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

When his quest to keep the team in Milwaukee finally failed after the 1965 season, he changed the group's name to Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc., after the minor league baseball team he grew up watching, and devoted himself to returning Major League Baseball to Milwaukee.

Around the same time Ban Johnson changed the name of his minor league ( Western League ) to the American League.

Since the 1970 NFL-AFL merger, league rules were changed to allow the Super Bowl home team to pick their choice of jersey.

Commissioner. com launched on January 1, 1997 and first offered a fantasy baseball commissioner service that changed the nature of fantasy sports with real-time stats, league message boards, daily updated box scores and other features — all for $ 300 per league.

The national rugby league team are nicknamed the wolfhounds, and the Irish Rugby Football Union, which governs rugby union, changed the name of the country's A ( second-level ) national team in that code to the Ireland Wolfhounds in 2010.

The Royals started in 1969 and are the only major league KC team that has neither moved nor changed its name.

The following year, the league changed their rules to allow games to be broadcast in the local market if sold out 72 hours in advance.

The league then changed its blackout rules the following season to allow games sold out at least 72 hours in advance to be televised in the host market.

Exline also belonged to an amateur softball league but the Coens changed it to bowling in the movie because " it's a very social sport where you can sit around and drink and smoke while engaging in inane conversation ," Ethan said in an interview.

The league changed their scheduling format from 20 games without exhibitions to 18 games ( played in 20 weeks due to the odd number of teams ) with exhibitions.

The new Aces were a charter member of the independent Texas-Louisiana League in 1994, and the Aces won back-to-back titles in and before the league changed its name to the Central Baseball League.

In, the original South Atlantic League ( nicknamed the " Sally League " and not related to the current league of the same name ) changed its name to the Southern League.

The league changed its name to the Mississippi-Ohio Valley League in 1949 after the Marion team moved to Paducah, Kentucky.

During the 1990s several teams changed cities as Major League Baseball placed higher standards on minor league baseball facilities ; franchises in smaller cities were sold to new owners who moved those teams to new ballparks in larger cities.

The league changed its name and dropped back down to class B for the 1955 season.

In 1990, the league changed its name to the Patriot League.

At that time, the hockey league split from the MAAC and changed its name to Atlantic Hockey.

In 1971, the league changed its name to the Gulf South Conference ; added Southeastern Louisiana ( SELA ) and Nicholls State ( increasing the membership to eight ); opened an office in Hammond, Louisiana ; and began championships in all men ’ s sports.

In 2006, the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association ( WIAA ) changed the enrollment limit for the 2A classification allowing Aberdeen to drop to 2A along with other schools in the area creating a new league.

That changed in 2007, when the Central League adopted the Pacific League's tournament as well and the tournament became known as the Climax Series with the two winners, one from each league, competing in the Japan Series.

The pair changed soccer teams to play in the reserve grade for Sydney Croatia in the state league and the pair were paid small amounts in the professional league.

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.

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.

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.