More recent researchers, in particular Ronald Willis and Joy Munns have studied the tour in detail and concluded that the presentation was made after a private cricket match played over Christmas 1882 when the English team were guests of Sir William Clarke, at his property " Rupertswood ", in Sunbury, Victoria.

The Sun Devils have played in the Fiesta Bowl five times, and in 1987 the ASU football team won the Rose Bowl, defeating the University of Michigan 22 – 15.

Currently, the team has played in the 2007 Holiday Bowl, 1997 Rose Bowl and also won the Rose Bowl in 1987 as well as the Fiesta Bowl in 1982, 1975, 1973, 1972, and 1971.

Having played baseball throughout his youth, Spalding first played competitively with the Rockford Pioneers, a youth team, which he joined in 1865.

After pitching his team to a 26 – 2 victory over a local men's amateur team ( the Mercantiles ), he was approached by another, the Forest Citys, for whom he played for two years.

Before the 1988 NFL season, the team moved to Tempe, Arizona, a college town suburb of Phoenix, and played their home games for the next 18 years at Arizona State University's Sun Devil Stadium.

Despite the strong start, the team played poorly in May and June and entered the All Star break at 47 – 48, still leading the NL West.

* Indianapolis ABCs, a Negro league baseball team that played in the early to mid 1900s

* 1904 – The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team ( Welsh & Scottish players ) in Central Park, Wigan, England.

The series generally featured no country music beyond the bluegrass banjo theme song, although country star Roy Clark and the team of Flatt and Scruggs occasionally played on the program.

Games played ( most often abbreviated as G or GP ) is a statistic used in team sports to indicate the total number of games in which a player has participated ( in any capacity ); the statistic is generally applied irrespective of whatever portion of the game is contested.

Barred by a court injunction from playing baseball in the state of Pennsylvania the next year, Lajoie was traded to the Cleveland team, where he played and managed for many years.

The NLCS and ALCS, since the expansion to best-of-seven, are always played in a 2 – 3 – 2 format: games 1, 2, 6 and 7 are played in the stadium of the team that has home field advantage, and Games 3, 4 and 5 are played in the stadium of the team that does not.

The ALCS and NLCS, since the expansion to best-of-seven, are always played in a 2 – 3 – 2 format: Games 1, 2, 6, and 7 are played in the stadium of the team that has home field advantage, and Games 3, 4, and 5 are played in the stadium of the team that does not.

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.

With Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra both out of action due to injuries, the American League champs still mounted a 15-hit attack against a parade of eight Cincinnati pitchers, the most ever used by one team in a series game.

* Ajax Orlando Prospects, also known as Ajax America, an American soccer team from Orlando, Florida

* 1987 – The American male basket ball team lost the gold medal to Brazilian team at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis.

* 1950 – Bruce McNall, American ice hockey team owner

The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team whose team facilities are headquartered in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix.

The Atlanta Falcons are a professional American football team based in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Falcons joined the NFL in 1965 as an expansion team, after the NFL offered then-owner Rankin Smith a franchise to keep him from joining the rival American Football League ( AFL ).

This was the first major professional sports championship for the state of Arizona and the first for a team ( in the four major North American professional sports leagues ) owned or controlled by Colangelo, whose basketball Suns made it to the NBA Finals in 1976 and 1993 but lost both times.

Alameda is home to the official offices and training facility of the Oakland Raiders American football team, which is located on Bay Farm Island.

Today known as the Chicago Cubs, they are the oldest team in American organized sports.

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.

In 1994, the league was restructured into three divisions, with the three division winners and a wild-card team advancing to a best-of-five postseason round, known as the American League Division Series ( ALDS ).

Every American League team has appeared in the ALCS at least once.

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.

In, the National League club adopted an all-white uniform, and the American League team saw an opportunity.

For 1908, the National League club returned to wearing red trim, but the American League team finally had an official nickname, and would remain the " Red Sox " for good.

In its first game in the American League, the team lost to the Detroit Tigers 14 – 13 after blowing a 9-run lead in the 9th inning.

That team had started as a charter member of the American Association in 1882.

In 1901, Baltimore and McGraw were awarded an expansion franchise in the growing American League, but again the team was sacrificed in favor of a New York City franchise, as the team was transferred to New York in 1903.

* Syracuse Blitz, former Professional Indoor Football League team

* Columbus Cottonmouths, Southern Professional Hockey League team

Citing the Professional Football Researchers Association as his source, Peterson writes that " Parratt completed a short pass to end Dan Riley ( real name, Dan Policowski )" in a game played at Massillon against a team from West Virginia.

Ironicallly, the Dolphins became a Professional Football powerhouse, winning two Super Bowl Championships, including the perfect season of 1972, while the NFL's Atlanta team has been a perennial also-ran.

Professional football in the Minneapolis – Saint Paul area ( the " Twin Cities ") began with the Minneapolis Marines / Red Jackets, an NFL team that played intermittently in the 1920s – 30s.

Professional education prepares physical therapists to be autonomous practitioners, that may work in collaboration with other members of the health care team.

* Professional wrestling tag team match types

Professional wrestling promotion Osaka Pro Wrestling features two wrestlers using the ring names Hideyoshi and Masamune, who together form the tag team " Sengoku ".

* Tatsunori Hara ( 原 辰徳, born 1958 ), the current manager for the Yomiuri Giants baseball team in Nippon Professional Baseball

* Bradenton Explorers, U. S. Senior Professional Baseball Association team

In 1998, the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball placed a team in Atlantic City called the Surf.

The team is a member of the Liberty Division of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball, which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball.

In 2006, the team moved to the Canadian American Association of Professional Baseball, ( Can-Am League ).

On July 24, 2012 the Frontier League announced that the team folded and would be replaced by the Road Warriors ( independent baseball team ) traveling baseball team of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.

In that same year, the first all-professional team, the Toronto Trolley Leaguers from the newly created Ontario Professional Hockey League ( OPHL ), competed for the Cup.

* Anaheim Bolts, a Professional Arena Soccer League team

Professional rodeos generally comprise the following events: tie-down roping, team roping, steer wrestling, saddle bronc riding, bareback bronc riding, bull riding and barrel racing.

The Fulton is an Equity House, operating under agreement with the Actor's Equity Association and the Union for Professional Actors and Stage Managers ( which essentially means that its actors and production team are paid per collective bargaining agreements, as opposed to non-equity actors who are not paid per collective bargaining agreements or volunteers ) and employs members of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and the United Scenic Artists.

The soccer Turlock Express team of the Professional Arena Soccer League ( PASL ) an indoor soccer league plays in the Turlock Indoor Soccer Complex.

Each year, members of the Professional Hockey Writers ' Association vote to determine the player who was the most valuable to his team during the regular season.

Between the years of 1995 and 2005, Lafayette was home to the Louisiana IceGators ECHL hockey team ; in 2009, the IceGators returned as a member of the Southern Professional Hockey League.

The Detroit Caesars were a professional softball team that played from 1977 through 1979 in the American Professional Slow Pitch Softball League ( APSPL ), winning two pro softball championships while playing at Memorial Field in East Detroit.

The city is home to the Mississippi Surge, a minor league hockey team playing in the Southern Professional Hockey League.