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.

She sat down and played two slots at once, looking grim, as if bested by mechanical devices, and Owen felt sorry for the lay-sisters depending on her support.

As of 2007, economic relations played " a fundamental role in the bilateral relations between the two governments ".

Joan Hickson played the part of the home help in this film and can claim to have appeared in two Miss Marple series.

England won two out of the three matches played against Murdoch's Australian Eleven, and after the third match some Melbourne ladies put some ashes into a small urn and gave them to me as captain of the English Eleven .”

Five matches were played in 1902 but the first two were drawn after being hit by bad weather.

In the period between 1989 and the beginning of the 2005 series, the two sides had played 43 times ; Australia winning 28 times, England 7 times, with 8 draws.

It hosted the annual Hall of Fame Game, an exhibition game between two major league teams that was played from 1940 until 2008.

After pitching his team to a 26 – 2 victory over a local men's amateur team ( the Mercantiles ), he was approached by another, the Forest Citys, for whom he played for two years.

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Their second title, and the first to be received through a championship game, came in, two decades before the first Super Bowl game was played.

During his rookie season, he played in two games where he amassed a record of 5 passing attempts with 0 receptions and 2 interceptions.

Although clubs from other states were at times invited, the final was almost always between the premiers from the two strongest state competitions of the time — South Australia and Victoria — and the majority of matches were played in Adelaide at the request of the SAFA / SAFL.

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players.

Writing the rules didn't help the Knickerbockers in the first known competitive game between two clubs under the new rules, played at Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey on June 19, 1846.

The two division winners within each league played each other in a best-of-five series to determine who would advance to the World Series.

The 35-match tour of two host nations included no tests, but the side played provincial, city and academic sides, winning 27 matches.

Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players ( singles ) or two opposing pairs ( doubles ), who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net.

It is played by four players in two competing partnerships, with partners sitting opposite each other around a table.

In its most basic form, bridge is a game played by two competing partnerships, i. e. four people.

In some versions, the two player game can also be played by one player against a computer opponent.

Walsh played quarterback at the College of San Mateo while attending there two years.

It is only played with two bowls each, the Jack also has a bias and is only slightly smaller than the Bowls.

Beatmatching ( or Beatmaxing ) is a disc jockey technique of pitch shifting or timestretching a track to match its tempo to that of the currently playing track e. g. the kicks and snares in two house records hit at the same time when both records are played simultaneously.

The club played its earliest seasons at the Motovelodromo Appio stadium, before settling in the working-class streets of Testaccio, where it built an all-wooden ground Campo Testaccio ; this was opened in November 1929.

Bernard Allan Federko ( born May 12, 1956 ) is a retired professional ice hockey centre who played fourteen seasons in the National Hockey League from 1976 through 1990.

He played three seasons with the Blades, and in his final year with the club he led the league in assists and points in both the regular season and playoffs.

The character Frasier Crane, played by Kelsey Grammer, was featured in his own successful spin-off, Frasier, which also ran for 11 seasons and included guest appearances by virtually all of the major, and some minor, Cheers characters.

O ' Connell had played well in the previous two seasons – he led the league in passing in 1957 – but lacked the stature and durability Paul Brown wanted in a starter.

In second place is Payton, who played 186 games from 1975 to 1987 at running back, a position considered to be conducive to injury, only missing one game in a span of 13 seasons.

For their first two seasons, the Bengals played at Nippert Stadium which is the current home of the University of Cincinnati Bearcats.

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 Chicago club was founded in 1870 as the White Stockings and played a season in the National Association of Base Ball Players, where they won a championship, and five seasons in the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players.

Hall of Fame manager Ned Hanlon played all eight seasons in center field but there was high turnover otherwise.

The only seasons in recent times when this pattern was not followed were 1999 – 2000, when most rounds were played a few weeks earlier than normal as an experiment, and 2010 – 2011 when the FA Cup Final was played before the Premier League season had finished, in order to allow the stadium to be ready for the UEFA Champions League final.

Hagi played two seasons with Real Madrid and then was sold to Brescia Calcio.

Starring as a first baseman and outfielder with the Tigers ( 1930, 1933 – 46 ) and doing duty only briefly with the Pirates ( 1947 ), Greenberg played only nine full seasons.

Henry Louis " Hank " Aaron ( born February 5, 1934 ), nicknamed " Hammer ," or " Hammerin ' Hank ," is a retired American baseball right fielder who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) from 1954 through 1976.

Over ten seasons, he played in six World Series and contributed to the Dodgers ' 1955 World Championship.

Beginning his major league career at the relatively advanced age of twenty-eight, he played only ten seasons, all of them for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

For the last three seasons of his career, Bench caught only 13 games and played mostly first base or third base.

The quirks of the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, including the turf floor and the white roof, gave the Twins a significant home-field advantage that played into their winning the World Series in both 1987 and 1991, at least in the opinion of their opponents, as the Twins went 12 – 1 in post season home games during those two seasons.

The Titans played their first four seasons at the stadium — in the final season they were renamed the Jets.

During the 1962 and 1963 seasons, the Mets played their home games at the Polo Grounds.

In the early 1990s, Simms and Taylor, two of the stars of the 1980s, played out the last seasons of their careers with steadily declining production.

Roberto Clemente Walker ( August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972 ) was a Puerto Rican baseball player whose Major League career comprised the 18 seasons stretching from 1955 through 1972, all of them played with the Pittsburgh Pirates, primarily as a right fielder.

Clemens played 24 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) for four teams.