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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg "Bucket" Woods)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Softball Team Names
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Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 15:52:44 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 12 15:52:44 1984
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  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
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