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American League

American  

noun

  1. one of the two major professional U.S. baseball leagues, established in 1900. A.L.


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Baseball Prospectus projects the Angels to lose 95 games this year, the most in the American League.

From Los Angeles Times

The quarrel became so fiery that Lee MacPhail, the American League president, shifted Luciano off Orioles games.

From The Wall Street Journal

The attendance of players from the top North American league was in doubt for a time over concerns about the ice quality at the unfinished Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena, but they have been a major boon for the Games.

From BBC

The world's top players are competing in Italy after the elite North American league agreed to a mid-season shutdown and issues of ice quality and rink size were resolved.

From Barron's

His best two-way season to date was in 2022 with the Los Angeles Angels, when he went 15-9 with a 2.33 earned run average and was fourth in the American League Cy Young voting behind winner Justin Verlander, runner-up Dylan Cease and third-placed Alek Manoah.

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