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Online jersey sales are split between all 30 ball clubs.

Players that young aren't supposed to headline 52-game winning ball clubs.

That&aposs between the NFL and its ball clubs and its players.

Why are there so few blacks and Latinos at the helm of big-league ball clubs?

The issue for ball clubs and fans this season isn't safety, per se, but rather at what point safety measures become too extreme.

"Much respect to both ball clubs and like I said, congratulations to the Chicago Cubs and much respect to my hometown Cleveland Indians," he said.

Teams in the "cellar" often become "sellers" in July, and there are plenty of bottom-dwelling ball clubs with high-priced stars who are happy to part with them to start rebuilding.

Although big airlines can recruit qualified fliers by turning to smaller affiliates and other regional carriers the way major league ball clubs dip into the minors, some regional carriers are having trouble replenishing their own rosters.

In the all-around category, Staniouta will be eager to show off her flexibility while attempting jumps, flips and tumbles in time to music while throwing and catching apparatus such as a rope, hoop, ball, clubs or a ribbon.

The other factor that hurt Desmond's free agency status is MLB's free agency compensation, a system designed to protect low-revenue ball clubs, but instead hurts both low-revenue clubs that actually want to improve their team and second-tier free agents.

So look for Archer to hit the market again this summer, for real this time, as the Rays fall out of contention and a handful of first-place ball clubs look to lock up the top half of their rotation for the next half-decade or more.

Five Major League Baseball teams are set to spend more on their top two players next season than some ball clubs spend on their entire 26-man roster with several star players winning record contract deals at the MLB's winter meetings in San Diego this week.

True dog days of summer have been in full swing for five years for Arizona Diamondbacks fans — both two- and four-legged — attending an annual Bark at the Park Day at Chase Field in Phoenix, and other ball clubs are offering or expanding special dog-friendly days as well.

The 20-year-old Russian goes by the nickname of 'The Bengal Tiger' but rather than knocking over her rivals with brute force, she simply left them chasing shadows as she produced four dazzling routines with the hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon to win her first global all around title.

Sources include Kauff's SABR Biography by David Jones; Judge and Jury: The Life and Times of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis by David Pietrusza; Baseball: The Golden Age by Harold Seymour; Judge Landis and Twenty-Five Years of Baseball by J.G. Taylor Spink; The Federal League of Base Ball Clubs by Robert Peyton Wiggins; and great heaping gobs of the New York Herald-Tribune and the New York Times.

On the second day of their gathering the assembled representatives voted to change the name of their league to the Eastern League of Professional Base Ball Clubs. According to one newspaper account of the day, the decision to change the league's name was related to a desire to avoid confusion with the rival Union Association of Base Ball Clubs."The Eastern League: The Union League of Professional Ball Clubs Changes Its Name," Philadelphia Times, Jan.

She also won the gold medal at the event finals in hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon.

On January 4, 1884, representatives of the Union League of Professional Base Ball Clubs met in Philadelphia to discuss affairs of their organization in the coming year."Base Ball News," Freeport [IL] Journal-Standard, Jan. 5, 1884, pg. 2. Delegates were on hand representing ball clubs located in Baltimore, Maryland, Richmond, Virginia, Wilmington, Delaware, and Reading, Pennsylvania.

The Eastern League of Professional Base Ball Clubs (1884–1887), was a professional baseball association of teams in the Northeastern United States. The league was founded in January 1884 when the Union League of Professional Base Ball Clubs added four teams and dissolved to reform as the Eastern League. In 1887, the first Eastern League was absorbed into the International League.

SWS '96 also introduced five "optional ball clubs" - the Sixties, Seventies, Eighties, Nineties and USA, while the Urban Stadium was merely the Kōshien Stadium from the previous games renamed.

118 (Feb. 18, 1884), pg. 1. The Union Association of Base Ball Clubs stood in opposition to this agreement and was a bitter rival in the battle for organizational hegemony.

She equals her own record. # She has won gold medals in all of the apparatus ( 5 apparatus: rope, hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon), a record only tied by Bianka Panova and Ekaterina Serebrianskaya.

However, the game was very significantly altered by amateur men's ball clubs in and around New York City in the middle of the 19th century, and it was this heavily revised sport that became modern baseball.

Mamun at the 2013 Summer Universiade In 2013, Mamun started her season competing at the Moscow Grand Prix winning the gold medal in all-around ahead of silver medalist Sylvia Miteva and teammate Daria Svatkovskaya. She also won gold in hoop, ball, clubs and bronze in ribbon final. At the Thiais Grand Prix, Mamun won all the gold medals: All-around, hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon. She won the gold medal in All-around and in all apparatus finals at the second World Cup series event held in Lisbon, Portugal.

Retrieved 2010-10-23. After his baseball career ended, West went into the retail liquor business and also engaged in a restaurant enterprise."Saginaw, Michigan Ball Clubs of 1883 & 1884 Return to Life" . saginawoldgolds.com. Retrieved 2010-10-23.

24 gymnasts from 19 countries competed in the qualification round of the Gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's rhythmic individual all- around competition. The types of apparatus included were the hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon. The top 10 gymnasts advanced to the final round.

Hogan, pp. 97-99; Holway, pp. 46-47. In 1905 the Giants won their second colored championship, beating the Brooklyn Royal Giants in three straight games. In 1906 the Giants joined a multiracial baseball league, the International League of Independent Professional Base Ball Clubs.

On May 11–13, Khonina competed at the 2018 Portimao World Challenge Cup where she won bronze in the all-around behind Nicol Zelikman, she qualified in all apparatus finals taking 2 silver in medals with ball, clubs, a bronze with hoop and finished 5th in ribbon.

Abraham G. Mills Abraham Gilbert Mills (March 12, 1844 – August 26, 1929) was the fourth president of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs (1883-1884), and is best known for heading the "Mills Commission" which controversially credited Civil War general Abner Doubleday with the invention of baseball.

Prior to its entrance to the Major Leagues, Phoenix used several different nicknames for its ball clubs. They were first known as the Phoenix Senators, then the Phoenix Giants after their big league affiliate, and lastly the Phoenix Firebirds, for the mythologic bird synonymous with the city's name.

She then went to win her second all-around gold medal at the 1985 World Championships. She also won a bronze medal for ribbon and a gold medal for ball, clubs and rope in the event finals. In 1985, Diliana Georgieva retired and married Bulgarian pentathlon champion Vladimir Klintcharov.

Vučićević played for KK Tamiš, which represents the city of Pančevo, at the start of the 2008-09 season of Basketball League of Serbia, the highest professional basketball league in the country. The Serbian has also played for several ball clubs in his homeland, namely: Vizura Beograd and KK Mašinac.

These are the results of the rhythmic individual all-around competition, the only Rhythmic Gymnastic event at the 1992 Summer Olympics. The four pieces of apparatus used were ball, clubs, hoop, and rope (ribbon was omitted). 42 gymnasts competed in the preliminary round. The format for the competition was unusual.

From 1868 to 1870, future Hall of Famer Albert Spalding and infielder Ross Barnes starred for Rockford while the club was still considered an 'amateur' team. In reality, the Forest Citys were one of the first ball clubs to pay players. Rockford played their home games at the Agricultural Society Fair Grounds.

She also won first in Hoop, Ball, Clubs events, and third in Ribbon. World University Games 2019: On July 11–13, Zeng competed at Napoli World Universiade 2019 in Italy. She won Bronze in all-around with a score of 72.60. She also qualified for 3-event finals in Hoop, Ball and Clubs.

Before playing in the NBA D-League, Douthit played in the Basketball League Belgium, also known as the Ligue Ethias, which is the highest professional basketball league in the country. In Belgium, he played for RBC Verviers-Pepinster and Spirou Charleroi, and averaged 7.9 points and 6.0 rebounds while playing for these ball clubs.

