Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cornell.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!rossiter From: rossiter@cornell.UUCP (David Rossiter) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Re: Softball Team Names Message-ID: <1423@cornell.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 15:20:47 EDT Article-I.D.: cornell.1423 Posted: Tue Oct 9 15:20:47 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 11-Oct-84 06:41:54 EDT References: <2431@ucbvax.ARPA> Reply-To: rossiter@gvax.UUCP (David Rossiter) Distribution: net Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept. Lines: 23 At Cornell there are many good names in the intramural leagues. My favorite is the 'Human Servants', who represent the Department of Human Services Studies in the College of Human Ecology (no I'm not making that up! If you think that department name is pretentious, how about Design and Environmental Analysis, or Human Development and Family Studies, all from the same source?). The Plant Pathology department's team is the 'Naked Ascii'; this refers to the fruiting structures of certain fungi. In the Ithaca City softball leagues there are several euphonious names, derived from the sponsors (often bars), e.g. 'The Chanticleer' and 'The Dugout' (of course). Fantastic mental images are invoked when one reads headlines like : Hal's Deli destroyed by Finger Lakes Contractors. 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).