Skorich, who is 39 years old, played football at Cincinnati University and then had a three-year professional career as a lineman under Jock Sutherland with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The first and most prominent professional clubs of the NABBP era were the Cincinnati Red Stockings in Ohio, which lasted only two years.

The Cincinnati Red Stockings were the first to so declare themselves as openly professional, and were easily the most aggressive in recruiting the best available players.

Managed by Harry Wright, Cincinnati adopted a uniform with white knickers and red stockings, and earned the famous nickname, a year or two before hiring the first fully professional team in 1869.

The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional American football franchise based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Brown named the team the Bengals in order " to give it a link with past professional football in Cincinnati.

During the 1869 season, Cleveland was among several cities which established professional baseball teams following the success of the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first fully professional team.

Johnny Lee Bench ( born December 7, 1947 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ) is a former professional baseball catcher who played in the Major Leagues for the Cincinnati Reds from 1967 to 1983 and is a member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

* June 1 – The Cincinnati Red Stockings open the baseball season as the first fully professional team.

For professional baseball's founding year, Major League Baseball ( professional baseball's current official organization ) uses 1869 — the year the first professional team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, was established — and held official celebrations for professional baseball's 100th anniversary in 1969 and its 125th anniversary in 1994, both of which were commemorated with league-wide shoulder patches.

In 1870, a schism developed between professional and amateur ballplayers, after the 1869 founding of the first professional baseball team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings.

* Joe Black ( 1924 – 2002 ), birthplace and childhood home, professional baseball player, Brooklyn Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds.

The impact of this on the Giants was minimized, since, in the eight-team National league, only the Chicago Cubs ( Illinois ), Cincinnati Reds ( Ohio ), and St. Louis Cardinals ( Missouri ), played home games in states that allowed professional sports on Sunday.

A professional outcast due to the production difficulties of his previous film Major Dundee ( 1965 ) and his firing from the set of The Cincinnati Kid ( 1965 ), Peckinpah's stock had improved following his critically acclaimed work on the television film Noon Wine ( 1966 ).

Serling began his employed professional writing career in 1950, when he earned $ 75 a week as a network continuity writer for WLW radio in Cincinnati, Ohio.

* Glen Steele, professional football player, attended West Noble High School, University of Michigan, NFL Cincinnati Bengals

* Scott Fulhage, professional football punter with the Atlanta Falcons and Cincinnati Bengals

* Emil Frisk ( 1874-1922 ), professional baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, and the St. Louis Browns from 1899 to 1907.

Harry Wright and George Wright then became two of America's first professional baseball players when Aaron Champion raised funds to found the Cincinnati Red Stockings in 1869.

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.

The now all professional Chicago White Stockings, financed by businessman William Hulbert, became a charter member of the league along with the Red Stockings, who had dissolved and moved to Boston.

The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball ’ s American League Eastern Division.

Red Sox history has also been marked by the team's intense rivalry with the New York Yankees, arguably the fiercest and most historic in North American professional sports.

The Boston Red Stockings won four championships in the five seasons of the new National Association, the first professional league.

The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan.

The troops of the Red Guards were not professional soldiers but armed civilians, whose military training and discipline were mostly inadequate to resist the counter-attack of the White Army when it came, still less the onslaught of the German forces who arrived later.

While the conflict has been called by some " The War of the Amateurs ", the White Army had two major advantages over the Red Guards in the war: the professional military leadership of General Mannerheim and his staff — which included 84 Swedish volunteer officers and former Finnish officers of the Tsar's army — and 1, 450 soldiers of the 1, 900-strong, elite " Jäger " battalion.

The early Red Army abandoned the institution of a professional officer corps as a " heritage of tsarism " in the course of the Revolution.

In January, after significant reverses in combat, War Commissar Leon Trotsky headed the reorganization of the Red Guard into a Workers ' and Peasants ' Red Army, in order to create a more professional fighting force.

** A Minor League Baseball game between the Rochester Red Wings and the Pawtucket Red Sox at McCoy Stadium in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, becomes the longest professional baseball game in history: 8 hours and 25 minutes / 33 innings ( the 33rd inning is not played until June 23 ).

Since the departure of the Nets to Brooklyn, the Devils are the only major professional sports team to explicitly brand itself as a New Jersey franchise ; although the New York Giants, New York Jets, and New York Red Bulls are headquartered, train, and play in New Jersey, these teams still brand themselves as being from New York City.

After the 1900 season, the American Base-Ball League formed as a rival professional league, and incidentally the club's old White Stockings nickname would be adopted by a new American League neighbor to the south.