Aside from the National Association, this league was also referred to as the International League of Colored Baseball Clubs of America and Cuba or ILBCAC. Similar to the International League of Independent Professional Base Ball Clubs, it was also referred to as the International League. These casual references have led to the two leagues being confused for each other.

Tikkanen began competing as senior in 2011 season. She won silver in all-around at the Finnish national championships and was the champion in three apparatus final (hoop, ball, clubs). Her first major competition was at the 2011 European Championships. She competed in her first Worlds at the 2011 World Championships where she finished 55th in all-around qualifications.

South Side Park a.k.a. Southside Park was a baseball park in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It was the home field of the Winston-Salem minor league ball clubs prior to the opening of Ernie Shore Field in 1956, which was constructed after fire destroyed the old South Side venue. The wooden structure was located at South Main Street and Waughtown Street.

The Newark Peppers, originally known as the Indianapolis Hoosiers, were a Federal League baseball team from 1913-1915.The Federal League of Base Ball Clubs, by Robert Peyton Wiggins, published by McFarland, 2009The Federal League of 1914–1915: Baseball's Third Major League, by Marc Okkonen, published by SABR, 1989 The Federal League (FL), founded in 1913, was a third major league in 1914 and 1915.

1898 Allentown Peanuts Baseball Club Professional baseball in Allentown dates to 1884, when the Allentown Dukes completed one season in the original Eastern League. Four years later, the city fielded a Central League team, the Allentown Peanuts, which also folded after a season. The 1890s brought a series of ball clubs to the city. The Allentown Colts played in the Pennsylvania State League from 1892–93.

Young rhythmic gymnast in floor exercises Floor exercises is a category also in the rhythmic gymnastics, but it considers only the youngest gymnasts, up to 10 years old, who perform their routines freehand, which means without any apparatus (in contrary to the remaining five - rope, hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon). Their length and content is still clearly specified and differs in each age category.

In the apparatus finals: Mamun won gold medals in ball, clubs, and ribbon (clubs and ribbon tied with Kudryavsteva), and silver in hoop. On 9–11 September, Mamun together with teammates Aleksandra Soldatova and junior Maria Sergeeva represented team Gazprom at the annual 2016 Aeon Cup in Tokyo, where they won the team gold and with Mamun winning the senior individual all-around title.

She made a comeback at the 1994 European Championships. She swept the 1993 Grand Prix Final winning the All-around and the event finals in hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon. Loukianenko's best apparatus was rope; she became a three-time times World Champion on this apparatus. She participated at the 1996 Olympic Games, and ranked 5th in the AA semi-finals and 7th in the AA finals.

They have an active Volunteer Fire Department, and the school has enjoyed the support of a fine Parent-Teacher Organization. The P.T.O. has contributed much to the library, school equipment and furnishings, school programs and activities, including field trips. Most of the youngsters participate in various Little League ball clubs with much support from the community. The "Hollow" is West Mayfleld's main recreational facility.

In addition to his six weeks in the major leagues, Bancker played for the Easton, Pennsylvania, semipro baseball team that won the Pennsylvania state championship in 1874. The Easton club's roster in 1874 also included Jim Devlin, George Bradley, John Abadie, Joe Battin and Bill Hague. He also played for amateur and semipro ball clubs in the Philadelphia area both before and after playing for New Haven.

He pitched two innings and gave-up two hits, four runs (all earned) and two walks. Allen also struck out two. In Robert Peyton Wiggins's book The Federal League of Base Ball Clubs, he states that Allen "deserted" the Terrapins to play with the minor league Montreal Royals of the International League. However, the move backfired when Allen was not signed by the Royals.

The World Tournament of Historical Base Ball takes place every year in August. Guests get to take a step back in time to 1867 as vintage base ball clubs from around the country compete by the game's early rules in a two-day exposition of historic base ball. The clubs engage in two days of throwing, batting and competition. The event is included in Greenfield Village admission.

The Magnolia Hotshots Pambansang Manok, or simply known as the Magnolia Hotshots, are a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association. The team is owned by San Miguel Food and Beverage, Inc., a subsidiary of San Miguel Corporation (SMC). The team is one of three PBA ball clubs currently owned by the SMC group of companies, along with Barangay Ginebra San Miguel and the San Miguel Beermen.

An injured elbow in 1990 cost him almost all of the next two seasons and most of his effectiveness, and he never regained his early form. He won 11 games between the St. Louis and California ball clubs in 1993, but could not muster more than 2 wins or 74 innings pitched in any other season until his retirement in 1996 at the relatively early age of 32.

Because of its detailed description of nineteenth century baseball rules, the book is said to have inspired many Vintage Base Ball clubs to form throughout the United States. Brock said of these clubs, "They invite me to their conventions because my character does what they all want to do: They want to go back in time.""My, what changes baseball has seen with time's passing". The San Diego Union- Tribune.

Its amateur counterpart disappeared after only a few years. The modern Chicago Cubs and Atlanta Braves franchises trace their histories back to the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players in the 1870s. In 1876, the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs (later known as the National League or NL) was established after the NA proved ineffective. The league placed its emphasis on clubs rather than on players.

Garayeva won bronze at the 2010 World Championships in the individual apparatus finals in ball, ribbon and hoop. She also won the all-around bronze medal at the 2010 European Championships. The following year, Garayeva won the all-around bronze medal at the 2011 World Championships in Montpellier, France. She then competed at the Grand Prix Final and won bronze in all-around, as well as bronze in hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon finals.

With his hitting prowess, Babe Ruth ushered in an offensive-oriented era of baseball and helped lead the Yankees to four World Series titles. In the years around 1920, the Yankees, the Red Sox, and the Chicago White Sox had a détente. The trades between the three ball clubs antagonized Ban Johnson and garnered the teams the nickname "The Insurrectos". This détente paid off well for the Yankees as they increased their payroll.

A Pennsylvania Historical marker was dedicated at Belmont and Parkside Avenues on April 25, 1998. The marker is titled, "African American Baseball in Philadelphia" and the text reads, > For 85 years, starting with the Pythians and Excelsiors in 1867, Black ball > clubs were a significant part of the Philadelphia scene. The Giants, formed > 1902, were soon "World's Colored Champions." The Hilldales, Eastern Colored > League Champions, 1923-25, won the Colored World Series, 1925.

Baltimore Orioles, 1896 The history of baseball in the United States dates to the 18th century, when boys and amateur enthusiasts played a baseball-like game by their own informal rules using homemade equipment. The popularity of the sport grew and amateur men's ball clubs were formed in the 1830-50s. Semi- professional baseball clubs followed in the 1860s, and the first professional leagues arrived in the post-American Civil War 1870s.

In 2012, Arina finished 11th at the Russian Junior Championships. Arina and Dina both competed at the Venera Cup in Eilat, Israel where Arina won bronze in the all-around; she also took silver in hoop and bronze medals in ball, clubs, and ribbon. At the International MTM Cup in Ljubljana (with teammates Aleksandra Soldatova and Dina Averina), she won the Team gold medal. In 2013, Arina finished 5th at the 2013 Russian Junior Championships.

In August, Moustafaeva competed at the 2015 Budapest World Cup finishing 12th in all-around. At the 2015 World Cup Final in Kazan, Moustafaeva finished 9th in the all-around with a total of 68.800 points, she qualified to 3 apparatus finals finishing 4th in hoop, ball, clubs. On September 9–13, Moustafaeva competed at the 2015 World Championships in Stuttgart where she qualified to 1 apparatus final finishing 7th in ribbon (17.750).

Born in the Washington, D.C. area, Tillman grew up following the Washington Senators team, while playing pick-up baseball games in the streets with his friends using a broomstick for a bat. Later, he played for minor black ball clubs before joining the Homestead Grays of the Negro National League,2008 Special Negro Leagues Draft. MLB.com. Retrieved on February 16, 2019. a powerhouse franchise that split its home games between Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.Snyder, Brad (2003).

