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Opening Day
2009 Opening Day at Dodger Stadium
Observed by
United States, Canada
2019 date
March 31
2020 date
April 5
Frequency
annual
Opening Day is the day on which professional baseball leagues begin their regular season. For Major League Baseball and most of the minor leagues, this day typically falls during the first week of April.
For baseball fans, Opening Day serves as a symbol of rebirth; writer Thomas Boswell once penned a book titled, Why Time Begins on Opening Day.[1] Many feel that the occasion represents a newness or a chance to forget last season, in that all 30 of the major league clubs and their millions of fans begin with 0–0 records.[1]
Opening Day festivities extend throughout the sport of baseball, from hundreds of Minor League Baseball franchises to college, high school, and youth leagues in North America and beyond. Since Major League Baseball generally starts their season first among professional leagues, their Opening Day is the one most commonly recognized by the general public. Most of the minor leagues start a few days later, but within the same week; the short season Class A and Rookie leagues are exceptions, since they begin play in June. (College, high school and youth baseball seasons vary widely depending on location and weather conditions.) Opening Day ignores the exhibition games played during spring training in the month leading up to Opening Day.
Contents
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1 History
2 Memorable moments
3 Recent Opening Days
4 International Opening Games
5 Quotes
6 References
7 External links
History[edit]
The Findlay Market Parade at Fountain Square in Downtown Cincinnati in 2015. The parade has been held annually since 1920 to celebrate Opening Day in Cincinnati.
For generations, Opening Day has arrived amid pageantry. In Cincinnati, home of the sport's first professional team, the annual Findlay Market Parade marks an official "city holiday" with young and old alike taking the day off to cheer on the Reds. For decades, the first pitch of every major league season officially took place in Cincinnati, and the Reds remain the only major league team to always open the season with a home game (save for 1966, when they started the season at Philadelphia after rain washed out the opening series in Cincinnati; and 1990, when due to a lockout affecting the schedule they opened the season at Houston).[2] The Chicago Cubs have been the Reds' most common Opening Day opponent, visiting Cincinnati 36 times on Opening Day, most recently in 2007. The Pittsburgh Pirates, whom the current Reds organization played their first Opening Day against in 1882, is a close second with 31, most recently in 2015; no other team has more than 19 (by the St. Louis Cardinals, most recently in 2014), largely due to the Cubs and Pirates rotating as the Opening Day opponents from 1899 to 1916, then the two teams and the Cardinals rotated from 1917 to 1952.[3] Fittingly, the Reds were also the first team to host an Interleague game on Opening Day when the team hosted the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in the first year of year-round Interleague play in 2013.[4]
Since 1994 ESPN has televised a regular-season game the night before "Opening Day" and recent years have seen the staging of season-opening series in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Japan, and Australia. While these are technically "opening games", Major League Baseball still reserves the title "Opening Day" for the first day in which multiple games are played. (For the first time ever, three televised games were played on Sunday, April 3, 2016, before the traditional "Opening Day" slate of games on Monday, April 4.)[5][6][7]
A home opener is a team's first game of the season on their home field.
Opening Day is a state of mind as well, with countless baseball fans known to recognize this unofficial holiday as a good reason to call in sick at work or be truant from school (as most teams typically play their home opener in the afternoon) and go out to the ballpark for the first of 162 regular season games. Teams' home openers serve as the only regular season games during the year in which the entire rosters of both teams as well as coaches and clubhouse staff are introduced to the crowd prior to the games; for the rest of the year, ballparks only introduce the starting lineups (including the designated hitter in American League ballparks) and the team's manager. Some teams, among them the New York Mets, have had their broadcasters as the master of pre-game ceremonies for their home openers, which also typically feature appearances by retired players, local celebrities or media personalities, politicians, and other dignitaries.
