Killilea was one of the five men who founded baseball's American League as a major league in 1899.
Replacing the old Eastern and Western conferences (although divisions from those conferences still existed but were renamed to suit the realignment), the new conferences, AFC and NFC, function similar to Major League Baseball's American and National leagues, and each of those two were divided into three divisions: East, Central, and West.
The former American League MVP and current player for the Cleveland Indians allegedly admitted to steroid use as well as HGH use in front of a grand jury in December 2003.
Connie Mack and John McGraw, who had been excellent players in the 1890s and had gone on to be the winningest managers in their respective leagues - Mack with 9 American League pennants and 5 World Series titles, and McGraw with 10 National League pennants and 3 World Series titles;
The publication also extensively covered Larry Doby, the first black player to successfully integrate into the American League's Cleveland Indians baseball franchise.
Steve Palermo, American League umpire who was partially paralyzed by a gunshot wound while apprehending two armed robbers outside the restaurant on July 7, 1991.
He started the last seven games of the 1912 season for the New York Highlanders, who were 50–102 and finished in last place in the American League.
In 1955, Ray was the busiest hurler in the American League, participating in 60 games, winning nine and losing one.
The National Afro-American League was formed on January 25, 1890, by Timothy Thomas Fortune.
2009 American League Cy Young Award winner Zack Greinke specifically mentioned FIP as his favorite statistic.
He played a brief stint in the Inter-American League in 1979, but was out of baseball by the end of the season.
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The New York Highlanders' 1903 season finished with the team in 4th place in the American League with a record of 72-62.
The 1954 Philadelphia Athletics season involved the A's finishing 8th in the American League with a record of 51 wins and 103 losses, 60 games behind AL Champion Cleveland in their 54th and final season in Philadelphia, before moving to Kansas City, Missouri for the following season.
For the first time in Series history, the designated hitter was adopted following the implementation of this rule by the American League during the 1973 MLB season.
On September 16, 1968, Salerno received a call from American League president Joe Cronin, informing Salerno that he and his crew chief Bill Valentine were being fired, effective immediately.
Reardon had a difficult relationship with longtime NL umpire Bill Klem, the dean of the league staff; the younger umpire insisted upon wearing the outside chest protector used by American League umpires, rather than the inside protector favored by Klem.
Returning to the field the next year, Rigney and led the Minnesota Twins to the 1970 AL West championship before being replaced midway through the 1972 season.
Born in Inverness, Alabama and a graduate of Auburn University, Hitchcock played all four infield positions during a nine-year American League active career.
During his four years as the Yankees' manager, the team posted a record of 313–268, finishing first during the strike-shortened season, thereby being named by the Associated Press as the American League Manager of the Year and became the 1995 American League manager for the All-Star Game.
As president, majority owner and de facto general manager of the Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins franchise of the American League from 1955–1984, he was famous for his devotion to the game and for his sayings.
He was the second-youngest player in the American League when he made his major-league debut, being older than 16-year old Carl Scheib.
Charles Otto Hartman (August 10, 1888 – October 22, 1960) was a left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played briefly in the American League during the 1908 season.
When Kenesaw Mountain Landis brokered a deal between the Federal League, American League and National League that ended the Federal League's existence, Weeghman was allowed to buy controlling interest in the Cubs.
Nallin was also a Major League Baseball umpire from 1915–1932 for the American League.
Dode Criss (March 12, 1885 – September 8, 1955) was a right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher and pinch hitter who played his entire career from 1908 to 1911 with the St. Louis Browns of the American League.
Much-traveled (and frequently traded), he would play in the American League for five seasons (1950–1954) for the Browns (twice), Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox (twice), Detroit Tigers, and the Baltimore Orioles (where as a transplanted St. Louis Brown he was a member of the first modern Baltimore MLB team in 1954).
Records of double plays were not kept regularly until 1933 in the National League and 1939 in the American League.
After a season's absence, he returned to play in the American League's inaugural season in 1901.
The National League first kept official earned run average statistics in 1912 (the statistic was called "Heydler's statistic" for a while, after then-NL secretary John Heydler), with the American League following suit afterward.
Carroll played briefly for the 1929 Boston Red Sox who finished in last place in the American League, winning only 58 games and losing 96, 48 games behind the Philadelphia Athletics champions.
He began his playing career in the American Association before joining the Tigers in the American League in 1908.
After he hung up his uniform, he was the general manager of the AAA Seattle Angels (1965–68), and worked in the front office as director of group ticket sales for the Seattle Pilots during their lone American League season, 1969.
Among the Eagles players during her ownership were future major league stars such as Larry Doby, who in 1947 was the first player to integrate the American League, Monte Irvin, and Don Newcombe.
He jumped to the American League in 1904 and gave four years of good services for the awful St. Louis Browns.
Later he worked as a hitting coach for Houston in 1988 and spent six seasons as a hitting coach in the American League for the Seattle Mariners (1989–1992) and Milwaukee Brewers (1993–1994) before start a six-year stint with the San Francisco Giants as a hitting coach and outfield coach (1995–2002), as he guided National League MVP Award winners Jeff Kent (2000) and Barry Bonds (2001 and 2002).
A free-swinger who three times led the American League in striking out, Lemon and his teammates benefitted from new Washington owner Calvin Griffith's decision to move the left field fences closer to home plate in the Senators' cavernous ballpark, Griffith Stadium.
Following his military service, he returned to the minors and, on June 17, 1950, he made his debut in the American League with the Athletics.
Paul Eugene Lehner (July 1, 1920 – December 27, 1967) was an American outfielder in Major League Baseball, playing mainly as a center fielder for five American League teams from 1946 through 1952.
Seattle had been granted an expansion team in the American League, the ill-fated Seattle Pilots, which began play in 1969.
He later served as a coach for the Cleveland Indians for several years under Oscar Vitt and Lou Boudreau, including the 1948 team, which won the American League pennant, and also coached under Boudreau with the Red Sox and Athletics.
Among the St. Louis Terriers players who had experience in the American and/or National Leagues were Al Bridwell, Mordecai Brown, Ward Miller, Bob Groom, Fielder Jones, Eddie Plank, Jack Tobin and Ed Willett.
There was a National division (comparable to the National League) and an American division (comparable to the American League, although both divisions only featured seven teams each.
Phoebus won a career-high 15 games in that season, and 14 in 1969, including the American League clincher over Cleveland.
Charter inductees are Cobb, 1943 American League (A.L.) MVP Spud Chandler, National Football League Pro Bowl lineman Tony Jones and College Football All-American quarterback Dee Dowis.
(For example, on October 2, or when the Yankees are scheduled to play the Boston Red Sox, the 1978 playoff game for the American League Eastern Division title, featuring the improbable home run by Bucky Dent, often is broadcast.)