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.

* 2008 – The 2008 Summer Olympics officially opened with the opening ceremony at National Stadium, Beijing, China.

They began play in 1993, sharing Mile High Stadium with the National Football League's Denver Broncos their first two seasons while Coors Field was constructed.

Cowboys Stadium is a new domed stadium with a retractable roof in Arlington, Texas, for the National Football League's Dallas Cowboys.

* 1958 – " Greatest Game Ever Played " – Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants in the first ever National Football League sudden death overtime game at New York's Yankee Stadium.

The national boxing arena is located in The National Stadium on the South Circular Road.

The stadium is now owned by the Football Association via its subsidiary Wembley National Stadium Limited.

David Gold has loaned this trophy to the National Football Museum which is housed in Preston North End's Deepdale Stadium and it is on permanent display to the public.

They played home games from their inaugural season to the 2011 season at Sun Life Stadium, which they shared with the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League ( NFL ) and which was also called Joe Robbie Stadium, Pro Player Park, Pro Player Stadium, Dolphin Stadium, Dolphins Stadium, and Land Shark Stadium during their tenancy.

** National Football Stadium

** Kabul National Cricket Stadium ( under construction )

The National Stadium is the city's only world-class cricket stadium, and is the second largest cricket stadium in Pakistan, after the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.

The inaugural first-class match at the National Stadium was played between Pakistan and India on 26 February 1955 and since then Pakistani national cricket team has won 20 of the 41 Test matches played at the National Stadium.

The first One Day International at the National Stadium was against the West Indies on 21 November 1980, with the match going to the last ball.

Other important sport venues are the National Sport Center of Larissa ( EAK Larissas ), which includes the Alcazar Stadium and the Neapoli Indoor Hall.

Aberdare, during its boom years, was considered a centre of Welsh culture: it hosted the first National Eisteddfod in 1861, again in 1885, and in 1956 at Aberdare Park where the Gorsedd standing stones still exist.

Abergavenny hosted the British National Cycling Championships in 2007 and 2009.

* Abergavenny hosted the National Eisteddfod of Wales in 1838 and 1913.

Costa Rica also hosted several rounds of negotiations between the Salvadoran Government and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ( FMLN ), aiding El Salvador's efforts to emerge from civil war and culminating in that country's 1994 free and fair elections.

Since 1980, UCA has hosted the National High School Cheerleading Championship in Walt Disney World Resort.

Two years later, the city hosted the tumultuous 1968 Democratic National Convention, which featured physical confrontations both inside and outside the convention hall, including full-scale riots, or in some cases police riots, in city streets.

* Coriolis Effect and Drains An article from the NEWTON web site hosted by the Argonne National Laboratory.

Five Rivers Metroparks, from 1996 to 1998, Dayton hosted the National Folk Festival.

" Dublin " refers to Dublin, Ohio, where the work originated during the 1995 invitational OCLC / NCSA Metadata Workshop, hosted in by Online Computer Library Center ( OCLC ), a library consortium based there, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications ( NCSA ).

The island was made part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1965, and has hosted a museum of immigration since 1990.

Indianapolis, headquarters of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and often referred to as the " Amateur Sports Capital of the World " has hosted a number of collegiate basketball events.

The city has also hosted seven editions of the National Games of Pakistan, most recently in 2007.

In 1964 the city hosted the ' Swiss National Exhibition ', displaying its newly found confidence to host major international events.

The National Stadium, which was used by Wales national rugby union team, was officially opened on 7 April 1984, however in 1997 it was demolished to make way for the Millennium Stadium in 1999, which hosted the 1999 Rugby World Cup and became the national stadium of Wales.

The National Stadium also hosted many music concerts including Michael Jackson, David Bowie, The Rolling Stones and U2.

* hosted the Mars Track of the National Space Society's International Space Development Conference in 2007

In September 2012, Milken and the director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, jointly hosted 1, 000 senior medical scientists and members of Congress at a three-day conference to demonstrate the return on investment in medical research.

