Modell's Baltimore team, while retaining all current player contracts, would, for purposes of team history, appear as an expansion team, a " new franchise.

Paul Brown had won seven league championships prior to Modell's acquisition of the team.

Because Modell's Stadium Corp. still controlled Municipal Stadium, it may have made more business sense for Modell to try to keep the Indians at Municipal, particularly as the baseball team began to show signs of improvement both on the playing field and at the box office.

During Modell's 35 seasons as team owner the Browns qualified for the postseason 17 times, winning 11 division titles and the NFL championship in 1964.

The Ravens ' regular season record during Modell's tenure as team owner stands at 72 – 63.

Under the deal, Modell retained a small interest ( approximately 1 % share ) upon the team's sale as a legal maneuver to avoid a claim by the Andrews trust, which was controlled by family of a former business adviser who sought to collect an estimated $ 30 million finder's fee upon Modell's sale of the team.

His teams ' winning ways had helped obscure his harsh methods and need for control, but Modell's active involvement in the team exposed them.

The team's overall regular season record during Modell's tenure was 252 – 233 – 10, ( winning percentage. 519 ), and its post-season record was 7 wins against 14 losses ( winning percentage. 333 ).

Modell's only marriage was to Patricia Breslin, lasting from 1969 until her death in 2011.

Modell's move returned the NFL to Baltimore for the first time since the Colts left for Indianapolis after the 1983 season.

The hostile fan reaction to Modell's planned move of the franchise to Baltimore has been lampooned and chroniclized in many media circles, particularly in print and television.

* The Baltimore Ravens started play in 1996, as a result of the controversy stemming from Art Modell's attempt to relocate the Browns to Baltimore.

In 1995, he assisted his friend at the time Art Modell, former owner of the Browns, in moving Modell's NFL franchise rights from Cleveland to Baltimore.

Despite a no-cost stadium lease, all revenues from parking, concessions, and TV, as well as a reported $ 25M Maryland subsidy, Modell's ownership of the Ravens resulted in continual financial hardships, and the NFL stepped in and directed Modell to sell his franchise.

The Browns returned to the NFL in 1999 with Lerner, a friend of Modell as well as a minority owner of Modell's original franchise and MBNA CEO and owner, assuming ownership, after Lerner outbid other interested parties for the right to buy the reactivated Browns ' franchise.

* William Modell ( 1921 – 2008 ), chairman of the Modell's Sporting Goods retail chain.

Prior to Modell's arrival, the Browns had dominated the NFL and the AAFC, winning seven championships in 17 years.

Subsequent contract battles with defensive end Jack Gregory in 1971 and second-round draft pick Tom Skladany in 1977 only served to damage Modell's image among Cleveland fans.

The Indians organization became dissatisfied with Modell's Stadium Corp. as its landlord.

Many suite customers switched their business from Cleveland Stadium's older suites to Jacobs Field's newer suites, due to the Indians ' new-found success and popularity in the mid 1990s and because Modell's Stadium Corp. refused to decrease the annual rent for the suites even though the events for which the suites could be used decreased substantially ( 81 home games ) with the loss of the Indians as a tenant.

In exchange, Modell's newly formed company, Stadium Corporation, assumed the expenses of operations from the city.

When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.

He invited Mr. Case to stop by to say hello if he ever visited the academy and then added that he was on the managerial staff of the freshman football team

The research team was very mindful of these dangers and limitations of a mail questionnaire.

The research team was concerned that responses from firms in the state of Washington might not be typical of those throughout the country, or that the results might be different when no phone or personal follow-up was made.

The first was a list of fourteen manufacturing companies located in the state of Washington which were personally known to the research team to be active in defense work.

The second list was derived from a group of approximately 8,000 names supplied to the research team by the Aerospace Industries Association.

The third list was selected by the research team on a random basis from the Thomas Register.

The greatest team of this period was unquestionably the New York Yankees, bought by brewery millions and made into a ball club by men named Ed Barrow and Miller Huggins.

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

During his college career, Dr. Clark was captain of his basketball team and was a football letterman.

