Word: wagnerism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From jail, the irrepressible faker can be expected to spend his leisure time discoursing to rapt fellow prisoners on his fabulous finagles, the reform policies of the Emperor Augustus and the spellbinding saga of the Honus Wagner baseball card with the $400,000 price tag. Betweentimes he can play Monopoly and catch up on his television. And when he gets out, he may be invited to lecture on collectibles at UCLA...
...tournament was divided up into two groups of teams, Pool A and Pool B. The Crimson were put into Pool A along with Vermont, Wagner and Dartmouth. Pool B consisted of Princeton, Vermont and Brown...
...match, it thrashed Vermont, 3-0, winning the first game 15-6; the second, 15-8; and the third, 15-9. In the second match, it manhandled a 2-16 Dartmouth team (0-7 Ivy), 15-0, 15-6, 15-8. And in the third match, it polished off Wagner in three straight games...
Meanwhile, Vermont dusted off Wagner, 3-0, and Dartmouth, 3-1 to garner the other Pool A spot in the finals...
...Crimson suffered losses to Princeton, 3-0, on October 8, and to Hartford, 3-2 at the Hartford tournament on October 22, but beat both Dartmouth and Wagner by 3-0 counts on October 18 and October 23, respectively...