The team was independent from 1916 to 1922, then became a member of the Eastern Colored League from 1923 until the league's folding during the 1928 season, winning the league in 1926 and 1927 under the leadership of Dick Lundy.

While Dodger Stadium was under construction, the Dodgers played in the league's largest capacity venue from 1958 through 1961 at their temporary home, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which could seat in excess of 90, 000 people.

The team looked to be the league's powerhouse franchise under Brohm and was on pace for a perfect season ( coincidentally, Orlando's next professional football team, the Florida Tuskers, would also win their first six games in a row before losing the seventh ).

The team fared no better under the league's operation than before, finishing last with a record of 15-29-4.

The Colonels won 68 games in his rookie campaign under coach Joe Mullaney ; their record turned out to be best in the league's entire history.

Once they were signed, however, there was tacit agreement to honor the other league's contracts and not sign players who were under contract with a team in their rival league.

He and Mack joined the Buffalo Bisons of the Players League in 1890, after which Hoy returned to the AA with the St. Louis Browns under player-manager Charles Comiskey for the league's final season in 1891, leading the league with 119 walks and scoring a career-high 136 runs ( second in the league ).

Among his early actions after becoming president was a shake-up of league officers, ousting several vice-presidents, including Brian O ' Neill, who had been the league's disciplinarian under Ziegler.

Among his early actions after becoming president was a shake-up of league officers, ousting several vice-presidents, including Brian O ' Neill, who had been the league's disciplinarian under Ziegler.

This closed defensive system, while popular in the pre-2004 lockout NHL, had been deemed by many to be unworkable under the league's new anti-obstruction regulations.

On June 23, 2011, due to the Flames needing to clear space under the league's salary cap, the Flames asked Regehr to waive his no-movement clause in order to clear the way for a trade to the Buffalo Sabres ; Regehr initially refused, instead desiring to see what other trade options there were.

The NHLPA, under executive director Bob Goodenow, disputed the league's financial claims.

An out-of-court settlement in the amount of $ 5 million was eventually reached, which included a $ 1 million exit fee that Boston College was required to pay the Big East under the league's constitution.

The Crocs again went 22-6 the following year and, under the league's new playoff system, eliminated both the Sydney Kings and the Victoria Titans.

On July 12, 2012, Miličić was waived by the Timberwolves under the league's amnesty clause.

After spending a year playing in country leagues, Ablett agreed to sign for Geelong ( his former club ) under the league's father-son rule and was selected with the 49th overall pick in the 2004 AFL Draft.

The Bullets had emerged as the league's most powerful team under Brian Kerle and again finished in first place the 1985 season with a 20-6 record and were again grand finalists after a hard fought win over the Cannons in the finals.

In football he was a two-year starter at running back and cornerback and was named the league's Defensive MVP in 1999, under head coach Harry Lumley.

In the 2006 – 2007 season, under the guidance of head coach John Marks, the FireAntz advanced to the finals of the league's post-season playoffs for the first time in team history.

In 1971 the club was elected to the expanding Southern League and met almost instant success under manager Alan Grundy in the 1973 – 74 season, with the Division 1 ( North ) title and the Merit Cup ( for the league's highest goalscorers ) coming to Amblecote.

Andersen's suspension fell under the league's category of " drugs of abuse ," violation of which is possible grounds for expulsion from the NBA under the league's collective bargaining agreement.

While the NA continues to this day, he saw it as a tool to end threats from smaller rivals who might some day want to expand in other territories and threaten his league's dominance.

" No American League games were played on that day, and a group of All-Stars from the league's other teams gathered in Boston to play against Young and the Red Sox.

Coming into this " first " game, there was considerable animosity between the two rival leagues, with both of them putting pressure on their respective champions to trounce the other and prove each league's dominance in professional football.

In all, they appeared in the ABA Finals five times in the league's nine year history: a feat that was never bettered by any other ABA franchise.

Rivera debuted as president on September 22, 2007, when he presided over a meeting with most of the league's staff and other members of the sports community in Puerto Rico.

They also had better on-field performance, particularly the Locomotives, who have won two of the league's three championships and finished second in the other.

Hodges and the other general managers only found out about the league's shutdown when they were in the middle of their weekly conference call.

Numerous other MAC schools competed in other football leagues throughout most of the league's history.

* Manager selection ( 9 NL players ; 8 AL players ): The manager of each league's All-Star team in consultation with the other managers in his league and the Commissioner's Office will fill his team's roster up to 33 players.

While the league's other teams were similarly hard-hit, Dutton was still bogged down by lingering debt from the Dwyer era.

The National Hockey League All-Star Game () is an exhibition ice hockey game that is traditionally held at the midway point of the regular season of the National Hockey League ( NHL ), with many of the league's star players playing against each other.

The league's other two teams ( the Cleveland Lumberjacks & the Detroit Vipers ) ceased operations with the league.

He was one of only two owners ( the Cincinnati Bengals ' Mike Brown being the other ) to oppose the league's former ( pre-2011 ) collective bargaining agreement.

Some baseball observers feel it might be fairer to reverse this ( in other words, always follow the DH rule of the visiting team instead of the home team ), thereby offsetting the home-field advantage as well as exposing the fans of the home team to the other league's rules.

Eventually, nearly all of the other teams jettisoned league founder David Dixon's original blueprint and began signing star players to expensive contracts -- a step which ultimately proved to be the league's undoing.

The league stages an annual NBA D-League Showcase in which all of the league's teams play each other in a " carnival " format.

This system was used for the rest of the league's duration, except for season 2002 / 03 when the top six sides played a further series of home and away games against each other, with the top two playing off in the Grand Final.

Altogether, 49 other sides have come and gone since the league's inception.

However, pressure from other teams in the league over the number of American players Derby used forced them to resign at the end of the league's first season, though the baseball club itself lasted until 1898.

The most disappointing teams, other than the Sharks, were the New York Rangers, who finished out of the playoffs again despite bearing the league's leading payroll, and the Carolina Hurricanes, who finished last overall after a surprise run to the Stanley Cup Final the year before.

At this time, Redknapp had also become one of the mass-marketed poster boy icons of the newly developing FA Premier League where, alongside other photogenic young players like Manchester United players Ryan Giggs and Lee Sharpe, he was used ceaselessly in commercials, advertising spots and for the league's promotional purposes in merchandising and sales, with the result being that football stars had become idols on par with rock stars and pop stars, by and around the mid to late 1990s.