From: jewell@Data-IO.COM (Cal Jewell)
Subject: Re: Factsheet Five's resurrection and wrestling sheets
Organization: Data I/O Corporation
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 22:39:58 GMT

In article <9AUG199223393062@acad3.alaska.edu> fsspr@acad3.alaska.edu (Sean P. Ryan, Hardcore Alaskan) writes:
#For those of you who haven't heard, Factsheet Five has resurfaced as an
#electronic publication, which will be distributed on-line via Usenet and
#via the Internet.  The Sports section, which covers wrestling sheets, is
#currently available via FTP.  Here is the information:
#
#Site: ftp.msen.com (148.59.1.2)
#Path: pub/newsletter/F5-E
#Filename: sports

[...]

I thought I'd save you the time and post the file. Heck, it's only 6K.

Here we go:


> Sports Zines.   Posted 27 June, 1992.  Unfortunately, all zines reviewed
> by Jerod Pore.  Until we find someone else (please God!) send your
> sports zines to Jerod Pore  1800 Market St. #141  San Francisco  CA
> 94102-6227.  This file is Shareright (s) 1992.  You may reproduce and/or
> distribute this document at will, so long as others may reproduce and/or
> distribute this document.
> 
> These are zines about sports.  I hate sports.  I can understand playing
> them, although throwing a softball to my kid is about as far as I go.
> But watching sports seems so pointless.  Sports zines are classified
> into two categories:  Wrestling zines and everything else.  I hope
> somebody who appreciates watching overpaid musclebrains make fools of
> themselves can take over this group of zines.
> 
> Wrestling zines.  Surprisingly enduring and verbose for a sport whose
> participants utter the same monosyllabic phrases over and over.
> 
> %Title:  Chokehold   Number 36
> %Descr:  Final episode of Black Kayfabe serial.  Survey questions:  Hot
> Love Babe from Hell,  Weirdest Body, Psyche Makeover.
> %Info:   $1.50 each to Lance LeVine  507 W. 43rd Pl  Chicago  IL  60609
> 10 pages standard.
> 
> 
> %Title:  Pro Wrestling Sushi  Number 38
> %Descr:  News, which may or may not be real, with the same names over
> and over, wrestlers and other wrestling fanzine editors segueing into
> each other.  Compares some stupid wrestling match to the
> Oakland/Berkeley fire.
> %Info:   $1.50 each to Jeff Mullins  P.O. Box 36189  San Jose  CA  95158
> 10 pages standard.
> 
> 
> %Title:  Wrestling Observer Newsletter
> %Descr:  Somebody from the 50's dies.  Awards survey.  News and match
> reviews from Mexico, Japan, Oregon and other exotic locales.  Letters.
> %Info:   $6.00 for four to  P.O. Box 1228  Campbell  CA  95009-1228  10
> pages standard.
> 
> 
> %Title:  Wrestling Update Newsletter  Issue 16
> %Descr:  Reviews of, and commentary on pay-per-view matches and pre-
> match banter.
> %Info:   $1.00 each to Dave Prazak  2278 Hidden Creek Court  Lisle
> Illinois  60532-1168  9 pages standard.
> 
> 
> %Title:  Combat Sports  Number 130
> %Descr:  Steroid controversy (oh my!).  Wrestling news, more people
> died.  Two pages of Roller Derby stuff.  Lots of ads for action figures,
> TV videos, party favors, lunchboxes.
> %Info:   $2.00 each to Michael O'Hara  P.O. Box 651  Gracie Station NY
> NY  10028-0006  16 pages half legal.
> 
> 
> %Title:  New Wave Wrestling  Number 1
> %Descr:  Slick, big time, national version of the above.  News,
> interviews, puzzles, penpals, comix.  Large typeface and lots of
> pictures.  I wanna see more midgets.
> %Info:   $1.95 each to Combat Sports  P.O. Box 651  Gracie Station NY NY
> 10028-0006  52 pages standard.
> 
> 
> %Title:  Wrestling Chatterbox  Issue XX
> %Descr:  News.  Reprints of promotional flyers from the 60's.  Match
> reviews.  Zine reviews.  Subscribers can't figure out a word search
> puzzle.
> %Info:   $2.50 each to  Georgiann Makropoulos  23-44 30th Drive  Astoria
