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Message: [QUOTE="Pudge, post: 2221304, member: 364"] Back in the day ... Before you were born. And I am over 50. The best college stars - nondrafted contingent (and there were 6 to 12 rounds of draft NOT 2) based themselves in groups sponsored by AAU (ok - need to define terms here) barnstorming to make money. It was all year ... and I bet the paychecks weren't more than $500 a game. So the Schaefer Brewers would play all over NY & NE & PA in college gyms and armories. The Marathon Oil team was a successor to that level. You could have a game in the middle of basketball season in Scranton, PA with 1500 attendance of post college players making a paycheck. Those type of Teams existed thru the 80s. By 1990, Marathon Oil (and other like teams) played only late October and early November as fodder exhibition opponents. Same Post college type guys. Occasionally they'd win. [/QUOTE]