He forced the city to make a choice between the two leagues.

A merger between the two leagues was sought by the senior league and announced in 1966, but was not finalized until 1970.

Baseball is the leading team sport in both Japan and Cuba, and the top level of play is similarly split between two leagues: Japan's Central League and Pacific League ; Cuba's West League and East League.

The DH rule now constitutes the primary difference between the two leagues.

In the late 1990s, functions that had been administered separately by the two major leagues ' administrations were united under the rubric of Major League Baseball.

These factors – combined with a war for players between the two leagues that raised salaries and ate into owners ' profits – ultimately led to the dissolution of the AAFC and the merger of three of its teams, including the Browns, into the NFL in 1949.

" He only acquiesced to joining the AFL when he was guaranteed that the team would become an NFL franchise after the impending merger of the two leagues.

In 1984, the two leagues, American and National, each had two divisions, East and West.

For a few years there were rumors of abandoning Detroit to compete for Cincinnati or Pittsburgh but the two leagues made peace in 1903 after similar moves into St. Louis and New York.

The main exceptions to this system occur in some Latin American leagues, which divide football championships into two sections named Apertura and Clausura ( Spanish for Opening and Closing ), awarding a champion for each.

While those two leagues focused on baseball, it may be football that produced the first version of the hobby.

In addition to that, the world's two largest floorball leagues, Finland's Salibandyliiga and Sweden's Svenska Superligan were formed, in 1986 and 1995 respectively.

In 1914, the two existing major leagues were challenged by a new league, the Federal League.

Most observers thought that Landis waited because he did not want to rule against the two established leagues and their contracts.

He forced the city to make a choice between the two leagues.

That merger agreement provided for a single draft, interleague play in the preseason, a championship game to follow each season, and the integration of the two leagues into one in a way to be agreed at a future date.

As the two leagues had an unequal number of teams ( under the merger agreement, the NFL expanded by one team to 16, and the AFL by one to 10 ), realignment was advocated by some owners, but was opposed.

Coming into this game, there was still considerable animosity between the two rival leagues, and both teams felt pressure to win.

Coming into this " first " game, there was considerable animosity between the two rival leagues, with both of them putting pressure on their respective champions to trounce the other and prove each league's dominance in professional football.

This was also the final AFL-NFL World Championship Game before the two leagues merged into one after the season.

Through 1996, the two leagues met on the field only during the World Series and the All-Star Game: in 1997, regular-season interleague play was introduced.

The two leagues were once separate, rival corporate entities, but that distinction has all but disappeared.

In 1903, the two leagues began to meet in an end-of-year championship series called the World Series.

Since the 1950s, this type of fiction has to a large extent merged with science fictional tropes involving cross-time travel between alternate histories or psychic awareness of the existence of " our " universe by the people in another ; or ordinary voyaging uptime ( into the past ) or downtime ( into the future ) that results in history splitting into two or more time-lines.

The town we now call Accrington covers two townships which were established in 1507 following disafforestation ; those of Old Accrington and New Accrington which were merged in 1878 with the incorporation of the borough council.

National Alliance, launched in 1994, was officially founded in January 1995, when the Italian Social Movement ( MSI ), the former neo-fascist party, merged with conservative elements of the former Christian Democracy, which had disbanded in 1994 after two years of scandals and various splits due to corruption at its highest levels, exposed by the Mani Pulite investigation, and the Italian Liberal Party, disbanded in the same year.

The two towns over time formed close economic and social ties and eventually merged in 1307 and came to be known as Berlin.

The APG II system, therefore, has merged the two families under the name ' Brassicaceae '.

The two papers were merged to become an all-day paper called the Boston Herald Traveler and Record American in the morning and Record-American and Boston Herald Traveler in the afternoon.

The 1987 election saw the Alliance's share of the votes drop slightly and it now had 22 MP's, and in the election's aftermath Liberal leader David Steel proposed a merged of the two parties.

Five of these societies became joint stock banks ( Plc ), one merged with another and the other four were taken over by Plc ’ s ( in two cases after the mutual had previously converted to a Plc ).

Nevertheless, trade between the two countries has continued to expand in both absolute and relative terms for the last two hundred years, but especially following the 1988 FTA and the subsequent signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) in 1994 which has since further merged the two economies.

For most purposes, most jurisdictions, including the U. S. federal system and most states, have merged the two courts.

In South Australia and Western Australia the two parties compete separately, while in the Northern Territory and Queensland the two parties have merged, forming the Country Liberal Party, in 1978, and the Liberal National Party, in 2008, respectively.

He then introduced Eutyches who publicly professed that while Christ had two natures before the incarnation, the two natures had merged to form a single nature after the incarnation.

By contrast, nouns have no distinct nominative and objective forms, the two being merged into a single plain case.

The Delaunay triangulation is computed for each set, and then the two sets are merged along the splitting line.

Reorganization in 2010 merged two offices:

* Diaeresis ( linguistics ) or Hiatus, two adjacent vowels, in adjacent syllables, not separated by a consonant or pause and not merged into a diphthong

The two have merged into one entity called " Halman " after Bowman rescued HAL from the dying Discovery One spaceship towards the end of 2010: Odyssey Two.

While pursuing his bachelor's degree, Coppola was elected president of The Green Wig ( the university's drama group ), the Kaleidoscopians, ( its musical comedy club ) and he then merged the two into The Spectrum Players.

In the late 20th century, Belgium became a federal state in which the Dutch-speaking part was given autonomy as the Flemish Community () and the Flemish Region (); these two entities were effectively merged, and Flanders now refers to the territory of the Flemish Community, which additionally has partial jurisdiction over Brussels.

The most obvious alteration is the removal of the two monsters called the Titans, which merged to create Titanosaurus in the first draft.

The Jewish philosopher Philo merged these two themes when he described the Logos as God's creator of and mediator with the material world.