> NY  11102-3253  28 pages standard.
> 
> 
> %Title:  Wrestle Gram  Issue 30
> %Descr:  News.  Match reviews.  Zine reviews.  Interviews.  Commentary.
> Guessing the outcome of some BFD tournament.
> %Info:   $2.00 each to  Boyce Johansen  5424 W. 69th Ave.  Arvada  CO
> 80003  10 pages standard.
> 
> 
> %Title:  Fantasy Federation  Volume 3 Number 14
> %Descr:  Commentary on promotion.  Blow-by-blow match reviews from
> stalking entry to triumphant exit.  Zine reviews.
> %Info:   $1.00 each to  Jeff Cohen  50 Shelley Lane  Great Neck  NY
> 11023  8 pages standard.
> 
> 
> %Title:  Masters of the Ring  Volume 1 Number 5
> %Descr:  Reader poll results from old zine on Mexican wrestlers.
> Interviews.
> %Info:   $4.00 each to  Dan Farren  8707-D Lindley  Suite 212
> Northridge  CA  91325  32 pages, standard.
> 
> 
> %Title:  Wrestling Perspective  Volume 2 Number 7
> %Descr:  Analysis and commentary. Interviews, letters and zine reviews.
> %Info:   $1.25 each to  PO Box 401  Camiluus  NY  13031  8 pages
> standard.
> 
> 
> %Title:  Wrestling World Examiner   Number 12
> %Descr:  What's happening in the alphabet soup of local federations.
> %Info:   $1.00 each to Paul Adamovic  Box 5  303 Stadium Pl.  Syracuse
> NY  13210  8 pages standard.
> 
> 
> %Title:  Mat Marketplace
> %Descr:  Wrestling memorabilia want lists.  19th century wrestlers.
> Wrestlers who cut records.  Alive or Dead trivia quiz.  Products, zine
> reviews, classified ads.
> %Info:   $2.50 to Sheldon Goldberg  P.O. Box 2371  Jamaica Plain  MA
> 02130  10 pages, standard.
> 
> 
> %Title:  Wrestling Then & Now  Issue 23
> %Descr:  Reprints of promotional flyers, fannish stuff, programs and
> newspaper articles from the 40's through the 80's.  Letters, interviews
> and articles illegible due to shitty typing and reproduction.  Vic
> Stanley's stuff is hilarious.
> %Info:   $1.50 each to  Evan Ginzburg  P.O. Box 471  Oakland Gardens
> Station  Flushing  NY  11364  10 pages standard.
> 
> 
> %Title:  Rod's Reflector  Volume 2 Number 15
> %Descr:  A fanzine about wrestling fans.  Yup, who they are, what they
> are like, if they believe in the reality of wrestling (yup).  Newspaper
> reprints and zine reviews.
> %Info:   $1.00 each to  Rodney Leighton  R.R. #3  Pugwash  Nova Scotia
> B0K 1L0  10 pages standard.
> 
> 
> Other sports zines.
> 
> 
> 
> %Title:  Roller Sports Report   Number 26
> %Descr:  OK, I have a love/hate relationship with roller derby, probably
> because my father was a professional whatever the hell you call them.
> Race reviews and photos.  Reprints from various sources.  Nostalgia.
> %Info:   $3.00 each or $20.00 a year to  Fred Argoff  1204 Avenue U
> #1290  Brooklyn NY 11229  20 pages, digest.
> 
> 
> %Title:  golf links   Volume 2  Number 1
> %Descr:  Course review.  Tips.  Book reviews.  Nostalgia.
> %Info:   $4.00 each to 5486 Georgetown Road  Frankfort  KY  40601  16
> pages, standard.
> 
> 
> %Title:  Bay Sports Review   Volume 1  Number 3
> %Descr:  Sports bars.  Questions are asked at sporting events.  "Whose
> (living or dead) sports skills would you like to possess?"  Not as
> interesting as Duplex Planet.  Glossary and odds.
> %Info:   $2.00 each to  Christopher Weills  PO Box 4520  Berkeley  CA
> 94704 16 pages, standard.
> 
> 
> %Title:  OTB Mania   Volume III  Number V
> %Descr:  Betting tips from a couple of guys who consitantly lose money
> at the Aqueduct track.
> %Info:   $2.00 each by fax.  Call 226-4149 (you guess the area code).  2
> pages, standard.
> 
> 
-- 
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                               lawyers. This is called inbreeding, 
 jewell@Data-IO.COM            from which comes idiot children
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