Word: d
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...offer perfectly sound reasons (televising of major league games into minor league towns leads the list), then grandly conclude that nobody misses the minor leagues because even without them overall baseball attendance is higher than ever. To me, one of the thousands who hitchhiked into a Class D town as a teen-ager begging for a tryout, these stories are missing the point. They do not account for what a minor league ball club meant to towns like Graceville, Fla., and Valdosta, Ga., and Hornell, N.Y. and Thibodaux, La. Nor what it meant to the men who played...
...would be fair to say that nothing would have ever happened to Graceville if not for the seven summers of the Graceville Oilers. In 1952, a group of men in town came up with the money to field a team in the Class D Alabama-Florida League. They made a deal with a Ford dealer (free advertising for station wagons) to solve the transportation problem, wangled hand-me-down uniforms from the Cincinnati Reds, carved a baseball diamond out of the high school stadium, and spread the word in the town's weekly newspaper. The other league members like Dothan...
...Allard K. Lowenstein was trying to get Long Island commuters to stop and shake his hand. In between trains, he quietly picked some of his campaign literature out of the garbage pail. A heavy-set man wearing a Nixon button glared at one of the girls helping Lowenstein. "I'd never vote for him," he said. "I'm a policeman...
Even within the context of its elementary substance (which, I'd say, even Stanley Kramer would find old hat), Sligar and Son fails to come off. The plot, flatly melodramatic at best, usually seems contrived and often collapses under the strain of its distortions of reality...
...course it can. If the lighting were more liberally distributed over M.I.T.'s Kresge Auditorium during performance nights, I'd recommend one take a book. As it is, portable radios and board games are good alternatives. In either case the distraction should be made use of only as the occasion demands, and in either case it should make one better rather than worse able to appreciate the glories of the troupe, which are legion...