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...Keep each other company," she said "Oh, we've got the Baptist Bible Institute and the world's largest peanut sheller. But there's nowhere to go, and nothing to do. If you want to see a picture show, you have to go over to Crestview or up to Dothan. The boys and girls don't stay here anymore after they grow up. It sure would be better if we still had the Oilers...
After that, I drove over the railroad tracks to see what was left of the ball park. It was still there, all right, in the shadow of The World's Largest Peanut Sheller, but now it lay like an abandoned farm. The light poles had been moved around for football lighting, and the sandy gray soil had been harrowed and was awaiting fresh sod for the high school football season. Letters saying "Graceville Oilers Booster Club" had almost faded away on the concrete-block centerfield fence. The portable bleachers in left field had begun to rot beyond salvation. Gone were...
...month in Class D). Artistically, the Oilers, a collection of pot-bellied baseball gypsies and frightened teen-agers, were not especially memorable, but the people did not care. In that little ball park next to the railroad tracks and the The World's Largest Peanut Sheller, the town took on an identity and became as big as New York City--especially on nights when the Oilers, say, had bombarded Onion Davis, the invincible lefthander of the Dothan Browns...
What happens if Sheller and Driscoll are now actually acquitted under the Freeman standards? In many state courts, such acquittal has a grim result...
...Lawyers Sheller and Driscoll are acquitted, they may well go on practicing as ably and profitably as ever. The New York City Bar Association might try to have them disbarred. But on what grounds? Their competency to stand trial would make insanity tough to prove. And their acquittals would make the tax charges look unusable. There may be other grounds, but thus far no bar group in the U.S. has faced this particular situation. So until the law changes, it seems that the best way to beat taxes is to go crazy-temporarily...