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  • I went to good public schools, had use of a good public library, played sand-lot baseball in a good public

    Bill Moyers: People "Are Occupying Wall Street Because Wall Street Has Occupied the Country" Bill Moyers 2011

  • I went to good public schools, had use of a good public library, played sand-lot baseball in a good public

    Bill Moyers: People "Are Occupying Wall Street Because Wall Street Has Occupied the Country" Bill Moyers 2011

  • In addition to hiking, other recreational pursuits included sand-lot sports, fishing, stamp collecting, and eventually ham radio.

    Edwin G. Krebs - Autobiography 1993

  • "I just don't see spending billions for alphabet bombs and then warming our tails on them while these psycho-noseys move in and try to fight these sand-lot wars with voodoo and all that jazz."

    I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon Richard Sabia 1963

  • America listened to the blatant demagogues, the "sand-lot orators," and excluded the Chinese.

    As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home Anonymous

  • Dennis Kearney, the notorious sand-lot agitator of California was made chief sergeant at arms, and Susan B. Anthony was allowed to give a suffrage speech.

    The Agrarian Crusade; a chronicle of the farmer in politics 1923

  • You will never convince me that this æsthetic sensitiveness, so rare, so precious, so distinctively aristocratic, burst into abiogenetic flower on a San Francisco sand-lot.

    Prejudices : first series, 1919

  • The three and four year old Kennetts were now members of our flock, the dull baby was cared for daily by the Infant Shelter, and Mrs. Kennett went out washing; while her spouse upheld the cause of labor by attending sand-lot meetings in the afternoon and marching in the evening.

    The Story of Patsy Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • On this twilight evening the captain of the schooner, assisted by a portion of his crew, deliberately took down part of the fence which enclosed a sand-lot bounded by Montgomery, Sutter and Post Streets; driving into the centre of the lot; the horses -- four jaded beasts -- were turned loose, and soon a camp-fire was lighted and the entire emigrant family gathered about it to partake of the evening meal.

    In the Footprints of the Padres Charles Warren Stoddard 1876

  • Alternatively, Moores is going to keep the ball club, but because his wife took half of his net worth, he’s now slashing payroll, nicknaming the team the Pobres, moving the team to Miami, and forming a sand-lot league with the Marlins.

    Potential Fire Sale FAQ 2008

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