When that failed, he enlisted Branch Rickey's aid in the formation of a third major league, the Continental, with New York as the key franchise.

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

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.

When the full league programme resumed in 1946 – 47 Charlton could finish only 19th in the First Division, just above the relegation spots.

When the Western renamed itself the American League for 1900, it was still a minor league, but next year it broke with the National Agreement and declared itself major, openly competing with the National League for players, and for fans in three contested cities.

When the NFL declined to approve the Raiders ' move from Oakland to Los Angeles in 1980, the team joined the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission in a lawsuit against the league alleging a violation of antitrust laws.

When Los Angeles offered O ' Malley what the City of New York wouldn't — complete and absolute ownership of the facility — he left for southern California in a preemptive bid to install the Dodgers there before a new or existing major league franchise could beat him to it.

When that league folded a few years later, Williams found himself out of a job until Redskins coach Joe Gibbs asked him to join the team to be the backup for quarterback Jay Schroeder.

When the American Association revived as a minor league in 1902, the Mud Hens joined as a charter member.

When Pumpsie Green became the first black player on the Boston Red Sox in 1959 — the last major league team to integrate its team — Williams openly welcomed Green.

When the league was first organized in 1999, it was originally supposed to stand for " Xtreme Football League "; however, there was already a league in formation at the same time with that name, and so promoters wanted to make sure that everyone knew that the " X " did not actually stand for anything ( though McMahon would comment that " if the NFL stood for the ' No Fun League ', the XFL will stand for the ' extra fun league '").

When Philip created the league of the Greeks on the pretext of unifying Greece against Persia, the Spartans chose not to join — they had no interest in joining a pan-Greek expedition if it was not under Spartan leadership.

When founded in 1984, the league was a pioneer in gender equality, offering competition in a then-unprecedented 10 women's sports.

When the Muslims approached Portus, he summoned the Repubbliche Marinare ( or mariner cities of Italy ) – Naples, Gaeta and Amalfi – to form a league.

When Ryan was called up to the New York club the following year, he was the second-youngest player in the league.

When, in 1938, the Scranton Miners of Scranton, Pennsylvania team moved to Hartford, Connecticut and renamed the Hartford Bees, the league was renamed as the Eastern League.

When Short indicated that he might take the team to new rival league that was developing however, the owners held another vote that same day and allowed the relocation ( 8 – 0 ).

When Bettman and league officials visited Nashville to tour the arena, thousands gathered on the Arena plaza to greet them.

When the league expanded to 10 teams beginning in 2009 – 10, the finals expanded to six teams.

When Howe turned 40 in 1967 – 68, the league expanded from six to twelve teams and the number of scoring opportunities grew as the game schedule increased.

When the Northern Union clubs broke away from the RFU to form what is now rugby league, the Morley representatives missed the coach to Huddersfield as they were still in the pub.

When the league expanded the next season, the Comets were moved from the Eastern Conference to the Western Conference.

When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.

When changing from one color to another, whether working on right or wrong side, pick up the new strand from underneath dropped strand.

When he was inducted into the Army at Fort Knox, Ky., Hansen's weight had dropped to 180 -- `` too light for me to be at my best '' he said.

When a vessel is in a narrow channel or on a lee shore so that there is no room to tack the vessel in a conventional manner an anchor attached to the lee quarter may be dropped from the lee bow.

" When the candy-chocked shmoos were dropped, a near-riot resulted ," ( reported in Newsweek — October 11, 1948 ).

When Sunday strips began to appear in more than one format, it became necessary for the cartoonist to allow for rearranged, cropped or dropped panels.

When Microsoft registered the trademark Win32, the 32 was dropped to simply become Cygwin.

When the floor of the Dead Sea dropped further due to tectonic forces, the salt mounts of Lisan and Mount Sodom stayed in place as high cliffs.

When used in these recognized terms the qualifier change is usually dropped and the property is simply termed enthalpy of ' process.

When, later that evening, Hayek was dropped off at the Reform Club, he commented: " I've just had the happiest day of my life.

When the Preface is dropped, the poem seems to compare the act of poetry with the might of Kubla Khan instead of the loss of inspiration causing the work to have a more complex depiction of the poetic power.

When Dreja dropped out of the project to become a photographer ( he would later take the photograph that appeared on the back of Led Zeppelin's debut album ), John Paul Jones, at the suggestion of his wife, contacted Page about the vacant position.

" When Stalin showed signs of consciousness, Beria dropped to his knees and kissed his hand.

When deriving English words from their Greek or Latin roots the gender specific ending ( in this case "- on ," which indicates the word is neuter ) is normally dropped, using only the root of the word in the derivation.

When the lawsuit was finally dropped in 1895, a university holiday was declared.

When the Upper was dropped from Upper Saxony, a different region had acquired the Saxon name, ultimately replacing the name's original meaning.

When added to baking soda ( sodium bicarbonate ), cyanoacrylate glue forms a hard, lightweight filler / adhesive ( baking soda is first used to fill a gap then the adhesive is dropped onto the baking soda ).

When offered a chance to run for New York Assemblyman in 1881, he dropped out of law school to pursue his new goal of entering public life.

When the average " peaks and troughs " went up consistently, he deemed it a bull market condition ; if averages dropped, it was a bear market.

NOTE: When doing the divisions, the fractional parts of the quotients must be dropped.

When wheat flour began to come into common use for making cakes and puddings, cooks in the north of England devised a means of making use of the fat that dropped into the dripping pan to cook a batter pudding while the meat roasted in the oven.

When Trill became a regularly used race in later series, the inability to use transporter technology was dropped.

When he was 17 years of age, young Frederick had been dropped out of high school due to family circumstances.

At the matinee, that didn't sell out, Herman Brood and Belgian musician Jean Blaute dropped by for the only live-performance of Als Je Wint ( When You're A Winner ; a song about success and equally-lasting friendships ).

When Fangio was 13, he dropped out of school and worked as an assistant mechanic.