For some time a storekeeper had displayed in his window a card inscribed “Fishing Tickle.” A customer drew the proprietor’s attention to the spelling error.  “Hasn’t anyone told you about it before?” asked the patron. “Oh, yes,” the dealer said placidly, “many have mentioned it.  But whenever they drop in to tell me, they always

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Coach John Scolinos was legendary among college baseball coaches.  Over his 45-year career he was the head baseball coach at Pepperdine University from 1946 to 1960 and at California State Polytechnic University Pomona from 1962 to 1991, compiling a career college baseball record of 1,070 wins, 954 losses and 13 ties.  Scolinos was also the head football coach at Pepperdine from

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