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Encyclopedia > Eastern League

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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).
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