The Western League began play in April 1894 with teams in Detroit ( the only league team that has not moved since ), Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Sioux City and Toledo.

The BBWAA began by polling three writers in each league city in 1938, reducing that number to two per league city in 1961.

When Selig was only three, Marie began taking him and his older brother, Jerry, to Borchert Field, where the minor league Milwaukee Brewers played.

The team began as the minor league Sioux City Cornhuskers and played in the Western League.

After the vote was delayed because of a dispute between the players and the league, the race began again in 1993.

The Spiders were left with essentially a minor league lineup, and began to lose games at a record pace.

Young began his professional career in 1889 with the Canton, Ohio team of the Tri-State League, a professional minor league.

Since the league began allowing teams to use an alternate jersey, the Cowboys ' alternates have been primarily blue versions of past jerseys and the Cowboys have generally had success when wearing these blue alternates.

The following season again began well, with the Blues among the early promotion pace-setters before a dismal run set in, with Chelsea scoring in just three of their final 22 league matches, culminating in Hurst being sacked on 23 April 1981 and Chelsea finished 12th in the league.

Serie A, as it is structured today, began in 1929, when the Campionato Nazionale turned into a professional league.

Aaron's minor league career began on November 20, 1951, when baseball scout Ed Scott signed Aaron to a contract on behalf of the Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American League.

Since 2001, the year the Financial Times began its Executive MBA ranking, the SSE Executive MBA has been the first in the Nordic league.

* The goods were specially manufactured for the buyer and the seller either 1 ) began manufacturing them, or 2 ) entered into a third party contract for their manufacture, and the manufacturer cannot without undue burden sell the goods to another person in the seller's ordinary course of business: for example, t-shirts with a little league baseball team logo or wall-to-wall carpeting for an odd-sized room.

Although the XFL began with better-than-expected TV ratings ( the opening-week games actually delivered ratings double those of what NBC had promised advertisers and the Saturday broadcast had more viewers than the NFL Pro Bowl ) and fair publicity, the audience declined sharply after the first week of the season, going from a 9. 5 rating to a 4. 6 in just one week, and the media attacked the league for what was perceived as a poor quality of play.

Educated principally in Italy, he gained some experience of warfare during the campaign of his paternal uncle Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor against France in 1544, and also during the War of the league of Schmalkalden, and soon began to take part in imperial business.

Carey played rugby league as a junior but began playing Australian Football at age eight and, in his early teens, moved to Adelaide, where he attended The Heights School, Modbury Heights and continued playing junior football for North Adelaide.

In league with Henry Brougham, an ambitious Whig politician who favoured reform, she began a propaganda campaign against George.

The league began with eight teams: the Charlotte Sting, Cleveland Rockers, Houston Comets and New York Liberty in the Eastern Conference ; and the Los Angeles Sparks, Phoenix Mercury, Sacramento Monarchs and Utah Starzz in the Western Conference.

The 1999 season began with a collective bargaining agreement between players and the league, marking the first collective bargaining agreement to be signed in the history of women's professional sports.

The 2011 season began with strong publicity helped by the rising young stars of the league and the NBA lockout.

Many news outlets began covering the league more frequently.

A new minor football league began play as the World Football League in 2008 after acquiring the rights to its trademarks and intellectual property.

The league began play in 1994.

Theodore spent his first three seasons with the Canadiens organization splitting time in the NHL and the American Hockey League ( AHL ), with Montreal's minor league affiliate, the Fredericton Canadiens.

Shrinking crowds led to the radical move of introducing more teams ( mainly from Victoria and New South Wales ) and splitting the league into two conferences, with the winner of each division to play off in an end of year two legged final.

Because of the internal quarrels and the following splitting of the league in the LPF and APEA he had to share the top scorer title with the following players in the following years:

Returning to the league, and the Blaze continued in fine form throughout splitting results with the Stars.

After splitting his first professional season in 1932 – 33 with the Springfield Indians of the Canadian-American Hockey League ( CAHL ) and Saskatoon Crescents of the West Coast Hockey League ( WCHL ), Smith moved further west to play for the Vancouver Lions of the North West Hockey League ( NWHL ), where he led the league in scoring with 25 goals in his rookie year.

That season he saw his first regular play, splitting time in the outfield and behind the plate, and also playing at third base for the first time ; in addition, he batted. 301 and finished fifth in the league in slugging average.

On his return to baseball, he moved up the organization's minor league system, first with the Raleigh-Durham Mets in 1968 before splitting time with the Memphis Blues and Tidewater Tides in 1969.

In that year, the two teams disputing the title had played each other, splitting a two-game series, but league officials used a tiebreaker to controversially give the Bears ( then known as the Staleys ) the title over the Buffalo All-Americans.

Was it not possible, after all, that the forest was in league with her and her child that its sympathy lay with the Culvers that she had erred in failing to understand this??

The owners would like each club in the fourteen-team league to play a home-and-home series with teams in its division, plus two games against teams in the other division.

* That the discipline grew out of colonialism, perhaps was in league with it, and derived some of its key notions from it, consciously or not.

It certainly maintained strong Phoenician sympathies, for it was its refusal to join the philhellene league of Onesilos of Salamis which provoked the revolt of Cyprus from Achaemenid Persia in 500-494BC, when Amathus was besieged unsuccessfully and avenged itself by the capture and execution of Onesilos.

The league lasted one year, partially due to the anti-competitive tactics of Spalding to limit its success.

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.

Bell, wary of expanding the 12-team league and risking its new found success, rejected the offer.

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

The league changed its name to the Australian Football League ( AFL ) following the 1989 season.

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 most successful was the American Association ( 1881 – 1891 ), sometimes called the " beer and whiskey league " for its tolerance of the sale of alcoholic beverages to spectators.

Prior to the 1900 season, the league changed its name to the American League and moved several franchises to larger, strategic locations.

In 1901 the American League declared its intent to operate as a major 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 modern Orioles franchise can trace its roots back to the original Milwaukee Brewers of the minor Western League, beginning in 1894 when the league reorganized.

The League found itself unable to create a new political system, until the league summoned the Cretan politician Eleutherios Venizelos to Athens as its political adviser.

The Premiership Cup then made its historic first trip to Brisbane, a traditionally rugby league focused city.

Cleveland won the league championship in its first NFL season, followed by two more in 1954 and 1955.

Some people suggested Cleveland was at best the dominant team in a minor league, while others were confident of its prospects in the NFL.

Cleveland was not among its charter members, but by 1879 the league was looking for new entries and the city gained an NL team.

It is remarkable that the composition of this league does not reflect that of the Latin people who took part in the Latiar or Feriae Latinae given by Pliny and it has not as its leader the rex Nemorensis but a dictator Latinus.

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.

Despite the championship, the team did not draw enough fans to stay solvent at the major league level, as Detroit was at the time one of the smallest cities in the National League and its rapid industry-fueled growth was still several years in the future.

Most commonly, each team plays every other team in its league at home and away in each season, in a round-robin tournament.