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.

He invited Mr. Case to stop by to say hello if he ever visited the academy and then added that he was on the managerial staff of the freshman football team

The research team was very mindful of these dangers and limitations of a mail questionnaire.

The research team was concerned that responses from firms in the state of Washington might not be typical of those throughout the country, or that the results might be different when no phone or personal follow-up was made.

The first was a list of fourteen manufacturing companies located in the state of Washington which were personally known to the research team to be active in defense work.

The second list was derived from a group of approximately 8,000 names supplied to the research team by the Aerospace Industries Association.

The third list was selected by the research team on a random basis from the Thomas Register.

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.

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

During his college career, Dr. Clark was captain of his basketball team and was a football letterman.

His goal was to obtain a National League team for this city.

The '49 team was off to a so-so 5-5 beginning, then fell as low as 12-17 on May 23 before finishing with 96 victories.

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.

`` You often hear people talk about team spirit and that sort of thing '', Benington said in a conversation after the ceremonies, `` but what this team had was a little different.

Bevo was congratulated for his efforts to stay in shape so that he could help the team if his knee healed in time.

But when tiny, 145-pound Albert Gregory Pearson of the Los Angeles Angels, who once caught three straight fly balls in center field because, as a teammate explained, `` the other team thought no one was out there '', hits seven home runs in four months ( three more than his total in 1958, 1959, and 1960 ), his achievement borders on the ridiculous.

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.

* 1937 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand race car driver, founded the McLaren racing team ) ( d. 1970 )

The 33rd America's Cup Race was won by Golden Gate Yacht Club racing team BMW Oracle, founded by Larry Ellison.

The other long established club in the city ' Os Galitos ' was founded in 1904 and water related sports such as swimming, sailing and rowing are some of its longest traditional strongest specialities, other sections in the club include chess, basketball, snooker, pool and billiards among others, but rowing is the modality in which the club has a maintained a long and proud tradition going back more than one hundred years, reaching the highest possible excellence as a club with several of its individual and team of rowers having represented Portugal Internationally and at the Olympic games with good classifications on more than a just few occasions.

The Brabham team was founded by Jack Brabham and Ron Tauranac, who met in 1951 while both were successfully building and racing cars in their native Australia.

The team was founded in the 1940s as a charter franchise in the All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ), with Paul Brown, the team's namesake and a pioneering figure in professional football, as its first coach.

Engelbart recruited a research team in his new Augmentation Research Center ( ARC, the lab he founded at SRI ), and became the driving force behind the design and development of the oN-Line System ( NLS ).

The first German Rugby team was founded in Hanover in 1878.

The team was officially founded as the Baltimore Colts in 1953 and were based in Baltimore, Maryland until the team relocated to Indianapolis in 1984.

Lamar Hunt, who was founder or co-founder of the American Football League, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Chicago Bulls, the United Soccer Association, and Major League Soccer, also founded the team.

The Dolphins team was founded by attorney / politician Joe Robbie and actor / comedian Danny Thomas.

It was introduced around the time the team was founded in 1961.

Bruce McLaren founded McLaren and was team principal from 1966 until his death in 1970.

* 1966 – The New Orleans Saints football team is founded.

The team was founded by John W. Mecom, Jr. and David Dixon and the city of New Orleans.

The team was founded in 1959 as the Titans of New York, an original member of the American Football League ; later, the franchise joined the NFL in the AFL – NFL merger.

The franchise was founded in Philadelphia in 1883, replacing the team from Worcester, Massachusetts.

After being founded in 1883 as the " Quakers ", the team changed its name to the " Philadelphias ", after the convention of the times.

* 1845 – The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York.

Their 73-year old owner Art Rooney founded the Steelers as a 1933 NFL expansion team, but suffered through losing seasons for most of its 42-year history and had never made it to an NFL championship game or a Super Bowl.

He joined the faculty of Bryn Mawr College ( 1885 – 88 ) and then Wesleyan University ( 1888 – 90 ), where he also coached the football team and founded the debate team – still called the T. Woodrow Wilson debate team.

-- The Orioles tonight retained the distinction of being the only winless team among the eighteen Major-League clubs as they dropped their sixth straight spring exhibition decision, this one to the Kansas City Athletics by a score of 5 to 3.

The Western League began play in April 1894 with teams in Detroit ( the only league team that has not moved since ), Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Sioux City and Toledo.

** In 1947, Wooden's basketball team won the conference title and received an invitation to the NAIA National Tournament in Kansas City.

For the majority of its first 15 years of existence the team was known as the Kansas City Wizards.

Jimmy Conrad was an integral part of Kansas City's team from 2003 to 2010

With the opening of the new Livestrong Sporting Park in Kansas City, Kansas, Sporting Kansas City became the first major-league team to have played in stadiums on both sides of the state line in Kansas City, and may continue to use Arrowhead Stadium for special-occasion games, such as those against well-known international teams.

On December 17, Wizards president Robb Heineman provided an update on the stadium situation published on team official website and blog, basically identifying the Kansas City, Kansas, location as final, pending the signature of the final agreements.

The Kansas City Royals are a Major League Baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri.

The name also followed a theme of the other professional franchises in the city, including the Kansas City Chiefs football team and the-then Kansas City Kings basketball franchise.

The franchise was established following the actions of Stuart Symington, then-United States Senator from Missouri, who demanded a new franchise for the city after the Athletics ( Kansas City's previous major league team from 1955 to 1967 ) moved to Oakland, California.

Though the team would bounce back with winning records during the next several years, the disastrous season would symbolically come to mark the beginning of the end of Kansas City's relevance in professional baseball.

Shortly before Kauffman's death, he set up an unprecedented complex succession plan to keep the team in Kansas City.

The team was donated at his death to the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation and Affiliated Trusts with operating decisions of the team decided by a five member group chaired by Wal-Mart executive David Glass.

The new owners would be required to say they would keep the team in Kansas City.

In 2011, the team was renamed Sporting Kansas City and moved into their new stadium in Kansas City, Kansas.