The San Miguel Beermen are a professional basketball team in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). The franchise is owned by the San Miguel Corporation (SMC) since 1975. It is one of three PBA ball clubs owned by the SMC group of companies along with the Magnolia Hotshots and Barangay Ginebra San Miguel. It is the only remaining original franchise in the PBA and leads the league with the most number of PBA titles - 23 to date.

It responded to the trend -- clubs secretly paying or indirectly compensating players -- by establishing a "professional" class for 1869. As quickly as 1871, most of those clubs broke away and formed the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (NAPBBP). That new, professional Association was open at a modest fee, but it proved to be unstable. It was replaced by the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs in 1876, which has endured to the present day.

In 2015 season, Annenkova debuted as a senior competing in the international division at the 2015 Moscow Grand Prix. She then competed at the 2015 Baltic Hoop where she won the all-around silver behind Belarusian Melitina Staniouta. In the event finals, Annenkova won 3 gold medals (ball, clubs, ribbon) and silver in hoop. On April 3–5, Annenkova competed at the Irina Deleanu International tournament and won the all-around silver medal behind Veronika Polyakova.

In 1921, the Negro Southern League joined Foster's National Association of Colored Professional Base Ball Clubs. As a dues-paying member of the association, it received the same protection from raiding parties as any team in the Negro National League. Foster then admitted John Connors' Atlantic City Bacharach Giants as an associate member to move further into Nat Strong's territory. Connors, wanting to return the favor of helping him against Strong, raided Ed Bolden's Hilldale Daisies team.

In her next competition at the 2015 Sofia World Cup, Rizatdinova won the all-around bronze medal ahead of Melitina Staniouta. She qualified to all apparatus finals taking bronze in hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon. On September 9–13, Rizatdinova (together with teammates Viktoria Mazur, and Eleonora Romanova) competed at the 2015 World Championships in Stuttgart, with Team Ukraine winning the bronze medal. Rizatdinova also qualified to all apparatus finals taking bronze medals in hoop, clubs, ribbon and finished 4th in ball.

The Champs were among several minor league ball clubs that operated in Youngstown, Ohio, in the early 20th century. The team was preceded by the Youngstown Ohio Works, which won two consecutive league championships in 1905 and 1906. In 1907, the Ohio Works' sponsors, local industrialists Joseph and Thomas McDonald, approved the sale of the franchise to Zanesville investors. As the Marion Daily Mirror observed in March 1907, this move raised questions about the future of the Ohio–Pennsylvania League.

At the 2013 Kyiv World Championships, she placed 55th in the all-around qualifications and was the highest ranked gymnast from Africa. In March 2014, Legote competed at the African Championships in rhythmic gymnastics where she won the all-around title. In the event finals, she won 3 gold medals (ball, clubs, ribbon) and a silver in hoop.Legote is Africa's Rhythmic gymnast champ At the 2014 Commonwealth Games, she was a member of the South African team and finished tenth in the individual all- around finals.

The league, also called the National Association, was founded by H. Walter Schlichter of the Philadelphia Giants and the promoter Nat Strong. It originally had five member clubs: the Brooklyn Royal Giants, Cuban Giants, Cuban Stars of Havana, Cuban X-Giants, and Philadelphia Giants. Three of these clubs had been members of the multiracial International League of Independent Professional Base Ball Clubs in 1906, though there was apparently no other connection between the two leagues. The Cuban X-Giants folded before play started in 1907.

On September 7, the Pioneers played an intra-squad game. Before the game that day, the Pioneers issued a challenge to any team in Oregon or Washington Territory to play them at the Oregon State Fair. By the end of September, The Clackamas and Willamette Base Ball Clubs had accepted the Pioneers challenge to play at the fair. Leading up to the Pioneers match-up at the fair, the team's second squad played a game on September 28 against the Spartans Base Ball Club.

1867 announcement for the formation of the first baseball league in California.In the 1860s baseball grew in prominence in San Francisco, with the first game reported to be between the Eagles and the Red Rovers on February 22, 1860. The San Francisco Directory in 1860 identifies three base ball clubs, the Eagle, Em Quad, and Excelsior Clubs.San Francisco Directory page 462, 1860 In 1867 it was reported that "baseball clubs are now the rage" and the game of baseball drew plaudits from influential quarters.

On March 24–26, Dina then competed at the Thiais Grand Prix where she won the all-around gold with a total of 74.500 points, she qualified to all the event finals taking gold in hoop, ball, clubs and silver in ribbon. On April 7–9, Dina competed in the first World Cup of the season at the 2017 Pesaro World Cup where she won silver in the all-around behind teammate Aleksandra Soldatova, she qualified to all the apparatus finals winning 3 gold medals in ball, clubs, ribbon and a silver in hoop. Her next event was at the 2017 Tashkent World Cup where Dina won gold in the all-around ahead of sister Arina Averina, she qualified to all the apparatus finals taking gold in clubs, and 3 silver medals in ball, hoop and ribbon. On May 19–21, at the 2017 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Dina was member of the Golden winning Russian Team (together with senior individuals: twin sister Arina Averina, Aleksandra Soldatova and the junior group) scoring a total of 182.175 points which was more than 11 points ahead of their nearest competitor team Belarus.

At the conclusion of the Civil War, the sport of baseball (or base ball, as it was spelled at the time) experienced a tremendous explosion in interest. New ball clubs began to form in every city and town in the country almost as soon at the war was settled. Interest in base ball certainly was no different in the burgeoning industrial city of Wilmington, Delaware. On October 2, 1865, a group of Wilmington's leading businessmen and attorneys met to discuss the formation of a new amateur club to represent its city.

The ballpark became the home of the semi-professional Houston Heralds club in 1887, and the site became known as "Herald Park". The Heralds were named as such because their owner, William H. Bailey, also owned the local newspaper called the Houston Herald. Although the Heralds team ceased after that season, many continued to refer to the ballpark by this name well into the 20th century. Two big-league ball clubs barnstormed through Houston in 1887, the New York Giants and the St. Louis Browns, and played at Herald Park.

Wright, 49–93 passim. In 2011, a 19th-century baseball club, composed of players from Long Island, was organized and adopted the name "Eckford of Brooklyn" or "Eckford Base Ball Club of Brooklyn". The club plays its home games at the Old Bethpage Village Restoration (OBVR) in Old Bethpage, New York, and won the in-house OBVR championship annually from 2012 through 2016 and the Mid-Atlantic Vintage Base Ball League (MAVBBL) Championship in 2016. The 21st-century Eckfords have quickly become one of the premier 19th-century base ball clubs in the United States.

The Uni-President Lions and the Brother Elephants played the league's first game at the Taipei Municipal Baseball Stadium on March 17, 1990. In 1997, the Taiwan Major League was founded because of a CPBL broadcasting rights dispute. But after running losses, the two leagues merged and Taiwan's total of six ball clubs were born. Despite some cases of game-fixing that would cause some disillusionment among fans, in the 18 years of its history, the league continued to run and is still the only professional sports league in Taiwan.

Durunda made her senior debut at the 2013 Miss Valentine Cup in Tartu, Estonia where she won the bronze medal in all-around behind Ukrainian champion Ganna Rizatdinova and silver medalist Melitina Staniouta. She also won bronze in the ball, clubs and ribbon final. Durunda won gold in All-around at the 2013 Baltic Hoop. At the 2013 Pesaro World Cup, Durunda qualified for all four event finals, she finished 5th in ribbon. Durunda finished 6th in all-around at the 2013 Sofia World Cup and qualified for all four event finals.

On February 21, 1931, the Chicago White Sox and New York Giants played an exhibition game at Buffalo Stadium that was the first night game between two major league ball clubs. The game went on for ten innings. On June 11, 1950 a death occurred at the ballpark during a game between Houston and the Tulsa Oilers when a fifty-year- old laundry worker, Sanford B. Twente, committed suicide there at the press box. The incident was heard by those in the ballpark as well as those listening on television via KLEE-TV.