Opening Day introductions at Minute Maid Park on April 2, 2007
Hall of Fame pitcher Early Wynn, who played for the Washington Senators, Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox, once said: "An opener is not like any other game. There's that little extra excitement, a faster beating of the heart. You have that anxiety to get off to a good start, for yourself and for the team. You know that when you win the first one, you can't lose 'em all."[1]
Prior to Opening Day, the teams' managers have to decide the starting pitchers for the game, an assignment typically given to the ace of each team's staff.[8] For a pitcher to start on Opening Day is considered an honor.[9]
In 2014, Ozzie Smith, with the support of Anheuser-Busch, began a campaign using the We the People site on WhiteHouse.gov to petition the U.S. government to make Opening Day an official national holiday.[10][11]
Memorable moments[edit]
President Woodrow Wilson throws out the ceremonial first pitch on Opening Day in 1916
In 1907, the New York Giants forfeited their game at the Polo Grounds to the Philadelphia Phillies, 9–0, after rowdy fans made and threw snowballs. Without police available to restore order, umpire Bill Klem awarded the game to the Phillies.[12]
In 1940, Cleveland Indians pitcher Bob Feller threw a no-hitter to open the season against the Chicago White Sox. It remains the only no-hitter in Opening Day history.[13]
Twelve U.S. Presidents have thrown the first ball of the season. On April 14, 1910, baseball enthusiast William Howard Taft attended the home opener in Washington, D.C., becoming the first U.S. President to throw out the first pitch to start a season.[14] Harry S. Truman threw first pitches with both his right and left arm in 1950.[1] On April 4, 1994, Bill Clinton inaugurated the Cleveland Indians' new ballpark, then known as Jacobs Field and now as Progressive Field, with the first pitch.[15]
Ted Williams was a .449 hitter in openers, with three home runs and fourteen runs batted in during fourteen such games and at least one hit in each game.[16]
On April 4, 1974, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 714th career home run on Opening Day at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium, tying Babe Ruth on Major League Baseball's all-time list.[1] Aaron finished his career with 755 home runs.
In 14 season openers for the Washington Senators, Walter Johnson pitched a record nine shutouts. Two of his more famous starts include a 3–0 victory over the Philadelphia Athletics in 1910 and a 1–0 marathon victory while battling the A's Eddie Rommel for 15 innings.
On April 4, 2005, Dmitri Young of the Detroit Tigers hit three home runs in his team's opener against the Kansas City Royals at Detroit's Comerica Park. He became the third major leaguer with three home runs on Opening Day, following the Toronto Blue Jays' George Bell in 1988 and the Chicago Cubs' Tuffy Rhodes in 1994.[17]
The St. Louis Cardinals were the first major league team to open their home season with a night game, beating the Pittsburgh Pirates 4–2 at Sportsman's Park on April 18, 1950.[18]
The longest Opening Day game in major league history was played on April 5, 2012 between the Cleveland Indians and Toronto Blue Jays. The game, played at Cleveland's Progressive Field, ended with the Blue Jays beating the Indians, 7–4, in 16 innings.[19] The previous record for longest Opening Day game was on April 19, 1960, again at Cleveland. That game, lasting 15 innings, also saw the Indians in a losing effort, 4–2, versus the Detroit Tigers. The Philadelphia Athletics and Washington Senators also played a 15-inning season opener on April 13, 1926, with Washington winning, 1–0, at home.
On rare occasions, predominantly in the early 20th century, a team would open its home season with a doubleheader. The first of these came when the Boston Americans hosted the Philadelphia Athletics for two games on April 20, 1903, with Boston winning the first game, 9–4, and Philadelphia taking the second game, 10–7.[20] The most recent Opening Day doubleheader in the major leagues came on April 7, 1971, with the Chicago White Sox defeating the host Oakland Athletics in both games (6–5 and 12–4, respectively).[21]
In 1968, Greg Washburn, a pitcher in the California Angels organization, pitched two Opening Day games in the same year—first for the San Jose Bees of the California League, and then for the Quad City Angels of the Midwest League. Washburn won both openers 2–0. This is the only record of a pitcher pitching two openers in the same year in professional baseball.
