Players
Rookies are in italics
 Muhammad Ali, Outfield
b. 1942
U.S. Sports. Boxing. World Champion.
 Eldridge Cleaver, Pitcher
1935-1998
U.S. Politics. Civil Rights. Black Panther.
[1998 Roster Entry]
 Angela Davis, Leftfield
b. 1944
U.S. Politics. Civil Rights. Communist.
[1998 Roster Entry]
 Betty Friedan, Utility
b. 1921
U.S. Politics. Civil Rights. Feminist.
[1998 Roster Entry]
 Ho Chi Minh, Firstbase
1890-1969
Vietnam Politics. Independence. Communist Leader.
[1998 Roster Entry]
 Abbie Hoffman, Pitcher
1936-1989
U.S. Politics. Youth Movement. Yippie Leader.
[1998 Roster Entry]
 Oscar Janiger, Centerfield
Science. Psychology. Psychedelic Researcher.
[1998 Roster Entry]
 Martin Luther King, Shortstop
1929-1968
U.S. Politics. Civil Rights. Black Leader
[1998 Roster Entry]
 Timothy Leary, Pitcher
1920-1997
Science. Psychology. Psychedelic Researcher.
[1998 Roster Entry]
 Malcolm X, Thirbase
1925-1965
U.S. Politics. Civil Rights. Black Leader.
[1998 Roster Entry]
 Charles Manson, Pitcher
b. 1934
U.S. Crime. Murder. Criminal.
[1998 Roster Entry]
 Huey Newton, Infield
b. 1942
U.S. Politics. Civil Rights. Black Panther.
[1998 Roster Entry]
 Phil Ochs, Pitcher
1940-1976
Music. Folk/Protest. Musician.
[1998 Roster Entry]
 Lee Harvey Oswald, Rightfield
1939-1963
U.S. Crime. Murder. Presidential Assassin.
[1998 Roster Entry]
 Jerry Rubin, Pitcher
1938-1994
U.S. Politics. Youth Movement. Yippie Leader.
[1998 Roster Entry]
 Mario Savio, Catcher
1943-1996
U.S. Politics. Civil Rights. Free Speech Movement Leader.
[1998 Roster Entry]
 Owsley Stanley, Secondbase
U.S. Culture. Drugs. LSD Manufacturer
[1998 Roster Entry]
Staff
 John Lennon, Field Manager
d.1980
Music. Rock and Roll. Beatle.
[1998 Roster Entry]
 Spiro Agnew, Coach
1918-1996
U.S. Politics. Republican Party. Vice President.
[1998 Roster Entry]
 Julius Hofmann, General Manager
U.S. Jurisprudence. Chicago 8 Trial. Judge.
[1998 Roster Entry]
 Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) , Team Owner
founded 1960
U.S. Politics. Civil Rights. Organization.
[1998 Roster Entry]
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Starters |
Ochs
Pitcher |
Savio
Catcher |
Ho Chi Minh
Firstbase |
Stanley
Secondbase |
Malcolm X
Thirdbase |
King
Shortstop |
Davis
Leftfield |
Janiger
Centerfield |
Oswald
Rightfield |
Lennon
Manager |
Hofmann
G.M. |
SNCC
Owner |
Home Park
Strawberry Fields
Capacity: 27,000 Seats
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Won-Lost Records |
Team Won Lost
1983 68 94
1984 84 78
1985 85 77
1986 76 86
1987 75 87
1988 78 84
1989 67 95
1990 64 55
1991 77 85
1992 85 77
1993 72 90
1994 84 78
1995 79 75
1996 77 77
1997 78 84
1998 75 87
Woodsox 1998 Stats
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The 1960s |
| An intriguing and transformational era for American society, the decade of the 1960s consisted of a series of political movements that combined with aesthetic explosions in the arts and music fields. The resulting combustion rocked the culture to its bones and roots. Civil rights, free speech and peace movements combined with the electrification of guitars and pianos to create rifts between the young, the middle aged, and the elderly. Generation gaps blotted the landscape. Political assassinations, artist deaths, senseless murders, all enraged and sensitized the citizenry. President Kennedy, his brother Robert, Martin Luther King, Jr., Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix all died from various forms of extremism. Charles Manson and his gang of zombies spilled havoc in the hills of Hollywood. Talk about the center collapsing...that's what the decade was all about.
It starts. On February 24, 1960 the United States Food and Drug Administration approved the sale of Librium, an antidepressant drug. An omen. The Xerox 914 copier, a machine that ushers in a revolution in paperwork reproduction begins selling. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho is released. Annual U.S. beef consumption is 99 pounds per person. The G.D. Searle pharmaceutical company introduces Enovid 10, the first commercially available oral contraceptive for women. Each pill costs .55, $11.00 per month. All in 1960, each an omen. The world's population in 1960: 3 billion human beings, up a billion since 1930.
It ends. In 1969 the world's population exceeds 3.6 billion. And tucked in between Woodstock and Altamont, the pregnant Sharon Tate is murdered and the New York Mets, improbably, beat the Baltimore Orioles to win their first World Series. The decade of the 1960s is less a chronological continuum than a surreal trip through Dante's Dizzyland.
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