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She played about 15 years, Barnstorming, playing semi-pro ball, playing in the Negro Southern League, before she moved up to play in the Negro League - which was a parallel to the white Major Leagues.
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And the entire basis for your argument to defend semi-pro markets appears to be because you are using semi-pro markets as
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'Farm teams,' a 'semi-pro' league of both basketball and football, pro-form, (that is, playing for pay).
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Afterward I sold a few scattered short stories (about one a year) to semi-pro markets, but short stories weren't my main focus.
Interview: Rebecca Shelley odysseyworkshop 2010
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An unauthorized amateur or semi-pro film, based on pop-culture characters or situations, created for non-commercial viewing.
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And I'd watch semi-pro basketball and semi-pro football, to have it, but you'd have to pay me to attend the 'pro' versions ... hey, if they get paid to play, the audience should get paid to watch.
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We were even mentioned in Shoot! In the 1986-87 season Trowbridge Town, then in the semi-pro Southern League, had an injury crisis so great that 45 year-old coach Bill Horton was brought out of retirement, 15 years after he had last played for the club.
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"It was rumored he played for a semi-pro team while at West Point."
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He has had previous loan spells at Leatherhead (semi-pro) and Charlton (did not play), but already has 28 international caps for the Philippines.
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Afterward I sold a few scattered short stories (about one a year) to semi-pro markets, but short stories weren't my main focus.
Interview: Rebecca Shelley odysseyworkshop 2010
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