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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ban Johnson. Biography portal Baseball portal Ban Johnson at the Baseball Hall of Fame Ban Johnson at Find a Grave...
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    among the biggest stars in the major leagues. American League president Ban Johnson suspended Cobb and fined him $50 ($1,600 in 2023). Cobb had been Lucker's...
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    Ban Johnson Park was a baseball stadium located in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It was also known as Whittington Park and McKee Park. The ballpark was located...
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  • minor Western League struggled until 1894, when Ban Johnson became the president of the league. Johnson pushed the league to rise to major league status...
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    in court. He supported bills that would institute a nationwide ban on abortion. Johnson was chair of the Republican Study Committee, the largest caucus...
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  • States. The 1893 incarnation of the league hired Ban Johnson as president in 1894. In 1900, Johnson renamed it the American League and declared that it...
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    President Ban Johnson suspended Cobb indefinitely, the Tigers voted to strike, refusing to play until the suspension was lifted. When Ban Johnson threatened...
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    Western League, led by Ban Johnson, declared itself to be equal to the National League, then the only major league in baseball. Johnson had changed the name...
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    game. Of the 1–0 shutout decided without extra innings, AL president Ban Johnson stated, "That was one of the best ball games I have ever seen." For the...
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    while the presidents of the AL, Ban Johnson, and NL, Harry Pulliam, also had seats on the commission. John E. Bruce, Johnson's personal attorney, was elected...
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    win–loss record is 10,684–8,080–88 (a .569 winning percentage). In 1900, Ban Johnson, the president of a minor league known as the Western League (1894–1899)...
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  • Byron Johnson may refer to: Ban Johnson (Byron Bancroft Johnson, 1864–1931), American baseball executive, founder of the American League Boss Johnson (Byron...
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    baseball season, the Western League was positioned by its president, Ban Johnson, as a new major league that would compete with the established National...
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  • the Western League struggled until 1894, when Ban Johnson became the president of the league. Johnson led the Western League into major league status...
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    Trump's so-called "Muslim ban," and his opposition to LGBT rights, as well as the lack of transparency of the hiring process. Johnson resigned from the House...
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    UK to lift ban shortly". The Daily Star. 10 February 2018. Archived from the original on 23 July 2019. Retrieved 22 July 2019. "Boris Johnson for quick...
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    that there were procedural errors in Johnson's lifetime ban and allowed him to appeal. The decision meant Johnson could technically run in Canada but nobody...
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    time he often acted as a mediator between American League president Ban Johnson and Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis. He served under the Indians...
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    Orioles of the American League (AL). He quarreled with AL president Ban Johnson and jumped to the Giants in 1902, taking several Orioles players with...
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    of the season and after an investigation by American League President Ban Johnson. Lajoie in 1914 joined Cap Anson and Honus Wagner as the only major league...
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    and American League head [Ban] Johnson who dispatched an irate wire to the Senators manager." In his telegram, Ban Johnson accused the manager of failing...
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    in 1900 by league president Bancroft (Ban) Johnson and declared itself the second major league in 1901. Johnson created new franchises in the east and...
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    and mayor of College Hill, Ohio. Bruce became the personal attorney to Ban Johnson, the president of the American League, and Bruce served as the secretary...
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    attacked his tormentor. He was suspended indefinitely by league president Ban Johnson, but his suspension was eventually reduced to 10 days and $50. The Tigers...
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    did not have a baseball team, Cone instead played summer ball in the Ban Johnson League, a college summer league in Kansas City. At 16, he reported to...
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    court he cheated to win" by using banned performance-enhancing substances, and agreed to return his gold medal. Johnson announced that he would return his...
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    would be unconstitutional for the government to implement the proposed bans. Johnson ran in Liberia's 2011 presidential election as the candidate of the...
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  • allied to negotiate jointly. In the late 1890s, the Western League run by Ban Johnson decided to challenge the NL's position. In 1900, he changed the name...
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    head of major league baseball, it was the American League President Ban Johnson who dominated the commission. The event that would eventually lead to...
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  • with American League President and National Baseball Commission head Ban Johnson, NL owners dissolved the league on November 8 during heated talks on...
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