In 1908 he was involved in trying to start a new professional baseball league, the " Union Professional League " which took the field in April but folded one month later.

Following the formation of baseball's first professional organization, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, which became known as the National Association, the Association, or NA, in 1871, Spalding joined the Boston Red Stockings ( precursor club to the modern Atlanta Braves ) and was highly successful ; winning 206 games ( and losing only 53 ) as a pitcher and batting. 323 as a hitter.

The first attempt at forming a " major league " produced the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players, which lasted from 1871 to 1875.

As with other learned professions, each state has certain ( fairly similar ) requirements for becoming licensed as a registered Professional Engineer ( PE ), but in practice such a license is not required to practice in the majority of situations ( due to an exception known as the private industry exemption, which effectively applies to the vast majority of American engineers ).

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 ).

It has been suggested that chemists going into employment in scientific research should honor a Hippocratic Oath for Scientists which is required as a Professional Chemist.

In the 2011 International Professional Ranking of Higher Education Institutions, which is established on the basis of the number of alumni holding a post of Chief executive officer ( CEO ) or equivalent in one of the Fortune Global 500 companies, Chalmers University of Technology ranked 38th in the world, ranking 1st in Sweden and 15th in Europe.

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.

Only 25, 000 people per year, of which about 21 percent are industrial workers, graduate yearly from the National Institute of Professional Training ( Instituto Nacional de Formación Profesional-- INFOP ) established in 1972.

Professional diplomats like Weizsäcker who had never accepted the legitimacy of Poland, which they saw as an " abomination " created by the Versailles treaty, were whole-hearted in their support of a war to wipe Poland off the map.

Professional guidance ( which is submitted to and approved by the UK Treasury ) is provided by industry groups including the Joint Money Laundering Steering Group, the Law Society.

In 1996, the Health Professional Council released a draft of Bylaws for the College of Midwives of BC which received Cabinet approval on April 13, 1997.

This work resulted in their jointly authored publication Incomes from Independent Professional Practice, which introduced the concepts of permanent and transitory income, a major component of the Permanent Income Hypothesis that Friedman worked out in greater detail in the 1950s.

Another example of a regulatory body that governs a profession is the Hong Kong Professional Teachers Union, which governs the conduct, rights, obligations and duties of salaried teachers working in educational institutions in Hong Kong.

Bayer, which manufactures Cipro, Avelox and Proquin XR, issued a Dear Healthcare Professional letter on 22 October concerning these changes.

Stanford is home to the John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalist and the Center for Ocean Solutions, which brings together marine science and policy to develop solutions to challenges facing the ocean.

The School of Education works closely with local school districts including the Rochester City School District, which hosts a number of Professional Development Sites ( PDS ) where practicing teachers and pre-service teachers work alongside education faculty to develop best practices.

* Welsh Open ( snooker ), a tournament which replaced the Welsh Professional Championship

The Walkman Professional had bright LED recording level meters and manual control of recording levels which were unique features not found in other portable units.

An upgrade kit was also available, which allowed users of the earlier Pilot 1000 / 5000 devices to upgrade the OS, ROM, and RAM to match the PalmPilot Professional.

In 1876, the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs — which still exists — was established, after the National Association proved ineffective.

Having been forced from her teaching position as a result of the Aryan Clause, which was central to the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, she entered the Discalced Carmelite Order Monastery of Cologne in October 1933, taking the name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross.

On Windows XP and above with WMP 9 Series and later, the Windows Media Audio Professional codec is included which supports multichannel audio at up to 24-bit 192 kHz resolution.

Licenses to practice respiratory care are regulated by the Professional Regulatory Board of Respiratory Therapy and Professional Regulation Commission which is established and legally maintained by the Philippine Respiratory Therapy Act ( Republic Act No. 10024 ).

Professional responsibility is seen to consist largely in serving the wishes of the client fairly and in an efficient manner.

It is composed of the Undergraduate Student Government and the Graduate & Professional Student Association ( GPSA ).

Acadia is organized into four faculties: Arts, Pure & Applied Science, Professional Studies and Theology.

* 1916 – The Professional Golfers Association of America ( PGA ) is created in New York City.

The National Association of Professional Base Ball Players operated from 1871 through 1875, and is considered by some to have been the first major league.

Professional boxing remains by far the most popular form of the sport globally, though amateur boxing is dominant in Cuba and some former Soviet republics.