He has the NA record for most career runs batted in (276). During the summer of 1875, Boston's four Western stars agreed to play the following season for the Chicago White Stockings: McVey, Deacon White, Ross Barnes, and Albert Spalding. Partly because the rules forbade such tampering, Chicago led the founding of a new National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs (NL). The Big Four and Cap Anson led the team to an easy win on the field, with McVey serving as regular first baseman, second pitcher to Spalding, and second catcher to White.

In March 24–25, Dina took gold in the all-around at the 2018 Thiais Grand Prix; she qualified in 3 apparatus finals where she won gold in ball, ribbon and silver in clubs. On April 13–15; Dina then competed at the 2018 Pesaro World Cup winning gold in the all-around, in the event finals: she won gold in ball, clubs, a silver in hoop and placed 4th in ribbon. She competed at the 2018 Sofia World Championships, winning gold in all-around, hoop, ball and clubs.

The Players' National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, popularly known as the Players' League (sometimes rendered as Players League), was a short- lived but star-studded professional American baseball league of the 19th century. It emerged from the Brotherhood of Professional Base-Ball Players, the sport's first players' union. The Brotherhood included most of the best players of the National League. Brotherhood members, led by John Montgomery Ward, left the National League and formed the Players' League after failing to change the lopsided player-management relationship of the National League.

Douthit was selected by the Los Angeles Lakers in the second round, 56th overall, of the 2004 National Basketball Association draft along with Slovenian basketball player Sasha Vujacic, who was drafted in the first round, 27th overall. However, Douthit decided to play ball in Belgium instead since the Lakers already had 15 players on the roster, and it was still awaiting the decision of Karl Malone if he would join the team. Although he never played in the NBA, Douthit had several close stints in signing with a couple of ball clubs, specifically the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Clippers.

Peycheva started Rhythmic Gymnastics in 1991 at the Academic Club in Sofia, under head coach Marietta Dukova. As a junior, she had victories at several international tournaments. In 2001, Alina Kabaeva and her teammate Irina Tchachina, who originally won gold and silver medal in all-around, respectively tested positive for a banned diuretic (furosemide) and were stripped of their medals, Ukraine's Tamara Yerofeeva, who originally won bronze, was awarded the gold. With the disqualification of the Russian Team results at the 2001 World Championships, Peycheva took three golds (hoop, ball, clubs) as well as two silver (all around, rope) and one bronze (team).

In 1881, after the Browns profited $25,000 from playing a season's worth of informal contests, Von der Ahe bought out the team's remaining stockholders for $1,800.Hetrick1999: 8 With baseball's already existing popularity in Cincinnati and increasing popularity in other cities such as Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Baltimore, the time was right for a new league. Late that same year, along with other owners and financiers, Von der Ahe formed the American Association of Base Ball Clubs with the Brown Stockings.Hetrick1999: 9 In 1899, von der Ahe, once the most successful owner in the AA, was forced to sell the Browns due to bankruptcy.

Because of the injury, her first competition in 2017 was 1st Championship competition on national level, but she competed with only two apparatuses - Hoop and Ball. She made her senior debut at the 30th MTM Ljubljana FIG Tournament, where she placed 7th in All-around and qualified to three finals - with Ball, Clubs and Ribbon. Podgoršek competed at her first ever World Cup in April 2017, at World Cup Baku. She placed 29th in All-Around with the score of 54.400. Her next competition was World Cup Guadalajara where she finished on 28th place in All- Around.

Ball Clubs. HarperCollins Publishers. p. 104; Dewey, Donald & Arocella, Nicholas, Total Ballclubs, (Toronto: Sport Classic Books, 2005), p. 126 Ed Lafitte was not a descendant of the famed New Orleans pirate, Jean Lafitte. Ed Lafitte was the son of James Arnauld Lafitte (born March 31, 1846 in Charleston, South Carolina; died March 16, 1907 in Atlanta, Georgia), who was the son of John Baptiste Lafitte (born June 24, 1822 in Augusta, Georgia; died May 21, 1887 in New Orleans, Louisiana), who was the son of James Bertrand Lafitte (born October 16, 1770 in Tartas, France; died November 13, 1838 in Charleston, South Carolina).

William E. Robertson was president of the Buffalo, New York Federal League baseball team the Buffalo Blues. C. C. Madison in 1915. He was the former owner of the Kansas City, Missouri baseball club of the Federal League, the Kansas City Packers. James A. Gilmore of the Federal League circa 1913 The Federal League of Base Ball Clubs, known simply as the Federal League, was an American professional baseball league that played its first season in 1913 and operated as a "third major league", in competition with the established National and American Leagues, from 1914 to 1915.

Total attendance for the series (including the exhibition game) was 20,067, less than half the 45,857 who had attended the ten games of the 1924 series. Total receipts were $21,045, in comparison with $52,113 the previous year. Total expenses were $15,173, including $3,748 for park rent, $5,543 for railroad fares and hotels for the two ball clubs, $2,050 for war tax, and $827 for umpires. A surplus of $5,872 was available for distribution, with $1,233 going to the owners of the victorious Hilldale club, the same amount split among their players, and $822 each going to the owner and the players of the Kansas City Monarchs.

May 5–7, Kramarenko competed at the 2017 Sofia Junior World Cup and won gold in the all-around, she also swept the gold medals in all 4 apparatus finals in hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon. In October 12–14, Kramarenko competed with new programs and routines in preparation for the 2018 Season at the "2017 Hope of Russia" where she finished 4th in the all-around behind Polina Shmatko. On 4-6 November, Kramarenko won the all-around gold at the annual "Russian-Chinese Youth Games". She qualified to all 4 event finals: won bronze in the hoop and ribbon finals, silver in clubs, and placed 9th in ball.

Rizatdinova together with Maksymenko and Mazur appeared in an editorial on the 2013 August edition of Ukraine Vogue. Rizatdinova competed at the 2013 World Games in Cali where she won gold in hoop and silver medals in ball, clubs. She then competed at the 2013 World Championships in Kiev, Ukraine where she qualified to 4 event finals. She won gold in hoop beating newly turned Russian senior Yana Kudryavtseva and her teammate Margarita Mamun, it was Ukraine's first gold medal since Anna Bessonova became the World Champion in 2007, Rizatdinova also won silver in ribbon, placed 6th in ball and 4th in clubs final.

In 1860, the Excelsior club made a now-famous tour around New York and large cities in surrounding states. They defeated the Champion Club of Albany, the Victory Club of Troy, the Buffalo Niagaras, and the powerful Brooklyn Atlantics. Besides establishing the tradition of ball clubs traveling long distances to compete with other clubs, the tour helped advance the game's popularity outside the New York region.Ryczek, William, "The Brooklyn Excelsiors: Baseball's First Road Gang", The National Pastime Museum, January 24, 2013 In 1860 the Excelsiors compiled a record of 19 wins and two losses, and were champions of the National Association, finishing in a draw with the Brooklyn Atlantics Club.

In the 2011 World Championships, Kanaeva broke her own record by again winning 6 gold medals in a single World Championship, the all-around, event finals ( hoop, ball, clubs, ribbon ) and team event. At the 2011 Grand Prix Final in Brno, Kanaeva won gold in all-around and all event finals where she scored a perfect 30 in ribbon under the 30-point judging system. She finished her season winning the all-around at the 2011 Aeon Cup in Japan. She ranked 5th in the world ranking 2011 season, dropped form the 1st in 2010 season due to she didn't take part in many competition in the 2011 season.

The National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (NAPBBP), or known simply as the National Association (NA), was founded in 1871 and continued through the 1875 season. It succeeded and incorporated several professional clubs from the previous National Association of Base Ball Players (NABBP) of 1857–1870, sometimes called "the amateur association"; in turn several of its clubs created the succeeding National League of Professional Baseball Clubs. Later shortened simply to be called the National League, it was founded 1876, the earliest one half of modern Major League Baseball (MLB) in America, with the later competing American League of Professional Base Ball Clubs in 1901, known too as the American League.

