Spalding's. 796 career winning percentage ( from an era when teams played about once or twice a week ) is the highest ever achieved by a baseball pitcher.

Charlton played 14 times for United in that first season, scoring twice on his debut and managing a total of 12 goals in all competitions, and including a hat-trick in a 5 – 1 away win over Charlton Athletic in the February.

When the cube is centered, the player about to roll may propose that the game be played for twice the current stakes.

Led by native Ohioan Cy Young, the Spiders became a contender in the mid-1890s, when they played in the Temple Cup Series ( that era's World Series ) twice, winning it in 1895.

With the sale of Ian Rush to Juventus in 1987, Dalglish formed a new striker partnership of new signings John Aldridge and Peter Beardsley for the 1987 – 88 season, and he played only twice in a league campaign which saw Liverpool gain their 17th title.

He played different minor characters on four episodes of ABC's The Rifleman between 1959 and 1962 and twice on ABC's Tombstone Territory.

The 1912 finals series was one of the most amazing ever, with the Semi Final having to be played three times, after North and Brunswick drew twice.

Treasure Island played twice daily through the winter of 1961-62, and was an annual production at the Mermaid Theatre for some years.

Instead of a traditional division schedule of playing each division opponent twice, the Buccaneers played every conference team once, plus the Seahawks.

The band played twice at the punk club The Roxy during its first 100 days.

In the first semifinal Croatia played France in a game dominated by strong defense by both teams, with the Croats achieving a three-goal lead twice, only to see France come back strong.

* If all clubs involved have played each other twice:

They never played the same play two days in a row, and rarely the same play twice in a week.

During the first season, the theme music was played over a short film of a flashing blue light attached to the rear of a police motorcycle in Waikiki heading west ( the film is shown at twice the normal speed, as can be seen from people crossing a street behind the police motorcycle ).

During the civil wars of the 17th century the city played a pivotal role, besieged by Oliver Cromwell in 1651 and twice by the Williamites in the 1690s.

This was done twice, after which the Audience Match was played.

Spassky played twice for the USSR in the European Team Championships, winning four gold medals.

The technique is often applied for but not limited to arpeggios, with a common shape being the one-or two-octave stacked triad ; or in scalar terms the first ( tonic ), third ( mediant ) and fifth ( dominant ) of a scale, played twice with an additional tonic added to the highest point in the shape.

He played hockey as much as he could, sometimes twice per night and four games on the week-end.

Bassett offered Henderson a five-year contract worth twice the annual $ 75, 000 salary the Maple Leafs were paying, including a $ 50, 000 signing bonus and performance bonuses based on how he played in his final year with the Maple Leafs.

It is played for half the length of a minim ( or " half note ") and twice that of a quaver ( an " eighth note ").

In music, a half note ( American ) or minim ( British ) is a note played for half the duration of a whole note ( or semibreve ) and twice the duration of a quarter note ( or crotchet ).

* A card of rank equal to the number of players in the game ( generally 3-6 ) is a " social ", and when played all players must drink twice.

Recently, Brentwood played Maplewood twice in the 2010 season, the latter being a win in the playoffs for Missouri division 2A football, where Brentwood eventually made it to the final at the Edward Jones Dome.

Athletically, the most famous Edon High School alumnus is Dave Herman, who went on to play football collegiately at Michigan State University from 1960 – 1964, then played professionally with the New York Jets from 1964 – 1973, twice winning all-pro honors.

The major effect of these advances appears to lie in the part they have played in the industrial revolution and in the tools which scientific understanding has given us to build and manipulate a more protective environment.

I'd have been more impressed if I hadn't remembered that she'd played Hedda Gabler in her highschool dramatics course.

Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

Back East the more affluent juvenile delinquents, who could afford hyped-up autos instead of switch blades as lethal weapons, played this same game and called it `` Chicken ''.

Australian football is played in more than 30 countries around the world.

Another of the show's signature elements is that many songs end on a single brief note played by one or more instruments.

During the Civil war, soldiers from different parts of the United States played baseball together, leading to a more unified national version of the sport.

In the very early part of the 20th century, known as the " dead-ball era ", baseball rules and equipment favored the " inside game " and the game was played more violently and aggressively than it is today.

Blackjack is a comparing card game between a player and dealer and played with one or more decks of 52 cards.

Today the sport is played in over 40 countries with more than 50 member national authorities.

There is also a variant in Bolivia when it is played in a Chakana or Inca Cross grid, which adds more complications to the game.

Developed into its present form in Italy, ( where it is called bocce, the plural of the Italian word boccia which means " bowl "), it is played around Europe and also in overseas areas that have received Italian migrants, including Australia, North America, and South America ( where it is known as bochas ; bolas criollas in Venezuela, bocha ( the sport ) in Brazil ), initially among the migrants themselves but slowly becoming more popular with their descendants and the wider community.

( This initial version of the song played more slowly and about half an octave higher than the later hit version.

Although Douglas was always second billed under Lancaster in these films, their roles were usually more or less the same size with the exceptions of I Walk Alone, in which Douglas played a villain, and in Seven Days in May, where Douglas ' part was larger than Lancaster's but not as dramatic.

In practice for publicly-traded companies, the managers ( inside directors ) who are purportedly accountable to the board of directors have historically played a major role in selecting and nominating the directors who are voted on by the shareholders, in which case more " gray outsider directors " ( independent directors with conflicts of interest ) are nominated and elected.

Wills and the Texas Playboys played dances throughout the West to more than 10, 000 people every week.

Natural instruments are still played for period performances and some ceremonial functions, and are occasionally found in more modern scores, such as those by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss.

For the majority of games, there is no one set of universal rules by which the game is played, and the most common ruleset is no more or less than that.

The Sui Dynasty, which managed to reunite the country in 589 after nearly four centuries of political fragmentation, played a role more important than its length of existence would suggest.

The steel-string and electric guitars characteristic to the rise of rock and roll in the post-WWII era became more widely played in North America and the English speaking world.

In Tuskegee, they played local parties and fraternity parties playing mostly cover tunes and some original songs with their original singer, James Ingram ( another " James Ingram " – not the more famous solo artist ).

Because the Cubs lost two seasons to the Great Chicago Fire, the Braves have played more seasons, although the Cubs hold the record for oldest team still in its original city.

The trumpet would play fanfare-like passages, while the cornet played more melodic passages.

, Dungeons & Dragons remained the best-known and best-selling role-playing game, with an estimated 20 million people having played the game and more than US $ 1 billion in book and equipment sales.

While performers and singers garnered the lion's share of public attention, producers working behind the scenes played an equal, if not more important role in disco, since they often wrote the songs and created the innovative sounds and production techniques that were part of the " disco sound.