Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site hao.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!woods From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg "Bucket" Woods) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Re: Softball Team Names Message-ID: <1205@hao.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 15:52:44 EDT Article-I.D.: hao.1205 Posted: Fri Oct 12 15:52:44 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 08:46:09 EDT References: <2431@ucbvax.ARPA> <1423@cornell.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 21 My boss plays for a team from the Boulder Mental Health Center. They used to be called the Psychos until some bigwig at the center found out about it and made them change their name. > Any ex-Ithacans will remember the fabled 'Eddy Street Truckers', who > flourished in the late 60's. Eddy St. is the heart of the ex-student > slum housing (ex-students often outnumber students here), and these guys > (and the center fielder, Dunbar the dog), all with their hair down to their > waists, would play benefit exhibitions against the various local law > enforcement agencies ('Truckers off Pigs' as we said in those days). Here at CU Boulder, the students and police have a football game every year called the "Hairy Bacon Bowl". --Greg -- {ucbvax!hplabs | allegra!nbires | decvax!stcvax | harpo!seismo | ihnp4!stcvax} !hao!woods "...the bus came by, and I got on, that's when it all began..."