Originally based in Portsmouth, Ohio and called the Portsmouth Spartans, the team began play in 1929 as an independent professional team, one of many such teams in the Ohio and Scioto River valleys.

Originally, the studio wanted Warren Beatty to play Gekko, but he was not interested, and Stone wanted Richard Gere, though Gere passed on the role.

Originally a player in Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball ( NPB ), Ichiro moved to North America in 2001 to play in MLB for the Seattle Mariners, with whom he spent 12 seasons.

Originally made for German television, Jailbait was based on a play by Franz Xaver Kroetz who violently disagreed with Fassbinder ’ s adaptation, calling it pornographic.

Originally conceived as the soundtrack to a television play that was never produced, the band's first rock opera affectionately chronicled the trials and tribulations of a working class everyman and his family from the very end of the Victorian era through World War I and World War II, the postwar austerity years, and up to the 1960s.

Originally known as Crystal as a play on an IBM project called Glass, the name was later changed to Gem.

Originally, they called themselve Los Lobos del Este ( de Los Angeles ) Wolves of the East ( of Los Angeles )", which was a play on the name of a norteno band called Los Lobos del Norte and the fact that they ( Los Lobos del Este ) were from east L. A.

Originally, John Wayne was to play The Sergeant, but Fuller felt that he was not right for the role.

Originally designed by Larry Harris and published by Nova Game Designs in 1981, Games magazine also has inducted Axis & Allies into their buyers ' guide Hall of Fame., an honor the magazine extends to " games that have met or exceeded the highest standards of quality and play value and have been continuously in production for at least 10 years ; i. e., classics.

Originally brought in to play keyboard, Dudley was soon co-writing with the group and scoring the album's orchestrations.

Originally, Cantona began to follow in his father's footsteps and often played as a goalkeeper, but his creative instincts began to take over and he would play up front more and more often.

Originally, Smith wrote the role of Randal Graves for himself, but after realizing he could not write, direct, work in the store, and take a starring role at the same time, he cast himself in the smaller role of Silent Bob and began searching for someone to play Randal.

Originally, Michael Jordan, who played with the White Sox's Double-A Birmingham Barons in 1994, was signed to play the 1995 season as a non-drafted free agent for the Sounds.

Originally designed to play LucasArts adventure games that use the SCUMM system ( the VM in the name stands for virtual machine ), it now also supports a variety of non-SCUMM games by companies like Revolution Software and Adventure Soft.

Originally, country music singer and occasional actor John Denver was signed to play Zack Mayo.

Originally, he wanted to play Batman.

Originally she was supposed to play the casino's personal hooker, but at the last minute during the pilot filming, Gary Scott Thompson changed it to Special Events Director.

::* VHS-C ( 1982 ): Originally designed for portable VCRs, this standard was later adapted for use in compact consumer camcorders ; identical in quality to VHS ; cassettes play in standard VHS VCRs using an adapter.

Originally scheduled to play in the 2009 Internazionali BNL d ' Italia in early May, she instead appeared as the number 1 seed in the $ 100, 000 ITF event at Bucharest but lost in the semifinals to Andrea Petkovic 6 – 1, 3 – 6, 6 – 1.

Originally a four-piece, Eamon Hamilton was recruited to play keyboards and bass drum in autumn 2002.

Originally titled My Best Girl, it is based on the 1955 novel Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis and a 1956 Broadway play, by Lawrence and Lee, that starred Rosalind Russell.

Originally a talented trombonist, he was forced to abandon that instrument after a jaw injury left him unable to play ( although he played brilliantly on the George Russell Sextet album Ezz-thetics after sustaining the injury ).

Originally Laura Dern and Woody Harrelson were to play the title roles.

Originally, Sergio Leone intended Henry Fonda to play the " Man with No Name ".

Originally recorded by hand, these words have been copied and recopied, translated and retranslated through the ages.

Originally called Rijndael, the cipher was developed by two Belgian cryptographers, Joan Daemen and Vincent Rijmen, who submitted to the AES selection process.

Originally based on the date used to calculate the age of fruit trees for tithing as mandated in Leviticus 19: 23 – 25, the holiday now is most often observed by planting trees, or raising money to plant trees.

Originally applied to any group of infantry primarily armed with projectile weapons, artillery has over time become limited in meaning to refer only to those engines of war that operate by projection of munitions far beyond the effective range of personal weapons.

Originally, the B ( wireline ) side license was usually owned by the local phone company, and the A ( non-wireline ) license was given to wireless telephone providers.

Originally exercised by a single person, the office of Lord High Admiral was from the 18th century onward almost invariably put " in commission " and exercised by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, who sat on the Board of Admiralty.

Originally voiced by Mike Judge in " The Crush ", later by Rottilio Michieli, Todd is a trashy deadbeat and a violent criminal.

Originally BBSes were accessed only over a phone line using a modem, but by the early 1990s some BBSes allowed access via a Telnet, packet switched network, or packet radio connection.

Originally developed by Ericsson, Bluetooth technology is now used in many different products by many different manufacturers.

Originally, poorly organised Lions teams regularly suffered defeat at the hands of their hosts, but by 1955 the tourists took the matches seriously enough to obtain a 2 – 2 draw in South Africa.

Originally published by Fantasy Games Unlimited in 1976, only two years after the first role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons was published, this edition is now long out of print.

Originally written as a novel series by Wang Du Lu starting in the late 1930s, the film is adapted from the storyline of the fourth book in the series, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

; CMUCL: Originally from Carnegie Mellon University, now maintained as free and open source software by a group of volunteers.

Originally, however, this referred to certain key priests of important churches of the Diocese of Rome, who were recognized as the cardinal priests, the important priests chosen by the pope to advise him in his duties as Bishop of Rome ( the Latin cardo means " hinge ").

Originally called the Pioneer Mill, it was built by John R. Yale.

Originally intended as a patent medicine when it was invented in the late 19th century by John Pemberton, Coca-Cola was bought out by businessman Asa Griggs Candler, whose marketing tactics led Coke to its dominance of the world soft-drink market throughout the 20th century.

Originally, the members of the Cheka were exclusively Bolshevik ; however, in January 1918, the Left SRs also joined the organization The Left SRs were expelled or arrested later in 1918, following the attempted assassination of Lenin by an SR, Fanni Kaplan.

Originally rebuffed by her in the early-1920s, Chiang managed to ingratiate himself to some degree with Soong May-ling's mother by first divorcing his wife and concubines, and promising to eventually convert to Christianity.

Originally performed with two-handed comb scoops, dry picking is today accomplished by motorized, walk-behind harvesters which must be small enough to traverse beds without damaging the vines.

Originally published in 2010 by Allen Lane, a Penguin Books imprint.