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.

When he came to Baltimore, he was leaving a team which was supposed to win the National League pennant, and he was joining what seemed to be a second division American League club.

It was his brag that he could beat everybody at anything, but especially at fighting, and he once took on the manager of his club and worked him over thoroughly with his fists.

The greatest team of this period was unquestionably the New York Yankees, bought by brewery millions and made into a ball club by men named Ed Barrow and Miller Huggins.

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

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.

When he was unable to bring about immediate expansion, he sought to convince another National League club to move here.

Since 1949, the only National League club that got off to a hot start and made a runaway of the race was the '55 Dodger team.

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.

At the 4th tee Palmer chose to hit a one-iron when a three-wood was the proper club, so he put the ball in a bunker in front of the green.

The Unitarian clergy were an exclusive club of cultivated gentlemen -- as the term was then understood in the Back Bay -- and Parker was definitely not a gentleman, either in theology or in manners.

That you have refused to drive him into the family business or push him into a profession so you can say at the club, `` Of course David has known since he was twelve he wanted to be an engineer '' -- or a lawyer, or an editor??

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.

Australian captain Herbie Collins was stripped of all captaincy positions down to club level, and some accused him of throwing the match.

Frederick Henry Hedge wrote of the group's nature: " There was no club in the strict sense ... only occasional meetings of like-minded men and women ".

The second Eta chapter of Phrateres, a non-exclusive, non-profit social-service club, was installed here in 1958.

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.

This was all done under complete secrecy during the playing season because players were all free agents in those days and they did not want their current club and especially the fans to know they were leaving to play elsewhere the next year.

When a new Cincinnati club was formed as a charter member of the National League in 1876, the " Red Stockings " nickname was commonly reserved for them once again, and the Boston team was referred to as the " Red Caps ".

The club was formed in 1996 from the merger of the Brisbane Bears and the Fitzroy Lions.

A football club was formed at the university soon afterward, although its rules of play at this stage are unclear.

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

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

This move away from Essendon, at a time when fans would walk to their local ground, did not go over well with many Essendon people ; and, as a consequence, a new team and club was formed in 1900, unconnected with the first ( although it played in the same colours ), that was based at the Essendon Cricket Ground, and playing in the Victorian Football Association.

When the club was formed in 1873 uniforms were not available, and most players wore Navy Blue work guernseys.

The unicycling club, known as Gonzo Unicycle Madness, was formed, and to this day organizes an annual 9. 6 mile ride known as " The Foster's Run ," to the " Donut Man " donut shop in Glendora ( originally known as " Foster's Donuts " hence the name of the event ) for strawberry donuts.

In Edinburgh Hibernian were founded in 1875 and in 1909 another club with Irish links, Dundee United, was formed.

Likewise the Irish community in London formed the London Irish rugby union club.

After the Glazer family's takeover in 2005, a group of fans formed a splinter club, F. C.

In 1843, the first American college rowing club was formed at Yale University.

The first recreational ski club was formed in 1861 at Kiandra, Australia, where the first documented international downhill carnival was also held.

The oldest still existing club, Club Cosmos in Gothenburg, was formed in 1954, and the first Swedish science fiction convention, LunCon, was held in Lund in 1956.

The club was formed in 1878 and have played at their home ground since 1900.

* March 4 – Football club FC Red Star ( in Serbian: FK Crvena Zvezda ) formed in Belgrade, Yougoslavia.

** The Dundee FC, a Scottish football club, is formed.

** The Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club, the oldest Italian football club, is formed.

*** Ipswich Town Football Club, formed as amateur club Ipswich A. F. C.

The world's first service club, the Rotary Club of Chicago, was formed in 1905 by Paul P. Harris, an attorney who wanted to create in a professional club with the same friendly spirit he had felt in the small towns of his youth.

They formed a dinner cabaret club, which they called the Thirteen Club.

He formed a rockabilly club band, The Waylors.

The first club was formed in 1897, and the first purpose-built track solely for bobsleds was opened in 1902 outside of St Moritz.

The stretch of the canal which passes through the centre of Leicester known as the ' Mile Straight ' is home to Leicester Rowing Club, a rowing and sculling club formed in 1882.