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The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, known simply as the National League (NL), is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada, and the world's oldest extant professional team sports league. Founded on February 2, 1876, to replace the National Association of Professional Base ...
Baseball Frontier League 1993–2008, 2011–2015 Rockford Thunder: Fastpitch softball National Pro Fastpitch: 2007–2009 Schaumburg Flyers: Baseball Northern League 1993–2010 Southern Illinois Miners: Baseball Frontier League 2007–2021 Tri-Cities Blackhawks: Basketball National Basketball League 1946−1951
Chicago is one of eleven U.S. cities to have teams from the five major American professional team sports (baseball, football, basketball, hockey, and soccer). Chicago has been named as the "Best Sports City" by Sporting News three times: 1993, 2006, and 2010. Chicago was a candidate city for the 2016 Summer Olympics but lost to Rio de Janeiro. [1]
This article is a list of teams that play in the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada: Major League Baseball (MLB), Major League Soccer (MLS), the National Basketball Association (NBA), the National Football League (NFL), the National Hockey League (NHL), and the Canadian Football League (CFL).
Following the 1999 season, the American and National Leagues were merged with Major League Baseball, and the leagues ceased to exist as business entities. The role of the league president was eliminated. [10] In 2001, Bill Giles, son of Warren Giles, was named honorary president of the NL. [11]
Australasian National League, anti-Labor alliance founded 1896; Indian National League, formed in 1994 and currently part of the Left Democratic Front; Irish National League, founded by Charles Parnell in 1882 and dissolved in 1900; National League (Poland, 1893) (Liga Narodowa), a Polish right-wing political organisation that disbanded in 1928
Albert Joseph Barlick (April 2, 1915 – December 27, 1995) was an American umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the National League for 28 seasons (1940–1943, 1946–1955, 1958–1971). Barlick missed two seasons (1944–45) due to service in the United States Coast Guard and two seasons (1956–57) due to heart problems.
After having internal, informal divisions for scheduling purposes during the pre-expansion era, [1] the division was formally created when the National League (NL) (along with the American League) added two expansion teams and divided into two divisions, East and West effective for the 1969 season. The National League's geographical alignment ...