The Panel ( Professional Crown Green Bowls ) is played at the Red Lion, Westhoughton daily and is played to 41-up with greenside betting throughout play.

However, representing oneself as a " Professional Software Engineer " without a license from an accredited institution is illegal in many parts of the world.

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 certification, trade certification, or professional designation, often called simply certification or qualification, is a designation earned by a person to assure qualification to perform a job or task.

* A Certified Business Analysis Professional ( CBAP ™) is a recognized expert in identifying the business needs of an organization in order to determine business solutions.

This is the most common method used in golf clubs and is the only method allowed in the PGA ( Professional Golf Association ) and LPGA ( Ladies Professional Golf Association ).

According to the Professional Disc Golf Association, " The object of the game is to traverse a course from beginning to end in the fewest number of throws of the disc.

Once certified the engineer is designated the title of Professional Engineer ( in the United States, Canada and South Africa ), Chartered Engineer or Incorporated Engineer ( in India, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Zimbabwe ), Chartered Professional Engineer ( in Australia and New Zealand ) or European Engineer ( in much of the European Union ).

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

Professional models have three top-action valves, played with the first three fingers of the right hand, plus a " compensating " fourth valve, generally found midway down the right side of the instrument, played with the left index finger ; such an instrument is shown in the above picture.

As of July 13, 2011, AMOS Professional has been runnable under UAE using the free AROS-68k AmigaOS replacement ROM created by Jason McMullan and Toni Wilen.

* 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

* MIX 2. 0 Professional Excel addin with Ribbon interface for meta-analysis and effect size conversions in Excel ( free and commercial versions ).

Held annually on the first full Thursday through Sunday weekend of August, the event includes the world's largest free barbecue, junior rodeo as well as Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association events, three nights of live music, and a variety of other offering to celebrate the occasion.

There were two variants of each edition: Explorer, a free downloadable version, and the Professional version, priced at US $ 899 for new users and US $ 399 for updates, less than the full Borland Delphi, which opened access to thousands of third-party components.

HR departments around the world have decided on Business English Tests ( BET ) to select, place, monitor progress and motivate personnel because BET tests are: Professional & Authentic ( HR tool research & evidence-based, designed, developed and administered by ENERGIZERS, a truly global advisory boutique & market leader in expert HR, home to FULBRIGHT Scholars and faculty from top-ranked universities in the US & EU ), Energizing & Candidate-Friendly ( Boosting skills & confidence ), Valid ( Performance on the measure is related to what the measure is designed to assess ), Reliable ( Measurement is free from random error ; tests generating consistent results ) and available On Demand ( Whenever & wherever required ).

Licenses for DarkBASIC Professional were made freely available for individual home users in November 2009 although business and educational establishments cannot use the free version and so must purchase licenses.

However the license still means that anything produced using DarkBASIC Professional is royalty free.

Professional NBA players continue to practice dribbling, passing, free throws, jump shots, etc.

Professional printing-and binding-services offer free software to create scrapbooks with professional layouts and individual layout capabilities.

During the off-season, the club failed to reach an agreement with star player Lee Dae-Ho, who later signed with the Orix Buffaloes of the Nippon Professional Baseball, while it obtained free agents Lee Seung-Ho, a former SK Wyverns left-handed reliever, and Chong Tae-Hyon, a former SK Wyverns underhand closer.

SugarCRM makes Sugar Community Edition available free of charge, although it is being phased out and de-featured to push customers to subscription based editions: Professional ; Corporate ; Enterprise ; Ultimate.

A free agent after the 2006 season, Carter signed with the Orix Buffaloes of Nippon Professional Baseball in Japan.

In Leninist Marxism, Professional revolutionaries, ( or a cadre ), is a body of devoted communists who spend the majority of their free time organizing their party toward a mass revolutionary party capable of leading a workers ' revolution.

In the 1906 – 07 season, Lehman was signed as free agent by the Canadian Soo of the International Professional Hockey League ( IPHL ); the IPHL was the first fully professional ice hockey league.

Sony's PDW-U1 Professional Disc drive is an external drive that connects via USB 2. 0 to Windows or Mac OS X computers using the included free software from Sony.

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Professional bars designed for logging and felling may have much larger tips as they are often used for boring cuts to free trapped timber or fell difficult trees, and a tapered, small-tipped bar will wedge easily when boring, stalling the chain.