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.

An earlier club, Accrington F. C., were one of the twelve founder members of the Football League in 1888.

Robert McCracken, the owner of several city hotels, was the founder and first President of the Essendon club, and his son, Alex, its secretary.

* 1816 – Hiram Walker, American businessman, founder of Canadian club whiskey ( d. 1899 )

Today, the founder of the club is regarded as James Henry Gardiner who served the club diligently both on the field and off the field until his death in 1921.

In 2013, he will be playing Hilly Kristal, the founder of the famous East Village punk-rock club CBGB, in the CBGB movie withRupert Grint.

The original town club, Accrington, was amongst the twelve founder members of the Football League in 1888, before resigning from the league after just five years.

Accrington Football Club were an English football club from Accrington, Lancashire, who were one of the founder members of The Football League.

* 1980 – Miami Mustangs club formation ( founder: Chris Phillips )

In the 1991 – 92 First Division campaign they finished mid-table in the league and were founder members of the new Premier League, finishing 5th, as top London club, in the 1992 – 93 inaugural season.

Musicians Alan Wilder of Depeche Mode and Recoil, Nick Midson ( formerly of Threshold ), actress Daniela Denby-Ashe, Ian Gillan of Deep Purple, Mick Jones of punk band The Clash, the highly influential Big Audio Dynamite and latterly Carbon / Silicon, Glen Matlock of the Sex Pistols, Robert Smith of The Cure, Pete Doherty, of The Libertines and Babyshambles, Dave Kerr-Clemenson ( Edison Lighthouse / White Plains ) as well as Matador Records founder Gerard Cosloy, are all fans of the club.

Greek entrepreneur Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of the British low-cost airline easyJet amongst other ventures has previously spoken of his fondness for the club.

* Interview with Tresor founder Dimitri Hegemann as the club celebrates 20 years.

Milngavie is the base of West of Scotland F. C., a rugby club, which dates from 1865 and is one of the founder members of the SRU.

Town founder Bill McKie negotiated a deal to sell Mustang to Tommy Sinclair, who leased a club in the community, on June 5, 2005 for $ 600, 000.

After leaving high school and playing the club circuit around the New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania areas with his brother Albert ( a singer ) for most of the 1980s, Greg Howe officially began his solo career after sending a demo tape to Shrapnel Records in 1987, upon which he was immediately signed by founder Mike Varney.

After the schism, Brighouse Rangers became a founder member of the Northern Rugby Football Union ( now Rugby Football League ), and the first Northern Rugby Football Union chairman was Mr. H. H. Waller from the club.

The club played in a variety of local leagues, including the Staffordshire County League, Manchester League, Mid-Cheshire League and Cheshire County League, before becoming founder members of the North West Counties Football League in 1982 and from there progressing to the Northern Premier League in 1987.

Logo of foundation club Hannoverscher FC 1896Hannover 96 was founded on 12 April 1896 as Hannoverscher Fußball-Club 1896, upon the suggestion of Ferdinand-Wilhelm Fricke, founder of the Deutscher FV 1878 Hannover.

* – Prestwick Golf Club: The founder club was dropped from the rotation in 1925, by which time it had hosted twenty-four Opens.

In 1889 the club became founder members of the Football Alliance, of which they were the first champions in a season where they also reached the 1890 FA Cup Final, losing 6 – 1 to Blackburn Rovers at Kennington Oval, London.

While he is often cited as the founder of the club, in the article he says he was attending their séances for the first time that evening and made clear that others were sharing a familiar experience with him.

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

Three years later, the club were once again relegated, and once again became founder members of a league – this time the Football League Fourth Division.

The club remains the primary organization responsible for the trail, and is recognized by the state legislature as " the founder, sponsor, defender, and protector " of the Long Trail System.