Hall of Famer Tom Seaver has been a starting pitcher for the most Opening Day games in Major League history, doing the honors 16 times for the New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds, and Chicago White Sox.[22]
Recent Opening Days[edit]
Major League Baseball had most of its teams open the 2011 season on a Thursday (March 31) or Friday (April 1) rather than the traditional Monday, in order to prevent the World Series from extending into November.[23] Similarly, most teams opened the 2012 season on Thursday (April 5) or Friday (April 6). However, subsequent seasons through 2017 returned to Monday openers for most teams. For the 2018 season, all 30 teams were scheduled to open the season on Thursday, March 29 (the earliest domestic start for a regular season in MLB history, and the first time since 1968 that all major league teams were scheduled to start the season on the same day, although two games were subsequently rained out and postponed to Friday, March 30).[24]
International Opening Games[edit]
Season
City
Venue
Guest Team
Score
Home Team
Ref
1999 Monterrey Estadio de Béisbol Monterrey Colorado Rockies 8–2 San Diego Padres [25]
2000 Tokyo Tokyo Dome Chicago Cubs 5–3 New York Mets [26]
2000 Tokyo Tokyo Dome New York Mets 5–1 Chicago Cubs [27]
2001 San Juan Hiram Bithorn Stadium Texas Rangers 0–9 Toronto Blue Jays [28]
2004 Tokyo Tokyo Dome New York Yankees 3–8 Tampa Bay Devil Rays [29]
2004 Tokyo Tokyo Dome New York Yankees 12–1 Tampa Bay Devil Rays [30]
2008 Tokyo Tokyo Dome Boston Red Sox 6–5 Oakland Athletics [31]
2008 Tokyo Tokyo Dome Boston Red Sox 1–5 Oakland Athletics [32]
2012 Tokyo Tokyo Dome Seattle Mariners 3–1 Oakland Athletics [33]
2012 Tokyo Tokyo Dome Seattle Mariners 1–4 Oakland Athletics [34]
2014 Sydney Sydney Cricket Ground Los Angeles Dodgers 3–1 Arizona Diamondbacks [35]
2014 Sydney Sydney Cricket Ground Los Angeles Dodgers 7–5 Arizona Diamondbacks [36]
Quotes[edit]
In the beginning, there was no baseball. But ever since, there have been few beginnings as good as the start of a new baseball season. It is the most splendid time in sport, in part because baseball is about the only sport left—now that football players report to training camp before the Fourth of July, and hockey players start skating in Indian summer—that still has a time and is true to it.
—  B.J. Phillips[37]
There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League.
—  George Vecsey[1]
You always get a special kick on Opening Day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.
—  Joe DiMaggio[38]
A home opener is always exciting, no matter if it's home or on the road.
—  Yogi Berra[39]
References[edit]
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Jump up ^ "Yogi Berra Quotes". [permanent dead link]
External links[edit]
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Opening Day by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
Important Dates by MLB.com
Cincinnati Eager for Opening Day by MLB.com
Opening Day Through the Years – slideshow by Life magazine
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List of colleges and universities in New Jersey
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As of 2014[update], the State of New Jersey recognizes and licenses 66 institutions of higher education (post-secondary) through its Commission on Higher Education. These institutions include four public research universities, eight state colleges and universities, fourteen private colleges and universities (two of which are classified as research universities), nineteen county colleges, fourteen religious institutions, and eight for-profit proprietary schools.[1]
New Jersey was the only British colony to permit the establishment of two colleges in the colonial period. Princeton University, chartered in 1746 as the College of New Jersey, and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, chartered on November 10, 1766 as Queen's College, were two of nine colleges founded before the American Revolution.[2][3][4]:passim. In the 1860s, these two colleges competed to become the state's land grant college under the terms of the Morrill Act of 1862 which provided land and funding to expand development of engineering, scientific, agricultural, and military education at one school in each state. Rutgers received the designation in 1864 began to expand instruction in these areas and taking on a hybrid private-public role that paved the way for its transformation into a state university in 1945. Today, Rutgers is a large public research university serving over 65,000 students. Princeton remained a private college and developed into a research university that is one of the nation's eight prestigious Ivy League schools.
