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Eastern Area Cyclo-Cross League (1194 words) |
 | Joining the League is great value, though you don't have to join to ride the events. |
 | League placings are determined by your best finishing positions in about two thirds of the league races. |
 | This race also counts for the League but you must pre-enter; there are no entries on the day except for under-12s. |
| Eastern League Baseball (995 words) |
 | League membership fluctuated between six and eight teams until 1994, when the league grew to ten teams with the addition of the New Haven Ravens and the Portland Sea Dogs. |
 | The Eastern League set the current attendance record during the 2004 season, when a total of 3,914,027 fans passed through the gates at Eastern League ballparks. |
 | Among the Eastern League hurlers who have won the pitching equivalent of the Triple Crown (league leader in wins, ERA, and strikeouts) are Wilkes-Barre's Red Embree in 1941, Chet Covington of Scranton in 1943, Mark Davis of the 1980 Reading Phillies, and two members of the Springfield Giants: Juan Marichal (1959) and Gerry Thomas (1961). |