That year he also participated in the annual East-West all-star game in New York City, being voted the city's most outstanding amateur player by the Detroit Sports Guild. On February 8, 1949, the Cincinnati Reds signed Michigan State University star catcher Landrith. This angered Spartans coach John Kobs, who was quoted as saying, "They ought to leave these young players alone and give them a chance to finish college." Reds general manager Warren Giles agreed with the coach's sentiment, but cited that he could not wait any longer to sign Landrith as eight other major league ball clubs were all interested in signing him.

Ralenkova shared the silver medal with another teammate, Lilia Ignatova, and Soviet Galina Beloglazova. Ralenkova won a collection of medals in event finals but was just edged out of every title except hoop (she also earned bronze for ball, clubs, and ribbon). Ralenkova tied Soviet Galina Beloglazova for the all-around title at the 1984 European Championships, a result she strongly contested but finished the Individual competition finals with golds for hoop, ball, and clubs and a bronze for ribbon. In 1990, the U.S. Gymnastics Federation invited Ralenkova to do clinics, workshops, and sports promotions in a 35-city tour across the U.S. In 1991, she started her own Rhythmic Academy in Redmond, Washington, United States.

Then Mulmina and Eleonora Romanova competed at the 2012 European Junior Championships were Team Ukraine finished 4th, she qualified to 2 event finals taking a bronze medal in ball and finished 6th in clubs. On June 14–17, Mulmina burst onto the junior international scene at the 2012 Junior Irina Deleanu Trophy where she won gold in the all-around and event finals in hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon. On September 28–30, Mulmina together with teammates Ganna Rizatdinova and Viktoria Mazur represented Team Deriugins School at the Aeon Cup in Tokyo, Japan, Mulmina finished 4th in junior individual all-around finals behind Azeri gymnast Marina Durunda with team Ukraine taking 4th in the overall standings.

Their success led to the founding of the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players in 1871 and its successor, the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs in 1876, the elder of baseball's two Major Leagues and the oldest professional sports league in the world. Already in the 19th century, the "old game" was invoked for special exhibitions such as reunions and anniversariesand for making moral points. Today hundreds of clubs in the U.S. play "vintage base ball" according to the 1845, 1858, or later rules (up to about 1887), usually in vintage uniforms. Some of them have supporting casts that recreate period dress and manner, especially those associated with living history museums.

Spencer Haywood described Shue's ability to instill confidence "My guy was Gene Shue, and still is Gene Shue, who had the faith in me to say, "Take this team, and let's go." Bill Walton wrote in his autobiography that Shue "was awesome, always so positive, upbeat, imaginative, and extremely creative." In 1980, Sports Illustrated suggested that Shue "might be the reigning expert on the rehabilitation of players, judging from his penchant for taking in the league's rejects and wayward souls." In 2009, Fox Sports listed him as one of ten great players who became great coaches, noting that Shue "specialized in improving the fortunes of bad ball clubs, which is the only reason why he lost so many games.

Chan earned her first Hong Kong All-Around Champion title at the 2012-2013 Hong Kong Rhythmic Gymnastics Open Championships and subsequently earned the All-Around Champion title at the 2014 Hong Kong Rhythmic Gymnastics Open Championships and 2015-2016 Hong Kong Rhythmic Gymnastics Open Championships. She was also the champion in hoop, ball, clubs, and ribbon at the 2015-2016 Hong Kong Rhythmic Gymnastics Open Championships. Internationally, Chan earned 1st place in Ball and 1st Runner- up in Hoop and Ribbon at the 11th Singapore Rhythmic Gymnastics Open Championships in 2014. Chan also achieved 2nd place in the Group's All Around at the 2015 Rhythmic Gymnastics National Youth Championships held in Hebei, China.

The Averinas (Dina and Arina) first trained under their first coach Larisa Belova until they became members of the Russian national team and began training in Olympic Training Center in Moscow where they are now coached by Vera Shatalina. The Averinas began appearing in international competitions in 2011 competing at the 2011 Russian-Chinese Youth Games where Dina won the gold and Arina finishing 5th in the all-around. In 2012, Dina finished 4th at the Russian Junior Championships. Dina and Arina both competed at the Venera Cup in Eilat, Israel where Dina won the all-around gold, she also won gold in hoop and silver medals in ball, clubs and ribbon.

On September 22–28, Moustafaeva competed at the 2014 World Championships where she finished 11th in the all-around with a total of 67.890 points. She qualified to 1 event final finishing 8th in clubs. In 2015, she began the season competing at the 2015 Moscow Grand Prix finishing 8th in the all-around. her next event at the 2015 Thiais Grand Prix she won the all-around silver ahead of Israel's Neta Rivkin, she qualified to all 4 event finals winning bronze (ball, clubs, ribbon) and placed 8th in hoop. Moustafaeva finished 10th in all-around at the 2015 Bucharest World Cup, she qualified to 3 event finals and won bronze in clubs.

On February 13 and 14, 1920, talks were held in Kansas City, Missouri that established the Negro National League and its governing body the National Association of Colored Professional Base Ball Clubs. The league was initially composed of eight teams: Chicago American Giants, Chicago Giants, Cuban Stars, Dayton Marcos, Detroit Stars, Indianapolis ABC's, Kansas City Monarchs and St. Louis Giants. Foster was named league president and controlled every aspect of the league, including which players played on which teams, when and where teams played, and what equipment was used (all of which had to be purchased from Foster). Foster, as booking agent of the league, took a five percent cut of all gate receipts.

Note: Team names are given here according to the convention used by The Baseball Encyclopedia, which regularized them into the familiar form of modern team names. However, most teams in the early period had no name, aside from that of the club (as in "Hartford Base Ball Club" or "Athletic Base Ball Club of Philadelphia"), and nicknames like "Beaneaters," "Perfectos" and the many allusions to uniform colors were inventions by the florid sportswriters of the day.According to the National League's 1877 Constitution, the member clubs were given as "Boston B. B. Club, Chicago B. B. Club, Cincinnati B. B. Club, Hartford B. B. Club, Louisville B. B. Club, St. Louis B. B. Club." Constitution and Playing Rules of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs.

The merger of the Forest City and London Base Ball clubs to form the London Tecumsehs occurred in June 1868 with John Brown as president — a team sponsored by the Tecumseh House hotel on the southwest corner of York and Richmond streets, immediately north of today's Canadian National railway tracks, which was demolished in the 1920s. In 1868, the Tecumsehs lost to the Woodstock, Ontario Young Canadians 89–46 in a five- hour game. Woodstock later defeated Guelph Maple Leafs 36-29 to win the Canadian Silver Ball Championship. During the early 1870s, the major rivals of the London Tecumsehs were the Guelph Maple Leafs who were sponsored by brewer/sportsman George Sleeman, proprietor of Silver Creek Brewery, and the Woodstock Young Canadians.

Cook never worked for a Major League baseball team; he described the relationship between himself and baseball franchises in the forward to Percentage Baseball: "I would be willing to go as far as pretending to understand why none of four competent and successful executives of second-division ball clubs were most reluctant to employ probabilistic methods of any description... but they did not even want to hear about them!" Though Cook himself was never hired by a Major League team, his work influenced Major League Baseball personnel such as Tal Smith, Ewing Kauffman and Davey Johnson, as well as future sabermetricians like Palmer.Schwarz, pp. 82-83. Percentage Baseball also influenced Eric Walker, who worked for the San Francisco Giants and Sandy Alderson's Oakland Athletics.