On August 22, 2012, the New Jersey governor Chris Christie signed into law the New Jersey Medical and Health Science Education Restructuring Act which divided the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) between Rutgers and Rowan University, creating two public medical schools.[5][6] According to The Star-Ledger, the law gave Rutgers "nearly all of UMDNJ—including its medical schools in Newark and Piscataway—in one of the greatest expansions in the state university's history" and southern New Jersey's Rowan University would "take over UMDNJ's osteopathic medical school in Stratford."[7]
There are three law schools in the state accredited by the American Bar Association; two at Rutgers (at the university's Rutgers–Newark and Rutgers–Camden campuses respectively) and the other at Seton Hall University's campus in Newark.[8]
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1.1 Public colleges and universities
1.2 Private colleges and universities
1.3 County community colleges
1.4 For-profit institutions
2 Independent religious schools
2.1 Religious colleges
2.2 Christian theological seminaries
2.3 Talmudic schools
3 Defunct institutions
4 See also
5 References
5.1 Notes
5.2 Citations
6 External links
Colleges and universities[edit]
Public colleges and universities[edit]
School
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Control[9]
Type[9]
Enrollment
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Kean University Union and Hillside 1855 Public Master's 16,000+ MSA
Montclair State University Montclair 1908 Public Research university 20,465 MSA
New Jersey City University Jersey City 1929 Public Master's 8,550 MSA
New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark 1881 Public Research university 10,130 MSA
Ramapo College Mahwah 1969 Public Master's 6,008 MSA
Rowan University Glassboro, Camden, and Stratford 1923 Public Research university 13,349 MSA
Rutgers University[a] New Brunswick, Piscataway, Camden, and Newark 1766 Public Research university 65,000+ MSA
Stockton University Galloway 1969 Public Master's 8,111 MSA
The College of New Jersey Ewing 1855 Public Master's 6,964 MSA
Thomas Edison State University Trenton 1972 Public Master's 20,877 MSA
William Paterson University Wayne 1855 Public Master's 11,423 MSA
Private colleges and universities[edit]
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Founded
Control[9]
Type[9]
Enrollment
Accreditation
Bloomfield College Bloomfield 1868 Private Baccalaureate 2,156[11] MSA
Caldwell University Caldwell 1939 Private Master's 2,284[12] MSA
Centenary University Hackettstown, Long Valley, Parsippany, and Edison 1867 Private Master's 3,000+ MSA
College of Saint Elizabeth Morris Twp. and Florham Park 1899 Private Master's 2,044 MSA
Drew University Madison 1867 Private Baccalaureate 2,369 MSA
Fairleigh Dickinson University Madison, Florham Park, Teaneck, and Hackensack 1942 Private Master's 12,000+ MSA
Felician University Lodi and Rutherford 1942 Private Master's 2,040 MSA
Georgian Court University Lakewood 1908 Private Master's 1,772 MSA
Monmouth University West Long Branch 1933 Private Master's 6,494 MSA
Princeton University Princeton 1746 Private Research university 8,010 MSA
Rider University Lawrence 1865 Private Master's 5,790 MSA
St. Peter's University Jersey City 1881 Private Master's 2,987 MSA
Seton Hall University South Orange 1856 Private Research university 9,745 MSA
Stevens Institute of Technology Hoboken 1870 Private Research university 5,260 MSA
County community colleges[edit]
Sussex County's freeholders purchased Don Bosco College, a Roman Catholic seminary, for its community college campus in 1989.
Main article: List of New Jersey County Colleges
New Jersey has a system of 19 public community colleges at the county level statewide. This reflects the fact that each college serves one of New Jersey's 21 counties, except for Atlantic Cape Community College and Raritan Valley Community College, each of which serves two counties. In 1989, the New Jersey Council of County Colleges was created to promote the advancement of the state's county community colleges. In 2003, governor James McGreevey created the New Jersey Community Colleges Compact, through Executive Order No. 81, as a statewide partnership to enable cooperation between the colleges and various state departments. The county colleges of New Jersey represent 56% of all undergraduate students in the state and offer studies in associate degree and certificate programs. Reflecting long-term trends nationwide, the male-to-female ratio of students in the system is 41% male to 59% female, and 48% of students are over the age of 24. Overall, the system enrolls more than 350,000 students each year on campuses that range in size from 1,300 students at Salem Community College to over 15,000 students at Bergen Community College.
