Hideo Nomo won in 1995, the first of several players to win with past professional baseball experience in Nippon Professional Baseball.

The award has drawn criticism in recent years because several players with experience in Nippon Professional Baseball ( NPB ) have won the award, such as Hideo Nomo in 1995, Kazuhiro Sasaki in 2000, and Ichiro Suzuki in 2001.

Professional football players include former Miami Dolphins quarterback Jay Fiedler, linebacker Reggie Williams, three-time Pro Bowler Nick Lowery, quarterback Jeff Kemp, and Tennessee Titans tight end Casey Cramer.

Professional leagues are usually the highest level of play in sport, particularly if they consist of the best players around the world in a certain sport.

The Women's Professional Racquetball Organization ( WPRO ) is the women's professional organization, while the Classic Pro Racquetball Tour ( CPRT ) is for players 40 and older many of whom were pro players at younger ages.

* Professional basketball players Steve Nash ( who was an award winning player " MP3 " according to Ali G and unable to speak proper English due to being Canadian ), Ben Wallace ( who he accuses of " playa-hating "), Shaquille O ' Neal ( who he argued with about the meaning of the NBA, Ali thinking it stood for Nationwide Basketball Society ), Tim Duncan ( from whom tried to get a pair of free sneakers ), Robert Horry, Dwyane Wade ( who he didn't realise was an NBA player, claiming he had snuck in to " hang with mah man Shaquille O ' Neal "), Richard Jefferson ( whom he called Thomas Jefferson his son ), Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Reggie Miller

Professional decks will use higher tape speeds, with 15 and 30 inches per second being most common, while lower tape speeds are usually used for smaller recorders and cassette players, in order to save space where fidelity is not as critical as in professional recorders.

Professional basketball players include three-time NBA champion Danny Ainge ' 81, 1952 NBA Rookie of the Year and 4-time NBA All-Star Mel Hutchins ' 51, three-time Olympic medalist and Hall of Famer Krešimir Ćosić ' 73, and consensus 2011 national college player of the year Jimmer Fredette ' 11, currently with the Sacramento Kings.

* Casey Powell, Ryan Powell, and Mikey Powell, All-American lacrosse players at Syracuse University and Professional MLL lacrosse players.

* Professional football players, and brothers Aaron Hunt and Reggie Hunt play in the Canadian Football League.

Professional sports, the most famous being baseball which continues even today, started in late 1920s but persistent rumors of bribes and a general attitude that sports should be for players or as a hobby persisted.

Professional grade video hardware such as players, recorders, and editing decks was extremely expensive ; easily into the thousands of dollars.

National level Paintball Tournament for Professional players is organized yearly by the Paintball Co in which Teams from various Indian states and clubs participate.

Currently, the Serie del Caribe is affiliated with the Winter League programs of Major League Baseball, featuring MLB players and prospects from the Dominican Winter League, Mexican Pacific League, Puerto Rican Professional Baseball League and Venezuelan Professional Baseball League.

Professional players able to play in the youth team

* Canadian-born players in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League ( 1998 )

At the meeting, the representatives tentatively agreed to introduce a salary cap for the teams, not to sign college players nor players under contract with another team, and became united as the American Professional Football Conference.

The following was achieved: the name of American Professional Football Association was chosen ; officers of the league were elected with Jim Thorpe as president ; a membership fee of $ 100 was set ; a committee to draft a constitution was named ; the secretary of the league was to receive a list of all players used during the season by January 1, 1921 ; and the trophy that would be awarded to the league champions.

Several former Beat players went on to play for the Atlanta Silverbacks Women in the W-League, and four -- Briana Scurry, Sharolta Nonen, Homare Sawa and Ifeoma Dieke -- played in Women's Professional Soccer.

Category: Professional Basketball League of America players

For the second exam, called the Principles and Practices, Part 2, or the Professional Engineering exam, candidates may select a particular engineering discipline's content to be tested on ; there is currently not an option for BME with this, meaning that any biomedical engineers seeking a license must prepare to take this examination in another category ( which does not affect the actual license, since most jurisdictions do not recognize discipline specialties anyway ).

Professional grading services remain the subject of controversy because grading is ultimately subjective ; coins may receive different grades by different services or even upon resubmission to the same service.

Professional DJs may use harmonic mixing to choose songs that are in compatible musical keys.

Professional dominatrices may take pride or differentiation in their psychological insight into their client's " needs " and fetishes, as well as their technical ability to perform complex BDSM practices, such as Japanese shibari and other forms of bondage, suspension, torture roleplay, and corporal punishment, and other such practices which require a high degree of knowledge and competency to safely oversee.

Each program is two years in length and graduates earn a Professional Doctorate in Engineering and may call themselves " technical designers ".

Professional skaters may range from former Olympic and World champions who have ended their competitive career to skaters with little or no international competitive experience.

Professional genealogists may also conduct research for others, publish books on genealogical methods, teach, or produce their own databases.

Professional liability insurance may take on different names depending on the profession.

Professional divers use such a calculation only as a rough guide to give new divers a metaphor, comparing a situation they may be more familiar with.

Professional education prepares physical therapists to be autonomous practitioners, that may work in collaboration with other members of the health care team.

Professional public speakers may include ex-politicians, sports stars and other public figures.

Professional swimmers may also earn a living as entertainers, performing in water ballets.

Professional medium format SLR cameras ( typically using 120 / 220 roll film ) use a hybrid solution, since such a large focal-plane shutter would be difficult to make and / or may run slowly.

Professional artists who wish to work on canvas may prepare their own canvas in the traditional manner.

Professional development may also come in the form of pre-service or in-service professional development programs.

Professional development on the job may develop or enhance process skills, sometimes referred to as leadership skills, as well as task skills.

Various types of staff officer positions may exist on board a ship, including Junior Assistant Purser, Senior Assistant Purser, Purser, Chief Purser, Medical Doctor, Professional Nurse, Marine Physician Assistant, and Hospital Corpsman.

After completing these steps and the granting of licensure by a state board, engineers may use the title " Professional Engineer " or PE in advertising and documents.

* Professional Landscape Architect-a landscape architect who is licensed or registered in a certain state may use the PLA acronym after their name in business communications.

See NALA Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility ” ( Canon 2 " A paralegal may perform any task which is properly delegated and supervised by an attorney …"); the NFPA “ Model Code of Ethics and Professional Responsibility ” ( 1. 8: " A Paralegal Shall Not Engage In The Unauthorized Practice of Law "); and NALS “ Code of Ethics & Professional Responsibility ” ( Canon 7: Members of this association, unless permitted by law, shall not perform paralegal functions except under the direct supervision of a lawyer ").

However records indicate he may not have actually entered his team into the American Professional Football Association until 1921, the All-Americans are generally shown as the third-place team in league standings from that year.

The IFBB Professional League and Mr. Olympia, LLC may offer special invites.