Word: rivenbark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 it; men with names like Ernie Oravetz and Al Rivenbark and R.C. Otey and Country Brown, who would have spent their lives in coal mines or cotton mills had there not been a chance to make a living playing baseball...
...personal expenses, keeps $1 for state-furnished transportation-and $2.25 a day for room and board. The remainder is divided up between the prisoner's family and a trust fund that he receives on completing his sentence. Some of North Caro lina's working prisoners: Harry Rivenbark, 57, a forger, tears down automobiles in a Raleigh junkyard...
...have a feeling of security out here," says Rivenbark. "There's not someone breathing down your neck. We don't have to worry about a thing. We turn in our check, and that settles everything." Charles Barham, 23, convicted of breaking and entering, makes $50 a week as a cook at a cafe across from the North Carolina State College campus in Raleigh...
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