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...kind of a self-respecting baseball fan, you're either a National Leaguer or an American Leaguer. No way you can have it both ways; you're partisan to either one or the other. For me, well...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Play Ball! Pro Baseball Dusts Off This Week | 4/4/1978 | See Source »

...carries? More than 200 yards? That's Big Ten stuff. That's not for some 5'11" Ivy Leaguer from North Babylon, New York...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: H-e-e-e-e-e-e-ere's Bobby! | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...more. Baseball, after all, is for all its pinstriped glory still just a game, the biggest and best circus America could find to go with its daily bread. Yet so many writers insist on finding some cosmic meaning in baseball, some hidden truth in each line drive and Texas leaguer. Some people just never learn...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Diamond Chippers | 7/1/1977 | See Source »

Other sources from inside concurred, adding that the only reason the Church was having trouble getting Harvard and MIT converts was that they had difficulty gaining initial access to them. One Ivy Leaguer, who recently got out of the church, said, "Once they get hold of a Harvard or MIT student, he will go just as fast as anyone else...

Author: By Erik J. Dahl and Candace Kaller, S | Title: The Road Not Taken | 3/17/1977 | See Source »

...Shot shares with the current hit Network?a desire to present an editorial so corrosive that aesthetics, questions of form and proportion simply dissolve. The Chiefs win the league championship on a fluke, when their last holdout against the brawling style flips out. Throughout, this out-of-place Ivy Leaguer has been nicely underplayed by Michael Ontkean. But in the denouement he is forced to go for a broader, cheaper kind of comic response, thus vitiating the power of an energetic and original movie that gamely risks, in its more brutal moments, being mistaken for the very sort of thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Icing the Puck | 3/14/1977 | See Source »

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