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 club then moved to St. Louis, Missouri, in and played in that city through ( sometimes referred to as the " Football Cardinals " and / or the " Big Red " to avoid confusion with the Major League Baseball St. Louis Cardinals ).

However, when, under manager Jack Kirwan, the club got promoted to the top flight of Dutch football for the first time in 1911 ( then the Eerste Klasse or ' First Class ', later named the Eredivisie ), Ajax were forced to change their colours because Sparta Rotterdam already had exactly the same outfit.

The club was reformed three years later and then worked its way through the non-league divisions to reach the Nationwide Conference in 2003.

When the club folded after the 1870 season, Wright was hired by Boston businessman, Ivers Whitney Adams to organize a new team in Boston, and he did, bringing three teammates and the " Red Stockings " nickname along ( Most nicknames were then only nicknames, neither club names nor registered trademarks, so the migration was informal ).

The hobbyist may then trade coins in a coin club or buy coins from dealers or mints.

They then won back to back World Series titles in 1907 – 08 In 1902, Spalding, who by this time had revamped the roster to boast what would soon be one of the best teams of the early century, sold the club to Jim Hart, and the franchise became known as the Chicago Cubs.

Raimund Schelcher ( 1891 – 1979 ) of the club then suggested that Mayr visit his classmate Erwin Stresemann on his way to Greifswald, where Mayr was to begin his medical studies.

The Essendon VFL club returned to Essendon, and the Essendon VFA club disbanded, with most of its players moving over to ( then VFA club ) North Melbourne.

While pursuing his bachelor's degree, Coppola was elected president of The Green Wig ( the university's drama group ), the Kaleidoscopians, ( its musical comedy club ) and he then merged the two into The Spectrum Players.

On 1 June 2002 Baresi was officially appointed as director of football at Fulham, but tensions between Baresi and then Fulham manager Jean Tigana led to resignation from the club in August.

The club's first recorded all-white club kit came in 1903, and ever since then the club has been playing in all-white shirts and black shorts, with socks going through various evolutions of black and / or white, but are now normally white-only.

While performing in Macon, Georgia, having now changed their name to the Flames, a club promoter, Clint Brantley ( then agent of one of Brown's idols, Little Richard ), suggested the band add " Famous " in front of their name to draw more people to his club.

Mills never officially left UR, but did relocate from Detroit, first to New York, then Berlin ( as a resident at the Tresor club ), and then Chicago.

He was then given his stage name ; club goers dubbed him " Kid Rock " after they had enjoyed watching " that white kid rock.

Since then the club has been sponsored by Crown Paints, Candy, Carlsberg and Standard Chartered Bank.

Cardiff Arms Park is best known as a rugby union stadium, however Cardiff Athletic Bowls Club ( CABC ) was established in 1923, and ever since then, the club has used the Arms Park as its bowling club.

Originating in Seattle, Washington, as the Seattle Pilots, the club played for one season in 1969 before being acquired in bankruptcy court by current MLB Commissioner Bud Selig and then moved to Milwaukee.

Hopper was voted most likely to succeed at Helix High School, where he was active in the drama club, speech and choir.

On 19 March 2006, the voting members of the South Sydney club voted ( in a 75. 8 % majority ) to allow Crowe and businessman Peter Holmes à Court to purchase 75 % of the organisation, leaving 25 % ownership with the members.

At the end of the 1867 season " the National Association of Baseball Players voted to exclude any club with a black player.

In July 2011, a majority of players in the squad voted to oust Been as club manager.

Thirteen out of eighteen players voted that they had lost all confidence in Been's ability to successfully manage the club.

The goal was the 4th of the afternoon and secured a 4 – 0 victory, and later voted by the club as goal of the season.

A 23rd-placed finish in 1950 – 51 meant that the club had to apply for re-election to the league once more, but again teams in the First and Second Divisions unanimously voted for Watford to stay in the league.

The European success came after first beating, Inter Bratislava and Fortuna Sittard, Everton defeated German giants Bayern Munich 3 – 1 in the semi-finals, despite trailing at half time ( in a match voted the greatest in Goodison Park history ) and recorded the same scoreline over Austrian club Rapid Vienna in the final.

The club reached both domestic cup finals in the 1992 – 93 season ( losing both to Arsenal – Waddle scored Wednesday's goal in the FA Cup final replay ) and Waddle was voted the Football Writers ' Association Footballer of the Year in 1993.

The venue also has a small bar area that has been voted club of the year 2007 by CAMRA.

On the occasion of Molde's 100-year anniversary in 2011, the readers of the local newspaper Romsdals Budstikke voted 1999 as the best year in the history of the club.

" They also designed a pin to wear to be able to identify with others, chose club colors and voted on a motto " Qui vive ", French for " on alert ".

More than 40 people voted on the name of the club, which was chosen in honor of Sport Club Internacional ( from São Paulo ).

The Duarte Club was not alone in opposing RI leadership ; the Seattle-International District club unanimously voted to admit women in 1986.

: Note: This annual game involves a publicly voted selection of the best club players from the league versus an Aboriginal team in honour of reconciliation.

While Hayes was diplomatic with some faculty members who voted against the trip and urged the students to cease complaining, Hayes did not spare his criticism of the alumni club president who led the charge against accepting the bowl bid.

Les Davies was voted in the list of the best 32 players in European club football by UEFA for his performances for Bangor City FC in the 2011 / 12 season. Les Davies played 64 times for Porthmadog scoring 18 goals.

One club, The Cut, was voted the best golf course in Western Australia

The band originally put a selection of their potential single releases to members of their official fan club, who voted in favour of " Day After Day ".

Recently the club night ' Storm ' held at the same club has been voted ' Best large club ' at the Hard Dance Awards two years in a row.

There was no automatic promotion to the Football League until 1987, and at that time a club had to be ' voted out ' of the League to allow a non-league team to be promoted in their place.

Despite only playing two seasons at Real Madrid, Laudrup was voted the 12th best player in Real history in an internet survey by Spanish newspaper Marca when the club celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2002.