While fifty years before, Albert Goodwill Spalding, secretary of the Chicago Ball Club of the National League, could write earnestly to the manager of the Buffalo club and request a guarantee of one hundred dollars for a baseball game in August, in this Golden Era a game at the Yankee Stadium might bring in nearly a hundred thousand dollars at the gate.

After these disillusions, he briefly retired from international football but returned to the national team in 2005 and captained France to the 2006 World Cup Final where he won the Golden Ball as the tournament's most outstanding player.

The Golden Ball Tavern, built in 1750, and the Josiah Smith Tavern, built in 1757, still exist in the town.

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Ronaldo also won the Golden Shoe as the tournament's leading scorer, though Kahn won the Golden Ball as the most outstanding player.

** The Golden Ball and Other Stories

It was a great period for the club, as honoured managers like Helenio Herrera and players as Pahiño and local Luis Suarez ( the only Spanish player to get the Golden Ball ) played at the Riazor.

The Mausoleum and Golden Ball above West Wycombe village are impressive local landmarks, visually dominating the village and local landscape for miles surrounding.

Nevertheless, Miroslav Klose won the Silver Boot and German captain and goalkeeper Oliver Kahn won the Golden Ball, the first time in the World Cup's history that a goalkeeper was named the best player of the tournament, as well as the Yashin-Award for the best goalkeeper in the tournament.

The band had several minor hits, including " Golden Ball and Chain " and a blistering rock version of Bob Dylan's " Absolutely Sweet Marie.

Two years later with Norway she won the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup and was awarded the Golden Ball and Golden Shoe after the competition.

Despite the village population continuing to grow, four pubs closed down-the George, the Weathercock, the Golden Ball and the White Horse.

He was 3rd in the Ballon d ' Or ( Golden Ball ) in 1959.

He won the Golden Ball ( for most outstanding football ) and Golden Shoe ( for most goals scored ) awards at the 2001 Confederations Cup in Korea / Japan.

Canadian Christine Sinclair received the tournament's Golden Ball as MVP and Golden Boot as leading goal-scorer.

The crowning moment of Šuker's career was the 1998 World Cup in France, where he became the top goal scorer and won the Golden Boot by scoring 6 goals in 7 matches and also won Silver Ball 1998 at France as second best player of tournament ( behind Ronaldo ).

He led Italy to win two World Cups: in 1934 and in 1938, winning the Golden Ball Award in 1934.

Meazza was elected into the All-Star Team of the tournament and won The Golden Ball, the award presented to the best player at each FIFA World Cup finals.

In 1982, he led Italy to the 1982 FIFA World Cup title, scoring six goals to win the Golden Boot / top scorer honors, and the Golden Ball.

Golden Ball may refer to:

During his 72 years of Imamat ( 1885 – 1957 ), the community celebrated his Golden ( 1937 ), Diamond ( 1946 ) and Platinum ( 1954 ) Jubilees.

The De Anza Expedition led to establishment of the Spanish Presidio of San Francisco at the entrance to San Francisco Bay ( the Golden Gate ), which is due west of Berkeley.

Athena Tacha Spear's book, Brâncuși's Birds, ( CAA monographs XXI, NYU Press, New York, 1969 ), first sorted out the 36 versions and their development, from the early Măiastra, to the Golden Bird of the late teens, to the Bird in Space, which emerged in the early ' 20s and which Brâncuși perfected throughout his life.

He appeared in the primetime TV movies The Satan Murders ( 1974 ) and Thursday's Game before landing the role of Al Pacino's transsexual wife in Dog Day Afternoon ( 1975 ), a performance which earned him nominations for Best New Male Star of the Year at the Golden Globes and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

The company's second title, New Comics # 1 ( cover date December 1934 ), appeared in a size close to what would become comic books ' standard during the period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books, with slightly larger dimensions than today's.

Communist Party of Greece, Golden Dawn ( Greece ), Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow, Popular Orthodox Rally

During Japanese cinema's ' Golden Age ' of the 1950s, successful films included Rashomon ( 1950 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and The Hidden Fortress ( 1958 ) by Akira Kurosawa, as well as Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ) and Ishirō Honda's Godzilla ( 1954 ).

Among the major artistic films of this era were La città delle donne, E la nave va, Ginger and Fred by Fellini, L ' albero degli zoccoli by Ermanno Olmi ( winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival ), La notte di San Lorenzo by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Antonioni's Identificazione di una donna, and Bianca and La messa è finita by Nanni Moretti.

The decade started with Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon ( 1950 ), which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and marked the entrance of Japanese cinema onto the world stage.

Kon Ichikawa directed two anti-war dramas: The Burmese Harp ( 1956 ), which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, and Fires On The Plain ( 1959 ), along with Enjo ( 1958 ), which was adapted from Yukio Mishima's novel Temple Of The Golden Pavilion.

Takeshi Kitano emerged as a significant filmmaker with works such as Sonatine ( 1993 ), Kids Return ( 1996 ) and Hana-bi ( 1997 ), which was given the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

Shōhei Imamura again won the Golden Palm ( shared with Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami ), this time for The Eel ( 1997 ).

One of the positive results of the campaign was GAR ( Golden Agri-Resources ), the world's second largest palm oil production company, deciding to commit itself to forest conservation.

The difficulties in electing the king eventually led to the emergence of a fixed college of Prince-electors ( Kurfürsten ), whose composition and procedures were set forth in the Golden Bull of 1356.

In the Dutch Golden Age, which had its zenith in 1667, there was a remarkable flowering of trade, industry ( especially shipbuilding ), the arts ( especially painting ) and the sciences.

The Spanish Golden Age ( in Spanish, Siglo de Oro ) was a period of flourishing arts and letters in the Spanish Empire ( now Spain and the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America ), coinciding with the political decline and fall of the Habsburgs ( Philip III, Philip IV and Charles II ).

In 1952, Supramar launched the first commercial hydrofoil, PT10 " Freccia d ' Oro " ( Golden Arrow ), in Lake Maggiore, between Switzerland and Italy.

The new government would have a majority of 58, with SYRIZA, Independent Greeks ( ANEL ), Golden Dawn ( XA ) and the Communist Party ( KKE ) comprising the opposition.

Eurysteus set two more tasks ( fetching the Golden Apples of Hesperides and capturing Cerberus ), which Heracles performed successfully, bringing the total number of tasks up to twelve.

Image: Songhuizong4. jpg | Golden Pheasant and Cotton Rose, by Emperor Huizong of Song ( r. 1100-1126 AD ), Chinese

By the 17th century, Osei Kofi Tutu I ( c. 1695 – 1717 ), with help of Okomfo Anokye, unified what became the Ashante into a confederation with the Golden Stool as a symbol of their unity and spirit.