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

The NLDS was first played in 1995 due to the cancellation of the 1994 postseason during another players ' strike.

However, after a 14-year stretch of consecutive losing seasons, the Orioles posted a winning record in 2012 and qualified for the postseason for the first time since 1997.

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.

The game between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals in particular was cited for putting Ryne Sandberg ( as well as the 1984 Cubs in general, who would go on to make their first postseason appearance since 1945 ) " on the map.

In what was a dramatic five game series, their NLDS victory over the Atlanta Braves was the franchise's first postseason series win since they went to the World Series in 1908, when they beat the Detroit Tigers in five games.

The Cubs successfully defended their National League Central title in 2008, going to the postseason in consecutive years for the first time since 1906 – 08.

The Rockies became the first team ever to sweep both the division series and league championship series in the same postseason.

Snow, making it the first postseason series ever to end with the potential tying run being thrown out at the plate.

The Astros won a wild card berth on the final day of the regular season, becoming the first team since the world champion 1914 Boston Braves to qualify for the postseason after being 15 games under. 500.

The move to Indianapolis, however, did not change the recent fortune of the Colts with the team appearing the postseason only once in the first eleven season in Indianapolis.

The Colts, however, did receive eventual Hall of Fame running back Eric Dickerson as a result of a trade during the 1987 season and would go onto compile a 9 – 6 record, good enough to win the AFC East and advance to the postseason for the first time in the franchise's history in Indianapolis, where they would eventually lose to the Cleveland Browns.

The Colts won their first postseason game as the Indianapolis Colts in 1995 and would go onto the AFC Championship Game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, coming Hail Mary pass reception away from a trip to the Super Bowl XXX.

The Jags postseason would end quickly as they fell in their first game, a 42 – 17 defeat against the eventual Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos at Mile High Stadium.

In 2008, the Brewers achieved their first postseason berth in the 26 years since their World Series appearance as the wildcard team in the National League.

The Brewers played their first postseason game in 26 years on October 1.

Pitcher Yovani Gallardo made his first postseason start and only his second start since coming off the disabled list in late September.

New Orleans also tied the NFL's postseason mark for team first downs in a game ( 34 ), and broke the record for total yards with 626, eclipsing the yardage record set 49 years ago.

Smith later participated in the postseason for the first time when the Cardinals faced the Atlanta Braves in the best-of-five 1982 National League Championship Series ( NLCS ).

In the postseason, the Cardinals first faced the San Diego Padres in the 1996 National League Division Series.

The first no-hitter in postseason history was New York Yankee pitcher Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series.

Halladay's no-hitter was the fifth time a pitcher has thrown two no-hitters in the same season, and was also the first time that one of the two occurred in the postseason.

However, a hot start in the second half of the season put the Phillies back on the postseason hunt, though any hope was eventually extinguished with a loss to the Washington Nationals on September 28, thus the Phillies missed the postseason for the first time since 2006.

On October 9, 2005, Clemens made his first relief appearance since 1984, entering as a pinch hitter in the 15th, then pitching three innings to help the Astros defeat the Atlanta Braves in the longest postseason game in MLB history.

It was the season's first night game and an obvious refocusing of the lights are in order.

Larry Scherer last night pitched a no-hit game, said to be the first in Billiken baseball history, as the Blue and White beat Southeast Missouri State College, 5-1, at Crystal City.

After playing a splendid first nine holes in 34 -- two strokes under par -- on this fifth and final day of the tournament ( Sunday's fourth round had been washed out by a violent rainstorm when it was only half completed ), Player's game rapidly fell to pieces.

Asteroids is also the first game to use Atari's " QuadraScan " vector-refresh system ; a full-color version known as " Color-QuadraScan " was later developed for games such as Space Duel and Tempest.

The prototype was given to engineer Howard Delman, who refined it, productized it, and then added additional features for Atari's first vector game, Lunar Lander.

The 2600 port was the first game to use a bank-switched cartridge, doubling available ROM space.

Spassky won the first game as Black in good style, but tenacious, aggressive play from Karpov secured him overall victory by + 4 − 1 = 6.

Much of the story is told first-hand, since Spalding had been involved in the game, first as a player and later an administrator, since the 1850s.

The original 256-page game book was published in 1991 by Phage Press, covering material from the first five novels ( the " Corwin Cycle ") and some details-sorcery and the Logrus-from the remaining five novels ( the " Merlin Cycle "), in order to allow players to roleplay characters from the Courts of Chaos.

* Absalom is also the oldest and most powerful alliance in the first textbased game on internet called Utopia-World of Legends and holds Kingdoms as Equilibrium, Mercy, Sanctuary and Rage of Absalom.

* 1970 – Patricia Palinkas became the first woman to play professionally in an American football game

Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.

* 1930 – The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.

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

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

The game was short-listed for the first Spiel des Jahres board game awards in 1979.

However, poor marketing and failure to repeat the technological advances of the first systems meant that the Amiga quickly lost its market share to competing platforms, such as the fourth generation game consoles, Apple Macintosh and IBM PC compatibles.

Their second title, and the first to be received through a championship game, came in, two decades before the first Super Bowl game was played.

The Falcons had their first season in, and their first preseason game on August 1,, losing to the Philadelphia Eagles.

The Falcons had their first Monday Night Football game in Atlanta during the 1970 season.