• The Western League was the name of several minor league baseball leagues that operated between 1885 and 1900. These leagues were focused mainly in the...
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  • Western League may refer to: Western League (18851900), the predecessor to the modern American League of 1901 in Major League Baseball Western League...
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  • operated from 1900 to 1937 and from 1947 to 1958. Its earliest progenitor, the Western League of 1885–1899, was the predecessor of the American League. Later...
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  • level Western League in 1885 and 1887, the Western Association in 1888, 1890 and 1891, Western League in 1892, Western Association in 1893 and Western League...
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  • teams in minor league baseball have borne the name Indianapolis Hoosiers. The first Western League, which lasted only part of the 1885 season, included...
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  • Lions) were a minor league baseball team from Denver, Colorado, that played primarily in the Western League. They were founded in 1885 and played in the...
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    Milwaukee Brewers (1894–1901) (category Defunct Western League teams)
    of the Western League from 1894 to 1899, then as members of the American League in 1900 and 1901. Both leagues were considered minor leagues during those...
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  • first sanctioned by The Football Association as early as 1885, but when The Football League was founded in 1888 its member clubs were based entirely in...
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  • Football League (WAFL /ˈwɒfəl/ "waffle" or "W-A-F-L") is an Australian rules football league based in Perth, in Western Australia. The league currently...
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  • Blues (1885–1901), an early minor league baseball franchise Kansas City Blues (Western League), an 1898–1900 baseball team of the Western League Kansas...
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    Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 6, 1900. Incumbent Republican President William McKinley defeated his Democratic challenger...
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  • Pueblo Indians (baseball) (category Defunct Western League teams)
    played in the Colorado State League on and off from 1885 to 1898 and they joined the second Western League when it formed in 1900 but folded that season. The...
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    Auralia (category Western Australia articles missing geocoordinate data)
    Kalgoorlie, W.A., January 3rd, 1900, H.C. Mott & Co, retrieved 15 July 2016 "Return of the Premier". Western Mail (Perth, WA : 1885 - 1954). Perth, WA: National...
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  • Omaha Packers (category Defunct minor league baseball teams)
    members of the Western League in 1887, 1892, 1898 and 1900–1901. The 1885 inaugural Western League season featured the Omahogs and the Cleveland Forest...
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    The Chinese Immigration Act, 1885 was an act of the Parliament of Canada that placed a head tax of $50 (equivalent to $1,749 in 2023) on all Chinese immigrants...
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  • as the Metropolitans Cricket Club between 1885–86 and 1898–99, the East Perth Cricket Club between 1899–1900 and 1907–08, and again from 1910–11 to 1953–54...
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  • sports leagues, albeit with two "leagues" instead of "conferences". Originally a minor league known as the Western League, which existed from 1885 to 1899...
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  • San Jose Prune Pickers (category Baseball teams established in 1885)
    offshoots and predecessors on and off from 1885 through 1915. The city would later be represented in the minor leagues by the San Jose Red Sox and San Jose...
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    A Western saloon is a kind of bar particular to the Old West. Saloons served customers such as fur trappers, cowboys, soldiers, lumberjacks, businessmen...
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  • The Western Football Netball League (WFNL) is a semi-professional Australian rules football and netball league, based in the western suburbs of Melbourne...
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    William Ellison-Macartney (category UK MPs 1885–1886)
    and became grand secretary of the Orange Institution in Ireland. At the 1885 UK general election, Ellison-Macartney ran for the House of Commons, and...
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    Mihály Fekete, Hungarian actor, screenwriter, and film director (d. 1960) 1885 – Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1970) 1899 – Silvestre...
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    Charles Comiskey (category St. Paul Saints (Western League) players)
    American League for the 1900 season (which was also the original name of the Cubs; it was eventually shortened to White Sox). The American League then declared...
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  • actor Monroe Owsley (1900–1937), actor Dennis O'Keefe (1908–1968), actor Doris Packer (1904–1979), actress Ernest Palmer (1885–1978), cinematographer...
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    Thelen, The New Citizenship: Origins of Progressivism in Wisconsin, 18851900 (1972) Kevin C. Murphy, Uphill all the way: The fortunes of progressivism...
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  • League (AL) when the minor Western League changed its name to the AL in 1900, with the approval of the NL, which regarded the AL as a lesser league since...
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  • lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odesa, Ukraine. 1885 – Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies...
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  • 1903–1958 For details see France under western Europe Chad Sultanate of Bagirmi (complete list) – Gaourang II, Mbang (1885–1918) vassal to France: from 1912...
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  • Caledonian F.C. (category Association football clubs established in 1885)
    Thistle. Caledonian Football Club was formed in 1885. They were founder members of the Highland Football League in 1893 and wore strips of blue shirts, white...
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  • Connecticut State League Willimantic expelled September 3. The league played two games each week: Wednesdays and Saturdays 1885 Connecticut State League (Continuation...
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