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A keen amateur statistician and professional writer, he helped sculpt the public perception of the game, as well as providing the basis for the records of team's and player's achievements in the form of baseball statistics.
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Elsie's father, Arthur, was a keen amateur photographer, and had set up his own darkroom.
Lovecraft was a keen amateur astronomer from his youth, often visiting the Ladd Observatory in Providence, and penning numerous astronomical articles for local newspapers.
Despite the good intentions and hardwork of its creator ( as well as the keen interest and support from both amateur and professional 2000 AD contributors ), the fanzine's full potential sadly never was realised.
In a theoretically amateur sport, the strongest teams were luring the best talent with undisclosed payments to players and were not keen to schedule matches against teams with poor followings ( such as Richmond ) that could not generate much gate money.
He was a keen amateur boxer and won the Irish junior middleweight title in 1944.
During his youth, he was a keen amateur chemist, as recalled in his memoir Uncle Tungsten.
Moore also was a keen amateur actor, appearing regularly in local plays.
A keen amateur chess player, Moore often carries a pocket set around with him and has been honoured with the title of Vice President of Sussex Junior Chess Association.
Both he and Dorsey were also keen amateur boxers and were to become Golden Gloves Champions.
A keen amateur astronomer with a particular interest in the Sun, Lockyer eventually became Director of the Solar Physics Observatory in Kensington London.
He was also a keen amateur magician, and the founding president of the Cambridge Pentacle Club in 1919, one of the world's oldest magic societies.
The Habs ' general manager, Sam Pollock, was keen to find a way to trade to obtain the first overall pick in the 1971 amateur draft.
The two had mutual interests: Cherubini was a keen amateur painter and Ingres enjoyed practising the violin.
A keen gardener and amateur landscaper, Mr. Seaga translated his love for plants and flowers into the beautiful Enchanted Garden resort, which became a unique attraction in Jamaica.
He developed the canoe as a specialised sailing vessel, and by the latter 1870s sailing canoes were taking part in organised racing, and providing keen amateur sport at reasonable cost at a time when yachting was an activity for the wealthy.
He is a keen amateur birdwatcher.
Northern clubs were keen to adopt professionalism as workers could not afford to play on an amateur basis, while Southern clubs by the large part stuck by traditional " Corinthian " values of amateurism.
He at times would slip away to his favourite holiday retreat where he was seen collecting plant specimens as a very keen amateur botanist who had his own herbarium.
Leader's father was a keen amateur artist – a friend of John Constable – and Benjamin would often accompany him on sketching trips along the banks of the River Severn.
William was a keen amateur photographer, and took several portraits of members of his family.
His mother was a piano teacher, and his father was a keen amateur musician.
Football was a keen pastime for the miners, and the standard of amateur teams from towns and villages in north east Wales was high as a result.
He was also a keen amateur artist.
Murtagh was a keen amateur boxer as a young boy.
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Chapman was one of eleven children and born into a keen sporting family, with two of his brothers also playing professional football.
Fergusson took a keen interest in all the professional work of his time.
It was founded in 1978 to combine the talents of botanists, horticulturalists and conservationists with the dedication of keen amateur and professional gardeners.
Body painting festivals happen annually across the world, bringing together professional body painters as well as keen amateurs.
Before turning professional as an actor Merryfield was a keen amateur actor and director.
According to the University, the award is " presented annually to a third-year student who has demonstrated unusual aptitude in litigation courses and shown a keen awareness and understanding of the lawyer's ethical and professional responsibility.
Heyman was keen to introduce the Mexican lucha libre style to U. S. professional wrestling fans, and he saw Guerrero as an ideal example of this.
Having been a keen footballer in his youth ( although he failed to make the grade as a professional, the best being a trial with Shildon ), after his move to London in 1906, Allison soon became associated with Woolwich Arsenal.
The industry was trying to expand out from the saturated high-end professional market and appeal to the large mass of low-end amateur photographers keen to move up from compact automatic leaf shutter rangefinder cameras to the more " glamorous " SLR but were intimidated by the need to learn all the details of operating a traditional SLR.
Despite her potential and being amongst the world's top 25 players, Croft retired from professional tennis very early at the age of only twenty-one, tired of the relentless travel and keen to start a family.
They decided to move to Sapporo where the local government and community had been keen to provide a base for a professional soccer team as they awaited Sapporo Dome to be completed in 2001.
Members of the nobility who returned to London after the Restoration were keen to develop cricket and brought with them some of the " local experts " from village cricket whom they now employed as professional players.
Cobb was a well-known " professional " naturalist of his day and his reputation was based on his keen knowledge of the commercial fisheries industry which was reflected in his many publications.
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Gardner also brought aboard several keen writing talents, including theatric humorist Abe Burrows ( the show's co-creator and head writer for its first five years ), future M * A * S * H writer Larry Gelbart and Dick Martin, who later was the co-host of television's groundbreaking Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.
The 3 PARA NCO and keen writer stumbled upon the bodies of five Paratroopers killed by the forward Argentine platoon.
Penfold is a keen writer of verse, much of which was featured in the Magnet in a regular feature column titled The Greyfriars Rhymester.
Then it is seen that the author has been so keen on preventing the reader from guessing the solution that she has rather overstepped the bounds of what should be permitted to a writer of detective stories.
She was also a keen writer and author of countless dance songs and love poems ( hiva kakala ) as well as majestic lakalaka.
Satow was an exceptional linguist, an energetic traveller, a writer of travel guidebooks, a dictionary compiler, a mountaineer, a keen botanist ( chiefly with F. V.
After commending the author's " keen eye for the picturesque ", a critic in the Cambridge History of English Literature remarked " The strong humanity which runs through the whole work is one of its most attractive features and shows that the writer was full of sympathy for his fellow-men.
He was a prolific writer, and a keen and acrimonious controversialist against the Puritans.
He was a voracious reader and a keen writer.
His Royal Highness was also a keen writer.
Interestingly, the negritude champion writer Aimé Césaire, who had Indian blood too, was keen on interacting with Indians both from Martinique and Tamil-Nadu.
In a reflection on Obejas ' work, Latina comedian Lisa Alvarado says of the writer, " Her work exudes a keen sense of humor, of irony, of compassion and is laced with the infinite small moments that make her poetry and her novels sing with the breath of real life.
As a writer of books of travel he holds a high position, his powers of observation being keen and his style lucid, animated and witty.
The term galanthophile was probably invented by the noted British plantsman and garden writer E. A. Bowles ( 1865 – 1954 ) in a letter to his friend Oliver Wyatt, another keen collector of bulbs, whom he addressed as " Dear Galanthophil ".
Henry was a keen writer and on this too he and his wife shared common ground.
Katharine Elizabeth Whitehorn ( born 1928, Hendon ) is a British journalist, writer, and columnist who is known for her wit and humour and as a keen observer of the changing role of women.
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