In two of these championships, the Browns met the Chicago White Stockings, launching the enduring Cardinals–Cubs rivalry. In 1892, the Browns—also called the Perfectos—joined the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs, later renamed the National League. In 1900, the team was renamed the Cardinals. (Two years later, an unrelated St. Louis Browns team joined the American League.) Notable Cardinals achievements include manager/owner Branch Rickey's invention of the farm system, Rogers Hornsby's two batting Triple Crowns, Dizzy Dean's 30-win season in 1934, Stan Musial's 17 MLB and 29 NL records, Bob Gibson's 1.12 earned run average (ERA) in 1968, Whitey Herzog's Whiteyball, Mark McGwire's single-season home run record in 1998, and the 2011 championship team's unprecedented comebacks.

William Hulbert, founder of the National League, the first "major" league. After a tumultuous five-year existence, the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (NA) folded following the 1875 season. The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs (NL) was formed in Chicago, Illinois by businessman, and owner of the Chicago Base Ball Club (now known as, the Chicago Cubs), William Hulbert, for the purpose of replacing the NA, which he believed to have been corrupt, mismanaged, full of rowdy, drunken ballplayers, and under the influence of the gambling community. One of the new rules put into place by the new league was that all teams had to be located in cities that had a population of 75,000 or more.

In 1928, National League ball clubs proposed an innovation whereby each team's pitcher, usually the weakest hitter in the lineup, would not bat, but be replaced for the purposes of batting and base- running by a tenth player. There were expectations that at the interleague meetings that year, the National League teams would vote for it, and the American League teams against it, leaving Landis to cast the deciding vote. In the event, the proposal was withdrawn, and Landis did not disclose how he would have voted on this early version of the "designated hitter" rule. Landis disliked the innovation of "night baseball", played in the evening with the aid of artificial light, and sought to discourage teams from it.

With the trade of Stephon Marbury to the Suns for Jason Kidd, the Nets became the class of the Eastern Conference in 2001. Due to the long-noted discrepancy in media coverage between the New York and New Jersey ball clubs, upon being signed, Kidd promised the Nets would no longer play second fiddle to the Knicks. The rivalry was again turned up a notch, when New York native Stephon Marbury, the once-vilified point guard in New Jersey who was traded for Kidd, was traded to the Knicks in 2004. Marbury and Kidd had their own rivalry, with Kidd being the consensus best-point- guard-in-the-leagueBest point guard list begins with Kidd – NBA – ESPN and Marbury declaring himself the league's best point guard.

Founders of the club, called the Diamond State Base Ball Club, included attorneys Levi C. Bird, Anthony Higgins, Benjamin Nields and several others. The ball club rented a home ball field for its practice and games, which was located at Delaware Avenue and Adams Street, adjacent to the Wilmington & Brandywine Cemetery, at what was then the edge of the Wilmington's city limits. Diamond State Base Ball Club hastily arranged its first ever match, which was played at its home field on October 7, 1865 against a student team from nearby St. Mary's College. Rival base ball clubs soon formed all around the city and state, though none would prove to be as well-organized or competitively strong as the Diamond State nine.

The student newspaper is called the 1851 Chronicle in reference to Lasell's founding year, and the student yearbook is called the Lamp. Polished Magazine is made by Lasell students/ A student-run online college radio station began operation in the fall of 2004; in 2016, the radio station began broadcasting on FM as WLAS-LP (102.9). There are social justice, service-oriented, religious, and multicultural organizations: Umoja Step Team, Fashion and Service Society, Hope for Humanity, Hillel Club, Multicultural Student Union, Niños de Veracruz, Students Against Drunk Driving, and Students Advocating For Equality. There are also academic organizations (Accounting/Finance, Fashion, Graphic Design, Hospitality, Psychology, Sports Management, and TV/Media) and athletic organizations (Cheerleading, Crew, Dance, Roller Hockey, Rugby, Skiing and Snowboarding, Tennis, and Wiffle Ball clubs).

At the 2017 Maccabiah Games, she won all five gold medals (the all-around, ball, ribbon, hoop, and clubs)."Dorozhon wins javelin gold, secures spot in World Championships," The Jerusalem Post. Ashram competed at the quadrennial-held 2017 World Games in Wrocław, Poland, from July 20–30; she qualified for all the apparatus finals, winning a silver medal in clubs ahead of Arina Averina, a bronze in hoop behind Russian Dina Averina, and finished 8th in ball and 6th in ribbon. On August 11–13, Ashram competed at the 2017 Kazan World Challenge Cup, and finished 4th in the all-around behind Katsiaryna Halkina; she qualified in all the apparatus finals and won four bronze medals, in hoop, ball, clubs and ribbon.

Gross was born in Scottsbluff, Nebraska and played college baseball both at Murray State Jc (where he was drafted in the 3rd round of the January draft) and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. In 1985, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Hyannis Mets of the Cape Cod Baseball League. He was drafted by the New York Mets in the 4th round of the 1986 Major League Baseball draft. He played his first MLB game on April 21, 1990 with the Cincinnati Reds. Gross played for four different ball clubs during his career: the Cincinnati Reds from 1990 until 1991, the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1992 until 1993, the Boston Red Sox in 1999 and the Houston Astros in 2000.

Early baseball game played at Elysian Fields, Hoboken (Currier & Ives lithograph). In 1845, the Knickerbocker Club began using Elysian Fields in Hoboken to play baseball, following the New York and Magnolia Ball Clubs which had begun playing there in 1843. > At a preliminary meeting [of the Knickerbockers], it was suggested that as > it was apparent they would soon be driven from Murray Hill, some suitable > place should be obtained in New Jersey, where their stay could be permanent; > accordingly, a day or two afterwards, enough to make a game assembled at > Barclay street ferry, crossed over, marched up the road, prospecting for > ground on each side, until they reached the Elysian Fields, where they > "settled."Peverelly, Charles, The Book of American Pastimes (New York: > Published by the Author, 1866), 340.

Reading's first official baseball team, the Reading Athletic Club, formed in November 1858 and, for the next 15 years, played other local teams for unofficial championships and bragging rights. The Reading Actives date their existence to 1874."A Change in the Name," Reading Times, vol. 52, no. 118 (Feb. 18, 1884), pg. 1. After the National Agreement of 1883, which organized major and minor leagues, the Actives became a member of the Interstate Association, one of the two original minor leagues. The Actives went 33–35 in 1883 against teams from Brooklyn, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Trenton, New Jersey, Wilmington, Delaware, Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and Camden, New Jersey (which disbanded that July), finishing in third place before the league folded after the season. In 1884 the Active Club became founding members of the Eastern League of Professional Base Ball Clubs.

Given its population, Niedernberg has a great number of clubs and associations. In the field of sports, besides the tradition-rich angling and cycle ball clubs, the Reiselust carrier pigeon club, the gymnastic club, the DJK (Deutsche Jugendkraft, or “German Youth Power” – a Catholic sporting association), the strength sport club Germania, the sailing and surfing club and the football club SpVgg Niedernberg, there are also a handicapped sports group, a tennis club, a skittle club and a table football club. There are also local chapters of the Bavarian Red Cross, the Federation of German Catholic Youth (Bund der deutschen katholischen Jugend, or BDKJ), the DPSG, the volunteer fire brigade, which had its beginnings as far back as 1855, and the KJG (a Catholic youth group). The historical society, through its various activities, holds a special importance in Niedernberg.

On April 6–8, she won the gold medal in the all-around at the MTM Ljubljana tournament. On April 20–22, at the 2018 Tashkent World Cup, Zelikman finished 5th in the all- around, she qualified in all the apparatus finals: finishing 4th in ball, clubs and 7th in hoop, ribbon. On May 4–6, she then competed at the 2018 Guadalajara World Challenge Cup finishing 11th in the all-around, she qualified into the ball final where she won her first world cup medal, a bronze behind Italian Milena Baldassarri. On May 11–13, Zelikman continued her success at the 2018 Portimao World Challenge Cup, where she won silver in the all-around behind Russia's Maria Sergeeva, she qualified in all apparatus finals and won gold in ball, silver in hoop, bronze in clubs and finished 7th in ribbon.