Not all of the county colleges were founded by the State of New Jersey; the oldest county college in New Jersey, Union County College, was founded in 1933 by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration as Union County Junior College; it operated as a private college from 1936 to 1982, and merged with the publicly operated Union County Technical Institute in 1982 to become the current public institution.[13]
For-profit institutions[edit]
School
Location
Founded
Control[9]
Type[9]
Enrollment
Accreditation
Berkeley College Dover, Newark, Paramus, Woodland Park, Woodbridge, New York City, and White Plains - Proprietary
(for-profit) Special focus institution 3,709[14] MSA
DeVry University North Brunswick 1931 Proprietary
(for-profit) Baccalaureate
Associate's 90,000[b] -
Eastern International College Jersey City and Belleville - Proprietary
(for-profit) Not classified - ACCSCT
Eastwick College Ramsey, Hackensack, Paterson, and Nutley 1985 Proprietary
(for-profit) Not classified - ACICS
ITT Technical Institute - - Proprietary
(for-profit) Special focus institution - ACICS
Jersey College[c] Teterboro, Ewing, Tampa, Jacksonville, and Fort Lauderdale - Proprietary
(for-profit) College of nursing - COE,
Lincoln Technical Institute Edison, Mahwah, Moorestown, Paramus, South Plainfield, Union, New Britain, Shelton, Columbia, Brockton, Lowell, Somerville, New York City, Allentown, Philadelphia (3 locations), and Lincoln 1947 Proprietary
(for-profit) Baccalaureate
Associate's 3,995 [d] ACICS
Strayer University Cherry Hill 1892 Proprietary
(for-profit) Master's 54,325[e] MSE
University of Phoenix Jersey City - Proprietary
(for-profit) Special focus institution - HLC
Independent religious schools[edit]
Religious colleges[edit]
School
Location
Founded
Control[9]
Type[9]
Enrollment
Accreditation
Assumption College for Sisters Denville 1953 Private Associates 40[21] MSA, NJCHE
Pillar College Zarephath (Franklin Twp. and Newark 1908 Private Special focus institution 241[22] MSA
Christian theological seminaries[edit]
Theological schools are typically classified as "Special Topic Institutions" by the Carnegie Foundation.
School
Location
Founded
Affiliation
Accreditation
Notes
Drew Theological School Madison 1867 United Methodist Church ATS, MSA
Founded as Methodist seminary, expanded into Drew University when liberal arts education added in 1928.
New Brunswick Theological Seminary New Brunswick 1784 Reformed Church in America ATS, MSA
Oldest seminary in the United States, founded as Dutch Reformed seminary in New York City, moved to New Brunswick in 1810, run jointly and shared facilities with Queen's College, later Rutgers College, until 1856.
