* Amateur Poker League, a U. S. based amateur poker league that feeds into the World Poker Tour

In their first five seasons of existence, the Diamondbacks won three division titles ( 1999, 2001, 2002 ) a National League pennant ( 2001 ) and a World Series championship ( 2001 ).

This was the first time since that the home team won all seven games of a World Series and the first time that a National League team won a World Series in which the home team won all seven games of a World Series.

* 1920 – At the San Remo conference, the principal Allied Powers of World War I adopt a resolution to determine the allocation of Class " A " League of Nations mandates for administration of the former Ottoman-ruled lands of the Middle East.

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 ".

Following World War I, the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres demilitarized the strait and made it an international territory under the control of the League of Nations.

For several years, the National League and American Association champions met in a postseason championship series — the first attempt at a World Series.

The first World Series was won by Boston of the American League.

From 1942 to 1948, the Negro League World Series was revived.

In Major League Baseball, the National League Championship Series ( NLCS ) is a round in the postseason that determines who wins the National League pennant and advances to Major League Baseball's championship, the World Series, facing the winner of the American League Championship Series.

The winner of the series advances to play the winner of the National League Championship Series in baseball's championship, the World Series.

* The Babe Ruth Award is an annual award given to the Major League Baseball ( MLB ) player with the best performance in the World Series.

After helping United to win the Football League in 1965, he won a World Cup medal with England in 1966 and another Football League title with United the following year.

The Orioles won their first-ever American League championship in 1966, and in a major upset, swept the World Series by out-dueling the Los Angeles Dodgers aces Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale.

After sweeping Minnesota in the American League Championship Series, Baltimore was shocked by losing to the New York Mets in a five-game World Series.

Of the eight original American League teams, the Orioles were the last of the eight to win the World Series, doing so in 1966 with its four – game sweep of the heavily favored Los Angeles Dodgers.

During Selig's tenure as club president, the Brewers participated in postseason play in 1981, when the team finished first in the American League East during the second half of the season, and in 1982, when the team made it to the World Series, under the leadership of future Hall of Famers Robin Yount and Paul Molitor.

For example, the rules of tournament bridge are governed by the World Bridge Federation, and by local bodies in various countries such as the American Contract Bridge League in the U. S., and the English Bridge Union in England.

A number of such NGOs, as well as trade unions, local councils and bar associations formed a World Coalition Against the Death Penalty in 2002.

* World Coalition Against the Death Penalty

Barrymore was named Ambassador Against Hunger for the UN World Food Programme ( WFP ).

In May 2007, Barrymore was named Ambassador Against Hunger for the United Nations World Food Programme and later donated $ 1 million to the cause.

Following the World Food Summit, the Alliance was initially created in 2002 as the ‘ International Alliance Against Hunger ( IAAH )’ to strengthen and coordinate national efforts in the fight against hunger and malnutrition.

Contemporary French writer Michel Houellebecq wrote a literary biography of Lovecraft called H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life.

* An English translation of Michel Houellebecq's H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life ( ISBN 1-932416-18-8 ) was published by Believer Books in 2005.

* Extract from H P Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life by Michel Houellebecq

* World Day Against Child Labour ( International )

Johnny J was a multi-platinum songwriter, music producer & rapper who was perhaps best known for his production on Tupac Shakur's albums All Eyez on Me and Me Against the World.

* World Day Against Cyber Censorship ( requested by Reporters Without Borders and Amnesty International in 2009 )

* Greiner, H. ' Operation Seelowe and Intensified Air Warfare Against England up to the 30 October 1940 ', in Detweiler, D. World War II German Military Studies, Volume 7 of 24 ( New York, 1979 )

* World Day Against Death Penalty ( International )

* Me and Ted Against the World: The Unauthorized Story of the Founding of CNN by Reese Schonfeld ( HarperBusiness, 2001 ) 0060197463

* The World League Against Alcoholism is established by the Anti-Saloon League.

Joseph II vol 1: In the shadow of Maria Theresa, 1741-1780 ( 1987 ); Joseph II: Volume 2, Against the World, 1780-1790 ( 2009 )

Human rights organizations, such as Amnesty International, the World Organization Against Torture, and Association for the Prevention of Torture work actively to stop the use of torture throughout the world and publish reports on any activities they consider to be torture.

* World Organisation Against Torture

Warners remade the film in 1936 as Two Against the World, also known as One Fatal Hour, starring Humphrey Bogart in Robinson's part and set in a radio station instead of a newspaper.

* " California, a song by deathcore band Winds of Plague from their 2011 album Against the World

He led the World Congress Against Imperialist War ( Amsterdam, 1932 ) and headed the World Committee Against War and Fascism, founded in 1933.

* the World League Against Alcoholism ( a pro-prohibition organization )

In addition, he was active in establishing the World League Against Alcoholism.

As ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment creating prohibition in the U. S. neared, Anti-Saloon leader Ernest Cherrington promoted creation of the World League Against Alcoholism.

Just as the Anti-Saloon League opposed not only saloons but any consumption of alcohol, the World League Against Alcoholism not only sought to prevent alcoholism but any consumption of alcoholic beverages.

Following the repeal of prohibition in 1933, the Anti-Saloon League's fortunes fell dramatically and it found itself unable to continue supporting the World League Against Alcoholism.

World League Against Alcoholism