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Word: sandspur (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kubs & Kids are rival teams recruited from St. Pete's Three-Quarter-Century Club. For 14 winters these septuagenarians have played a 25-game series for the championship of the "Sandspur League" (named after a prickly Florida burr). They play under somewhat different rules from the Yankees and Cardinals. They use a softball and a softball diamond, play six innings instead of nine, and errors, too numerous to count, are never counted. But no big leaguers were ever more eager to make a home run or a snappy double play. They make plenty of both. Average number of runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kubs & Kids | 3/22/1943 | See Source »

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