Ana Luiza appeared in international competitions in 2011, she competed at the 2013 Moscow Grand Prix she finished 9th in all- around, she competed in the junior division of the World Cup series at the 2013 Lisboa World Cup and 2013 Bucharest World Cup finishing 5th in all- around. In 2014, Ana Luiza started her season competing at the Miss Valentine Cup in Tartu, Estonia winning 3 gold in (ball, clubs and ribbon) and 1 bronze(hoop), she then competed at the 2014 Moscow Grand Prix finishing 8th in the all-around, following her placement she earned a qualification for Romania to compete for the Youth Olympic Games. Ana Luiza competed in the World Cup series in Debrecen, qualifying to 2 event finals, she won silver medal in hoop and bronze in ball. Her next event was at the Pesaro World Cup.

Stăiculescu was a three time national champion and had her highest placement at the 1983 World Championships by finishing 6th in All-around and qualifying for ball, clubs and ribbon finals. At the time of rhythmic gymnastics being officially added as an Olympic Sport at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, the gymnasts from USSR and Bulgaria were considered the favourites to win, but the Eastern led Boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics left Stăiculescu the highest rank gymnast to compete in the Olympic event. Canadian gymnast, Lori Fung (ranked 23rd in the world at the time), trained with Stăiculescu ahead of the games. Despite finishing first in qualification, Stăiculescu finished in second place in the final to win the silver medal, having been beaten to the first Olympic gold medal in rhythmic gymnastics by Fung.

A major factor in the development of the North American closed membership system during the 19th Century was the distances between cities, with some teams separated by half of the North American continent, resulting in high traveling costs. When the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs was established in 1876, its founders judged that in order to prosper, they must make baseball's highest level of competition a "closed shop", with a strict limit on the number of teams, and with each member having exclusive local rights. This guarantee of a place in the league year after year would permit each club owner to monopolize fan bases in their respective exclusive territories and give them the confidence to invest in infrastructure, such as improved ballparks. This in turn would guarantee the revenues needed to support traveling across the continent.

As a junior, she placed first at the CIS Spatakiada, and won the Russian women's championships twice in a row. In August 1999, Tchachina began training at the Olympic Preparatory School under the guidance of Irina Viner, and around the same time she won the World Championships in Osaka, Japan. In 2001, she won the gold in the hoop and silver in the individual all-around, ball, clubs and rope at the 2001 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships in Madrid, Spain, but Tchachina and her teammate Alina Kabaeva tested positive for a banned diuretic and were stripped of their medals. Irina Viner, the Russian head coach, who also served as the Vice President of the FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics Technical Committee at the time, said her gymnasts had been taking a food supplement called "Hyper" containing mild diuretics, which, according to Viner, the gymnasts were taking for pre- menstrual syndrome.

Founded in 1913 as the Centre Regional Federation (), the new organisation replaced the casual Madrid Association of Foot-Ball Clubs which had been formed a decade earlier. The Centro Federation, expanded to include the wider Castile region but always dominated by clubs from the capital, particularly Real Madrid CF, took over the running of the existing Madrid regional championship, the local league competition in which the best placed teams qualified for the Copa del Rey each year until these were disbanded in 1940. Centro also played regional representative matches, mostly friendlies but also in the annual Prince of Asturias Cup between 1915 and 1924, their most frequent opponent being Catalonia. In 1932, the name changed to the Castilian Football Federation which remained in place until 1988, when separate federations were created for the established autonomous communities of Spain, therefore Castile and León, Castilla–La Mancha and Madrid have had different governing bodies since then.

In the 1890s, in the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs ("National League"), established in 1876, a powerful, innovative and scrappy Baltimore Orioles squad included "Wee" Willie Keeler, Wilbert Robinson, Hughie Jennings and John McGraw. They won three straight unprecedented NL pennants - - 1894/1895/1896, and participated in all four of the then "Temple Cup" championship series, winning the last two of them. That Orioles team had started a decade and a half earlier as a charter member of the old American Association in 1882, a competing rival to the then 7 year older Nationals. Despite its on-field success in either first or second place standings, it was unfortunately sabotaged as one of the four teams that was contracted out of existence by the National League after the 1899 season which reduced itself from 12 franchises to only 8 teams, a low number which endured for over half a century.

Prince has appeared in senior international competitions since 2009. She has competed in 7 World Championships (2009 in Mie, 2010 in Moscow, 2011 Montpellier 2013 in Kiev, 2014 in Izmir, 2015 in Stuttgart), 2017 (Pesaro). Prince was member of the Australian Rhythmic Gymnastics Team (together with Janine Murray, Naazmi Johnston) that won team gold at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India. Making history Prince was the first Australian female gymnast to compete in three Commonwealth Games, (2010, 2014 & 2018). She has also competed in 12 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup. Prince competed at the 2016 Pacific Rim Championships where she finished 6th in the all-around and won bronze medals in apparatus finals in ball, clubs and ribbon. Prince also qualified through the continental quota system for the 2016 Rio Olympics as being the highest- ranked rhythmic gymnast in the individual all-round event from the Oceania region. On 8–10 July, Prince then finished 30th in the all-around at the 2016 Kazan World Cup.

Sherlock won her first English championships as a junior in 2011 and became British Ribbon Junior champion the same year. She won the English championships and British Hoop, Ball, Clubs and Ribbon Senior titles in 2013. Sherlock represented England at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where they finished 4th in the Team event, and she qualified to the all-around final (10th) and came 7th in the hoop and ball finals. She won Silver in the all- around British championships in 2015 and became Ribbon British champion 2015. Sherlock represented Great Britain at the 2014 World Championships in Izmir and at the 2015 World Championships in Stuttgart. She won five golds and became English Champion on 3 July 2016. On 8–10 July Sherlock finished 32nd in the all-around at the 2016 Kazan World Cup. She won the Senior All-around Championships 2016 on 29–30 July 2016 at the British Championships in Liverpool.

In 2014, Zeng started her season competing at the 2014 Rhythmic Challenge winning the all-around and the four event finals. She competed at the World Cup series in Lisboa, Pesaro and Minsk, she won numerous bronze and silver medals in the all-around, event finals and team competitions. At the 2014 Junior Pan American Championships, Zeng swept all gold medals (all-around, hoop, ball, clubs, ribbon) and won USA a spot in the 2014 Youth Olympic Games; Later on, Zeng defended her junior title at the 2014 US Junior National championships, placing 1st (all-around, hoop, ball), 2nd (clubs), 3rd (ribbon). Zeng was selected as the sole representative of United States at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, China. She placed second in the qualification and went on to take the all- around bronze in the finals with a total score of 56.750, just two hundredths behind Belarus’ Mariya Trubach who took the silver medal.

In her next event, after a slower-than-usual start to her competitive season, Kudryavtseva roared back to sweep the gold medals at the 2015 Bucharest World Cup in the all-around with a score of (75.950 a new PB) and all event finals. In 10–12 April, Kudryavtseva competed at the 2015 Pesaro World Cup and won the all-around silver medal behind Margarita Mamun, she qualified to 3 event finals and won gold in clubs, ribbon and silver in hoop. At the 2015 European Championships in Minsk, Kudryavtseva took 4 gold medals in ball, clubs, ribbon and team. In May, 15–16, Kudryavtseva won the all- around gold at the 2015 Holon Grand Prix, she won 3 gold medals in apparatus finals (ball, hoop, clubs). In 12–18 June, at the inaugural 2015 European Games, Kudryavtseva won its first ever all-around title with a total of 76.100 points (the highest all-around mark scored under the 20-point judging system).

However; She competed in the remaining 3 apparatus and was able to win the gold medals in Ball, Clubs and Ribbon. In the All- around finals, Kudryavtseva started well in her first routine in Clubs but a slight error with the Ribbon allowed Mamun to move into the lead, which she held heading into the final rotation however Mamun dropped the Ribbon in a risk element, Kudryavtseva took full advantage and kept a clean routine posting the highest score of the competition (19.116) with the Ball to bounce back and take the gold with a total of 75.632 points. Commenting after her 3rd consecutive All-around title, Kudryavtseva has said "I didn't know that I had won, but it was kind of emotional because everything was finished, and I did everything quite well, so I was glad, It was an emotional moment." After Worlds, Kudryavtseva underwent treatment and rehabilitation for her ankle injury in Munich, Germany.

