Obviously, if this club is going to move from second to first in the American League, it will have to show improvement someplace.

I hope the man who plans to sit on his hands until the emergency comes will have a change of heart, will get busy and be the first member of our `` plus-one '' shelter club.

The club that overcame the worst start in a comparable period to win the pennant was New York's '51 Giants, who dropped 11 of their first 13.

Jean Fardulli's Blue Angel is the first top local club to import that crazy new dance, the Twist.

* 1974 – Punk Rock pioneers The Ramones play their first show in a local New York club named CBGB.

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.

Dunn seemed quite positive about being traded to a ball club in first place in its division in August.

However, when, under manager Jack Kirwan, the club got promoted to the top flight of Dutch football for the first time in 1911 ( then the Eerste Klasse or ' First Class ', later named the Eredivisie ), Ajax were forced to change their colours because Sparta Rotterdam already had exactly the same outfit.

Under the management of Luigi Barbesino, the Roman club came close to their first title in 1935 – 36 ; finishing just one point behind champions Bologna.

The second scudetto did not elude Roma for much longer ; in 1982 – 83 the Roman club won the title for the first time in 41 years, amidst celebrations in the capital.

The ANFC ran the Championship of Australia, the first national club competition, which commenced in 1888 and saw clubs from different states compete on an even playing field.

The new rules mean that rather than representing the state of their adopted club, players would return to play for the state they were first recruited in.

This description prompted the first suggestions of regular interstate club competition and of overcoming the dichotomy and establishing a national league.

Bursaspor have won the league title in 2009-010 for the first time, becoming the 2nd anatolian club to ever wint the league title after Trabzonspor.

The first professional black baseball club, the Cuban Giants, was organized in 1885.

The Red Sox logo worn on uniforms in 1908, announcing the team's first official nicknameIn, the upstart American League established a competing club in Boston.

One of the American League's eight charter franchises in 1901, it spent its first year as a major league club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as the Milwaukee Brewers before moving to St. Louis to become the St. Louis Browns.

During Selig's tenure as club president, the Brewers participated in postseason play in 1981, when the team finished first in the American League East during the second half of the season, and in 1982, when the team made it to the World Series, under the leadership of future Hall of Famers Robin Yount and Paul Molitor.

During the off-season the club hired Leigh Matthews, who in 1990 had delivered Collingwood its first premiership since 1958.

The club won its first AFL Premiership by defeating Essendon 15. 18 ( 108 ) to 12. 10 ( 82 ) in the 2001 AFL Grand Final.

The first Burns club, known as The Mother Club, was founded in Greenock in 1801 by merchants born in Ayrshire, some of whom had known Burns.

Cruzeiro Esporte Clube ( Crux / Southern Cross Sports Club ) is a first class football ( soccer ) club in Brazil.

Kilsyth Curling Club claims to be the first club in the world, having been formally constituted in 1716 ; it is still in existence today.

The first curling club in the United States was established in 1830, and the game was introduced to Switzerland and Sweden before the end of the 19th century, also by Scots.

The first curling club in the United States was organized in 1830 only 30 miles from Detroit, at Orchard Lake, Michigan.

In May 2010, it was announced that Monticello Motor Club – a circuit complex modeled on a private country club near Monticello – had submitted a bid for the rights to host the race.

In July 2011, Penn State, which is upgrading men's and women's hockey from club to NCAA Division I status for 2012, submitted an application and was later accepted for admission to the CHA for the 2012 – 13 season.

In September 2010 the club submitted a planning application to Liverpool City Council.

On 3 October 2011, Derby County announced that they had submitted plans to Derby City Council for a £ 7 million development of land outside the stadium, which the club named " The Plaza @ Pride Park ".

On 3 October 2011, Derby County Football Club announced that they had submitted plans to Derby City Council for a £ 7 million development of land outside Pride Park Stadium, which the club named " The Plaza @ Pride Park ".

After considering various options, the club settled on purchasing an industrial and waste disposal estate in Ashburton Grove and submitted their planning brief to the public in 2000.

Out of 2500 entries received, the club chose the " Mariner Moose ," originally submitted by Ammon Spiller of Ferndale, Washington.

On 26 October 2009, the club submitted their planning application, hoping to start work on the new ground in 2010 and to be playing in it come 2012.

On 3 December 2011 after Chelsea's 3 – 0 victory against Newcastle United, manager André Villas-Boas confirmed to the media that Anelka along with Alex had submitted transfer requests to the club and would be free to leave Chelsea in January.

The current plans were submitted to Wear Valley District Council in early September 2008, planning permission was granted in mid-November 2008 and the club moved into the 1, 994 capacity ground in October 2010.

: The freelance journalist and the deputy editor of the weekly magazine submitted an application for a provisional ruling against the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and the 15 companies in the related kisha club to the Tokyo District Court and Tokyo High Court, stating that groups such as kisha clubs must not be allowed to obstruct journalists wishing to attend at the offices of the Metropolitan Police and give questions, but the application was refused.

New club shop and office plans were submitted to Wycombe District Council at the same time.

On 5 May 2005, Tony Maguire resigned on request by the FAI, who had discovered that the club had submitted their 2003 accounts in their application for a licence for the 2005 season.

As the August 2011 transfer deadline approached, Ridgewell submitted a transfer request which was rejected by the club, and despite late interest from Premier League clubs including Newcastle United, he remained with Birmingham.

In September 2001, Neill, by then the longest serving player at the club, submitted a transfer request and shortly after, signed for Blackburn Rovers for an initial fee of £ 600, 000 plus up to £ 400, 000 more depending on appearances.

He immediately appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in May after received the decision on 5 May 2009 and the club also submitted its appeal.

In 1996 a plan was submitted to reopen the building as a social club.

On 30 September 2010, the club formally submitted its bid for the Olympic Stadium with a presentation at 10 Downing Street, and on 8 October 2010 the world's largest live entertainment company Live Nation endorsed the club's Olympic Stadium plans.

The club submitted a memorandum to the Simon Commission in 1929 with the demand that " Nagas should not be included within the Reformed Scheme of India "

The Club was organised on the model of the Victorian sporting club ; prospective members submitted their applications to a committee, which at one time included both Captain Alfred Hutton and Colonel George Malcolm Fox, former Inspector-General of the British Army's Physical Training Corps.

On 17 January 2011, Bent submitted a transfer request, amid reports that Aston Villa had made a club record £ 18 million bid for him, which was rejected.

* When the Football League requested a copy of the expenses claim Roose had submitted to the Sunderland club, the account that arrived at their headquarters listed, as its first item, " Using the toilet ( twice ), 2d.

On 25 October 2007, it was reported by BBC South News during a lunchtime bulletin that Oxford United Football Club had submitted a bid to the former club owner Firoz Kassam to buy the Kassam Stadium on the morning of the 25th.