Having excelled at both Gaelic and association football as a boy, he was signed by Second Division Orient as an apprentice in 1972, turned professional two years later, scored on his first full appearance, at home to Nottingham Forest in November 1974, and soon was a regular in George Petchey's Brisbane Road side.
Things only got worse from there for the Raiders, with hooker Josh Hodgson and lock Shaun Fensom both taken off injured in what was Dae Tilse's 200th NRL match and final appearance at home before he heads to play in the English Super League.
As you survey the field and contemplate your first at-bat (an appearance at home plate), you can't help but notice the members of the defensive team.
Turkey's most popular spirit makes an appearance at homes, restaurants and bars throughout the country, but it is the main attraction at restaurants specializing in fish and mezes.
There is something curiously deceptive, from the Buddhist viewpoint of the impermanence of all things, about plants, which, lacking locomotion and by sinking roots into the earth, assume an appearance of being especially "at home" wherever they are.
The band, which last performed at Carnegie Hall in December, has a number of dates around the country through August, including appearances at home in February and June.
The swashbucklers have used media appearances at home to great effect, knowing that soon the focus will return to more traditionally popular sports like soccer and auto racing.
And, as their children make guest appearances at home, more than a few parents think back with nostalgia to their own (wasn't it endless?) childhood summers full of things that certainly never made it onto their curriculum vitae.
Henderson felt "a burning, stabbing, nervy" pain whenever he planted his left foot for several months and, while the discomfort has reduced significantly, he was aware of the problem in this week's substitute appearances at home to Swansea City and in the Capital One Cup at Southampton.
He often cried; his stomach seized whenever he was confronted with something he was afraid of, and he was afraid of many things loud noises and crowds and dogs and busy streets and elevators and balconies and the dark and his nightmares and chaos in general and change of even the smallest sort and, most of all, his father, who, during his rare appearances at home, was a drunken and brutal man.
Glasgow prop Ryan Grant and Edinburgh centre Matt Scott will also be making their first international appearances at home after impressing head coach Andy Robinson in the summer.
