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.

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

In 1900, when the club was founded, the emblem of Ajax was just a picture of an Ajax player.

Abergavenny is also the home of Abergavenny RFC, a rugby union club founded in 1875 who play at Bailey Park.

The other long established club in the city ' Os Galitos ' was founded in 1904 and water related sports such as swimming, sailing and rowing are some of its longest traditional strongest specialities, other sections in the club include chess, basketball, snooker, pool and billiards among others, but rowing is the modality in which the club has a maintained a long and proud tradition going back more than one hundred years, reaching the highest possible excellence as a club with several of its individual and team of rowers having represented Portugal Internationally and at the Olympic games with good classifications on more than a just few occasions.

The club was founded on September 23, 1845, as a social club for the upper middle classes of New York City, and was strictly amateur until it disbanded.

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.

Aviron Bayonnais is the city's rugby union club, founded in 1904 and French champions three times, in 1913, 1934 and 1943.

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.

Gauss ordered a magnetic observatory to be built in the garden of the observatory, and with Weber founded the " Magnetischer Verein " ( magnetic club in German ), which supported measurements of Earth's magnetic field in many regions of the world.

One of the AL's eight charter franchises, the major league incarnation of the club was founded in Cleveland in.

The club played its first games in 1870 as the Chicago White Stockings and were founded professionally in 1876.

The Chicago club was founded in 1870 as the White Stockings and played a season in the National Association of Base Ball Players, where they won a championship, and five seasons in the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players.

The club was founded on 9 June 1905, when a number of youth clubs in the southeast London area, including East Street Mission and Blundell Mission, combined to form Charlton Athletic.

One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in as part of the Western League.

Women's field hockey was first played at British universities and schools, and the first club, Molesey Ladies, was founded in 1887.

* 1899 – Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur Iceland's first football club is founded.

The Servette FC, a football club founded in 1890 and named after a borough on the right bank of the Rhône.

The club, which was founded in 1986, was named in his honour after an incident in that summer's World Cup match between England and Paraguay.

* Verdi Football Club, an association football club founded in Parma in July 1913, is after a series of name changes known today as the Parma F. C ..

The Montagnards and the Girondins were both originally Jacobins, a political club which was founded according to republican beliefs and whose members wanted a French democratic republic.

The top 3 students from 11 participating Dallas County high schools will be honored by the Dallas Sales Executives Club at a banquet at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Sam Houston Room of the Sheraton-Dallas Hotel as the club winds up its annual Distributive Education project.

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.

In 2010 – 11 season Roma was administrated by UniCredit as Sensi family failed to repay the bank and the club was put into the market, which also saw Roma did not had major signing in 2010 – 11 season.

Young Mitchell was only 11 when he played on Kilmarnock Bowling green, the oldest club in Scotland, instituted in 1740.

In 1934, the club completed a 13 – 0 record but were defeated by the New York Giants, and in 1942 the club completed an 11 – 0 record but were defeated by the Redskins.

Powell's bright start continued with a further three victories, before running into a dreadful downturn which saw the club go 11 games in succession without a win.

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.

At the start of the 2010 – 11 season Liverpool was on the verge of bankruptcy and the club's creditors asked the High Court to allow the sale of the club, overruling the wishes of Hicks and Gillett.

In New York City, David Lasser, Gernsback's managing editor, nurtured the birth of a small local club called the Scienceers, which held its first meeting in a Harlem apartment on December 11, 1929.

The club won the Division Two championship once more in 1910 – 11, and the following season reached another FA Cup Final, where they were defeated by Second Division Barnsley in a replay.

He says he himself played for the West Gloucestershire club as early as 1857, when he was nine years old, and had 11 innings in 1859.

But the biggest achievement of Hird's coaching career would no doubt have to be the win over the previously undefeated ( a win by four points ) in Round 15, whom assistant coach Mark Thompson was coaching against for the first time since his infamous and controversial exit from the club which he coached for 11 years and won two premierships with.

In one of his greatest seasons, Carey hit arguably the best form of his career in 1998 as he led North Melbourne on a club record 11 game winning streak.

Carey played the first 11 games in 2004, after which he had taken the most contested marks at Adelaide, was 11 goals clear in the Crows ' goal kicking and was coming second in the club best and fairest.

Bergkamp was brought up through Ajax's famous youth system, joining the club at age 11.

Against anyone's expectations Doe Maar played eight shows in 2008 with Joost as the fifth man ; four club dates ( June ), a three-night residency at Rotterdam's Feijenoord Stadium ( July 11, 12, 13 ), and a performance at Belgium's brand new Werchter Boutique-festival.

The local club TPS plays at ice hockey's top level in Finland, the SM-liiga, and is one of the most successful clubs in Finland, having won 11 championships, the most recent in the 2009-10 season.

On 17 June 2005, Greenaway appeared for his first VJ performance during an art club evening in Amsterdam, Netherlands, with music by DJ Serge Dodwell ( aka Radar ), as a backdrop, ‘ VJ ’ Greenaway used for his set a special system consisting of a large plasma screen with laser controlled touchscreen to project the ninety-two Tulse Luper stories on the twelve screens of " Club 11 ", mixing the images live.

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.

Volleyball plays an important role in Modena's sport history, with Panini Modena club having won 11 National championships, 4 Champion's League seasons and a handful of other trophies.

The club reached the Football League Two play-offs during the 2010 – 11 season, one of the most successful in its history.