When Peate returned to the pavilion he was reprimanded by his captain for not allowing his partner, Charles Studd ( one of the best batsman in England, having already hit two centuries that season against the colonists ) to get the runs.

The team finished with a franchise best 14 – 2 regular season record and the NFC West division championship.

In 2010, with a regular season record of 13 – 3, their best regular season record since the 1998 Super Bowl season, the Falcons secured a third straight winning season, their fourth overall divisional title, and the top overall seed in the NFC playoffs ; however, the Falcons were overpowered by the eventual Super Bowl XLV champion Green Bay Packers in the NFC Divisional Playoffs 48 – 21.

Despite being outscored over the season, the Diamondbacks posted the best record in the NL with 90 wins and 72 losses.

After winning the opening game of the season on March 31 on the road against the Cincinnati Reds, the Diamondbacks found themselves with the best record in Major League Baseball, 20 – 8, by the start of May.

* In episode 2, season 4 of " How I Met Your Mother ", entitled " The Best Burger in New York ", Marshall's description of the taste of the best burger uses music that alludes to the 1984 film " Amadeus ", when Antonio Salieri describes the same music ( by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ) with the same accuracy and passion with which Marshall speaks of the burger.

Prior to 1969, the National League champion ( the " pennant winner ") was determined by the best win-loss record at the end of the regular season.

Beginning in 2007, MLB has implemented a new rule to give the team from the league that wins the All-Star Game with the best regular season record a slightly greater advantage.

The team with the best overall record in the major leagues, the Cincinnati Reds, failed to win their division in either half of that season and were controversially excluded, as were the St. Louis Cardinals, who finished with the NL's second-best record.

Levine was best noted for his work on TV shows such as Cheers and M * A * S * H, but only lasted one season in the Orioles broadcast booth.

In 1996, the ten-year-old Brisbane Bears had enjoyed their best season to date, losing a preliminary final to the eventual premiers, North Melbourne.

Motley, the team's best rusher and blocker in its early years, retired at the beginning of the season with a bad knee.

Although they had their best season in decades at 92 – 70, they lost key games against the Mets and finished the season a disappointing eight games out of first place while the Mets exploded past them by winning 39 of their last 50 games.

1997 – 98 was Charlton's best season for years.

The Cowboys became the surprise team of the 2003 season, posting a 10 – 6 record and a playoff berth by having the best overall defense in the NFL.

In his first season as head coach, Phillips and his coaching staff led the franchise to its best seasonal start ever, a conference-best 13 – 3 record, and the franchise's 16th NFC East championship title, the most of any team in that division.

The Wings posted the league's best record in the 2001-02 regular season and defeated Colorado in seven games in the Western Conference Finals after beating the Vancouver Canucks and St. Louis Blues in rounds one and two.

It's a toughly told, very tall tale, one of the best escape ( and escapist ) movies of the season.

Just three players – Mark Johnson, Brent Stanton and Scott Lucas played all 22 matches that season, the latter winning Essendon's best and fairest award, as well as being Essendon's leading goalkicker that season.

Essendon started season 2012 with four straight wins, its best start to a season since 2000.

Their best performance since was a semi final appearance in 1990.

They next went on to achieve their second best result in the 1990 World Cup by finishing fourth – losing again to West Germany in a semi-final finishing 1 – 1 after extra time, then 3 – 4 in England's first penalty shoot-out.

The trend thrived best in India, where the influence of the country's traditional song-and-dance drama made the musical the basic form of most sound films ( Cook, 1990 ); virtually unnoticed by the Western world for decades, this Indian popular cinema would nevertheless become the world's most prolific.

Jean-Paul Rappeneau's Cyrano de Bergerac was a major box-office success in 1990, earning several César Awards, including best actor for Gérard Depardieu, as well as an Academy Award nomination for best foreign picture.

James Maury " Jim " Henson ( September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990 ) was an American puppeteer, best known as the creator of The Muppets.

" He wrote in 1990 that the Hong Kong economy was perhaps the best example of a free market economy.

* " Mountains of Mourning " – won the 1990 Hugo and Nebula awards for best novella

American philosopher John Searle argued in 1990 that " The spread of ' poststructuralist ' literary theory is perhaps the best known example of a silly but noncatastrophic phenomenon.

Recruited to the AFL by the Swans, Kelly made his debut in 1990 after being the best player in his school, and was appointed captain in 1993, won the Brownlow Medal ( the AFL's highest individual honour ) in 1995, won club best and fairests in 1992, 1993, 1996 and 1997, All-Australian selection in 1995, 1996 and 1997 ( the last two as captain ), and the AFLPA's Robert Rose Award for Most Courageous Player in 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 and 2000.

That year, Carey would represent New South Wales in State of Origin football and finish the 1990 season as runner up in North Melbourne's best and fairest, behind Longmire.

His best known works are The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz ( 1959 ) and Barney's Version ( 1997 ); his 1989 novel Solomon Gursky Was Here was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 1990.

He is best known for directing the American feature films RoboCop ( 1987 ), Total Recall ( 1990 ), Basic Instinct ( 1992 ), Starship Troopers ( 1997 ), and Hollow Man ( 2000 ).

After his playing career he found success as both a club and international manager, winning league championships in both the Netherlands and Portugal, earning trophies in England and Spain, and taking England to the semi-final of the 1990 World Cup, which remains the national team's best run in a World Cup since 1966.

In 1990, during his last year, he founded the W. Edwards Deming for Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness at Columbia Business School to promote operational excellence in business through the development of research, best practices and strategic planning.

O ' Neal led the team to a 56 – 26 record, their best effort since 1990 – 91, despite missing 31 games due to a knee injury.

Massive Attack started as a spin-off production trio in 1988, with the independently-released song, " Any Love ", sung by falsetto-voiced singer-songwriter Carlton McCarthy, and then, with considerable backing from Neneh Cherry, they signed to Circa Records in 1990 – committing to deliver six studio albums and a " best of " compilation.

The water, provided by a modern municipal water system from ground water sources, was named the best drinking water by the SC Rural Water Association in 1990.

As part of the Washington State Growth Management Act of 1990 ( GMA ), Federal Way, along with other Puget Sound suburban cities have identified Potential Annexation Area's ( PAA's ) as areas of unincorporated King County that they feel could best be serviced by them.

His best year at the plate was 1990, his last year with the Dodgers, when he hit. 304 with five doubles, one home run, and 11 RBI in 69 at-bats.

Farley was best known for his loud energetic comedy style and physical comedy, and was a member of Chicago's Second City Theatre and cast member of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live between 1990 and 1995.

Since 1990, the best player in the League Cup final – as chosen by the Sky Sports television panel – has been presented with the Alan Hardaker trophy, named after the former secretary of The Football League who devised the Football League Cup.

The strike was chronicled in the film American Dream, which won the Academy Award for best documentary in 1990.

Out of this grave and menacing experience, he was later able to write the memoir Darkness Visible ( 1990 ), the work Styron became best known for during the last two decades of his life.