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...hockey version of the Budweiser Beer Wagon rolled into the Watson Rink last night, but instead of being driven by horses the semipro Budweiser Kings were led by former Crimson hockey players. Experience shone through, as the Kings beat the Crimson J.V. on a shot by Steve Didadgin '75 at 17:35 of the final period...

Author: By Carl A. Esterhay, | Title: Buds Nip J.V. 4-3 As Crimson Alumni Net 3 of 4 Goals | 12/17/1976 | See Source »

...lead characters in your article, Tom Seaver, is a graduate of the Fairbanks semipro team, the Gold Fanners, and this year's first major league draft choice, Steve Kemp, played for Fairbanks for the past two seasons. In all, nearly 40 major leaguers have played for the Fanners. The Fairbanks team won the National Baseball Congress championship in '72, '73 and '74, and nearly repeated in 1975 before being nosed out by those archrivals from the "Deep South," the Anchorage Glacier-Pilots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, May 17, 1976 | 5/17/1976 | See Source »

...every American town has a factory or transit system or even so much as a semipro softball team, but there is hardly a hamlet in the U.S. without a newspaper. Thus, for those who choose to work as journalists, the chances are good of spending time on a small-town daily at some point. There is, for instance, Senior Writer Lance Morrow, who wrote this week's cover story on the great American migration from the big cities to smaller cities, rural areas and the Sunbelt. As a high school student, Morrow spent summers in Danville, Pa., covering fires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 15, 1976 | 3/15/1976 | See Source »

...after he steals-and totals-her car. Indeed, his lot is even less happy than the typical inmate's at Citrus State Prison. The warden, played by hard-eyed, mean-drawling Eddie Albert, is a football freak ready to do anything to get a national championship for his semipro club, staffed by the guards. He asks Reynolds to help coach them. But the team captain is also captain of the guards, and jealous of his prerogatives. He suggests-with a few well-placed blows below the belt-that Reynolds turn down the warden's kind offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dirty Eleven | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

Musing on the qualifications necessary for a President last week, Eugene McCarthy opined, "The question should be: Do you want this man to go to bat for you?" The former semipro ballplayer in Minnesota's Great Soo League was fresh from a personal success on the playing fields of East Hampton, L.I. Invited to join George Plimpton, Peter Mathiessen and Wilfrid Sheed on the writers' team in an annual charity softball game between writers and artists, Poet McCarthy went three for three against strong opposition that included Fabric Designer Boris Kroll and Painters Syd Solomon and Jimmy Ernst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 16, 1974 | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

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