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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    election on the House floor and in court. A social conservative, Johnson supported bills to ban abortion nationwide before saying that in the wake of the Dobbs...
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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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  • 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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    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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    It also banned mail order sales of rifles and shotguns. The nation experienced a series of "long hot summers" of civil unrest during the Johnson years....
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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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    League founder and president Ban Johnson as it does with Frazee's finances. Frazee was the first American League owner who Johnson had not essentially hand-picked...
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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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    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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    johnson-appointed-ssa-kogi-governor.html?tztc=1. Retrieved 20 April 2024. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help) "Mercy Johnson's ban: Movie...
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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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    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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  • Hove Albion, but was unable to sign due to Chelsea's ongoing transfer ban. Johnson secured a trial with Dutch team FC Volendam in mid-2019. He was given...
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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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    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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    led to the formation of the American League in 1901 under AL president Ban Johnson, and the resulting bidding war for players led to widespread contract-breaking...
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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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    1909, and Sporting Life of April 24, 1909. "Hal Chase Exonerated.; Ban Johnson Decides Yankees' Captain Was Not Disloyal to Team". The New York Times...
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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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    having then decided to ban Johnson he was only banned for Leicester game becoming available once England's games resumed. Johnson though returned to Leicester...
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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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  • 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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    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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    League, founded in 1893, became particularly aggressive. Its fiery leader Ban Johnson railed against the National League and promised to grab the best players...
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