great stuff: football and international politics

[Eric Nielsen]

Is this what is meant by team spirit?

Eric

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 12:32 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

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> On Mar 16, 2012, at 10:27 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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> >>> We played kickball at Chevy Chase elementary in Toonerville
> >>> (Atwater district, Los Angeles) in the late 1940s -- rules similar
> >>> to softball, as modified by circumstances,
> >>
> >> In all the versions of kickball I remember playing (early-mid 1950s,
> >> NYC), you can retire a runner by hitting them with the ball (between
> >> bases).  Such throws are frowned upon in softball.
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> > When you played pickup games of kickball, soft/baseball, and other games
> with base runner, and you didn't have enough people, did you use "ghost
> runners"?
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> We certainly did, sometimes even allowing two or three ghost runners
> (bases loaded with ghosts).  I'd forgotten that.
>
> LH
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