Al Smith's 340-blast over left in the fourth -- his fourth homer of the campaign -- tied the score and Carreon's first major league home run in the fifth put the Sox back in front.

Only two teams in each league ( the Yankees and Detroit, the Dodgers and Cincinnati ) are battling for first place.

Alumni was the most successful team in the amateur era of Argentine football, winning 10 of the 14 league championships contested, being considered the first great football team.

* 1975 – The first game of the Philippine Basketball Association, the second oldest professional basketball league in the world.

In the first ten years of the league's existence, Cimon / Kimon forced Karystos in Euboea to join the league, conquered the island of Skyros and sent Athenian colonists there.

The first member of the league to attempt to secede was the island of Naxos in c. 471 BC.

In, Michael Vick became the first quarterback in league history to rush for more than 1, 000 yards in a season, with 1, 039.

The first serious attempt to land an expansion team for the Phoenix area was mounted by Elyse Doherty and Martin Stone, owner of the Phoenix Firebirds, the city's triple-A minor league baseball team and the top affiliate of the San Francisco Giants.

The Diamondbacks ' first major league game was played against the Colorado Rockies on March 31, 1998, at Bank One Ballpark before a standing-room only crowd of 50, 179.

* 1904 – The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team ( Welsh & Scottish players ) in Central Park, Wigan, England.

* 1975 – Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager.

After Winter and Boyer agreed to start a team in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, the new league had its first four teams.

This description prompted the first suggestions of regular interstate club competition and of overcoming the dichotomy and establishing a national league.

The Aberdare Athletic Ground was the venue of the first rugby league international between Wales and the New Zealand All Golds on New Year's Day 1908, which was won by the Welsh 9-8.

Bursaspor have won the league title in 2009-010 for the first time, becoming the 2nd anatolian club to ever wint the league title after Trabzonspor.

In its 12-year history as an amateur league, the Brooklyn Atlantics won seven championships, establishing themselves as the first true dynasty in the sport, although, the New York Mutuals were widely considered to be one of the best teams of the era as well.

The first attempt at forming a " major league " produced the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, which lasted from 1871 to 1875.

The National Association of Professional Base Ball Players operated from 1871 through 1875, and is considered by some to have been the first major league.

Nineteen-year-old rookie first baseman Fred Merkle, later to become one of the best players at his position in the league, was on first base, with teammate Moose McCormick on third with two out and the game tied.

Boston was a dominant team in the new league, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first World Series in and winning four more championships by.

The Boston Red Stockings won four championships in the five seasons of the new National Association, the first professional league.

One of the American League's eight charter franchises in 1901, it spent its first year as a major league club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as the Milwaukee Brewers before moving to St. Louis to become the St. Louis Browns.

The New Testament offered to the public today is the first result of the work of a joint committee made up of representatives of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Congregational Union, Baptist Union, Presbyterian Church of England, Churches in Wales, Churches in Ireland, Society of Friends, British and Foreign Bible Society and National Society of Scotland.

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

He was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Associate in the oil class in 1931 ( after receiving his first Ranger Fund Purchase Prize at the Academy in 1930 ), and elevated to Academicianship in 1940.

The President of the United States proclaimed the first Sunday in November as `` National Grandmothers' Day '' and urged America to say it with flowers.

Atomic timekeeping services started experimentally in 1955, using the first caesium atomic clock at the National Physical Laboratory, UK ( NPL ).

* During the first week of August in Wales, the National Eisteddfod of Wales is held, in which many aspects of Welsh art and culture are celebrated.

According to the National Statistical Service, Armenia's booming construction sector generated about 20 percent of Armenia's GDP during the first eight months of 2007.

After the war he worked at the National Physical Laboratory, where he created one of the first designs for a stored-program computer, the ACE.

AES is available in many different encryption packages, and is the first publicly accessible and open cipher approved by the National Security Agency ( NSA ) for top secret information when used in an NSA approved cryptographic module ( see Security of AES, below ).

The river, named Hamza after the discoverer, an Indian-born scientist Valiya Mannathal Hamza who is working with the National Observatory at Rio, makes it the first and geologically unusual instance of a twin-river system flowing at different levels of the earth's crust in Brazil.

* 1876 – The first ever National League baseball game is played in Philadelphia.

Following the formation of baseball's first professional organization, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, which became known as the National Association, the Association, or NA, in 1871, Spalding joined the Boston Red Stockings ( precursor club to the modern Atlanta Braves ) and was highly successful ; winning 206 games ( and losing only 53 ) as a pitcher and batting. 323 as a hitter.

Receiving the archives of Henry Chadwick in 1908, Spalding combined these records with his own memories ( and biases ) to write America's National Game ( published 1911 ) which, despite its flaws, was probably the first scholarly account of the history of baseball.

* 1951 – The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.

More than 40 have subsequently been produced in the West End, at the Royal National Theatre or by the Royal Shakespeare Company since his first hit Relatively Speaking opened at the Duke of York's Theatre in 1967.

What they and many others of that generation in the Nordic countries had in common was that they started off from a classical education and were first designing in the so-called Nordic Classicism style – a style that had been a reaction to the previous dominant style of National Romanticism – before moving, in the late 1920s, towards Modernism.

Nova Scotia celebrates Arbour Day on the Thursday during National Forest Week, which is the first full week in May.

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.

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.