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.

Ayckbourn joined Wolfit on tour to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as an acting assistant stage manager ( meaning a role that involved both acting and stage management ) for three weeks, with his first role on the professional stage being various parts in The Strong are Lonely by Fritz Hochwälder .< ref name = acting >

Fullback Marion Motley and nose tackle Bill Willis, two of the earliest African-Americans to play professional football, also joined the team in 1946.

In 1871 the Forest Citys joined the new National Association of Professional Base Ball Players ( NA ), the first professional league.

After the war, they joined the Kent League for one season ( 1919 – 20 ) before becoming professional, appointing Walter Rayner as the first full-time manager.

Manufacturers joined with computer DJing pioneers to offer professional endorsements, the first being Professor Jam ( aka William P. Rader ), who went on to develop the industry's first dedicated computer DJ convention and learning program, the " CPS ( Computerized Performance System ) DJ Summit ", to help spread the word about the advantages of this emerging technology.

The league joined with teams in Michigan and Ontario to form the first fully professional International Professional Hockey League ( IPHL ), in 1904.

In 1888 he joined the Verein für Socialpolitik, a new professional association of German economists affiliated with the historical school, who saw the role of economics primarily as finding solutions to the social problems of the age and who pioneered large scale statistical studies of economic issues.

In the same year, Dalí had important professional exhibitions and officially joined the Surrealist group in the Montparnasse quarter of Paris.

By 1928 he had joined the Kaiserslautern youth academy, and he made his first team debut at 17, continuing an association with the club that would be his only professional club.

The Magic became the first ever major-league professional sports franchise in the Orlando area, led by William duPont III, joined with two brothers, James and Robert Hewitt, as general partners and former Philadelphia 76ers general manager Pat Williams.

The team turned professional in 1894 and joined the Southern League which was founded in the same year.

Renamed as West Hertfordshire in 1893, Rovers joined the Southern Football League in 1896, and started to pay professional footballers in 1897.

Francis Wolff, a professional photographer, emigrated to the USA at the end of 1939 and soon joined forces with Lion, a childhood friend.

The Northern League split after the 2010 season with several teams joined 3 other independent professional leagues.

The national press were already predicting a bright future for the teenager, and though he could have then joined any club in the country, he signed as a professional with Stoke on his seventeenth birthday.

At the age of 15, he joined his first professional band — Mariani, a psychedelic rock group.

In 1937, he made his professional stage debut at the People's Palace, East London, playing a minor role in Othello and, later in the year, joined the repertory company of the Little Theatre in Bristol.

The Nelson boys were first played in the radio series by professional child actors until twelve-year-old Dave and eight-year-old Ricky joined the show on February 20, 1949 in the episode, " Invitation to Dinner.

Beck's professional career as a cook and teacher began after World War II, and after she had joined the Cercle des Gourmettes, an exclusive women's culinary club.

In 2009, Neymar and Paulo Henrique Ganso joined the professional team.

In the 1940s, some members such as Ray Bradbury began writing professionally, and an increasing number of professional science fiction authors visited meetings or joined as " Members at Large " elsewhere in the world.

The Green Bay Packers professional football team was formed in 1919 and joined the National Football League ( NFL ) in 1921.

Few X-Men trusted Gambit, who was originally a professional thief, when he first joined the group.

The now all professional Chicago White Stockings, financed by businessman William Hulbert, became a charter member of the league along with the Red Stockings, who had dissolved and moved to Boston.

The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball ’ s American League Eastern Division.

The Boston Red Stockings won four championships in the five seasons of the new National Association, the first professional league.

In addition to Major League Baseball, Fenway Park has been the site of many other sporting and cultural events, including professional football games for the Boston Redskins and the Boston Patriots, concerts, soccer and hockey games, political and religious campaigns.

In the game A. G. Spalding was pitcher and Ross Barnes shortstop for the Forest City nine ; these two afterwards becoming famous as star players of the Boston professional team of the early seventies.

The New England Patriots, commonly called the " Pats ," are a professional football team based in the Greater Boston area, playing their home games in the town of Foxborough, Massachusetts at Gillette Stadium.

* This was the commonwealth of Massachusetts ' first major professional championship since the Boston Celtics ' NBA title in 1986.

* November 24 – The professional basketball player Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia 76ers gets 55 rebounds in an NBA game versus the Boston Celtics.

* Boston Celtics, an American professional basketball team

Following further meetings with Freud in 1909 at Clark University, Massachusetts, where Freud gave a series of lectures on psychoanalysis, and in Holland the following year, Jones set about forging strong working relationships with the nascent American psychoanalytic movement, giving some 20 papers or addresses to American professional societies at venues ranging from Boston, to Washington and Chicago.

In 1849 he became a professional writer when he sold two essays and a poem to the Pictorial National Library, a Boston magazine.

Only three other major North American professional sports teams have accomplished this feat, the 1941 – 42 Toronto Maple Leafs, the 2004 Boston Red Sox ( from the Major League Baseball ), and the 2009 – 10 Philadelphia Flyers.

During their run of four Stanley Cup championships and a fifth finals appearance, the Islanders won 19 straight playoff series, the longest streak in the history of professional sports ( one more than the 1959 – 67 streak by the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association ).

The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts, US.

Roenick, Belfour, and Chelios were all traded away as the Blackhawks faltered through the late 1990s until they missed the playoffs in 1998 for the first time in 29 years, one season short of tying the Boston Bruins ' record for the longest such streak in North American professional sports history.

In, Mathewson got back into professional baseball when he served as part-time president of the Boston Braves.

Boston Braves may refer to any of the following American professional sports teams:

Gleason is currently a Professor Emerita in the Department of Psychology at Boston University, where she spent most of her professional career, where she has also served as department chair and director of the Graduate Program in Human Development.

* Bobby Jenks, professional baseball player for the Boston Red Sox, was born in Mission Hills.

* Lowell Spinners-Class A short-season professional baseball affiliate of the Boston Red Sox