While the players were on the tour, the National League instituted new rules regarding player pay that led to a revolt of players, led by Ward, who started the Players ' League the following season ( 1890 ).

Matt Ryan started all 16 games in his rookie season and was named the Associated Press Offensive Rookie of the Year.

He started the next season with the Kansas City Blues of the Central Hockey League and was leading the league in points when he was called up mid-season to play 31 games with St. Louis.

In Irish mythology, the beginning of the summer season for the Tuatha Dé Danann and the Milesians started at Bealtaine.

The Orioles started off the first couple weeks of the season near the top of their division as players such as Nick Markakis and newcomer Luke Scott led the team offensively.

The rainforest was also greatly destroyed from the forest fires of 1997 to 1998, which were started by the locals to clear the forests for crops and perpetuated by an exceptionally dry El Niño season during that period.

The Indians started the 2011 season strong-going 30-15 in their first 45 games and seven games ahead of the Detroit Tigers for first place.

The season started with Mack Newton being brought in to preach " positive thinking.

The 2006 season started with some promise ; the Rockies were 44 – 43 in the first half of the season and were in contention in the NL West for much of the season.

The current formula started in the 2010 season.

* In the 2006 season, the game clock was started when the ball was declared ready for play after the defensive team ( during a scrimmage down ) or the kick-receiving team ( during a free kick down ) was awarded a first down ( change of possession ), reducing the time of games.

After the season, Young received an offer to play for the minor league Canton team, which started Young's professional career.

The following season saw UEFA create the European Champions ' Cup, but after objections from The Football League and the FA Chelsea were persuaded to withdraw from the competition before it started.

The 1990 season started for Earnhardt with victories in the Busch Clash and his heat of the Gatorade Twin 125s.

Earnhardt started off the 1995 season by finishing second in the Daytona 500 to Sterling Marlin.

Star receiver Michael Irvin was suspended by the league for the first five games of 1996 following a drug-related arrest ; he came back after the Cowboys started the season 2-3 ; they finished 10-6 and won the NFC East title, but were eliminated in the divisional round of the playoffs 26-17 by the second-year Carolina Panthers.

In the tumultuous 2008 season, the Cowboys started off strong, going 3 – 0 for the second straight year, en route to a 4 – 1 start.

The 2009 season started on a positive with a road win against Tampa Bay, but fortunes quickly changed as Dallas fell to a 2 – 2 start.

Essendon started season 2012 with four straight wins, its best start to a season since 2000.

Hagi started the season 1992 – 1993 with Brescia Calcio but in the first season the club was relegated to Serie B ; in the next season Hagi helped Brescia Calcio win the Italian Serie B and get promoted to Serie A.

But en route to Super Bowl IX, the Steelers had started the regular season slowly, as Bradshaw and Joe Gilliam fought to be the team's starting quarterback.

The Cowboys started the regular season slowly, winning only six of their first ten games.

The 1975 F1 season started slowly for Lauda, but after nothing better than a fifth-place finish in the first four races he then won four out of the next five races in the new Ferrari 312T.

) For the first two seasons he wears a blue t-shirt underneath ( brown in the first episode ); this was slowly phased out during the third season.

The 1996 – 97 season started off slowly, as Lindros missed 30 games, but LeClair still managed to score 50 goals for the second consecutive year.

In 2008, the Mercury started slowly and never really found a groove, finishing the season with a disappointing record of 16 – 18, well out of the playoff picture in a tough Western Conference.

By a combination of artistic excellence and quiet husbandry, including a year-long Complete Works of Shakespeare Festival ( begun in April 2006 in collaboration with other theatre companies ) plus a financially successful London season at the Novello Theatre in 2006, Boyd slowly rebuilt the company's fortunes and reputation.

Though the show finished last in the ratings in the first season, it was well received by critics and ratings slowly but surely improved in 1983 and by 1986, Cheers was one of the top ten shows on TV.

The season also marked a turning point in his batting approach where he preferred to score more slowly and take fewer risks, in contrast to his adventurous pre-war tactics.

In the 1953 – 54 NBA season, the now 29-year-old Mikan slowly declined, averaging 18. 1 points, 14. 3 rebounds and 2. 4 assists per game.

Killebrew moved to left field, where he started off the season slowly.

He started the season off slowly, and he missed the second half of April and early May due to a right knee injury that was slow to heal.

During KTMA and season 1, Trace slowly refined Crow's voice.

During this season Paige meets Sam Wilder ( her birth-father ) and slowly comes to terms with letting him into her life.

He was re-introduced into the Super 12 season slowly and showed immediate flair and pace going on to score 11 tries in 10 games for the semi finalist Hurricanes, and a further 12 in 12 test matches for the All Blacks.

The 1994 season started out slowly for Tracy as he scored just two points in the first four races.

Although in the first season, under writer Levinson, Birdie was often portrayed as saliently less than bright, she slowly developed as the real brains and caretaker of the household under writers John Whedon, Sam Moore and Andy White.

While Josh Weinstein operated Servo during the KTMA season, Servo spoke rather slowly with a squeaky voice, and was somewhat immobile during host segments but oddly very active in the theater.

The vocable is sung slowly and broadly, evoking the spacious fields and the mood of the haymaking season.

Subsequently, the Titans go through the season undefeated while battling racial prejudice, before slowly gaining support from the community.

Starting the season supremely confident, Dominguín is slowly humbled by this competition.

Souray accepted his demotion to the minors and posted a solid AHL season, as he battled and slowly recovered from his nagging injuries.

From then on they slowly but surely fell down the league table, until a final placing of 21st at the end of the 1934 – 5 season saw them relegated to the Third Division North.

Between Rafa and Gaza east of the coastal sand dunes is a gently rolling plateau of light, firm soil rising slowly inland which is crossed by several dry wadis which become torrential flows in the rainy season.

Southern Right Whales, the primal target species for shore-whaling, were hunted to almost extinction, but are slowly recovering now and can be seen off Otago coast close to shore in their migration season, along with Humpback Whale.