Following the formation of baseball's first professional organization, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, which became known as the National Association, the Association, or NA, in 1871, Spalding joined the Boston Red Stockings ( precursor club to the modern Atlanta Braves ) and was highly successful ; winning 206 games ( and losing only 53 ) as a pitcher and batting. 323 as a hitter.

The modern Chicago Cubs and Atlanta Braves franchises trace their histories back to the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players in the early 1870s.

He made his first short film in 1968 and in the 1970s he began making a series of political feature films about modern Greece: Days of ' 36 ( Meres Tou 36, 1972 ), The Travelling Players ( O Thiassos, 1975 ) and The Hunters ( I Kynighoi, 1977 ).

The Busch Quartet and Serkin became the nucleus of the Busch Chamber Players, a forerunner of modern chamber orchestras.

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Players fight with modern, medieval and fantasy weapons in a world marked by war.

In 2006, Faloney was voted to the Honour Roll of the CFL's Top 50 Players of the league's modern era by Canadian sports network TSN.

He began his acting career in the 1980s as a member of the Medieval Players, a touring company performing medieval and early modern theatre, and featuring stilt-walking, juggling and puppetry.

She was a founding member of the Provincetown Players, one of the most important collaboratives in the development of modern drama in the United States.

Players installing the game on a modern system have often found it unusable, as the combination of too-powerful hardware ( the game lacks programming to properly limit its behavior in high-framerate situations ) and graphical anomalies ( due to the heavy use of now-deprecated DirectX 5 and 6 programming routines ) make for an extremely unsatisfactory gameplay experience.

What was the Players was to become the underpart of PriceWaterhouseCoopers-a modern high rise office building built over Charing Cross Station.

Players may wish to play on two computers when it is difficult to play two copies of a game on the same computer, such as modern 3D MMORPGs.

In modern society it is rather difficult if not impossible to organize an illegal and extremely dangerous road race, there are still a few events which may be considered racing, such as the Gumball 3000, Gumball Rally, and Players Run races.

Players today can thank him for founding what is known today as modern opening strategy.

Because it is a newer format than DVD Video, it will only playback in modern DVD Players that support it.

This allowed Atlantic to claim the championship over the undefeated Cincinnati club under the " challenge " format of the National Association of Base Ball Players, which resembled modern boxing championship rules rather than a league or tournament format.

During the run of Patience, Carte built the large, modern Savoy Theatre, which became the partnership's permanent home.

In 2004, the New York Musical Theatre Festival presented a week-long festival of modern film musicals that included 10 independent features made since 1996, as well as several programs of short film musicals.

* The Lucent Danstheater is home to the internationally celebrated Nederlands Dans Theatre, a modern dance company.

A 2003 Royal National Theatre production featured Henry as a modern war general, ridiculing the Iraq invasion.

The Roman style Theatre ( Θέατρον ) of the city was later replaced by a bland, modern box-style building.

The Omaha Symphony Orchestra and its modern Holland Performing Arts Center, the Opera Omaha at the Orpheum theater, the Blue Barn Theatre, and The Rose Theater form the backbone of Omaha's performing arts community.

* Wuppertal Dance Theatre ( Tanztheater Wuppertal ), a world-famous center of modern dance founded by the choreographer Pina Bausch

Following Baryshnikov's appointment as artistic director of American Ballet Theatre in 1980, he worked with various modern choreographers, most notably Twyla Tharp.

This, the gift of Archbishop Sheldon to his old university, was influenced by the classical form of the Theatre of Marcellus in Rome, but was a mixture of this classical design with a modern empirical design.

Theatre owner James Nederlander as well as The New York Times have referred to Blaine as a modern day Houdini.

Antoon's 1990 production at the New York Shakespeare Festival, starring Morgan Freeman and Tracey Ullman, which was set in the old west ; Bill Alexander's 1992 RSC production at the Barbican, starring Anton Lesser and Amanda Harris, in which the Induction was rewritten in modern language, and the play-within-the-play featured actors carrying scripts and continually forgetting lines ; Delia Taylor's 1999 production at the Clark Street Playhouse, which featured an all female cast, with Diane Manning as Petruchio and Elizabeth Perotti as Katherina ; Phyllida Lloyd's 2003 production at the Globe, again with an all female cast, starring Janet McTeer as Petruchio and Kathryn Hunter as Katherina ; Gregory Doran's 2003 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, where the play was presented with Fletcher's The Tamer Tamed as a two-part piece, with Jasper Britton and Alexandra Gilbreath ( playing both Katherina in The Shrew and Maria ( Petruchio's second wife ) in The Tamer Tamed ); Edward Hall's 2006 Propeller Company production at the Courtyard Theatre as part of the RSC's presentation of the Complete Works, featuring an all-male cast, with Dugald Bruce Lockhart as Petruchio and Simon Scardifield as Katherina ; and Conall Morrison's 2008 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Stephen Boxer and Michelle Gomez.

Hayes's Beck Theatre opened in 1977, and offers a wide range of touring shows in a welcoming modern building.

Despite this economic downturn, Cookstown's Council constructed its modern town hall in 1953 ( now demolished and replaced by the Buranavon Theatre ) and the Daintyfit clothing factory on Burn Road was opened.

Magee has a modern auditorium and local arts group include Artists Mississippi, the Simpson County Arts Council, and the Lamplight Theatre.

