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.

In the 1990s, given Australia's long dominance of the Ashes and the popular acceptance of the Darnley urn as ‘ The Ashes ’, the idea was mooted that the victorious team should be awarded the urn as a trophy and allowed to retain it until the next series.

Among the few popular new stars during this period were Judy Holliday and the comedy team phenom of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis.

Another very popular situation where costumes are employed are for sporting events, where people dressed as their team's representative mascot help the club or team rally round their team's cause.

This curse purportedly became popular after the team lost Super Bowl V, when they were forced to wear their colored jersey because they were the designated home team.

The Flash's reimagining in Showcase # 4 ( October 1956 ) proved sufficiently popular that it soon led to a similar revamping of the Green Lantern character, the introduction of the modern all-star team Justice League of America ( JLA ), and many more superheroes, heralding what historians and fans call the Silver Age of comic books.

However, a bid for an Tasmanian AFL team is a popular topic among football fans.

Despite general agreement that the rainbow uniforms identified with the team had become tired ( and looked too much like a minor league team according to the new owners ), the new uniforms and caps were never especially popular with fans.

The game became so popular that the first " world championship " of ice hockey was featured in Montreal's annual Winter Carnival in 1883 and the McGill team captured the " Carnival Cup.

He then broke up the team which had finished 2nd two years running, selling popular players like Peter Beardsley, Lee Clark, Les Ferdinand and David Ginola and replaced them with ageing stars like John Barnes ( 34 ), Ian Rush ( 36 ) and Stuart Pearce ( 35 ), as well as virtual unknowns like Des Hamilton and Garry Brady.

Lacrosse, a relatively popular team sport in the Americas, may have developed as early as AD 1100.

" The other ritual, The Gnostic Mass, is a very popular public ritual ( although it can be practiced privately ) that involves a team of participants, including a Priest and Priestess.

For instance, in 1973 the team introduced its popular mascot, Bernie Brewer.

The X-Men are a team of mutants formed by Professor X and include some of Marvel's most popular characters, such as Wolverine.

This first Avengers team featured several characters that would go on to be some of the company's most famous and most popular.

The overall styling was created by Dutchman Harm Lagaay, a member of the Porsche styling team, with the hidden headlights, sloping bonnet line and grille-less nose giving the car its popular wedge shape.

The team considered naming PNC Park after Clemente, but despite popular sentiment the team chose instead to sell the naming rights to locally-based PNC Financial Services, with the bridge being renamed after him considered a compromise.

They are popular on the fair and casino circuits, but still team with other acts to play large venues.

In the mid-1990s, father-and-son management team Bob and Chris Herbert set about creating a girl group to compete with popular boy bands that dominated the pop music scene in the mid-to late-1990s: " The whole teen-band scene at the time was saturated by boy bands like Take That and East 17.

Scoring styles vary, but one popular method is to assign a value of 2 points to each game, with the server taking both points if he or she holds serve and the doubles team each taking one if they break serve.

Football is the most popular sport in Tanzania, despite the little success that has been achieved by the national team.

A popular use of a tracking shot was in The Avengers when the camera follows each member of the team for a short while during the final battle in New York.

Turner turned the Atlanta Braves baseball team into a nationally popular franchise and launched the charitable Goodwill Games.

Are annual marketing plans reviewed throughout your management group to get the perspective of all individuals and get everyone on the marketing team??

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

* Requiring the Houston Astros to move to the American League ( 2013 ), as a condition of the sale of the team to Jim Crane, resulting in an odd number of teams in each league and interleague play throughout the season

It has become a symbol of the Mets baseball team, recognized throughout the league as an iconic feature of the Mets ' stadiums.

The team then returns to their home base in Pensacola, Florida in March, and continues to practice throughout the show season.

The club's historic nickname is gialloblu ( from the club colors of yellow and blue ) although throughout Italian football the team recognised by most fans as " Gialloblu " are the original team from Verona – " Hellas Verona ".

Docherty built a new team around the group of talented young players emerging from the club's youth set-up and Chelsea challenged for honours throughout the 1960s, enduring several near-misses.

For the purposes of the rules, all players on the team in possession of the ball are attackers, and those on the team without the ball are defenders, yet throughout the game being played you are always " attacking " your goal and " defending " the opposite goal .< ref > Anders, ELizabeth.

In 1958 he led the design team for the TRIGA, a small, inherently safe nuclear reactor used throughout the world in hospitals and universities for the production of isotopes.

Following the 2002 relegation to Serie B, team fortunes continued to slip throughout the decade.

Despite the promising off-season moves, the team suffered critical bullpen injuries while the newly signed Davis hurlers both experienced lackluster performances throughout the 1990 campaign.

This game was not the " invention " of the forward pass but it was the first major contest in which a team used the forward pass regularly throughout the game.

Panamanians Mariano Arosemena, Manuel María Ayala, and Juan José Calvo, as well as Colombian Juan José Argote, formed the writing team of the new newspaper, whose stories would circulate throughout every town in the isthmus.

With " promiscuous pairing " – each programmer cycling through all the other programmers on the team rather than pairing only with one partner – knowledge of the system spreads throughout the whole team, reducing risk to management if one programmer leaves the team.

Racial segregation and Jim Crow laws were still in place throughout much of the U. S .; Boyd's team faced a great deal of discrimination as a result, from insults by Pepsi co-workers to threats by the Ku Klux Klan.

Also, many Dolphin players wore a slightly different helmet decal than the rest ... starting with the final regular season game of the 1973 season ( and continuing throughout the playoffs ) many players, mostly linemen, wore the decal that the team would adopt in 1974 ( with the mascot dolphin leaping through the sun ), while others wore helmets with the 1969-1973 decal ( with the mascot dolphin halfway through the sun ).

Except for minor color changes throughout the years, this logo remained the same until the team was renamed the Titans in 1999.

There was also bad feeling within the team itself because Grace, who normally got on well with professional players, enforced the class divide throughout the tour.

MLB also planned to introduce interleague play in 1997, but — with each league having an odd number of teams — interleague play would have had to be used throughout the entire season, to allow every team to play every day.

) Because each league will have an odd number of teams, interleague play will occur throughout the season, so that every team will be able to play every day.