Princeton Theological Seminary Princeton 1812 Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) ATS, MSA
Second-oldest seminary in the United States, second largest theological library collection in the world, behind only the Vatican Apostolic Library in Vatican City
Key
Abbreviation
Accrediting agency
AARTS
Association of Advanced Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools
ATS
Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada
MSA
Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools
NJCHE
New Jersey Commission on Higher Education
Talmudic schools[edit]
School
Location
Founded
Affiliation
Accreditation
Notes
Bais Medrash Toras Chesed Lakewood - - AARTS -
Beth Medrash Govoha Lakewood 1943 - AARTS -
Mesivta Keser Torah Belmar - - AARTS -
Rabbi Jacob Joseph School Edison and New York City - - AARTS -
Rabbinical College of America Morristown 1973 Jewish (Chabad Lubavitch Chasidic) AARTS
Rabbinical college, also offers orthodox day school for boys and girls and summer programs
Talmudical Academy of Central New Jersey Howell 1972 Orthodox Jewish AARTS
Includes an orthodox yeshiva high school and rabbinical college
Yeshivas Be'er Yitzchok Elizabeth - - AARTS -
Yeshiva Gedola Zichron Leyma Linden - - (pending) -
Yeshiva Toras Chaim Lakewood - - AARTS -
Yeshivat Yesodei HaTorah Lakewood - - AARTS -
Defunct institutions[edit]
List of defunct institutions in New Jersey
School
Location
Control
Founded
Closed
Notes
Alma White College Zarephath (Franklin Twp.) - - 1978 -
Alphonsus College - - - 1974 -
Bayonne Junior College Bayonne - - 1951 -
Bergen Junior College Teaneck - - 1954 Teaneck Merged with Fairleigh Dickinson University
College of South Jersey Camden - - 1950 Merged with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Don Bosco College Newton - - 1990 Campus sold to County of Sussex to house Sussex County Community College
Englewood Cliffs College Englewood Cliffs - - 1974 -
Essex Junior College - - - 1937 -
Evelyn College for Women Princeton - - - -
Gibbs College Livingston, Boston, Norwalk, Tysons Corner, and Cranston - - - -
Immaculate Conception Seminary South Orange - - - 1986 Affiliated with Seton Hall University
Jersey City Junior College Jersey City - - - 1959 Students transferred to Jersey City State College, now New Jersey City University
John Marshall College - - - 1950 Merged into Seton Hall University as their law school
Law School of South Jersey Camden - - 1949 Became part of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Luther College of Bible - - - 1978 -
Maryknoll Junior College - - - 1954 -
Mother Savior Seminary - - - 1961 -
Mount Saint Mary College - - - 1970 -
Northeastern Bible College Essex Fells - - - 1990 -
Panzer College of Physical Education Montclair - - - 1958 Merged with Montclair State College, now Montclair State University
Saint Gabriel's College - - - 1968 -
Saint Joseph's College - - - 1970 -
Saint Michael's Monastery Union City - - - 1984 -
Salesian College - - - 1973 -
Shelton College Cape May - - - 1971 -
Tombrock College - - - 1976 -
Touro University College of Medicine Hackensack - - - -
Trenton Junior College & School of Industrial Arts - - - 1967 Merged with Mercer County Community College
Union College - - - 1982 Merged with Union County Technical Institute to become Union County College
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) New Brunswick, Newark, Camden, Stratford, Piscataway, and Scotch Plains Public - 2013 Most of UMDNJ merged with Rutgers University in 2012–13; the School of Osteopathic Medicine 2013 merged with Rowan.
University of Newark - - - 1947 Merged with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Upsala College East Orange and Wantage Private, Lutheran-affiliated 1893 1995 Financial issues
Villa Walsh Academy Morristown - - - 1971 -
Westminster Choir College Princeton - - - 1992 After financial problems, merged with Rider University
See also[edit]
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New Jersey student loan program [23]
References[edit]
Notes[edit]
Jump up ^ Rutgers includes four campuses: the three traditional campuses of Rutgers-New Brunswick, Rutgers–Camden, and Rutgers–Newark; and a fourth "campus", Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, a division oversees medical and health education at several locations statewide subsequent to the 2012–2013 merger between Rutgers and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ).[10]
Jump up ^ as a for-profit institution without a traditional academic residency or campus, DeVry offers courses nationwide through online instruction and distance learning. This number does not reflect students in residence on a campus or enrolled for classes in New Jersey.
Jump up ^ formerly The Center for Allied Health and Nursing Education
Jump up ^ Number derived from addition of campus enrollment numbers. Edison: 843;[15] Mahwah: 743;[16] Moorestown: 919;[17] Paramus: 1012;[18] South Plainfield: 269;[19] Union: 1209[17]
Jump up ^ as a for-profit institution without a traditional academic residency or campus, Strayer, based in Washington DC, offers courses nationwide through online instruction and distance learning. This number does not reflect students in residence on a campus or enrolled for classes in New Jersey.[20]
Citations[edit]
Jump up ^ New Jersey Commission on Higher Education. New Jersey College & University Directory by Sector (updated April 1, 2014). Retrieved April 8, 2014.
