While the players were on the tour, the National League instituted new rules regarding player pay that led to a revolt of players, led by Ward, who started the Players ' League the following season ( 1890 ).

During the rough and tumble years of the American-National struggle, player contracts were violated at the independents as well: Players that the team had developed would sign deals with the National or American leagues without any form of compensation to the indy club.

The nickname was first used for a baseball team by the Cincinnati Red Stockings, who were members of the pioneering National Association of Base Ball Players.

Players were patiently refined until fundamentally sound instead of being hastily advanced to the next level.

Books with a quick and inexpensive printed format of tape binding and printed cardstock covers, the four monographs ( Players Book, Magic Book, Creatures Book, and Gamemaster Book ) were printed in order to assert Chaosium's copyrights in the run-up to the publishing and distribution of Deluxe Basic Roleplaying, a game system that is essentially RuneQuest 3rd Edition but with additions to allow play in other genres.

Other independent companies were grouped under the Mutual banner in 1912, and there were also important new entrants, particularly the Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company, and Famous Players, which were both formed in 1913 to take advantage of the fact that films could reproduce the real substance of a stage play ( plus embellishments ), and so the best plays and actors from the legitimate stage could be enticed into films.

In 1914 the Lasky company and Famous Players were amalgamated into Famous Players-Lasky, with distribution of their films handled by the new Paramount Pictures Corporation.

* Players still living who, though past their best in 1950, were recognised as having been world class when at their peak: Ossip Bernstein, Oldřich Duras, Ernst Grünfeld, Borislav Kostić, Grigory Levenfish, Géza Maróczy, Jacques Mieses, Viacheslav Ragozin, Akiba Rubinstein, Friedrich Sämisch, Savielly Tartakower, and Milan Vidmar.

Many of the current " rules " of comedic improv were first formalized in Chicago in the late 1950s and early 1960s, initially among The Compass Players troupe, which was directed by Paul Sills.

By the mid 1960s, Viola Spolin's classes were handed over to her protégé, Jo Forsberg, who further developed Spolin's methods into a one-year course, which eventually became The Players Workshop, the first official school of improvisation in the USA.

When The Committee disbanded in 1972, Three major companies were formed: The Pitchell Players, The Wing, and Improvisation Inc, Improv, Inc. being the only company continuing to perform Del ’ s “ Original ” Harold.

Also, Famous Players and Lasky were privately owned while Paramount was a corporation.

Players also drop the weapon they were using when killed, which other players can then pick up.

In, while many of his performances and milestones were yet to come, he ranked number 53 on The Sporting News < nowiki >'</ nowiki > list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players, and was elected by the fans to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team.

To celebrate the 20th Super Bowl game, the Most Valuable Players of the previous Super Bowls were featured during the pregame festivities.

White and Martin were named co-Most Valuable Players ; this award is usually bestowed on an offensive player.

Six of his symphonies were recorded in 2003 by the London Mozart Players, conducted by Matthias Bamert ( Chandos 10048 ).

This is apart from North v. South which was technically a fixture of higher quality given that the amateur Gentlemen were usually ( until Grace took a hand ) outclassed by the professional Players.

Tracy met actress Louise Treadwell while they were both members of The Wood Players in White Plains, New York — the first stock company Tracy joined after graduating.

Players who were not selected by the BWAA could be considered by the Veterans Committee in the first year after they would have lost their place on the Baseball Writers ' ballot.

They were Harry Hanson and his Court players, and Frank H. Fortescue's Famous Players, with Arthur Brough in Folkestone for the South.

Average salaries of NFL players were among the lowest in the four major North American sports, and the National Football League Players Association had gone on strike in July 1974 in an effort to lift many of the rules suppressing free agency and player salaries.

Players from the team were made available in an April 3, 2009 dispersal draft.

Players are equipped with a laminated wooden racket covered with rubber on one or two sides depending on the grip of the player.

Players are also automatically equipped with a Ka-bar knife.

Units normally include fully equipped kitchens with a dining area, dishwasher, televisions, DVD Players and more.

Players piloted small ships equipped with 4 types of weapons: lasers, missiles, bouncy lasers, and grenades.

Players politically fought for sectors of the station which could then be equipped to provide services to other players.

Players set out with two partners, Aipom and Manectric, and are equipped with the Trozei Beamer invented by Prof. P. After the player sneaks into the enemy's fortress, he or she seeks out the Pokéballs and scans them with x-rays from his or her Beamer.

For the 1960-1961 season, The Carleton Players have announced Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca, The Knight Of The Burning Pestle by Beaumont and Fletcher and A Moon For The Misbegotten by Eugene O'Neill, with a pre-season production of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams.

The season will open at the new Hall of Flowers in Golden Gate Park on November 20 at 8:30 p.m. with a concert by the Mills Chamber Players.

Players are also allowed to overspend ( in moderation ), with the points becoming bad stuff-bad luck which the Gamemaster should inflict on the character.

Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their opponents ' half of the court.

Players should also ensure that they learn safe and proper footwork, with the knee and foot in alignment on all lunges.

Players frequently play certain strokes on the forehand side with a backhand hitting action, and vice versa.

Players exploit the length of the court by combining lifts and clears with drop shots and net shots.

Players with a blackjack may also take insurance, and in taking maximum insurance they commit themselves to winning an amount exactly equal to their main wager, regardless of the dealer's outcome.

Players begin with two checkers on their 24-point, three checkers on their 8-point, and five checkers each on their 13-point and their 6-point.

Players can make multiple bets for each turn, round, or roll and should become familiar with the craps layout.

; Players with more than 100 league appearances with club

Players would use dregs to hit targets across the room with their wine.

In 1957 Ted Lindsay, who scored 30 goals and led the league in assists with 55, teamed up with Harvey to help start the National Hockey League Players ' Association ( NHLPA ).

Major European orchestras generally use basses with a fifth string, tuned to B three octaves and a semitone below middle C. Players with standard double basses ( E-A-D-G ) typically play the notes below " E " an octave higher.

Players stand on a " dance platform " or stage and hit colored arrows laid out in a cross with their feet to musical and visual cues.

Players may not expand into the outlying islands, but by building ships so that they border the outlying islands, players may be awarded with victory points, development cards, or harbors that players may place on the coast of the main island at a later time.

Players begin with settlements on the outside of the map, but may build ships to reach the Forgotten Tribe's islands, which are in the center.

Players begin with both settlements on one of the islands, and must build ships connecting settlements between the two islands.

Players earn victory points for connecting their settlements with settlements ( not necessarily theirs ) from the opposite island using ships, or to another player's shipping lines which connect two settlements together.