"If the risk was greater due to the fact that it was a night game played under artificial lights, by the same token the plaintiff was under greater obligation to protect himself by seeking a position of safety behind screens." The dissenting judge argued that that was a factual question a jury should have been allowed to decide, saying "it would be a dangerous policy for the law to pronounce a principle of immunity to ball clubs against ordinary care as related to the construction of its stands or the location or the placing of equipment which has to do with the safety of its patrons." An appeals court in neighboring Indiana later that year also declined to distinguish an injury resulting from a fellow spectator's attempt to throw the foul back on the field, holding that that too was part of the game. "The danger of a ball thrown by a spectator toward the playing field while play is in session seems to us to be an ordinary hazard of the game" wrote the court in Emhardt v.

The following season White signed Foster, outfielder Pete Hill, and second baseman Charlie Grant, and the Philadelphia Giants won a championship series from the X-Giants, five games to two. For 1905 White brought in Home Run Johnson of the X-Giants, and made the Philadelphia Giants into what he considered "the strongest organization of the time." The Giants went undefeated against New England League teams and swept four games from the Newark International League team. The Giants played a total of 158 games, winning 134, losing 21, and tying 3.White 2014, p. 92 The powerful baseball promoter and team owner Nat Strong declared the 1904-1905 Philadelphia Giants "the best team in the history of the game."Wilson, January 16, 1926. Sol White, 1902 Philadelphia Giants Despite losing Johnson to the Brooklyn Royal Giants in 1906, the Giants won both the informal "colored championship" and the pennant of the racially integrated International League of Independent Professional Base Ball Clubs. More player losses followed in 1907, as Rube Foster defected to the Leland Giants of Chicago.

Accessed December 18, 2008. The rule was first implemented in the short-lived Players' League in 1890 and adopted by the National League and American Association of Base Ball Clubs in 1894, applying only if a fly ball could be handled by an infielder with a runner on first base occupied and only one out, with additional changes made in subsequent years.Evolution of 19th Century Baseball Rules, 19th Century Baseball. Accessed December 18, 2008. Stevens was fascinated by the incremental development of the rule and the way in which the rule's formal, step-by-step development mirrored the process by which the common law was created. The semi-parodic paper was thoroughly footnoted to show how the rule was needed in an era in which unseemly behavior was taking place that would not have been accepted in the sport's earlier gentlemanly age. In addition to its sometimes-humorous commentaries on baseball, the article is a parody of the style in which law review articles are generally written, such as their sometimes overly-formal wording and their often excessive use of footnoting.

As a junior, Kadobina competed as an individual gymnast. She was member of the Belarusian Team (together with teammates Katsiaryna Halkina and Elena Bolotina that competed at the 2012 European Junior Championships where Team Belarus won the Team silver medal, she won another silver clubs final. In 2013 season, Kadobina debuted as a senior, she competed at the 2013 Grand Prix Final in Berlin and finished 9th in all-around. She qualified to three event finals (ball, clubs, ribbon) and won bronze in ribbon. In 2014, she was a member of the Belarusian group that competed at the 2014 European Championships, however they finished a distant 17th place in all-around finals after 3 mistakes from their 3 Balls + 2 Ribbons, the Group had performed under Khachaturian’s "Sabre Dance" in their 2 Ribbons + 3 Balls routine, but had to change the exercise under a different music 2 weeks before the start of the event in Baku. Kadobina was with the Belarusian Group where in September 5–7, at the 2014 World Cup series in Kazan, they won silver in Group all-around.

In 2015 season, Dina started her season at the 2015 Moscow Grand Prix, she then competed at the Corbeil-Essonnes International Rhythmic Gymnastics Tournament where she won the all-around silver medal behind twin sister Arina Averina, she qualified to 4 event finals, taking gold in ribbon (tied with Arina), silver medals in hoop, ball and placed 6th in clubs. On August 7–9, Dina competed at the MTK Budapest taking gold in the all-around, hoop, ball, clubs and a silver in ribbon. Dina followed another gold medal win in the all-around at the 2015 Dundee International Tournament in Sofia, ahead of twin sister Arina. In 2016, Dina began her season competing at the 2016 Grand Prix Moscow finishing 6th in the all-around and qualified to the hoop final.. On February 26–28, Dina competed in the first World Cup of the season at the 2016 Espoo World Cup finishing 6th in the all-around; she won bronze in ball, placed 4th in hoop, clubs and 6th in ribbon.

Khonina was a member of the Russian National Reserve Team since 2014, and was moved to the Russian National Team in 2018. She won all-around in the Russian Rhythmic Gymnastics Cup in 2016. She finished 9th in the all-around at the 2016 Russian Championships and 4th at the 2017 Russian Championships. She won the bronze medal in clubs and the bronze medal in ribbon at the 2017 Russian Championships. Khonina made her breakthrough in the 2017 Season. She won two bronze medals at the 2017 Russian Championships with clubs and ribbon. She debuted in the Grand Prix series at the 2017 Kiev Grand Prix where she won the all-around gold medal ahead of teammate Iuliia Bravikova, she also qualified to all apparatus finals winning 3 silver medals in ribbon, clubs, ball and finished 4th in hoop. On June 2–4 Khonina competed at her first World Challenge Cup at the 2017 Guadalajara World Cup where she won the gold medal in the all-around ahead of teammate Ekaterina Selezneva, she qualified to all apparatus finals taking gold medals in ball, clubs, finished 4th in ribbon and 8th in hoop.

Then in the event finals, she took the four gold medals. On 6–8 May, Mamun competed at the 2016 Brno Grand Prix where she won the all-around gold breaking her Personal Best score with a total of 77.100 points; she also swept the gold medals in all 4 apparatus finals (hoop, ball, clubs, ribbon). She won another gold medal in the all- around at the 2016 Minsk World Cup with a total of 75.700 points, she also won all 4 of the apparatus finals. On 3–5 June, Mamun won the all-around gold at the 2016 Guadalajara World Cup with a total score of 76.550 points, in the apparatus finals: she also won gold in hoop, clubs, ribbon and placed 4th in ball. On 17–19 June, Mamun competed at the 2016 European Championships, she dropped her hoop once however she scored well in her remaining apparatus in ball(19.166), ribbon(19.133) and Clubs(19.333) - a European record under the 20 point CoP judging system; her overall results were enough to win her the all-around silver medal ahead of Ukraine's Ganna Rizatdinova.

Durunda then competed at the 2015 Bucharest World Cup and finished 5th in the all-around behind Korean Son Yeon-Jae. She qualified to event finals taking bronze in ribbon and placing 4th in hoop, ball, clubs. On April 10–12, Durunda placed 6th in all-around at the 2015 Pesaro World Cup and qualified to all 4 apparatus finals. Durunda then competed at the 2015 European Championships where Team Azerbaijan finished 5th, she qualified 2 event finals winning bronze in ribbon and placed 5th in clubs. Durunda finished 8th in all-around at the 2015 Grand Prix Berlin and qualified to 2 event finals. On June 15–21, Durunda competed at the inaugural 2015 European Games where she finished 6th in the all-around, she qualified to 3 apparatus finals: won the silver medal in ribbon, finished 5th in hoop and 6th in ball. In August, Durunda won the all-around silver at the 2015 Baltic Cup behind Israeli gymnast Victoria Veinberg Filanovsky. Durunda then competed at the 2015 Budapest World Cup finishing 7th in the all-around and qualified to 3 apparatus finals. In her next competition at the 2015 Sofia World Cup, Durunda finished 8th in the all- around behind Bulgarian Neviana Vladinova.