* Ivers Whitney Adams, founder and President of the Boston Red Stockings, Boston's first baseball team ; as well as the Boston Base Ball Club, the first professional Baseball franchise in Boston.

A mosaic paying tribute to two legendary Reds teams: the 1869 Red Stockings, the first professional baseball team, and the Big Red Machine club that won the first of two consecutive World Series, are just inside the main entrance.

**** Ivers Whitney Adams ( 1838 – 1914 ): founder of the first professional baseball team, the Boston Red Stockings

While with the Phillies, Delahanty played under manager Harry Wright, the man who assembled, managed, and played center field for baseball's first fully professional team, the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings.

* 1869 – 70: Cincinnati Red Stockings demonstrate that professional baseball is a viable business enterprise.

White Stockings or " Chicago White Stockings " was an original name of two professional baseball clubs in Chicago, Illinois, namely the two Major League Baseball clubs that operate today:

The first professional baseball club in the city joined the National Association of Base Ball Players for the 1870 season with the nickname " White Stockings " and was a founding member of the all-professional National Association in 1871.

Subsequent professional black baseball clubs played each other independently, without an official league to organize the sport.

Bernard Allan Federko ( born May 12, 1956 ) is a retired professional ice hockey centre who played fourteen seasons in the National Hockey League from 1976 through 1990.

The tradition is often carried out at other sporting events, both professional or amateur, and even sometimes at non-sporting events where the anthem is played, throughout the Baltimore / Washington area and beyond, notably at Baltimore Ravens, Washington Capitals, Georgetown Hoyas, Maryland Terrapins, Virginia Cavaliers, Virginia Tech Hokies, West Virginia Mountaineers, Penn State Nittany Lions and Aberdeen Ironbirds games.

Dominoes is played at a professional level, similar to poker.

Since an actual Taiko ensemble had never really performed together and the people he had playing with him were in no way professional musicians, he based the rhythms of their performance on the simplistic arrangement of the shrine music that had been previously played ; which allowed for nearly any person with the interest in Taiko could play along.

Argentine boxer Carlos Monzon, who didn't have a clear diction, had his voice dubbed by a professional actor when he played the lead in the drama La Mary, and Gert Frobe, who played Auric Goldfinger in the James Bond film of that name ( Goldfinger ) was because of his heavy German accent dubbed by Michael Collins.

The gladiatorial fight to the death scene between Snake and Slag ( played by professional wrestler Ox Baker ) was filmed in the Grand Hall at St. Louis Union Station.

The first forward pass in a professional football game may have been thrown in an Ohio League game played on October 25, 1906.

The game is played indoors on a wooden or rubber mat floor, making it a year-round sport at amateur and professional levels.

Through the 2009-2010 NBA season, 152 hoosier athletes have played professional basketball in the world's top league.

Unusually, and despite many offers from other clubs, he remained at Fulham for his entire professional career, until leaving for South Africa in 1970, where he played for the now defunct Durban City, alongside former Fulham teammates Johnny Byrne and Bobby Keetch.

The region had not possessed a professional football team since the days of the Miami Seahawks, who played in the All-America Football Conference in 1946 before becoming the first incarnation of the Baltimore Colts.

The first professional football team in Miami, and in the state of Florida, were the Miami Seahawks, who played in the All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ) during its inaugural 1946 season.

Mark David McGwire ( born October 1, 1963 ), nicknamed " Big Mac ", is an American former professional baseball player who played his major league career with the Oakland Athletics and the St. Louis Cardinals.

In 1930, there were still many who questioned the quality of the professional game, claiming the college " amateurs " played with more intensity than professionals.

In 2009 a South Park episode played on the soap operatic elements of professional wrestling.

According to Young, either due to personal or professional distractions, Coubertin played little role in planning, despite entreaties by Vikelas.

Many players from OJC have played for professional football clubs, like FC Den Bosch, RKC Waalwijk, Willem II, etc.

They also played defense, as indicated by their professional football record 49 pass interceptions in 1961, and featured AFL Rookie of the Year defensive end Earl Faison.

Alworth, Mix, Hadl, Joiner, Coryell, Gillman, Garrison, Fouts, White, Winslow, Faison, Benirschke, Lincoln, Washington, Humphries, Ladd and Wilkerson are also members of the San Diego Hall of Champions, which is open to athletes from the San Diego area as well as those who played for San Diego-based professional and collegiate teams.

North of the Zambezi, the waYao and Makua people played a similar role as professional slave raiders and traders.

The First AFL-NFL World Championship Game in professional American football, later known as Super Bowl I and referred to in some contemporary reports as the Supergame, was played on January 15, 1967 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California.