The Bancroft management at the Prince of Wales's Theatre constituted a new era in the development of the English stage and had the effect of reviving the London interest in modern drama.

Examples include the Raffinerie, a former sugar refinery that is now the site of a cultural and modern dance complex ; the Fonderie, a former smelter that is now home to a labour and industry museum ; the Bottelarij, a bottling plant which was housing the Royal Flemish Theatre during the renovation of the theatre in the centre of Brussels ; and the most impressive Tour & Taxis building and surrounding area, which will be turned into various residences, as well as commercial enterprises.

Abraham Ortelius ( Abraham Ortels ) ( April 14, 1527 – June 28, 1598 ) was a Flemish cartographer and geographer, generally recognised as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ( Theatre of the World ).

Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ( pronounced, " Theatre of the World ") is considered to be the first true modern atlas.

At about this time, after the First World War, she started the Children's Theatre, and later the Cave of Harmony, a nightclub at which modern plays and cabaret turns were performed.

Theatre Western produces a season that includes an annual musical revue of modern and classic Broadway, Purple Shorts ( Western's One-Act Play Festival ,) and a major musical production each spring.

French literary developments of the 19th and 20th centuries have had a particularly strong effect on modern world literature, including: symbolism, naturalism, the " roman-fleuves " of Balzac, Zola and Proust, surrealism, existentialism, and the " Theatre of the Absurd ".

* Vanishing Point created a modern production of The Beggar's Opera in 2009 for The Royal Lyceum Theatre and Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, set in a near-future apocalypse world.

In modern literature, Cockney rhyming slang is used frequently in the novels and short stories of Kim Newman, for instance in the short story collections " The Man from the Diogenes Club " ( 2006 ) and " Secret Files of the Diogenes Club " ( 2007 ), where it is explained at the end of each book.

Teddington Hockey Club formed the modern game by introducing the striking circle and changing the ball to a sphere from a rubber cube.

In addition to developing the predecessors to modern computing and networking technologies, students, staff, and faculty members at Project MAC, the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and the Tech Model Railroad Club wrote some of the earliest interactive computer video games like Spacewar!

* 1845 – The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York.

The first use of the term " sustainable " in the modern sense was by the Club of Rome in March 1972 in its epoch-making report on the ‘ Limits to

The Christ's College Rugby Football Club ( CCRFC ) was founded in 1875 by Alfred Cort Haddon, considered the father of modern anthropology.

The age of the modern whippet dawned in 1890 when the English Kennel Club granted the breed official recognition, thus making the whippet eligible for competition in dog shows, and commencing the recording of their pedigrees.

Some modern hunters see themselves as conservationists and sportsmen in the mode of Theodore Roosevelt and the Boone and Crockett Club.

The White City of the World's Colombian Exposition inspired the Merchant's Club of Chicago to commission Daniel Burnham to create the Plan of Chicago in 1909, which became the first modern comprehensive city plan in America.

The first modern bungee jumps were made on 1 April 1979 from the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, by members of the Oxford University Dangerous Sports Club.

Cartwright is thought to be the first person to draw a diagram of a diamond shaped baseball field, and the rules of the modern game are based on the Knickerbocker Rules developed by Cartwright and a committee from his club, the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club.

The first modern bungee jumps were made on 1 April 1979 from the bridge, by members of the Oxford University Dangerous Sports Club.

One of the early members of the Country Club was famous San Francisco attorney Vince Hallinan, who led the campaign against a swim dress code, citing the chic European women he'd seen in modern swimwear.

Modern day Clifton Springs offers an excellent school system, modern hospital, YMCA, Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club and numerous other organizations, country club / golf course, national bank, library, senior citizen community, volunteer fire department, a park area, tennis courts, a skate park, shaded streets, a large manufacturing firm, and an active business section.

While the modern DU Fencing Club was founded in 1941, its origins can be dated to the 1700s when a ' Gentleman's Club of the Sword ' existed, primarily for duelling practice.

It is occasionally used for names of organisations and various other things ; for instance: Hibernia National Bank, Hibernian Insurance Group, Ancient Order of Hibernians, The Hibernian magazine, Hibernia College, Hibernian Football Club, HMS Hibernia, the Hibernia oil field, and modern derivatives, from Latin like Respublica Hibernica ( Irish Republic ) and Universitas Hiberniae Nationalis ( National University of Ireland ).

It was located just behind the former Manor House Hotel and the modern rules of lawn tennis were drawn up in 1874 in Leamington Tennis Club.

The newly founded club played its inaugural match against an Upton Cricket Club XI on one of Farmer John Wright's fields, which was situated at the top of Penny's Hill, on Teignmouth Road on the site of modern Parkhurst Road.

United soon found another home, sharing with Torquay Cricket Club in nearby Cricketfield Road ( a site still used for football in the modern day by South Devon League side Upton Athletic ) for four years and during that time won their first honour, the Torquay and District League title in 1909.

Open only after dark with an " al fresco " concept, the Satay Club defined how satay is served in Singapore since then, although they are also found across the island in most hawker stalls, modern food courts, and upscale restaurants at any time of the day.

Sarazen invented the modern sand wedge, and debuted the club ( while keeping it secret during preliminary practice rounds ) at the British Open at Prince's Golf Club in 1932 ( which he won ).

That song pre-dated the opening of what is considered to be the first modern strip club, Condor Club on Broadway in the U. S. city of San Francisco, California.