He entered into an agreement to buy the club, but the American League vetoed the sale, preferring to keep an American League team in Chicago to compete with the crosstown Cubs.

Freestyle club hits like Brenda K. Starr's " Pickin ' Up Pieces " ( 1985 ) and Company B's " Fascinated " followed, and entered the R & B and Billboard Hot 100 charts, respectively.

In September 1965, Simon first learned that it had entered the pop charts while he was about to go on stage in a Danish folk club.

The Gothams, as the Giants were originally known, entered the National League in 1883, while their other club, the Metropolitans ( the original Mets ) played in the American Association.

Other sports which were once held in Staines but are no longer to be found there include: boxing ( there were weekly programmes off the High Street in the 1930s, and local hearsay suggests bare-knuckle events were held at the Crooked Billet earlier in the 20th century ); wrestling ( bouts were included in boxing programmes of the last 1930s ); motorcycle football ( a club existed in the 1960s ; and American football ( a short-lived team called Staines Removers entered the Budweiser League in 1988, but failed to start the season, although they did play some friendly matches at their base on The Lammas ).

Having been successful with the Tucson Toros, the Astros ' AAA club in the Pacific Coast League, Kile entered the majors in 1991, going 7 – 11 in 22 starts.

* 5 December: The LVF was blamed for shooting dead Catholic civilian Gerry Devlin ( 36 ) as he entered a GAA club in Glengormley.

Although the club had floated on the Alternative Investment Market in 1991, in 2001 it entered administration.

Founded in 1881 as Watford Rovers, the club entered the FA Cup for the first time in 1886, and the Southern League a decade later.

They have been the only AAA-affiliate of the Kansas City Royals, an expansion club that entered the American League in 1969.

A mentally disturbed man had escaped from the local Concord asylum and, brandishing a club, entered the Pembroke schoolyard terrifying pupils who ran shrieking into the schoolhouse.

Founded in 1882, the Fremantle-based Unions Football Club entered WAFA in 1886, attracting many players from the original Fremantle club, and went on to dominate the competition with ten premiership victories.

With the inauguration of the Mineirão in 1965, Cruzeiro entered one of the most successful periods in its history, in which the club won five Campeonato Mineiro titles in a row, and went on to win its first national title, the 1966 Taça Brasil ( the highest honor in Brazilian football at that time ) beating Santos of Pelé in the final.

The new club entered the Southern Football League, famous for being the league that Tottenham Hotspur played in when becoming the only non league team to win the FA Cup, once again playing alongside Plymouth and Exeter's reserve sides and also Boscombe ( later to become A. F. C.

The club entered administration on 9 March.

The club entered administration on 9 March.

Having established a tradition of performing at the annual Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the club entered the mainstream when its members formed half of Beyond the Fringe, the hugely popular stage revue which toured Britain and America in 1960.

In the 1960s, Sevilla FC entered an economic crisis due to the debts acquired to build the new stadium, reason for which the club was obliged to the selling of its best players: the first one was Ruiz Sosa, to the Athletico de Madrid ; then Francisco Gallego, to the Barcelona Football Club, with great anger among the fans ; and the Paraguayan Agüero, to Real Madrid.

Relegation to the Scottish First Division in 2006 came after the club entered administration in 2004 as well as other financial problems.

Founded in 1937, the club entered the Football League in 1950.

In 2009, the boat club entered four boats ( 2 men and 2 women ) in the May Bumps.

A second Melbourne club, the South Dragons, entered the league in season 2006 / 07, but pulled out after season 2008 / 09 in which they were premiers.

The club re-formed shortly afterwards and entered the English football league system at a much lower level.

In 1948, Scholastic entered the school book club business with its division T. A. B., or Teen Age Book Club with classic titles priced at 25 cents.

Skorich was considered the logical choice after the club gave Norm Van Brocklin permission to seek the head coaching job with the Minnesota Vikings, the newest National Football League entry.

The club then moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in and played in that city through ( sometimes referred to as the " Football Cardinals " and / or the " Big Red " to avoid confusion with the Major League Baseball St. Louis Cardinals ).

Amsterdamsche Football Club Ajax (), also referred to as AFC Ajax, Ajax Amsterdam or simply Ajax ( after the legendary Greek hero ), is a professional football club from Amsterdam, Netherlands.

The only major Roman club to resist the merger was S. S. Lazio because of the intervention of the army General Vaccaro, member of the club and executive of Italian Football Federation.

According to The Football Money League published by consultants Deloitte, in the season 2010 – 11, Roma was the 15th highest earning football club in the world with an estimated revenue of € 143. 5 million.

The Australian National Football Council's primary role was to govern the game at national level to facilitate interstate representative and club competition.

The club suffered relegation from the Welsh Football League in 2001 and has since slipped down through the next two divisions into its current position, although the future is now looking brighter.

Accrington is the smallest town in England and Wales with a Football League club.

An earlier club, Accrington F. C., were one of the twelve founder members of the Football League in 1888.

The franchise history includes Browns club records and connections with Pro Football Hall of Fame players.

The Brisbane Lions is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League ( AFL ).

On the morning after winning the flag, the club took the Premiership Cup to the Brunswick Street Oval in Fitzroy, the original home of the Fitzroy Football Club.

* West Perth Football Club, an Australian rules football club in Western Australia

This remains the oldest stand ( dating back to 1905 ) not only in the Football League, but in the professional world and is thus a Grade II * listed building thanks to Jimmy Hill's efforts when saving the almost-bankrupt club as Chairman.

Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English football club based in Charlton, London.

Charlton stayed at The Valley until 1923, when the club moved to The Mount stadium in Catford as part of a proposed merger with Catford Southend Football Club.

The game gradually gained a following, and the Montreal Football Club was formed in 1868, the first recorded non-university football club in Canada.

Chelsea Football Club () is an English football club based in Fulham, London.

* Cumberland United, an Association Football club in Adelaide, Australia

Compaq sponsored Queens Park Rangers Football Club from 1994 to 1996, during their previous two seasons as a Premier League club.

* 1947 – Kevin Sheedy, coach of Australian Football League club Essendon FC

The Essendon Football Club, nicknamed The Bombers, is an Australian rules football club which plays in the Australian Football League ( AFL ).