His goal was to obtain a National League team for this city.

The '49 team was off to a so-so 5-5 beginning, then fell as low as 12-17 on May 23 before finishing with 96 victories.

Since 1949, the only National League club that got off to a hot start and made a runaway of the race was the '55 Dodger team.

`` You often hear people talk about team spirit and that sort of thing '', Benington said in a conversation after the ceremonies, `` but what this team had was a little different.

Bevo was congratulated for his efforts to stay in shape so that he could help the team if his knee healed in time.

But when tiny, 145-pound Albert Gregory Pearson of the Los Angeles Angels, who once caught three straight fly balls in center field because, as a teammate explained, `` the other team thought no one was out there '', hits seven home runs in four months ( three more than his total in 1958, 1959, and 1960 ), his achievement borders on the ridiculous.

The club was originally founded as a football team in 1891, with the name Buenos Aires English High School although it was obliged to change its name to Alumni Athletic Club ( the name was proposed by a former student of the English High School ) in 1901.

Webb went 16 – 8 with a 3. 10 ERA and in the 2006 season was named to his first All-Star team.

Centerfielder Adam Jones was named to the 2009 All Star team and awarded a Gold Glove award for his defensive play.

Two versions of Blackwood are common: " standard " Blackwood, developed by Easley, and " Roman key card " or " RKC " Blackwood, named for the Italian team which invented it.

On October 26, 1993, the league announced that the owners had unanimously voted for the Carolinas to receive the 29th franchise, the first new NFL team since 1976 ( Jacksonville was named the 30th team a month later ).

Brown named the team the Bengals in order " to give it a link with past professional football in Cincinnati.

In 1900 the team moved to Cleveland and was named The Cleveland Lake Shores.

Soon afterward, he was named team captain, and in 1903 the team was renamed the " Naps " after a newspaper conducted a write-in contest.

The term " Cheer Leader " had been used as early as 1897, with Princeton's football officials having named three students as Cheer Leaders: Thomas, Easton and Guerin from Princeton's classes of 1898, 1898 and 1899, respectively, on October 26, 1897 ; these students would cheer for the team also at football practices, and special cheering sections were designated in the stands for the games themselves for both the home and visiting teams.

As there was already a team named Fulham in the borough, the name of the adjacent borough of Chelsea was chosen for the new club, having also considered names like Kensington FC, Stamford Bridge FC and London FC.

However, when the research team synthesized element 98, they could not think of a good analogy for dysprosium, and instead named the element californium in honor of the state in which it was synthesized.

The research team went on to " point out that, in recognition of the fact that dysprosium is named on the basis of a Greek word meaning ' difficult to get at ,' that the searchers for another element a century ago found it difficult to get to California.

The American team proposed that the new element should be named hahnium ( Ha ), in honor of the late German chemist Otto Hahn.

Attempting to resolve the issue, in 1994, the IUPAC proposed the name joliotium ( Jl ), after the French physicist Frédéric Joliot-Curie, which was originally proposed by Soviet team for element 102, later named nobelium.

Her team of horses pull her chariot across the sky and are named in the Odyssey as Firebright and Daybright.

On November 9, 2010, LimeWire was resurrected by a secret team of developers and named LimeWire Pirate Edition.

Zuse also claimed to have designed the first higher-level programming language, which he named Plankalkül, in 1945 ( published in 1948 ) although it was implemented for the first time in 2000 by a team around Raúl Rojas at the Free University of Berlin — five years after Zuse died.

The team also has a cheerleading squad simply named the Houston Texans Cheerleaders.

The new Houston team was named the Colt. 45s after a " Name The Team " contest was won by William Irving Neder.

Three of those players were named to the team in 3 different years.

Pei and his team also designed a united urban area for Washington, D. C., L ' Enfant Plaza ( named for French-American architect Pierre Charles L ' Enfant ).

Soon, however, Pei and his team won the support of several key cultural icons, including the conductor Pierre Boulez and Claude Pompidou, widow of former French President Georges Pompidou, after whom another controversial museum was named.