Billy O'Rourke

William James "Billy" O'Rourke (2 April 1960, Nottingham – 28 January 2002) was an English professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He played in The Football League for four different clubs.

Playing career

O'Rourke began his career as an apprentice with Burnley, who he turned professional with in February 1978. His debut came away at QPR in October 1979, in a match shown on Match of the Day. Burnley lost 7–0, with O’Rourke leaving the pitch in tears. However, his performance led to the Burnley Express naming him as his side’s man of the match.

He went on to make 13 more league appearances for the Clarets before joining Blackpool on loan in August 1983, followed by a move to Chester City in March 1984. Just five appearances later he was back at Blackpool, this time on a permanent basis, playing every league game in the next two seasons. He was voted Player of the Year in his first full season.

In September 1986 O'Rourke joined Tranmere Rovers on loan, making a permanent switch to Prenton Park the following February (1987). He remained with the club the following season before leaving Football League circles. He then joined ICI Thornton.

9524 O'Rourke

9524 O'Rourke, provisionally designated 1981 EJ₅, is a main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by Schelte J. Bus at the Siding Spring Observatory near Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia, on March 2, 1981.

It is named after Laurence O'Rourke, a researcher at the European Space Astronomy Centre in Madrid and SGS operations coordinator of the Rosetta mission.

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O'Rourke

The O'Rourkes were the historic rulers of Breifne and later West Breifne until the 17th century.

O'Rourke may refer to several different people:

People

List of Major League Baseball players with unidentified given names

Forty-one individuals who played professional baseball at the major league level lack identified given names. Identification of players remains difficult due to a lack of information; a Brooklyn, New York directory, for instance, lists more than 30 men that could be the professional player "Stoddard". Possible mistakes in reading box scores from the 19th century could have also led to players without given names: "Eland", for example, could be another player from the Baltimore Marylands roster whose name was simply misread. Four of the 41, McBride, Stafford, Sterling, and Sweigert, were local players added to the Philadelphia Athletics team by manager Bill Sharsig for Philadelphia's last game of the season against the Syracuse Stars on October 12, 1890. Sterling pitched five innings for the Athletics and conceded 12 runs. McBride, Philadelphia's center fielder, and Stafford, the team's right fielder, both failed to reach base, but left fielder Sweigert reached base on a walk and stole a base. Society for American Baseball Research writer Bill Carle "doubt[s] we will ever be able to identify them".