Sentence examples for it began play from inspiring English sources

Griffey joined the Mariners in 1989, at age 19, before the franchise had a winning season since it began play in 1977.

Charlie Duccilli, the head coach of the Rutgers women's soccer team since it began play in 1984, resigned yesterday to spend more time at home.

Houston has not made the postseason since it began play in 2002, but in recent years the Texans have sometimes seemed prepared to overtake the Indianapolis Colts, only to fade near the end as the Colts' dominance continued.

It was the largest margin of victory for Oakland, breaking the previous mark set at Milwaukee in 1985, and it was Kansas City's largest margin of defeat since it began play in 1969.

Evangel Christian was loaded and would be seeking its ninth state championship since it began playing football in 1989.

It began playing cold, paranoid punk-funk and has gradually moved into ever eerier and more disorienting territory.

Serbia is the defending champion and has yet to lose a match at home since it began playing as Serbia in 2007.

Since it began playing football in 1888, Miami University has a 612-343-44 record, its.634 percentage the 14th best in Division I-A.

The band, featuring Mr. Harris, the bassist Andy Simpkins and the drummer Bill Dowdy, soon gained a following as it began playing clubs around the Washington area.

It was "Beethoven awareness month" on our classical radio station, and it began playing Opus 133, the "great fugue" with which he had originally ended one of his late quartets.

When Amazon was unable to strike an acceptable agreement on pricing with Hachette, it began playing hardball, refusing to keep extra inventory of some Hachette print books in stock and delaying their shipping times.