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.

After World War II, the club reached the FA Cup Final twice, losing in 1946 and winning in 1947.

* 1947 – Kevin Sheedy, coach of Australian Football League club Essendon FC

Lemmon attended Phillips Academy ( Class of 1943 ) and Harvard University ( Class of 1947 ), where he lived in Eliot House and was an active member of several Drama Clubs-becoming president of the Hasty Pudding Club-as well as a member of the Delphic Club for Gentleman, a final club at Harvard.

The 1884 club was the only major league team with black players ( Moses Fleetwood Walker and his brother, Welday Walker ) prior to Jackie Robinson's appearance with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

When Simon moved to England in 1964 he met Kathleen Mary " Kathy " Chitty ( born 1947 ) on 12 April 1964 at the very first English folk club he played, the Railway Inn Folk Club in Brentwood, Essex, where Chitty was working part-time selling tickets.

In 1947 it was bought for £ 750 by Thurrock Yacht Club, and towed to Grays to become the club ’ s headuarters.

The club resumed league play in 1947 in the first division Oberliga Nord and was relegated, but quickly returned to the top-flight in 1949.

Between 1947 and 1952, the club was nicknamed Expresso da Vitória ( Victory Express ), as Vasco won several competitions in that period, such as the Rio de Janeiro championship in 1945, 1947, 1949, 1950, and 1952, and the South American Club Championship in 1948.

The town also has a Petanque team ( Evesham Petanque Club ), and a cycling club, Evesham & District Wheelers, which was founded in 1947.

This was also the only League title won by a club outside the Old Firm between 1904 and 1947.

Just as in 1938, victory in their last match of the season against title rivals Liverpool would have won the title but a 2 – 1 defeat gave the 1947 championship to the Merseyside club instead.

Macclesfield Town's colours are blue and white ; the club have used combinations of these colours since 1947, with the exception of the 1975 – 76 season, when the team wore tangerine and black as part of a sponsorship deal.

The first Macclesfield kit was amber and black stripes, but between 1882 and 1947 the club also used red and white, red, yellow and blue, blue and white, and black and white.

The Stars became the first professional sports team to play in Las Vegas since the Las Vegas Wranglers baseball club who played from 1947 – 52 and 1957 – 58.

In 1947 ,“ Lovćen ” was juvenile club champion.

It was the home town of Proleter football club from 1947 until 2005.

Other sources say that he moved to Chicago when his mother died in 1947 playing the Chicago club circuit and working as a plasterer.

Burnley immediately made an impact the top division, finishing third in 1947 – 48 as the club began to assemble a team capable of regularly aiming for honours.

There were 10, 000 members by 1947, with membership tripling in size between 1946 and 1956 as Civitan became the sixth largest service club in the United States.

With the resumption of the Football League for the 1946 – 47 season after World War II the club were relegated at the end of the 1947 – 48 season and have never returned to this level.

In 1947 Frank Adams, who had captained the club to its double Championship victories in the Spartan League and made 331 appearances for the Wanderers, scoring 104 goals, made arguably his greatest contribution when he gifted Loakes Park to the club.

The club finished as runners-up in the Midland League in 1947 – 48, and in 1950 was accepted into the Football League, ahead of and when the league structure was expanded.