Jump up ^ Stoeckel, Althea. "Presidents, professors, and politics: the colonial colleges and the American revolution", Conspectus of History (1976) 1(3):45–56.
Jump up ^ Chapter XXIII. Education. § 13. Colonial Colleges in The Cambridge History of English and American Literature. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1907–1921; online edition, 2000).
Jump up ^ McCormick, Richard P., Rutgers: A Bicentennial History (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1966).
Jump up ^ State of New Jersey, New Jersey State Legislature, A.3102/S.2063: "New Jersey Medical and Health Sciences Education Restructuring Act" (second reprint), later codified as P.L. 2012, c.45. Retrieved April 8, 2014.
Jump up ^ State of New Jersey, Office of the Governor. "Governor Christie Signs Historic Legislation to Reorganize and Secure Future of New Jersey's Higher Education System" (press release), August 22, 2012. Retrieved April 8, 2014.
Jump up ^ Heyboer, Kelly, and DeMarco, Megan, "Gov. Christie signs N.J. higher education merger bill", The Star-Ledger, August 22, 2012. Retrieved April 8, 2014.
Jump up ^ American Bar Association. "ABA-Approved Law Schools by Year". Retrieved April 8, 2014.
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education: Institution Lookup Archived May 11, 2014, at Archive-It. Retrieved March 26, 2014.
Jump up ^ Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, "Our Campuses". Retrieved April 6, 2014.
Jump up ^ Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Institution Profile: Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, New Jersey, Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Retrieved April 8, 2014.
Jump up ^ Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Institution Profile: Caldwell College, Caldwell, New Jersey, Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Retrieved April 8, 2014.
Jump up ^ Union County College, "About UCC - History". Retrieved 5 March 2014. Archived October 11, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
Jump up ^ Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Institution Profile: Berkeley College, Woodland Park, New Jersey, Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Retrieved April 8, 2014.
Jump up ^ Lincoln Technical Institute at Edison. [1], Lincoln Technical Institute at Edison. Retrieved August 5, 2014.
Jump up ^ Lincoln Technical Institute at Mahwah. Lincoln Technical Institute at Mahwah. Retrieved 05 August 2014.
^ Jump up to: a b Lincoln Technical Institute at Moorestown. Lincoln Technical Institute at Mooreswtown. Retrieved 05 August 2014.
Jump up ^ Lincoln Technical Institute at Paramus. Lincoln Technical Institute at Paramus. Retrieved 05 August 2014.
Jump up ^ Lincoln Technical Institute at South Plainfield. Lincoln Technical Institute at South Plainfield. Retrieved 05 August 2014.
Jump up ^ Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Institution Profile: Strayer University, Washington, DC, Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Retrieved April 8, 2014.
Jump up ^ Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Institution Profile: Assumption College for Sisters, Mendham, New Jersey, Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Retrieved April 8, 2014.
Jump up ^ Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Institution Profile: Pillar College (Somerset Christian College, Zarephath, New Jersey), Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Retrieved April 8, 2014.
Jump up ^ "New Jersey State Loans" Retrieved 2016-07-03
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Length
4:14
Label
G-Unit/Aftermath/Interscope
Songwriter(s)
Jayceon Taylor, Tim Mosley, Nate Hills
Producer(s)
Timbaland & Danja (co.)
The Game singles chronology
"Playa's Only"
(2005) "Put You on the Game"
(2005) "It's Okay (One Blood)"
(2006)
"Playa's Only"
(2005) "Put You on the Game"
(2005) "It's Okay (One Blood)"
(2006)
"Put You on the Game" is a single by American rapper and West Coast hip hop artist The Game, released as the final single from his debut album, The Documentary. Written by The Game himself and produced by both Timbaland and co-produced by Danja, the song was the album's fifth official single, and it was released on August 30, 2005. This was the first single released by The Game after a beef with former fellow G-Unit member 50 Cent fell apart and after The Game released the mixtape titled You Know What It Is Vol. 3. Also failing to match the popularity of his previous singles, and failing to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, the song peaked at number 96 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. The song was placed 44th on About.com's Best Hip-Hop Songs of 2005.
