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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Graceville, probably the smallest town ever represented in professional baseball, made it. On many sultry nights there were 3,000 people in the park for an Oilers game against hated Dothan, and one season Graceville actually led the Alabama-Florida League in attendance. The town took its Oilers to its bosom, inviting them to church suppers and baking pies for them and washing their clothes and giving them room-and-board (all very much appreciated, since a player earned from $150 to $300 a month in Class D). Artistically, the Oilers, a collection of pot-bellied baseball gypsies and frightened...

Author: By Paul Hemphill, | Title: 'Baseball Bums' and the Graceville Oilers | 11/14/1968 | See Source »

Just about every alumnus at the Harvard-Yale football game Nov. 23 will be pretty much an old fogey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Yale Big? Ask An Alumnus | 11/14/1968 | See Source »

...Crimson will have to go without sophomore Pete Bogovich. Bogovich, whose two goals against Princeton brought him within two of Chris Chiri's single season record, played the entire game with a sore knee which he injured in the Penn game. He wrenched the other knee so badly against Princeton that he was unable to walk on it after the game, Coach Bruce Munro said, and is not expected to return for Brown or Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Injured Booters Defeat Princeton, 3-1, And Move Into Contention for Ivy Title | 11/12/1968 | See Source »

Harvard had only five minutes before the game to warm up because the bus never arrived to take the players from the motel to the field. Private cars were obtained at the last moment. "We were rubber legs for the first quarter," Coach Bruce Munro said, "but we started playing better as the game went...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Injured Booters Defeat Princeton, 3-1, And Move Into Contention for Ivy Title | 11/12/1968 | See Source »

Bogovich was not the only casualty of the contest. Scott Robertson, playing with an injured knee, sprained his ankle and had to leave the game. Bob Gray, just recovered from a serious head injury, also twisted his ankle and left the game in the opening period...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Injured Booters Defeat Princeton, 3-1, And Move Into Contention for Ivy Title | 11/12/1968 | See Source »

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