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Timeline of Bud Seligs tenure in charge of Major League Baseball:Sept. Shayne Gostisbehere Jersey . 9, 1992 — Selig is appointed to the newly created role of chairman of the executive council, two days after Commissioner Fay Vincent resigned following a no-confidence vote.Feb. 3, 1993 — Selig suspends Cincinnati owner Marge Schott for one year starting March 1 for using racially and ethnically insensitive, offensive and intolerable language.Sept. 9, 1993 — Owners vote to add another round of playoffs for 1994 that include two wild cards, resulting in doubling of the post-season to eight teams, and to divide each league into three divisions instead of two.Sept. 14, 1994 — Selig cancels the World Series for the first time in 90 years after players, fearful owners will implement a salary cap after the season, struck on Aug. 12.March 9, 1995 — Owners vote to add expansion teams Arizona and Tampa Bay for the 1998 season.March 31, 1995 — Players end their 232-day strike when U.S. District Judge Sonia Sotomayor issues a preliminary injuction ordering owners to restore free agent bidding, salary arbitration and the anti-collusion provisions of baseballs expired collective bargaining agreement.Jan. 18, 1996 — Owners approve the start of interleague play for the 1997 season.March 14, 1997 — Players and owners agree to a labour contract through the 2000 season with a union option to extend it through 2001, a deal that institutes revenue sharing and a luxury tax.April 15, 1997 — On the 50th anniversary of Jackie Robinson breaking baseballs colour barrier, Selig retires Robinsons No. 42 throughout the major leagues.Nov. 6, 1997 — Following authorization by owners on Oct. 15, the executive council approves switch of Milwaukee to the National League for 1998.July 9, 1998 — Selig is elected commissioner after repeatedly saying he would never take the job.Jan. 19, 2000 — Owners vote to eliminate American and National League offices, which leads to merging of umpires into a consolidated staff under a March agreement with the World Umpires Association.Jan. 20, 2000 — Owners approve giving all club Internet rights to Major League Baseball, leading to the formation of MLB Advanced Media.Aug. 7, 2002 — Players and owners agree to their first joint drug agreement since 1985, announcing urine testing will start with survey testing in 2003 that could lead to testing with penalties in 2004. Following pressure from Congress, the agreement is toughened in January 2005, November 2005, April 2008, November 2011, January 2013 and March 2014.Jan. 16, 2003 — Owners approve giving World Series home-field advantage to the league that wins the All-Star game, which players agree to in May.Aug. 19, 2004 — Owners approve the launch of a World Cup-style tournament in 2006, which is later named the World Baseball Classic.Dec. 3, 2004 — Owners conditionally approve the move of the Montreal Expos to Washington for the 2005 season.May 17, 2007 — Owners approve formation of the MLB Network, which will launch on Jan. 1, 2009.Aug. 26, 2008 — Selig reverses years of opposition, and players and owners announce umpires will be allowed to check video on home run calls starting Aug. 28.Nov. 17, 2011 — MLB announces Houston will move to the American League as soon as the 2013 season.March 2, 2012 — Players and owners agree to expand playoffs to 10 teams with the addition of a second wild card in each league.Sept. 26, 2013 — Selig announces his final day as commissioner will be Jan. 24, 2015.Jan. 16, 2014 — Owners approve vast expansion of video review for umpires starting with the 2014 season. Brian Propp Jersey . He was with the New York Jets in 2011 when the NFL locked out their players after they failed to agree on a new contract. Willy went undrafted but was given a look by four NFL teams before heading north. Bobby Clarke Jersey .Y. - The New York Yankees made it official Saturday, announcing the completion of a seven-year deal with free-agent outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury and a one-year contract for returning starter Hiroki Kuroda. http://www.nhlflyersproauthentic.com/nolan-patrick-hockey-jersey/ . The two-time Olympic halfpipe gold medallist informed ESPN on Monday he plans to compete in Apsen, Colo.ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Evgeni Malkin scored the tying goal during a power play in the third period and Brandon Sutter got the deciding goal in a six-round shootout, leading the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 3-2 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Friday night. Defenceman Deryk Engelland scored in the first period for the Penguins. Marc-Andre Fleury made 29 saves for his league-leading 33rd victory, after the Penguins rallied twice from one-goal deficits in a showdown between the leaders of the Eastern and Western Conferences. Corey Perry scored twice for the Ducks and Ryan Getzlaf had two assists, but the Ducks captain missed a chance to extend the shootout with a shot over the net -- making him 0 for 6 this season in the tiebreaker. Jonas Hiller had 15 saves, one of them on a breakaway by Sidney Crosby in the first minute of overtime. The Penguins hold a three-point lead over Boston in the East. The Ducks have a three-point edge over St. Louis in the West and lead the overall standings with a 43-14-7 record. An SRO crowd of 17,518 squeezed into the 17,174-seat Honda Center, including a very loud contingent of Penguins fans, for Crosbys fourth game in Anaheim during his nine-year career. The NHLs leading scorer, a career-worst minus-5 in Thursdays 5-3 loss at San Jose, didnt have a shot on net until his breakaway. Malkin got the equalizer with 11:03 left in regulation, beating Hiller to the glove side with a 40-foot wrist shot for his 19th goal while Ducks forward Kyle Palmieri was penalized. The Ducks grabbed a 2-1 lead early in tthe second period thanks to some determined forechecking by Perry, who knocked defenceman Brooks Orpik off the puck behind the net. Bill Barber Jersey. Palmieri flipped it out in front to Getzlaf, who alertly set up Perry at the edge of the crease in heavy traffic. Perrys 34th goal lifted him to second place in the league, 10 behind Washingtons Alex Ovechkin. Perry opened the scoring 3:54 into the game, converting a rebound of Getzlafs 35-foot wrist shot. Engelland pulled the Penguins even at 7:47 with their first shot on net, beating a screened Hiller between the pads with a 45-foot slap shot. It was Engellands sixth goal, one fewer than he had in 187 games over his four previous NHL seasons. The Penguins had two shots go off the goalpost in the second period -- one by newly acquired Lee Stempniak, the other by James Neal off the crossbar. NOTES: Crosby and Perry, both league MVPs, 50-goal scorers in a season and Stanley Cup winners, had their seventh head-to-head meeting. Crosby has three goals and four assists, and Perry has six goals and three assists. The Penguins are 5-2 in those games. ... Crosby and Perry both scored in the shootout. ... Anaheim D Luca Sbisa played less than 3 minutes, leaving the game with a lower body injury. ... LW Chris Kunitz, who won Stanley Cups with Anaheim in 2007 and Pittsburgh in 2009, has no points in five games against the Ducks since they traded him to the Penguins in February 2006. ... The Penguins havent allowed a power play goal in their last six road games and 19 short-handed situations. 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