time the Major League Baseball All-Star Game has been played in Kansas City, with Kauffman Stadium ( then named Royals Stadium ) last hosting the event in 1973, the stadium's first year of existence.
The 2012 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was hosted by the team on July 10, 2012.
* Claude Passeau, an All-Star pitcher in Major League Baseball during the 1930s and 1940s
The Metrodome hosted the 1985 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
Other NBC Sports duties that Albert held were play-by-play announcing for the NFL, college basketball, horse racing, boxing, NHL All-Star Games, and Major League Baseball, as well as hosting baseball studio and pre-game shows.
* Jack Russell, professional baseball player and first relief pitcher selected to a Major League Baseball All-Star Game
At the Major League Baseball All-Star game in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on July 11, 2006, many of the players on both teams wore yellow wristbands with the initials " RCW " in honor of Clemente.
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Despite questions lingering about the team's struggling offense, the team compiled a 49 – 39 record by the 2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, good enough for second place in the NL West.
* Don Leppert, Major League Baseball homered in first at-bat, first position player named to the All-Star game in Washington-Texas franchise history
** Paced by a prodigious home run by Reggie Jackson which hits a transformer on the roof of Tiger Stadium, the American League defeats the National League 6-4 in the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in Detroit.
* August 9 – Major League Baseball resumes from the strike with the All-Star Game in Cleveland's Municipal Stadium.
* July 6 – The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played at Comiskey Park in Chicago.
The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game was held at Comiskey Park ( home of the Chicago White Sox ) in conjunction with the fair.
In all, Buck called 11 World Series, 18 Super Bowls, and four Major League Baseball All-Star Games.
The Tribune < nowiki >' s </ nowiki > legendary sports editor Arch Ward created the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in 1933 as part of the city's Century of Progress exposition.
* Home Run Derby – an annual event held prior to the Major League Baseball All-Star Game
* Éric Gagné, former three-time All-Star Major League Baseball closer and 2003 NL Cy Young Award winner, begins his MLB-record streak of 84 consective games saved.
It was to consist of boutiques and restaurants, condominium apartments anchored by the new headquarters of Centene Corporation -- all to be built in time for the 2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
The All-Star open-practice has since been adopted by Major League Baseball and continues to this day.
* Mike Marshall, Right fielder for several Major League Baseball teams and 1984 All-Star
* Brett Butler, center fielder for several Major League Baseball teams and 1991 All-Star
* Doug Jones, former relief pitcher and All-Star in Major League Baseball
In 1993, the choir joined actor James Earl Jones in a performance of the Star-Spangled Banner at the 1993 Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, broadcast on CBS.
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