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James Reeder

James Bartlett Reeder (1925-1972) was an Ohio State University All-American who was a member of the 1943 Big Ten championship baseball team. Reeder was named a charter member of the California State University Hall of Fame at the same time as tennis great, Billie Jean King. The baseball field at California State University, Los Angeles bears Jim Reeder's name.At Ohio State, Jim Reeder lettered in three varsity sports: football, basketball, and baseball. His athletic and academic career was interrupted by World War II, as was the case with one of his college buddies and fellow baseball players, Keo Nakama. Serving a four-year-stint as a machine gunner for the Marines in World War II, Jim Reeder earned the Purple Heart and Bronze Star. At the end of World War I… more »

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Sometimes I feel I'm just a rider on this train    
I ride from dusk to dawn
At best I can document the sorrow and the pain
Before this train pulls on  

Long ago I quit trying to be the engineer
Ain't got the spirit nor the sway
Just sit in the bar dodgin bullets flyin' by
While sharp dressed women look away

It's the ladies of the evening and those living in the streets
Workers in the fields and junkies staying clean
People who don't have much to give, them's that gives the most
I travel now from town to town, ridin' up the coast
I'm just a rider on this train

I'm just a rider on the Amtrack of my life
Don't (often) get to drive this train
Whatever destination seems not my right to choose
Just ride these rails in the rain

A halfway house on a snowy winter night
A lady in the doorway says 'Hey handsome, lookin fine'!
She ain't sellin, just brighten'n up my day
And lets her kindness shine

It's the ladies of the evening and those living in the streets
Workers in the fields and junkies staying clean
People who don't have much to give, them's that gives the most
I travel now from town to town, ridin' up the coast
I'm just a rider on this train

I know a guy who needs a better pair of jeans
I give him some that's worn and faded from the seams
He's so happy that he hugs me, and I swear
I wish I'd given more

How many millions for a Washington campaign?         
An ego driven capital of extroverts and shame
A little bit diverted would be a miracle to those
In the alleys of this city and a run down halfway house

It's the ladies of the evening and those living in the streets
Workers in the fields and junkies staying clean
People who don't have much to give, them's that gives the most
I travel now from town to town, ridin' up the coast
I'm just a rider on this train

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