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.

in March 1892 and gained official recognition three months later, after the Football Association refused to recognise the club as Everton.

Left with an empty ground, Houlding founded Liverpool in 1892 and the club has played at Anfield ever since.

This resulted in the club starting the 1892 – 93 season in the First Division, by which time it had become independent of the rail company and dropped the " LYR " from its name.

Kidderminster Hockey club was founded in 1892 and in 2010 there are five men's hockey teams, a ladies team and a junior team.

Originally inscribed the Dominion Hockey Challenge Cup, the trophy was donated in 1892 by then-Governor General of Canada, the Lord Stanley of Preston, as an award for Canada's top-ranking amateur ice hockey club.

Formed in 1892, the club traditionally represented the inner-Melbourne suburb of Collingwood, and was based at Victoria Park in Abbotsford ; the club is now based in the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Precinct in Melbourne, playing its home games at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and with its training and administrative base in Gosch's Paddock and the Westpac Centre.

The club have been based at Goodison Park since 1892.

When the club moved to Goodison Park in 1892, the colours were salmon pink and dark blue striped shirts with dark blue shorts then switching to ruby shirts with blue trim and dark blue shorts.

Scotch Plains was home to the Shady Rest Country Club, the nation's first African-American country club, and its pro, John Shippen, the first African-American golf professional, who led the 1892 U. S. Open in the final round before finishing fifth.

The area has a cricket club ( Whitkirk Cricket Club founded 1892 ), which has a large cricket pitch, five tennis courts, a football pitch and a Crown green bowling green, along with a large bar area.

In 1892, he purchased and donated the Stanley Cup, to be awarded to the " championship hockey club of the Dominion of Canada " each year.

The club was reformed in 1892 and a lease on a piece of land called Drum Park was secured.

Since its formation in 1879, the club has won six First Division titles — in 1892, 1893, 1895, 1902, 1913, and 1936 — and the FA Cup twice, in 1937 and 1973.

In 1892 the club were founder members of the Football League Second Division.

In early 1892, Professor Henry Senger, a philologist at the University of California, Berkeley, contacted Muir with the idea of forming a local ' alpine club ' for mountain lovers.

The new club joins the Lancashire League prior to the 1892 – 1893 season.

Before 1892, the winning club in each county championship contested the All-Ireland championship representing their county.

In 1892, Congress granted permission for the winning club in each county championship to use players from other clubs in the county.

In 1892, CURCC started a football team to add to the rugby and cricket teams which had to that point dominated the club.

* Tadcaster Albion A. F. C., an English football club based in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, formed in 1892

In 1892, The Minister's Call, Symons's first play, was produced by the Independent Theatre Society – a private club – to avoid censorship by the Lord Chamberlain's Office.

Barry Town's history dates back to 1892 when a club entitled Barry and Cadoxton District was formed in the area.

After 1889, the often-changeable collection of clubs in the VFA became settled at twelve consistent clubs:,, Fitzroy, Footscray,,,, Port Melbourne,,, South Melbourne and Williamstown ; they were joined by a thirteenth club,, in 1892.