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.

Nine of the league's teams play in baseball parks and therefore face an early-season conflict in dates.

ABU sports teams play under the name Blue Tide.

Their lower level Minor League Baseball teams began play in 1996 ; the expansion draft was held that year as well.

Every year both clubs play the " Klassieker " (" The Classic "), a derby match between the teams from the two largest cities of the Netherlands.

However, some of the more successful American League teams of recent memory, including the 2002 Anaheim Angels, the 2001 Seattle Mariners and the 2005 Chicago White Sox have experienced their success in part as a result of playing " small ball ," advancing runners through means such as the stolen base and the related hit and run play.

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.

Usually, two teams of five players play on a marked rectangular court with a basket at each width end.

* Requiring the Houston Astros to move to the American League ( 2013 ), as a condition of the sale of the team to Jim Crane, resulting in an odd number of teams in each league and interleague play throughout the season

Caltech's mascot is the Beaver, and its teams ( with the exception of the fencing team ) play in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, which Caltech co-founded in 1915.

Professional athletes such as Kobe Bryant ( above ) who play for various sports teams are one of the most sought after careers in the world.

The Indians also have a rivalry with the Pittsburgh Pirates, as the two teams play an annual three game series during interleague play in June, playing in Cleveland during even numbered years, and in Pittsburgh in odd number seasons.

After losing the 1945 World Series to the Detroit Tigers, the Cubs finished with winning seasons the next two years, but those teams did not enter post-season play.

On July 5, 1991, the National League approved Denver and Miami, Florida, as the sites for two expansion teams to begin play in 1993.

With a vastly inferior goal difference and with the two teams directly above them ( Southampton and Nottingham Forest ) still having to play each other, it was effectively an impossible task for Charlton to avoid relegation.

In a compromise the teams decided to play two different games, one under each teams set of rules.

Camp is responsible for pioneering the play from scrimmage ( earlier games featured a rugby scrum, and was also the one who decided that teams should have four downs to advance the ball ten yards.

In the post-season, if the teams are still tied, teams will play additional overtime periods until either team scores.

College teams mostly play other similarly sized schools through the NCAA's divisional system.

At the Division I FBS level, teams must earn the right to be bowl eligible by winning at least 6 games during the season ( teams that play 13 games in a season, which is allowed for

Field operations were transferred from administrative personnel primarily engaged in other tasks to specially trained teams of full-time African investigators ( three teams, each working in two provinces ).

Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

Only two teams in each league ( the Yankees and Detroit, the Dodgers and Cincinnati ) are battling for first place.

There was more chopping and changing in the teams, given that there was no official board of selectors for each country ( in 1887 – 88, two separate English teams were on tour in Australia ) and popularity with the fans varied.

In the United States and Canada, professional Major League Baseball ( MLB ) teams are divided into the National League ( NL ) and American League ( AL ), each with three divisions: East, West, and Central.

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

In these, teams bowl alternately, with each player within a team bowling all their bowls, then handing over to the next player.

Two teams of 11 players each compete to get the ball into the other team's goal using sticks, thereby scoring a goal.

The teams shoot five penalties each and if this doesn't settle the game, the teams shoot one more penalty each until one of them misses and the other scores.

Swiftsure, Alexander and Franklin were all set alight by falling wreckage although in each case teams of sailors with water buckets succeeded in extinguishing the flames, despite a secondary explosion on Franklin.

Crokinole is most commonly played by two players, or by four players in teams of two, with partners sitting across the board from each other.

Charles was the main host and presided over the arena in which teams of amateur engineers battled their home-made radio-controlled robots against each other, and against the house robots.

The Browns came into 1954 as one of the most powerful teams in the NFL, having reached the championship in each of their first four years in the league.

The two teams have only met each other twice in the postseason.

The teams have since met on Monday Night Football twice, the Bengals winning each time.

In the following months, Hulbert and Spalding organized the National League by enlisting the four major teams in the East and the three other top teams in what was then considered to be the West.

Craig Counsell, Miguel Batista and Jay Bell, also signed with other teams, as did Thom Brennaman, the original Diamondbacks play-by-play man.

School spirit abounds with men ’ s and women ’ s varsity teams that have delivered more conference and national championships than any other institution in Atlantic University Sport.

A no-hitter is a game in which one of the teams prevented the other from getting a hit.

Over the next couple seasons, The Boston Red Stockings dominated the league and hoarded many of the game's best players, even those who were under contract with other teams.

The Lions, and their predecessor teams, have often played games against other nearby countries on tour.

As a result of several franchise shifts, the Brewers were one of only two Western League teams that didn't fold, move or get kicked out of the league ( the other being the Detroit Tigers ).

Treating other teams differently in regards to their media contracts drew accusations that Selig did not act in good faith with respect to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The IIHF World U20 Championship typically begins on 26 December, while the Spengler Cup also begins on 26 December in Davos, Switzerland ; the Spengler Cup competition includes HC Davos, Team Canada, and other top European Hockey teams.

The Browns used the device off and on into the regular season, and other teams began to experiment with their own radio helmets.

Like many other NFL teams located in temperate climates, the Panthers traditionally wear their white jerseys at home during the first half of the season — forcing opponents to wear their dark ones under the warm autumns in Charlotte.

The Bengals, like other former AFL teams, were assigned to the AFC following the merger.

The Riverside bank also was unique for the fact that flags of all the other teams of the first division were flown along the promenade.

Under Tommy Trinder's chairmanship in the 60's, flags of all other teams in the Division 1 were proudly flown along the Thames.