In her sophomore year she had started going steady with Bobby Joe, who was a football player, Future Homemakers sweetheart, and president of Future Farmers.

Philadelphia permitted him to seek a better connection after he had refused to reconsider his decision to end his career as a player.

Much of the story is told first-hand, since Spalding had been involved in the game, first as a player and later an administrator, since the 1850s.

The Auction simulates a ' history ' of competition between the descendants of Oberon for player characters who have not had dozens of decades to get to know each other.

In the second game of the Falcons 1999 season, running back Jamaal Anderson, who had been a key player in the Falcons ' 1998 success, suffered a season-ending knee injury.

Cruyff himself laughed off the tribute saying the club had to let its best player play with number 14.

Rugby union player Jone Tawake also had a finger removed.

The player who experienced this phenomenon with the most number of at-bats in a season was Ernie Bowman, who over 125 at-bats in 1963 had a batting average of. 184 and an on-base percentage of. 181.

Clubs now had the ability to enforce player contracts, preventing players from jumping to higher-paying clubs.

During the rough and tumble years of the American-National struggle, player contracts were violated at the independents as well: Players that the team had developed would sign deals with the National or American leagues without any form of compensation to the indy club.

Charlton's next England game was his 75th as England beat Northern Ireland ; 2 caps later and he had become England's second most-capped player, behind the veteran Billy Wright, who was approaching his 100th appearance when Charlton was starting out and ended with 105 caps.

Of course, it is not possible for the casino to win exactly 53 cents ; this figure is the average casino profit from each player if it had millions of players each betting 10 rounds at 1 unit per round.

In a 1995 interview with Kurt Loder, Love divulged that in the late 1980s, guitarist Joe Strummer of The Clash told her that she was " the worst guitar player he'd ever heard ", but she insisted she had improved by the early 1990s: " I'm fine ...

Longtime infielder / manager Phil Cavarretta, who had been a key player during the ' 45 season, was fired during spring training in 1954 after admitting the team was unlikely to finish above fifth place.

In addition, Walker, who had been with the team since 1995 and was widely regarded as the best player in team history, was now 37 years old, and injuries prevented him from playing much of the time.

DEC was a major player overseas where Compaq had less presence.

The Cowboys waited until Smith had retired as a player before inducting Aikman and Irvin, so all three could be inducted together, which occurred during halftime at a Monday Night Football home game against the arch-rival Washington Redskins on September 19, 2005.

During the Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 ), the Chinese used a silver canister where written lots could be drawn that designated which player had to drink and specifically how much ; for example, from 1, 5, 7, or 10 measures of drink that the youngest player, or the last player to join the game, or the most talkative player, or the host, or the player with the greatest alcohol tolerance, etc.

Another notable honorable mention was given to the two men who attempted to burgle the home of footballer Duncan Ferguson ( who had four convictions for assault and had served six months in Glasgow's Barlinnie prison ) in 2001, with one burglar requiring three days ' hospitalization after being confronted by the player.

The player ( s ) who had the least defense will be attacked, and will have one city reduced to a settlement.

Another popular method of exploiting this bug was to simply use thrust to keep the ship in motion with 1 or 2 asteroids in the play field, allowing the player to pick off as many 1, 000 point UFOs as possible.

* IVS – A proprietary version with Digital Rights Management developed by 3D Solar UK Ltd for use in music downloaded from their Tronme Music Store and interactive music and video player.

The main use of the plate appearance statistic is in determining a player's eligibility for leadership in some offensive statistical categories, notably batting average ; currently, a player must have 3. 1 PAs per game scheduled to qualify for the batting title ( for the 162-game schedule, that means 502 PAs ).

To balance the situation, the Crawford rule requires that when a player first reaches a score one point short of winning, neither player may use the doubling cube for the following game, called the Crawford game.

Thus, a player should use Blackwood only when he can ascertain that the partnership holds at least second-round controls in all suits ( kings or, if a suit fit is found, singletons ).

Call of Cthulhu does not use levels, but is completely skill-based, with player characters getting better with their skills by succeeding at them.

) Since either player can make use of any hopping ' ladder ' or ' chain ' created, more advanced strategy involves hindering an opposing player, in addition to helping oneself find jumps across the board.

The use of darkness to frighten or confuse the player was nearly unheard of in games released prior to Doom.

The differences between the two, however, are minute for a proficient player, and modern players in major orchestras use both bows.

