As the team built up a 9-3 regular-season record, Brown in 1958 ran for 1, 527 yards – almost twice as much as any other back and a league record at the time.

The league was founded in 1888 and ran through 1892.

The league is the descendant of the Western International League which ran as a class B league from 1937-1951 ( with time out for WWII ) and class A from 1952-1954.

With attendance routinely well below the league average, Sports Illustrated ran a story titled " Natural Disaster ," and ESPN anchors mocked the " Green Acres " of empty seats ; in a 2006 interview, Karmanos admitted that " as it turns out, was probably a mistake.

Reading ran out 3 – 1 victors as Saints stumbled to their first home defeat in the league since mid-January and Reading celebrated going 3 points clear at the top of the table.

In 2003, he was named the figurehead commissioner of a new World Hockey Association, intended to operate during the NHL lockout in 2004-05 ; it never entered play, and the organization subsequently ran several ephemeral low-minor league and unsanctioned Tier II junior leagues.

In 2007, the boys varsity soccer team ran undefeated in regular league play and won the South Shore league Semi-Finals in the State Tournament.

Grove remained in the minor leagues through 1924 because Dunn, who ran an independent operation with no major league affiliation, refused several offers from the majors to acquire him.

The team's leading rusher was former University of Miami player Martin Patton, who ran for 1, 040 yards, third in the league.

The incident was also parodied in a 2012 edition of the Metro Manchester city were traling to a QPR in a game they needed to win to be league champions and their manager decided they could not win but the then scored twice in added time to be champions so the parody ran " he thought it was over but it wasn't "

On the positive side, New Orleans supported the team well, averaging 30, 557 per game, Jordan ran for 1, 276 yards ( 4th in the league ), and Ross and WR Frank Lockett had strong years.

The Denver arrangement fell through, and the league ran the Seals for more than a year until San Francisco hotel magnate Melvin Swig bought the team in 1975 with the intent of moving the team to a proposed new arena in San Francisco.

He ran a test season in 1984, with a few members of the league, to work out the details and in 1985 the WWFL Head to Head Championship was begun.

Bath were an unstoppable force in 1988 / 89 and ran away with the Premiership title, winning the first ten of their eleven league matches.

Players were still tied to their clubs unless their contract ran out until the Webster ruling allowed players the opportunity to move between nations, though it does not free players to move within the national league in which they currently play.

He helped the Derby side of Mark Wright, Dean Saunders and Ted McMinn finish fifth in the league, and they only missed out on competing in the UEFA Cup due to the ban on English clubs in European competition ( which ran from 1985 to 1990 ) arising from the Heysel disaster.

He made the All-Star team again in 1966, a season in which he did not commit a single error in the outfield ; his record errorless streaks of 226 games ( NL record ) and 568 total chances ( major league record ) ran from September 3, 1965, to June 4, 1967.

However the league soon ran into difficulties with the revived Sparta of Cleomenes III.

From 1908 to 1994, the NSWRL ran Sydney's, then New South Wales ', and eventually Australia's top-level rugby league club competition from their headquarters ( or " Bunker " as it was nicknamed during the Super League war ) on Phillip Street, Sydney.

The big, 22-year-old shortstop, the 1960 American league `` rookie-of-the-year '', flew here late this afternoon from Baltimore, signed his contract for an estimated $15,000 and was a spectator at tonight's 5-to-3 loss to Kansas City -- the winless Birds' sixth setback in a row.

This rule providing for a blackout of televised baseball 30 minutes before the start of a major or minor league game in any area comes from the game's top rulers.

* 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 hosted the annual Hall of Fame Game, an exhibition game between two major league teams that was played from 1940 until 2008.

Alfred William Lawson ( March 24, 1869 – November 29, 1954 ) was a professional baseball player, manager and league promoter from 1887 through 1916 and went on to play a pioneering role in the US aircraft industry, publishing two early aviation trade journals.

In the wars of Philip V of Macedon and the Epirotes against the Aetolian league ( 220 – 205 ) Ambracia passed from one alliance to the other, but ultimately joined the latter confederacy.

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.

In one case from the 5th century BC, the ten treasurers of the Delian league ( the Hellenotamiai ) were accused at their scrutinies of misappropriation of funds.

The siege of Thasos marks the transformation of the Delian league from an alliance into, in the words of Thucydides, a hegemony.

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

It was from tribute paid to the league that Pericles set to building the Parthenon on the Acropolis, replacing an older temple, as well as many other non-defense related expenditures.

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

And if Ponte is in league with Salieri, I'll never get a text from him, and I would love to show here what I can really do with an Italian opera.

The American Football League ( AFL ) was a major American Professional Football league that operated from 1960 until 1969, when the established National Football League ( NFL ) merged with it.

In the years just after the war, Roma were unable to recapture their league stature from the early 1940s.

Popularity of the VFL grew rapidly and by 1925 with 12 teams, had become the most prominent league in the game and would dominate so many aspects of the sport from that point on.

During the next twenty years the Philo-Laconian policy of Cimon secured Aegina, as a member of the Spartan league, from attack.

The town of Accrington thus has the unique " distinction " of having lost two separate clubs from league football.

Five teams make the playoffs from each league: the three regular season division winners, plus two wild card teams.

The first attempt at forming a " major league " produced the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, which lasted from 1871 to 1875.

The National Association of Professional Base Ball Players operated from 1871 through 1875, and is considered by some to have been the first major league.

In Major League Baseball, the Rookie of the Year Award is annually given to one player from each league as voted on by the Baseball Writers Association of America ( BBWAA ).

Beginning in 2007, MLB has implemented a new rule to give the team from the league that wins the All-Star Game with the best regular season record a slightly greater advantage.

( Originally, a team was supposed to be started in Buffalo, but league ownership at the last minute removed that city from their plans in favor of the expansion Boston franchise.