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...asked 30 young ballplayers, in casual conversations about curve balls and batting averages, if they owned or had access to roller blades and a hockey stick. The response was unanimously in the affirmative, though I got a few polite answers of "yes." Most were shocked at my question. "You've been at Harvard too long, coach," said a former second baseman. "Having all that stuff is a given around here...
There may be perfectly reasonable explanations for the development of roller hockey. It may be that all of L.A.'s brilliant and previously unemployed defense workers have finally found jobs in related industries like, well, roller blade manufacturing. There is, however, little evidence to support this theory...
...might be the 1960s migration to the Sun Belt, which brought hockey-playing people from glacier regions like Minnesota to the Southland. It also could be the corrupting influence of TV. Last year, Jason Priestly's character played hockey on "Beverly Hills 90210". This year, roller hockey booms. That might not be a coincidence...
...like the new sport, but I worry. Sometimes things like roller hockey, which is essentially a substitute for ice hockey, work out. For example, margarine, as a substitute for butter, has probably done humankind and its arteries a lot of good...
...Roller hockey is the newest, hottest sport in Southern California, the place that gave America cultural icons like the Hollywood sign, the motion picture, Magic Johnson and Richard M. Nixon...