Double bass rosin is generally softer and stickier than violin rosin to allow the hair to grab the thicker strings better, but players use a wide variety of rosins that vary from quite hard ( like violin rosin ) to quite soft, depending on the weather, the humidity, and the preference of the player.

Some players use the more nimble tips of the fingers to play fast-moving solo passages or to pluck lightly for quiet tunes. The use of amplification allows the player to have more control over the tone of the instrument, because amplifiers have equalization controls that allow the bassist to accentuate certain frequencies ( often the bass frequencies ) while de-accentuating some frequencies ( often the high frequencies, so that there is less finger noise ).

A player with a city may use commodities to build city improvements, which allow several advantages.

As well as normal tiles, each player receives one trouble tile for use during the game.

Also, any player can simply use any three cards to pass over any route that has a tile already there, allowing the type of transport shown on the tile to be ignored.

The studies make use of data gathered from player surveys and discuss topics like virtual relationships, player personalities, gender issues, and more.

Home games typically use an ante ; the first betting round begins with the player to the dealer's left, and the second round begins with the player who opened the first round.

Further, the player with the ball may not deliberately use his body to push a defender out of the way.

In Heretic, the player can pick up many different items to use at their discretion.

Also, in order to change a string from one tone to another during a performance, a harp player must take one entire hand off the harp for a moment and switch the lever — this may cause an acoustic gap in a performance, as for a brief moment only one hand will be in use.

Another way is to use a ' head shaking ' technique, frequently used in blues harmonica, in which the player moves the lips between two holes very quickly.

Spahn not only is a superior pitcher but a gentlemanly fine fellow, a ball player's ball player, as they say in the trade.

Also, an oversight in the small saucer's programming gave rise to a popular strategy known as " lurking " — because the saucer could only shoot directly at the player's position on the screen, the player could " hide " at the opposite end of the screen and shoot across the screen boundary, while remaining relatively safe.

Unlike conventional auctions, bids are non-refundable ; if one player bids 65 for psyche and another wins with a bid of 66, then the character with 66 is " superior " to the character with 65 even though there is only one bid difference.

A player may only purchase shares of stock in chains that have already been founded.

* Online games ( usually single player or only a single active player at a given time )

* CG — Complete game: number of games where player was the only pitcher for his team

Brady Anderson was the first, and currently only, player to be hit by the pitch two times in the same inning in an American League game.

Finally, for 1950 only, runners would be credited with a stolen base if they were " well advanced " toward the base they were attempting to steal ", and the pitcher is charged with a balk, with the further exception of a player attempting to steal, who would otherwise have been forced to advance on the balk by a runner behind them.

Hank Greenberg, Stan Musial, Alex Rodriguez, and Robin Yount have won at different positions, while Rodriguez is the only player who has won the award with two different teams at two different positions.

Fred Lynn and Ichiro Suzuki are the only two players who have been named Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player in the same year, and Fernando Valenzuela is the only player to have won Rookie of the Year and the Cy Young Award in the same year.

At that time test-match referees came from the home nation, substitutions took place only if a doctor found a player unable to continue and there were no video cameras or sideline officials to prevent violent play.

If a player does not lift, his only remaining option is to push the shuttlecock softly back to the net: in the forecourt this is called a netshot ; in the midcourt or rearcourt, it is often called a push or block.

A short hitting action is not only useful for deception: it also allows the player to hit powerful strokes when he has no time for a big arm swing.

* Split ( only available as first decision of a hand ): If the first two cards have the same value, the player can split them into two hands, by moving a second bet equal to the first into an area outside the betting box of the original bet.

Charlton's inevitable selection by Ramsey for the tournament made him the first – and still, to date, only – England player to feature in four World Cup squads.

In these three earliest illustrations of the pastime it is worth noting that each player has one bowl only, and that the attitude in delivering it was as various five or six hundred years ago as it is to-day.

Limitations with mp3-player DJing equipment has meant that only second generation equipment such as the IDJ2 or the Cortex Dmix-300 have the pitch control that alters tempo and allows for beatmatching on a digital music player.

With these innings he became the second player to score two Test triple centuries, the second player to score two career quadruple centuries, the only player to achieve both these milestones, and regained the distinction of being the holder of both the record first-class individual innings and the record Test individual innings.

He is the only player to break the world record twice.

* Blitz chess, a chess game in which each player is allotted only five minutes

A monster will also become angry if either player collects a skull ( the only negative item in the game ), and the monster is hit by the resulting comet crossing the screen.