President Robinson jointly hosted a reception with the Queen at St. James's Palace, London, in 1995, to commemorate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the Queen's Colleges in 1845 ( the Queen's Colleges are now known as Queen's University of Belfast, University College Cork and National University of Ireland, Galway ).

** 103. lawrencium, Lr, named after Ernest O. Lawrence, a physicist best known for development of the cyclotron, and the person for whom the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( which hosted the creation of these transuranium elements ) are named ( 1961 ).

Most recently it hosted the second annual National Hockey League Winter Classic on January 1, 2009.

Caernarfon hosted the National Eisteddfod in 1862, 1894, 1906, 1921, 1935, 1959 and 1979.

* The National All-Star Academic Tournament ( NASAT ) is a national tournament hosted by High School Academic Pyramidal Questions ( HSAPQ ).

He also regularly hosted National Geographic TV specials and the National Geographic Explorer documentary series.

Howard Mitchell and the National Symphony perform in the first two releases, designed for grades one and two.

During World War 2, about 7.5 million persons were enrolled in courses organized under two special programs administered by state and local school authorities: ( 1 ) Vocational Education for National Defense, and ( 2 ) War Production Training.

Under scrutiny, two of the witnesses said, were payments and loans to Stein's National Maintenance company at 543 Madison St..

The two main tertiary institutions are the Australian National University ( ANU ) in Acton and the University of Canberra ( UC ) in Bruce.

After taking the first two games at home against the Cubs, in the National League Division Series, they took the series to Wrigley Field, where they completed their sweep, earning their first berth in the National League Championship Series since 2001.

Instead the two court owned theaters would be reopened under new management, and partly subsidized by the Imperial Court, as a new National Theater.

Traveling in the same social circles, the two men engaged in a 20-year mutual vendetta, as described by the Daily News in 1998: " They crossed paths often, in the midtown watering holes and at National Cartoonists Society banquets, and the city's gossip columns were full of their snarling public donnybrooks.

National Alliance, launched in 1994, was officially founded in January 1995, when the Italian Social Movement ( MSI ), the former neo-fascist party, merged with conservative elements of the former Christian Democracy, which had disbanded in 1994 after two years of scandals and various splits due to corruption at its highest levels, exposed by the Mani Pulite investigation, and the Italian Liberal Party, disbanded in the same year.

Legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of parliament, the Senate and the National Assembly.

To settle the matter, the two men appointed a commission, headed by Abraham Mills, the fourth president of the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs.

A structured postseason series began in 1969, when both the National and American Leagues were reorganized into two divisions each, East and West.

In Major League Baseball, the National League Division Series ( NLDS ) determines which two teams from the National League will advance to the National League Championship Series.

The deputies of the Third Estate representing the common people ( the two others were the Catholic Church and nobility ) decided to break away and form a National Assembly.

This body + chassis approach has continued with modern specialist manufacturers, although there also exist integral designs such as the Leyland National where the two are practically inseparable.

There are two industry groups in the United States, the National Association of Trade Exchanges ( NATE ) and the International Reciprocal Trade Association ( IRTA ).

In doing so the bulk of Liberals remained supporting the government, but two distinct Liberal groups had emerged within this bulk – the Liberal Nationals ( officially the " National Liberals " after 1947 ) led by Simon, also known as " Simonites ", and the " Samuelites " or " official Liberals ", led by Samuel who remained as the official party.

Adoption was slow at first ; in 2000 the National Federation of the Blind said there were only 3 of these in the USA, one owned by the NFB itself and the other two by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.

But, before the 1989 Abbey National Building Society demutualisation, the Courts found against the two year rule after legal action brought by Abbey National itself in order to circumvent the intent of the legislators.

( 1957, 1970, 2001, 2007 ) The Heavens ( 1970 ), Cartographic Division of the National Geographic Society ( NGS ), Washington, D. C., U. S. A., two sided large map chart depicting the constellations of the heavens ; as special supplement to the August 1970 issue of National Geographic.