Very soon after his arrival in Little Rock, Pike had joined one of the most influential organizations in town, the Little Rock Debating Society, and it was with this group that he made his debut as an orator, being invited to deliver the annual Fourth of July address the club sponsored every year.

Pitcher Steve Barber joined the club one week ago after completing his hitch under the Army's accelerated wintertime military course, also at Fort Knox, Ky..

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.

In 1976, candidates supported by BJU faculty and alumni captured the local Republican party with unfortunate short-term political consequences, but by 1980 the religious right and the " country club " Republicans had joined forces.

Following the takeover of English football club Aston Villa by MBNA Chairman Randy Lerner in August 2006 and as of September 19, 2006, General Krulak joined the board of Aston Villa as non-executive director, where he quickly earned the approval of the fans by taking the time to post on various Aston Villa messageboards.

Only 5 drivers have joined this exclusive club since-Rusty Wallace, Alan Kulwicki, Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart, and Matt Kenseth.

One new club formed and joined the International League in 1889, and promptly won the league championship.

Continuing the divergence from rock and roll and blues begun by his work with Farthingale, Bowie joined forces with Finnigan, Christina Ostrom and Barrie Jackson to run a folk club on Sunday nights at the Three Tuns pub in Beckenham High Street.

At one point during his career, in an effort to get fit after an injury, in March 1980 he joined the football club Scunthorpe United, where he played as a centre half and made 11 appearances in the Football League.

In 2003, 8 out of 17 members at the Lions Club in Worcester, England resigned when a woman joined the club.

In 1957, rookie center Bill Russell joined the Boston Celtics, who already featured guard Bob Cousy and coach Red Auerbach, and went on to lead the club to eleven NBA titles in thirteen seasons.

In 1914, Nurmi joined the sports club Turun Urheiluliitto and won his first race on the 3, 000 metres.

Randy Johnson has since also joined the 4, 000 strikeout club.

The club joined the Birmingham & District Football Association in 1881 and became eligible for their first competition, the Birmingham Cup.

Grace had played for the USEE previously and he formally joined the club in 1870 as its match organiser, for which he received payment, but he played for expenses only.

In the early 1950s the International Jugglers ' Association began as a club for performing jugglers, but soon non-performers joined and started attending the annual conventions.

Peter Tork joined ' Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart ' onstage for a guest appearance on their concert tour on July 4, 1976 at Disneyland, and following on from this later that year he reunited with his fellow former bandmates Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz in the studio for the recording of the single " Christmas Is My Time of The Year " b / w " White Christmas ", which saw a limited release for fan club members that holiday season.

Rumours of a reunion for Veronica's annual Golden Oldie-festival appeared to be untrue ; instead Henny and the two Jans joined Ernst and Joost during the encore of CCC Inc .' s 25th anniversary concert at the Melkweg club in Amsterdam.

He joined Paraguayan club Cerro Porteño in May 2008 but was sacked in August of the same year after a string of poor results and was replaced by Pedro Troglio.

By 1928 he had joined the Kaiserslautern youth academy, and he made his first team debut at 17, continuing an association with the club that would be his only professional club.

On 30 July 1996, for a world transfer record-breaking £ 15 million Shearer joined his hometown club and league runners-up Newcastle United, managed by his hero Kevin Keegan.

Gullit joined the DWS club after his move, and came to the attention of the Dutch youth team, where he played alongside such future greats as Erwin Koeman, Ronald Koeman and Wim Kieft.

Throughout this era, one notable Accrington Stanley player was portly Australian striker J. P. Winter, who joined the club after several unsuccessful trials in Scotland and who eventually gained cult status amongst the Stanley faithful.

Soon after Robson joined Fulham, the club sold Alan Mullery and Rodney Marsh, meaning Robson's chances of securing any significant honour there were substantially reduced.

* Club Atlas, a Mexican professional football club

* Club Atlético Atlas, an Argentinian amateur football club

Asociación Alumni, usually just Alumni, is a rugby union and former football club located in Tortuguitas, Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The club was originally founded as a football team in 1891, with the name Buenos Aires English High School although it was obliged to change its name to Alumni Athletic Club ( the name was proposed by a former student of the English High School ) in 1901.

This was the last try to develop itself as a sports club rather than just a football team, such as Lomas, Belgrano and Quilmes had successfully done in the past, but the efforts were not enough.

* Aston Villa F. C., an English football club

* AFC Ajax, a football club from Amsterdam, The Netherlands

* Aias Salamina F. C., a football club based in Salamina, Greece birthplace of Ajax the Telamonian

* Ajax Cape Town FC, a South African football club

* Ajax de Ouenzé, a Congolese football club

* Ajax Futebol Clube, a Brazilian football club

* Ajax Kenitra, a Moroccan futsal ( indoor football ) club

* Ajax Sportman Combinatie ( ASC ), a cricket and football club in Leiden, The Netherlands

* FC Ajax Lasnamäe, an Estonian football club

* Rabat Ajax F. C., a Maltese football club

* Unión Ájax, a football club in Trujillo, Honduras

* FC Ajax Sofia, a football club in Sofia, Bulgaria

* Royal Antwerp FC, a football club in the Belgian city of Antwerp

* AS Poissy in French: Amicale Sportive de Poissy, is a French football club based in Poissy ( Yvelines )

The Cardinals were founded in 1898, and are the oldest continuously run professional American football club in the United States.

* ABC Futebol Clube, a football ( soccer ) club based in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

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 club is historically one of the three clubs that dominate the Dutch national football league ( Eredivisie ), the others being PSV and Feyenoord.

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.

AZ (), an initialism for Alkmaar Zaanstreek, is an association football club from the city of Alkmaar, Netherlands.