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.

The team with the best overall record in the major leagues, the Cincinnati Reds, failed to win their division in either half of that season and were controversially excluded, as were the St. Louis Cardinals, who finished with the NL's second-best record.

The team, which was composed of Earnhardt, Earnhardt, Jr., Andy Pilgrim, and Kelly Collins, finished 4th overall and 2nd in class.

The Cowboys became the surprise team of the 2003 season, posting a 10 – 6 record and a playoff berth by having the best overall defense in the NFL.

The Colts finished 0 – 8 – 1 in the strike-shortened 1982 season and earned the team the right to select Stanford quarterback John Elway with the first overall pick, but Elway refused to play for Baltimore, and using leverage as a draftee of the New York Yankees baseball club, forced a trade to Denver.

Irsay quickly replaced general manager Tobin with Bill Polian in 1997 as the team decided to build through their number one overall pick in the 1998 draft.

Polian in turn hired Jim Mora to become the next head coach of the team and would go on to draft Tennessee Volunteer quarterback Peyton Manning, the son of New Orleans Saints legend Archie Manning, with the first overall pick in the 1998 draft.

Following the season, head coach Tony Dungy announced his retirement after seven seasons as head coach, compiling an overall record of 92 – 33 with the team.

He finished the season with an 8 – 2 record, and led the Vikings into the postseason once again, with an overall team record of 10 – 6.

During the 2012 NFL Draft, the team selected USC lineman Matt Kalil with the 4th overall pick after a trade with the Cleveland Browns, and Notre Dame safety Harrison Smith in the first round.

According to a 2006 report released by Forbes Magazine, the Raiders ' overall team value of US $ 736 million ranks 28th out of 32 NFL teams.

It helps in separating the specifications and implementations of the system at a high level, as well as in sharing the overall intended structure of the data in a team setting.

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.

They finished the season as the 8th team in NFL history to rank # 1 in overall offense ( 395. 6 yards / game ), and overall defense ( 271. 6 yards / game ), and became only the 2nd of those teams to not make the playoffs ( 1953 Eagles 7 – 4 – 1 ).

But overall the team ranked just 9th out of 16 NFL teams in scoring with 332 points.

Under Madden, the Raiders posted the best overall record for any NFL team in his 8 seasons, 83-22-7.

The Broncos advanced to their second consecutive Super Bowl, overall the third appearance in team history.

I'm not saying it was disrespectful to me, but it was in terms of the overall commitment to the team.

Before the 2011 World Series, the team is 16 – 20 in individual playoff games, and 4 – 4 overall for postseason series.

His duties included not only managing the national team but also developing the overall standard of coaching in England.

Due to the distributed nature of virtual teams, team members have less awareness of the wider situation of the team or dynamics of the overall team environment.

The Oklahoma City Thunder is the third major team overall, considering the temporary hosting of the NBA New Orleans / Oklahoma City Hornets from 2005 – 2007.

'" These parts were subsequently orchestrated by a team comprising Edward Powell, Maurice de Packh, Gene Rose, Eddie Sharp, and Arthur Knowlton who worked under the overall supervision of Max Steiner.

A photograph of the 1875 Tufts team which hangs in the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Indiana commemorates this match as the generally accepted first intercollegiate football game between two US institutions.

The Dominican Republic's small Catalina Island has been studied since 13 December 2007, by a team of underwater archaeologists from Indiana University, after an Italian tourist announced the discovery of an old wreck at just under the clear blue waters, at a distance of no more than offshore.

Aside from a brief change to maroon in 1948 instituted by then head coach Bo McMillin ( influenced by his years as coach at Indiana ), the Lions uniforms have basically remained the same since the team debuted in 1930.

The plot of the now famous movie, Hoosiers, was based on the story of the 1954 Milan team and seems to typify the hysteria related to basketball in the state of Indiana.

Even one or two great basketball players could make a high school team a powerhouse, and nearly every Indiana town dreamt of such glory.

In 1955, the year after Attucks had lost in the semistate final ( state quarterfinals ) to Milan's championship team, Attucks gained fame by winning the Indiana state championship, becoming the first all-black school in the nation to win a state title open to all schools regardless of race.

Crispus Attucks repeated as champions in 1956, becoming the first Indiana high school team to complete a season undefeated.

Indiana's collegiate basketball squad, the Indiana Hoosiers men's basketball team has several championships to their credit:

* One NIT Championship ( 1979 ) over rival Purdue ; and one Runner-up finish ( 1985 ) to a UCLA team featuring future member of the Indiana Pacers, Reggie Miller

A member on the Indiana State Sycamores ' team was Clarence Walker, an African-American athlete from East Chicago, Indiana.

The Indiana Pacers are a professional basketball team that plays in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ).

The Indiana Fever of the WNBA, also owned by Melvin & Herb Simon, are the Pacers ' sister team and also play in the Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

The Indiana Fever is a professional women's basketball team that plays in the Women's National Basketball Association ( WNBA ).

The team is the sister team of the NBA's Indiana Pacers.

The Indianapolis Colts are a professional American football team based in Indianapolis, Indiana and play their home games at Lucas Oil Stadium.

Football at Wabash dates back to 1884, when student-coach Edwin R. Taber assembled a team and defeated Butler University by a score of 4 – 0 in the first intercollegiate football game in the history of the state of Indiana.

* The Hammond Pros from Hammond, Indiana, a team which played in the National Football League from 1920 to 1926

The Evansville Otters are a professional baseball team based in Evansville, Indiana, in the United States.

Meanwhile, Madison's team moved to Lincoln, Nebraska in 2001 to become the Lincoln Saltdogs while teams were awarded to Joliet, Illinois and Gary, Indiana in 2002.

Of the original 11 teams, only the Kentucky Colonels and Indiana Pacers remained for all nine seasons without relocating, changing team names, or folding.

Later the team signed free agent point guard Royal Ivey of the Milwaukee Bucks, Kareem Rush from the Indiana Pacers, and then signed former Sixer Theo Ratliff after Jason Smith's injury.

Additionally, the Hornets were the first NBA team to popularize the use of pinstripes on uniforms, inspiring similar designs by the Orlando Magic, Toronto Raptors, Houston Rockets, Chicago Bulls and Indiana Pacers.

The franchise was founded as the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons, a National Basketball League ( NBL ) team, playing in the gym of North Side High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana.