He also entered into a league with Jason of Pherae, and assiduously cultivated the friendship of Athens.

Carnegie also opposed the annexation of Cuba by the United States and in this, was successful with many other conservatives who founded an anti-imperialist league that included former presidents of the United States, Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison, and literary figures like Mark Twain.

The Athenians also arranged for the other members of the league to pay its share of the expense in money instead of in ships and men, and for this the subject city-states had themselves to blame, their wish to get out of giving service making most leave their homes.

Athens also switched from accepting ships, men and weapons as dues from league members, to only accepting money.

The league also held the 1966 NFL Expansion Draft six weeks later in which the Falcons selected unprotected players from existing franchises.

Sanders was also famous for playing on major league baseball teams ( the New York Yankees and the Atlanta Braves ) while simultaneously playing in the NFL.

He also played Senior hockey with the local Foam Lake Flyers of the Fishing Lake Hockey League, winning the league scoring title as a bantam-aged player.

Charlton also held the club record for most league appearances ( 606 ) until this too was overtaken by Giggs on 6 March 2011.

However, many major league baseball and NFL teams in the United States also promote 24 ounce cans marked with team logos.

Aside from Who Dey, the team also has the Cincinnati Ben – Gals, the team's cheerleading squad, which is known for having Laura Vikmanis, the oldest cheerleader in league history.

Somers, a wealthy industrialist and also co-owner of the Boston Americans, lent money to other team owners, including Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics, to keep them and the new league afloat.

Helton, in his third full year in the majors, was becoming a bona fide superstar, winning the batting title with a. 372 average and also leading the league with 147 RBI while hitting 42 homers.

Pitching to Criger, who had also jumped to Boston, Young led the league in wins, strikeouts, and ERA, thus earning the colloquial AL Triple Crown for pitchers.

Young also led his league in strikeouts twice ( with 140 in 1896, and 158 in 1901 ), and in shutouts seven times.

Detroit is also the only member of the Western League, the AL's minor league predecessor, that remains in its original city under its original name.

The teams finishing at the top of a country's league may be eligible also to play in international club competitions in the following season.

At around the same time a league from Glassboro State College also formed a similar baseball league and had its first draft in 1976.

A mixed bag of league performances followed, although the club also reached another FA Cup semi-final during the 1935 – 36 season.

All clubs in the Premier League and Football League are automatically eligible, and clubs in the next six levels of the English football league system are also eligible provided they have played in either the FA Cup, FA Trophy or FA Vase competitions in the previous season.

Miguel Cabrera ( also from the Mudcats ) filled in well, hitting a walk off home run in his first major league game, against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays at Pro Player Stadium.

In the offseason, the Marlins also pulled the plug on their returns from the disastrous Cabrera / Willis trade dealing Andrew Miller to the Red Sox for a minor league prospect and Cameron Maybin to the Padres for a pair of reliever to aid a struggling bullpen from the 2010 season.

The island also has a school wrestling league organized by the council and a programme to promote this sport in clubs.

However, he and his colleagues were denied title glory as Liverpool also won their final league game of the season at Chelsea.

Along with its AFL team, the club also fields a stand-alone team in the Victoria Football league ( VFL ).

Okrent, based on discussions with colleagues at USA Today, credits Rotisserie league baseball with much of USA Today's early success, since the paper provided much more detailed box scores than most competitors and eventually even created a special paper, Baseball Weekly, that almost exclusively contained statistics and box scores.

It had been organized by Lega Calcio until 2010, but a new league, the Lega Serie A, was created for the 2010 – 11 season.

In 1996, the NBA created a women's league, the Women's National Basketball Association ( WNBA ).

In 2001, an affiliated minor league, the National Basketball Development League, now called the NBA Development League ( or D-League ) was created.

Created as a joint venture between NBC and the World Wrestling Federation under the company name " XFL, LLC ", the XFL was created as a " single-entity league ", meaning that the teams were not individually owned and operated franchises ( as in the NFL ), but that the league was operated as a single business unit.

When Philip created the league of the Greeks on the pretext of unifying Greece against Persia, the Spartans chose not to join — they had no interest in joining a pan-Greek expedition if it was not under Spartan leadership.

* Chahar province was created to include Xilingol league as well as much of the former territory of the Eight Banners.

* Suiyuan province was created to include Ulanqab league, Yekejuu league, and the Hetao region ( former Guihua Tümed territory ).

Not only did Paul Westhead's system influence his Mercury team, but it created a domino effect throughout the league.

The Jewish communities of three cities along the Rhine: Speyer, Worms and Mainz, created the SHUM league ( SHUM after the first Hebrew letters of Shpira, Vermayza, and Magentza ).

The first British national league was the British Paintball League created in 1989 by Gary Morhall, Richard Hart and Derek Wildermuth in Essex England.

, major leagues include the NPPL and PSP in the United States, the Millennium Series in western Europe, the Centurio series in Eastern Europe, and the National Collegiate Paintball Association in the US and Canada ( A league was also created for high school and college players, the NCPA .).

Many pamphlets and publications were created by the league advocating the groups position which were then distributed throughout the state.

Following retirement from playing in league football in 1994, Blissett created a huge stir in the Eastern Counties Football League by agreeing to play for Fakenham Town in Norfolk, whose chairman was a lifelong Watford fan, and big crowds turned out wherever he played.

Over the next five years, he created a more comprehensive and definitive set of playing rules, playing field specifications and equipment, along with a business plan to launch a proposed small, initial league to test market the concept of arena football nationally.

At the same time, the other four NHA clubs voted to created a new league — the National Hockey League.

The league was created by three corporations: General Electric, Firestone and Goodyear.

In 1984, 17 years before the television program American Idol made it common to find an " unknown " and make them a star, the league created the " CBA Sportscaster Contest " to select a color commentator for its weekly game of the week televised on BET.

A major reduction in the league occurred in 1974 after the NCAA created Divisions I, II, and III.

The team was created as part of the NHL's conflict with the rival World Hockey Association ( WHA ) in a bid to keep the latter league out of the Omni Coliseum.

In a CAP league, top players vie for the chance to be a GM and put together a team using players that are created by other people.

This funding came from the same major league teams which the NA had been created to protect itself from.