The Game refers to a number of artists, songs and albums in "Put You on The Game", including The Chronic, N.W.A, Makaveli, The Notorious B.I.G., Public Enemy, Flavor Flav, G-Unit, 50 Cent, Dr. Dre and his song "Let Me Ride", Eve, and Snoop Dogg. During the DVD Stop Snitchin, Stop Lyin The Game watches the video for this song pausing at specific spots in the video which shows a dead man at on the ground blocked off by police tape. The Game then repeatedly states that he is wearing G-Unit sneakers, a diss at 50 Cent saying his career is dead.
Contents
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1 Lawsuit
2 Music video
3 Remixes
4 Personnel
5 Charts
6 References
7 External links
Lawsuit[edit]
Two years after its release a lawsuit was filed from a Major India Record Company Saregama India, Timbaland, co-producer Nate "Danja" Hills, The Game, Interscope Records along with a few other Production companies were being sued for using an uncleared sample. The sample in question is from the Bollywood song "Baghon Mein Bahar Hai" from the 1969 soundtrack to the movie Aradhana.
Music video[edit]
The music video features The Game with many appearances by his current and former Black Wall Street affiliates. The video shows various places in Los Angeles County, including downtown Los Angeles and Compton. The video shows many Los Angeles landmarks such as Staples Center, The Watts Towers, and LAX.
Remixes[edit]
There is a remix of the song featuring Fabolous and Fat Joe. Another remix was made later with Kanye West. A third remix was made featuring Bun B, Chamillionaire and Slim Thug which can be heard on DJ Smallz' mixtape, Southern Smoke 21.
Psychopathic Rydas used the beat on their album Duk Da Fuk Down. The title of the song is "Killin' Shit" and it was released on Joe and Joey Records.
Chamillionaire and his brother Rasaq performed a freestyle using the beat which was on a DJ Obscene mixtape entitled "Houston We Have A Problem Vol. 1".
Trae and his group Assholes By Nature used the beat to make the song called I'm a Asshole which can be heard on a DJ Drama mixtape.
There are also remixes done by Crooked I, off of his Hip Hop Weekly series, as well as by the Re-Up Gang, consisting of members Malice and Pusha, from the duo Clipse, and Ab Liva and Sandman.
Kanye West made a remix.
Personnel[edit]
Producer: Timbaland & Danja
Mixer: Timbaland, Jimmy Douglas & Bryan Thomas
Additional Vocals: Timbaland & Demacio "Demo" Castellon
Charts[edit]
Chart (2005–06)
Peak
position
Ireland (IRMA)[1] 22
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[2] 46
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[3] 96
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Chart Track: Week 45, 2005". Irish Singles Chart.
Jump up ^ "Official Singles Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved March 03, 2011.
Jump up ^ "The Game Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". Billboard.
External links[edit]
"Put You on the Game" music video on YouTube
Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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The Game
Discography
Songs
Studio albums
The Documentary (2005)
Doctor's Advocate (2006)
LAX (2008)
The R.E.D. Album (2011)
Jesus Piece (2012)
The Documentary 2 (2015)
The Documentary 2.5 (2015)
1992 (2016)
Compilations
G.A.M.E. (2006)
Blood Moon: Year of the Wolf (with Blood Money) (2014)
The Documentary 2 / 2.5 (Collector's Edition) (2016)
Soundtrack albums
Streets of Compton (2016)
Block Wars (2016)
Mixtapes
Westside Story (2004)
Stop Snitchin, Stop Lyin (2006)
Brake Lights (2010)
Purp & Patron (2011)
Hoodmorning (No Typo): Candy Coronas (2011)
California Republic (2012)
OKE: Operation Kill Everything (2013)
Related articles
The Black Wall Street Records
Inglewood Cobras
Marrying the Game
She's Got Game
Aftermath Entertainment
G-Unit
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