A Desperado Absconded With Journalist's Eagles Softball Souvenir
On May 7, 1978, the final score was Eagles 15, Rolling Stone 8.
In the wake of Glenn Frey’s death, a number of folks on social media have been re-sharing “Hell Is for Heroes,” Charles M. Young’s 1979 Rolling Stone cover story on the Eagles.
A year before, on May 17, 1978, there was a famous softball game, sparked by a Young RS Random Note and played at UCLA. On one side were the Eagles; on the other, staff from Rolling Stone. As Young revealed in a revisit of all this in 2012, he no longer had from the contest a Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame-worthy souvenir:
“I remember the game went much faster than I thought it would.
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