Early photographs show Englishmen adding a net to the traditional English game of battledore and shuttlecock.

Early croquet-like game from The Sports and Pastimes of the people of England, first published 1801.

Early on, Young established himself as one of the harder-throwing pitchers in the game.

Early football stars such as Jim Thorpe, Paddy Driscoll, and Al Bloodgood were skilled drop-kickers ; Driscoll in 1925 and Bloodgood in 1926 hold a tied NFL record of four drop kicked field goals in a single game.

* 1968 – Penny Ann Early became the first woman to play major professional basketball, in an ABA game Kentucky Colonels vs. Los Angeles Stars.

Early video game systems such as the Atari 2600 and Cinematronics vector graphics had hard real-time requirements because of the nature of the graphics and timing hardware.

Early in the fourth quarter, Starr was knocked out of the game when he jammed the thumb on his throwing hand when sacked by Davidson.

Early in the fourth quarter, Washington threatened to score by mounting its most impressive drive of the game, driving 79 yards from its own 11 to Miami's 10-yard line in twelve plays.

Early rackets were often pieces of parchment stretched upon a frame, and the sound generated in play gave the game its first nicknames of " wiff-waff " and " ping-pong ".

Early in the 18th century whist was not a fashionable game.

< imagemap > File: 1st millennium montage. png | From left, clockwise: Depiction of Jesus, the central figure in Christianity ; The Colosseum, a landmark of the once mighty Roman Empire ; Gunpowder is invented during the latter part of the millennium, in China ; Chess, a new board game, takes on popularity across the globe ; The Roman Empire falls, and then reappears ushering in the Early Middle Ages ; The skeletal remains of a young woman, known as the " ring lady ", killed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 ; Attila the Hun, leader of the Hunnic Empire, which takes most of western Europe.

Early in his career, Lando is a prodigious gambler and wins the Millennium Falcon in a game of sabacc.

Early test versions of the game went by the name ' Merc ' ( short for ' mercenary ').

Early baseball game played at Elysian Fields, Hoboken, New Jersey | Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey ( Lithography | lithograph by Currier and Ives )

Early in the days of his official employment he startled his master's courtiers by the realism with which he painted still life, game and antlers on the walls of the country palaces at Coburg and Locha ; his pictures of deer and wild boar were considered striking, and the duke fostered his passion for this form of art by taking him out to the hunting field, where he sketched " his grace " running the stag, or Duke John sticking a boar.

Early on, the player is given the choice between three different game modes, each with unique cutscenes, puzzles to solve and locations to visit: the Team Path, the Wits Path, and the Fists Path.

" Early in the book it is learned that Felix Hoenikker ( a fictional co-inventor of the atom bomb ) was playing cat's cradle when the bomb was dropped, and the game is later referenced by his son, Newton Hoenikker.

Early in 1987, Bond's tenure at the club ended in farce when he resigned without presiding over a single game.

In his book Early Golf, Steven van Hengel describes how the game of " Colf " or " Kolf " was played in 1297 near the castle of Kronenburg.

Early baseball game played at Elysian Fields, Hoboken, New Jersey | Elysian Fields, Hoboken ( Currier & Ives lithograph ).

Early pioneers were attracted to its remoteness and abundance of fish and game.

Early the next year, the undefeated Mountaineer football team, led by Major Harris, made it to the national championship game

Early in the series the Dragon Quest games were released under the title Dragon Warrior in North America to avoid trademark conflict with the pen-and-paper role-playing game DragonQuest.

Early versions of the game were made and ported among early computer platforms, and then the Atari ST, until 1990, when Jay Geertsen sold the rights to Sega, where it was ported to several Sega consoles.

Early in the game, Kariya was routinely cheered by fans when he touched the puck.

* 1939 – Deacon White, Early American baseball player ( b. 1847 )

* 1920 – Early Wynn, American baseball player ( d. 1999 )

** Early Wynn, American baseball player ( d. 1999 )

* Quinn Early, former National Football League player who was selected by the San Diego Chargers in the 3rd round of the 1988 NFL Draft.

* Jake Early ( 1915-1985 ), Major League Baseball player

Early in the game, during and directly after the event that plunges the base into chaos, the player often hears the sounds of fighting, screaming and dying through their radio transmitter.

Early in the book, Paul Proteus's friend and future member of the Ghost Shirt Society, Ed Finnerty, is shown playing a player piano, suggesting the idea of humans regaining control from the machines.

On 30 April 2008, Connarty signed Early Day Motion No. 1439 which called for censure a Celtic football club player who had worn a T-shirt carrying with the words " God bless the Pope ".

During this season the Colonels fielded the first ever female professional basketball player when jockey Penny Ann Early joined the team for pregame warmups and appeared briefly during a game.

Early music groups released music in MOD formats, typically as part of a music disk, which often included a MOD player, visual effects, and textual information.

Early into the season, manager Bond was sacked and was replaced by former player Jimmy Quinn, who would himself leave the club only a few months later.

In a book titled " Spirit of St. Louis " a former St. Louis Browns player named Ellis Clary was recapping his career and mentioned that he was playing for the Birmingham Barons, an independent team in the Southern League, a 17-year old Early Wynn showed up for a tryout in Florida in a T-shirt, a pair of blue jeans and a Coca-Cola cap.

Early in the game, the player will receive help from a non-playable character named Farah.

He leaves his tape player on ; and Adele's voice is heard, talking about how good Carrie and Brian were to her and Early, and how much their friendship means to her.

Early on the development of Navi Trackers, it was decided that it would include a speech navigation system that talks and advises the player during mini-games.

Early in the game, the player learns of the scheme by Fudd's wife and Lorealle's stepmother, Morgana, who intends her daughter (' by a previous marriage '), Grizelda the Hefty to be on the dying King's side and therefore become the sole heir.

Early video games generally used two distinct types of graphics, the " players " which were controlled by the player or the computer ( today known as sprites ), and the " playfield ", or background graphics normally drawn under the players.

Early usage of the term, poker face, outside the game of poker, was seen in 1920s by American sportswriters, describe player appearing unaffected during stressful games.

Early 2009, she resigned from Indonesia National Team and no longer PBSI player.

Early in its lifespan the magazine also included comic book pages about the adventures of a superhero named GamePro who was a video game player from the real world brought into a dimension where video games were real to save it from creatures called the Evil Darklings.

Baseball writer John Thorn commented in his book Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game that Creighton " was baseball's first hero, and I believe, the most important player not inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Early in the 1934 season, he succeeded Lew Fonseca as White Sox manager ; he was a player-manager from 1934 through 1939, and after retiring as a player continued as manager until early 1946.

Early game theory included only zero-sum games, which means that when one player won, the other automatically lost.