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Roller Derby: Pleasing the People

Hiawatha L. Harvell, black, 25, and like 12 million other Americans a fulltilt Roller Derby fanatic, prides himself on being the Bay area’s foremost hater of the San Francisco Bay Bombers.

December 1, 1971
Wayne Robins

Hiawatha L. Harvell, black, 25, and like 12 million other Americans a fulltilt Roller Derby fanatic, prides himself on being the Bay area’s foremost hater of the San Francisco Bay Bombers.

“If you follow the Bombers out of town,” he says, “you’d see how dirty Charlie O’Connell and the others really are. You wouldn't root for them no how."

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