As early as 1875, veterans returning from India started a club in Folkestone.

It was an important way of connecting with Melbourne-based Lions fans, many of whom had previously supported Fitzroy, and of winning over disaffected Fitzroy fans who had not started supporting the Brisbane Lions post-merger by honouring the history of the club.

Due to Anson's absence from the club after 22 years, local newspaper reporters started to refer to the Cubs as the " Orphans ".

Apparently handcuffed by the Tribune's bankruptcy and the sale of the club to the Ricketts family, the Cubs ' quest for a NL Central 3-peat started with notice that there would be less invested into contracts than in previous years.

Led by the strong play of Derrek Lee, Ted Lilly and rookie pitcher Randy Wells, the club started well, but fell on hard times as injuries took their toll.

John Coleman started his coaching career at Essendon in 1961, thus ending the Dick Reynolds era at the club.

Fulham started playing at their current ground Craven Cottage in 1896, their first game against now defunct rivals Minerva F. C .. Fulham are the oldest established club in southern England currently playing professional football, though there are many non-league sides like Cray Wanderers which are several decades older.

Ruud van Nistelrooy started his professional career at this club.

Hagi started the season 1992 – 1993 with Brescia Calcio but in the first season the club was relegated to Serie B ; in the next season Hagi helped Brescia Calcio win the Italian Serie B and get promoted to Serie A.

" Much of the TMRC's jargon was later imported into early computing culture, because the club started using a DEC PDP-1 and applied its local model railroad slang in this computing context.

In addition, office supply retailers Staples, Inc. and Office Depot started issuing club cards in 2005.

In 2006 he started a new club at the Big Chill House in Kings Cross, London, and did a guest mix for BBC Radio 1's The Blue Room show.

Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started.

The ultimate example of this trend is Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan, who started his career with the Mets, but threw a record seven no-hitters after leaving the club.

Following the introduction of professionalism trans-national club competitions were started, with the Heineken Cup in the Northern Hemisphere and Super Rugby in the Southern Hemisphere .< ref name =" historymain ">

The first specific non-military wargame club was started in Oxford, England, in the 19th century.

Known as DJ Quentox ( The OX that Rocks ), Cook and DJ Baptiste started putting on youth club hip hop jams in Brighton, sowing the seeds of the city's flourishing hip hop scene today.

Most of these clubs started with a single club in a single city, but then replicated themselves by organizing similar clubs in other communities.

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.

Paul Raymond started his touring shows in 1951 and later leased the Doric Ballroom in Soho and opened his private members club, the Raymond Revuebar in 1958.

After continuous protests, chairman Van den Herik resigned, and the club started managerial reforms.

While desperate supporters started preparing for a dark age, the club surprised friend and foe in the 2007 summer transfer window.

Feyenoord started the season well and played the first game of the Eredivisie, against the other Rotterdam club in the league Excelsior.

Later that year 12 pedicab rickshaws were imported by a wine club owner named B. McDonald who started Pedicabs Ireland.

He walked rapidly along the buildings scanning their facades: one was a club -- that was out ; ;

We've tried them out on the club chef -- or say, he has tried them out on us and we have selected the best ''.

Fortunately in 1972 the brothers Molenaar bailed it out and invested heavily in the club, to the point that AZ ' 67 were successful in the late seventies and early eighties.

Notable players who turned out for the club during this period included midfielders Giancarlo De Sisti and Francesco Rocca.

The club members, led by Alexander Cartwright, formulated the " Knickerbocker Rules ", which in large part dealt with organizational matters but which also laid out rules for playing the game.

However, some researchers have disputed the major league status of the Union Association, pointing out that franchises came and went and contending that the St. Louis club, which was deliberately " stacked " by the league's president ( who owned that club ), was the only club that was anywhere close to major league caliber.

Ramsey had already cleared out some of the older players who had been reliant on the loyalty of the committee for their continued selection – it was well known that decorum on the pitch at club level had been just as big a factor in playing for England as ability and form.

During the Orioles ' heyday in the 1970s, a club song, appropriately titled " Orioles Magic ", was composed, and played when the team ran out until Opening Day of 2008.

As a minority owner of the Milwaukee Braves, Selig founded the organization Teams, Inc, in an attempt to prevent the majority owners ( based out of Chicago ) from moving the club to a larger television market.

" However, that proposal was rejected 15-1 by the AFL Commission, reportedly out of concern that a merged all-Victorian club would be too powerful.

In a fearless move, Pogo's creator Walt Kelly took on Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s, caricaturing him as a bobcat named Simple J. Malarkey, a megalomaniac who was bent on taking over the characters ' birdwatching club and rooting out all undesirables.

" One of the biggest stories of the season transpired as the club made a midseason deal for Fred McGriff, which was drawn out for nearly a month as McGriff debated waiving his no-trade clause, as the Cubs led the wild card race by 2. 5 games in early September.

Along with Holliday, who had performed ably while Wilson and Walker were out, the club promoted Garrett Atkins, Brad Hawpe, Clint Barmes, and J. D.

A change in management and shortly after a change in club ownership led to severe problems, such as the reckless signing of former European Footballer of the Year Allan Simonsen, and the club looked like it would go out of business.

Anson told Spiders ' manager Gus Schmelz, " He's too green to do your club much good, but I believe if I taught him what I know, I might make a pitcher out of him in a couple of years.

The issue sold out in three weeks, but as of February 17, 2009 the DVD was made available for members of the Disney movie club for $ 29. 95.

The first club was in 1849 at Blackheath in south-east London, but the modern rules grew out of a version played by Middlesex cricket clubs for winter sport.

Fulham's first season in Division Two turned out to be the highest that the club would finish for twenty-one years, until in 1927 – 28 when the club were relegated to the 3rd Division South, created in 1920.