* 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 ".

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 ".

Major roadways leading in and out of Gallatin include TN Tennessee State Route 386 " Vietnam Veterans Boulevard ," U. S. Highway 31E, and Tennessee State Route 109.

* Every player with 10 or more years of major-league experience who has not been active in the previous 20 years, and is not on Major League Baseball's ineligible list, is eligible for Veterans Committee consideration.

Voters were given free rein to decide for themselves in which group a candidate belonged, with neither group knowing the outcome of the other election ; some candidates had their vote split between the elections as a result-Cy Young, the pitcher with most wins in Major League history, finished 8th in the BBWAA vote and 4th in the Veterans vote.

Major Davis devoted his time, energy and money to expanding chapters of the Sons of Veterans of Pennsylvania.

Following the announcement of plans to raze the facility and reforest the hill, talk of preserving the facility resurfaced in 2009, spearheaded by the Field Station Berlin Veterans Group, which hopes to have the memorial named in honor of Major Arthur D. Nicholson, the last military Cold War casualty, the U. S. Military Liaison Mission tour officer who was shot and killed by a Russian sentry near Ludwigslust on March 24, 1985.

Major banks include Philippine National Bank ( PNB ), United Coconut Planters Bank ( UCPB ), Development Bank of the Philippines ( DBP ), Allied Bank, Metrobank, Landbank, and Philippine Veterans Bank.

This was the last Eagles game ever played at Veterans Stadium which was demolished following the 2003 Major League Baseball season.

Major highways today include the Butler County Veterans Highway ( also known as State Route 129 ), which connects I-75 to Hamilton through the southern tier of the township and State Route 4, which links Hamilton to Middletown.

Playing field at the new Veterans Memorial Stadium, during a June 22, 2008, game against the Quad Cities River BanditsDuring the 1990s, Veterans Memorial Stadium failed to meet many of Major League Baseball's new standards for minor league parks as newer facilities were opening in other Midwest League cities.

Major benefits include Veterans ’ compensation, Veterans ’ pension, survivors ’ benefits, rehabilitation and employment assistance, education assistance, home loan guaranties, and life insurance coverage.

In 1968, Major League Baseball formed a Special Baseball Records Committee to resolve this ( and other ) issues.

The members of the junta, known as the Military Executive Committee ( Comité Exécutif Militaire ), were Garde commander Colonel Franck Lavaud, Major Antoine Levelt, and Major Paul E. Magloire, commander of the Presidential Guard.

In 1951, a now-retired Major General Chennault testified and provided written statements to the Senate Joint Committee on Armed Forces and Foreign Relations, which was investigating the causes of the fall of China in 1949 to Communist forces.

Asked at his first appearance as chancellor at the Treasury Select Committee whether he agreed with his predecessor's view on the depth and duration of the recession and not wishing to contradict Major, Lamont replied that " there are reasons why one could believe that it will be relatively short-lived and relatively shallow.

The Zero Hour was the brainchild of Major Shigetsugu Tsuneishi, who joined the Japanese Imperial Army's 8th Section G-2 ( Psychological Warfare ) unit as the Army representative to the Information Liaison Confidential Committee, which oversaw the coordination of the nationalized news agencies, in November 1941.

After three weeks of revelations, Sir Marcus Fox, chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee, reportedly told Mellor in a phone call that he was becoming an embarrassment to John Major.

Other members of the peace commission were Lieutenant General William T. Sherman, commander of the Military Division of the Missouri ; Major General William S. Harney ( retired ), who had taken part in earlier conflicts with the Cheyenne and Sioux along the Platte River ; Brigadier General Alfred H. Terry, commander of the Military Department of Dakota ; Senator John B. Henderson of Missouri, Chairman of the Senate Indian Appropriations Committee, who had introduced the bill that created the peace commission ; Colonel Samuel F. Tappan, formerly of the First Colorado Volunteer Cavalry and a peace advocate who had led the U. S. Army's investigation of the Sand Creek massacre ; Major General John B. Sanborn, formerly commander of the Upper Arkansas District, who had previously helped to negotiate the Little Arkansas Treaty of 1865.

On his election he became a member of the Agriculture Select Committee until he was promoted to the government of Margaret Thatcher in 1989 as the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and was promoted within the same department to Minister of State after the 1992 general election by John Major, a year later he moved sideways to the Department for the Environment where he remained until the Major government fell at the 1997 general election.

The furore prompted Prime Minister John Major to instigate the Nolan Committee, to review the issue of standards in public life.

Major Gambier-Parry was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy and other exhibitions, and served on the Gloucester Committee of the Three Choirs Festival.

The conduct of commemoration activities at the Monument to the People's Heroes is regulated by the Major Events Administration Office of the Tiananmen Area Administrative Committee.

The former UK practice of using " Halt " or " Slow " at Major Road Ahead signs was discontinued in 1965 at the recommendation of the Worboys Committee.

Johnson was implicated by retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler in the Business Plot, an alleged political conspiracy in 1933 to overthrow United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in testimony before the McCormack-Dickstein Committee, whose deliberations began on November 20, 1934 and culminated in the Committee's report to the United States House of Representatives on February 15, 1935.

The Act was introduced after consultation with major political parties, and largely followed the recommendations of the Committee on Standards in Public Life ( known at the time as the " Neill Committee " after its chairman ), an independent body set-up by former Prime Minister John Major to consider ways of making politics more transparent.

Cambone first came to the attention of the public at large during the testimony of Major General Antonio Taguba before the U. S. Senate Armed Services Committee, where he disputed the General's statement that prison guards were under the effective control of military intelligence personnel and interrogators.

It assembled at the War Office and the Committee consisted of: · Lieutenant Colonel John Lowther du Plat Taylor, · Major CE Webber RE ( a RE telegraphist, who had experience of working with the GPO ), · Captain AC Hamilton RE ( Secretary ), · Major WF Butler RA ( Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General ), · Mr RS Culey ( GPO ) and · Henry Mellersh ( an Assistance Army Postmaster during the Crimean War ).

The Director of Army Telegraphs for the Expedition was Major CE Webber RE, who had been an original member of du Plat Taylor's 1877 Committee.

Johnson, along with his brother William and the newly commissioned chief of the California Militia, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman, traveled to San Francisco from Sacramento to meet the Vigilante Committee ringleaders face to face.