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As both clubs had been notified that they were being dropped from the National League, fans had very little interest in watching the lame-duck teams, [4] especially on a day which the Boston Globe described as "bleak, cold and windy". [5] This record does not count games played behind closed doors by governmental authority.
The EuroLeague in basketball is transnational in that it includes teams from multiple European countries, but is domestic in the sense of being a championship for the single entity of Europe. It is governed by Euroleague Basketball , an explicitly pan-European body that is independent of the continental governing body of FIBA Europe .
The first Major League Baseball team in Canada was the Montreal Expos, who began play in 1969. In 2005, they moved to Washington, D.C., and became the Washington Nationals. The Toronto Blue Jays, who began play in 1977, became the first team outside the United States to win the World Series in 1992 and 1993.
Seventeen teams reported more than 2.5 million visitors, while 24 ballclubs said they had more than three million fans in attendance. Such a feat hasn't happened in a decade, MLB said. Average per ...
Both MLB and MLB.TV announced historic numbers in attendance and viewership, respectively, on Monday. MLB experiences largest attendance growth in 30 years as more than 70 million fans went to ...
Major league baseball emerged in the 1870s, and four major leagues, including the NL, played at least one season of baseball in the nineteenth century. During this period, dozens of franchises were founded, but most went defunct, leaving just twelve NL franchises by the 1892 season .
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).
The world's most valuable sports teams, as ranked annually by the American magazine Forbes, includes teams from the National Football League (NFL), National Basketball Association (NBA), Major League Baseball (MLB), and several European association football leagues.