Originally, the award was known as the J. Louis Comiskey Memorial Award, named after the Chicago White Sox owner of the 1930s.

Originally given to the single best pitcher in the major leagues, the award changed its format over time.

Originally, it was a single award covering the whole of baseball.

Originally called the " Magic Cube ", the puzzle was licensed by Rubik to be sold by Ideal Toy Corp. in 1980 via German businessman Tibor Laczi and Seven Towns founder Tom Kremer, and won the German Game of the Year special award for Best Puzzle that year.

Originally sponsored by Te Mata vineyards and known as the Te Mata Estate Poet Laureate, the award is now administered by the National Library of New Zealand and the holder is officially called New Zealand Poet Laureate.

Originally, the reverse side had a relief profile of Antoinette Perry ; today it contains the winner's name, award category, production and year.

Originally inscribed the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, the trophy was donated in 1892 by then-Governor General of Canada, the Lord Stanley of Preston, as an award for Canada's top-ranking amateur ice hockey club.

Originally called the Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Male, the award was first presented to Bob Dylan in 1980.

Originally called the Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Solo, the award was first presented to Bruce Springsteen in 1988 for the album Tunnel of Love.

Originally called the Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal Performance, Female, the award was first presented to Donna Summer in 1980.

Originally, the specifications for the award called for a circular gold medal carrying the state emblem and motto, among other things.

Originally this was a license to teach, awarded shortly before the award of the master or doctor degree by the diocese in which the university was located, but later it evolved into an academic degree in its own right, in particular in the continental universities.

Originally, the award was two annual prizes of CAD $ 40, 000 each, for collections of poetry published in English during the preceding year.

Originally, the award of the Boundary Commission was to be made public on 13 August.

Originally, journalists could only vote for European players at European clubs, meaning that players like Diego Maradona ( who played in European football clubs but is not European ) and Pelé ( who neither played for a European club nor is European ) were ineligible for the award.

Originally called the Best Country Vocal Performance, Duet, the award was first presented to Kenny Rogers and Ronnie Milsap at the 30th Grammy Awards in 1988 for the single " Make No Mistake, She's Mine ".

Originally called the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Recording ( Vocal or Instrumental ), the award was first presented to Bill Monroe in 1989.

Originally called the Grammy Award for Best Southern Gospel Album, Bruce Carroll first won the award at the 33rd Grammy Awards in 1991 for the album The Great Exchange.

Originally called the Grammy Award for Best Polka Recording, the award was first presented to Frankie Yankovic in 1986.

Originally aired on television in the United States, Hearts of Darkness won several awards: The National Board of Review, USA award for " Best Documentary ," 1991, an American Cinema Editors award for " Best Edited Documentary ", 1992, two Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awards for " Outstanding Individual Achievement-Informational Programming-Directing " and " Outstanding Individual Achievement-Informational Programming-Picture Editing ", 1992, and the International Documentary Association award, 1992.

Originally, aviators could compete for the trophy annually under rules made each year or the War Department could award the trophy for the most meritorious flight of the year.

Originally they had intended to award the production to a larger company with better manufacturing abilities, as the Van Nuys plant wouldn't be able to build the 1, 500 engines quickly enough.

Originally known as the Grammy Award for Classical Producer of the Year, the award was first presented to James Mallinson at the 22nd Grammy Awards ( 1980 ).

Originally, the Church of England was self-contained and relied for its unity and identity on its own history, its traditional legal and episcopal structure and its status as an established church of the state.

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

Originally referred to as Baby for several months, she was eventually named Abby May after her mother.

Originally it was only available during a few months of the year, but it is now grown in greenhouses and is available year-round.

Originally, an acre was understood as a selion of land sized at forty perches ( 660 ft ) long and four perches ( 66 ft ) wide ; this may have also been understood as an approximation of the amount of land an ox could plough in one day.

Originally called the Binghamton Public Library, it was created with a gift of $ 75, 000 from Carnegie.

Originally it was designed as a successor to PCI type connections.

Originally it was headerless, being simply 8-bit µ-law-encoded data at an 8000 Hz sample rate.

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, it was used to cure illness and the ' thing ' was the illness, but I decided to make it the ' thing ' as in the person standing in front of me.

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 Gaussian frequency-shift keying ( GFSK ) modulation was the only modulation scheme available ; subsequently, since the introduction of Bluetooth 2. 0 + EDR, π / 4-DQPSK and 8DPSK modulation may also be used between compatible devices.

Originally known as Buckingham House, the building which forms the core of today's palace was a large townhouse built for the Duke of Buckingham in 1705 on a site which had been in private ownership for at least 150 years.

( Originally, a team was supposed to be started in Buffalo, but league ownership at the last minute removed that city from their plans in favor of the expansion Boston franchise.

Originally only Radiotext was available.

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, costume or fashion jewelry was made of inexpensive simulated gemstones, such as rhinestones or lucite, set in pewter, silver, nickel or brass.

Originally money was a form of receipt, representing grain stored in temple granaries in Sumer in ancient Mesopotamia, then Ancient Egypt.

Originally called Dominion Day (), the name was changed in 1982, the year the Canada Act was passed.

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.