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Well, lady might be a stretch, but definitely female. Reporter Danielle Belton wrote about 40 women who have signed up for what is expected to become in October the Bakersfield roller derby league. These women will go around an oval track and elbow, push or bump each other in an effort to score points. What can be more fun than that. What male baby boomer out there didn't tune in on Saturday afternoons in the 1950s and 1960s to watch the Bay City Bombers knock their competitors around the oval track? These weren't belles of the ball. These were belles of the brawl. Such good wholesome entertainment. Hard to imagine what might have been going on in the 1970s to drop this as a tv favorite. But the sport, invented in 1935, is making a comeback and if all the right pieces fall in place, Bakersfield could have its own teams of bump and grinders. Posted by Steve E. Swenson
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